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A quick one this week, while we reboot and get back to regularly scheduled programming.
On the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a mini discussion starter: overrated films, or rather, films we didn’t quite warm to in the horror movie realm.
This includes, Train to Busan, Get Out/Us, Suspiria 2018 and Scream. Tune in. Or don’t. We don’t care!
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Back in business! This week, after a bit of a summer hiatus, The Really Awful Movies Podcast is back.
On this episode: Black Summer, a Walking Dead-like US TV series currently streaming on Netflix, and also Adoration, a small, quirky, Belgian-lensed and French language thriller.
Black Summer, filmed in the Calgary, Alberta area, has all the hallmarks of a zombie series: the macho alpha leader, the meek/hesitant sidekick, the concerned mother, the practical nerd, the gutsy do-it-yourself. And of course, the breakdown of social cohesion, not to mention the rampaging undead, make this must-see material if you’re into that kinda thing. There are tonnes of characters, lots of running, hissing zombies, militia men, evildoing civilians, the works.
By stark, stark contrast, Adoration is as small and character-driven as you can get. It’s slow, meandering, and psychologically-driven and muted in parts. A teen helps another escape a remote sanitorium.
The theme for both vehicles: running away from things! I guess there is a connective thread.
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Alone is a thriller / survivalist horror set in Oregon.
A widow is on the move. She’s packing a U-Haul and heading to Washington State.
Before too long, she’s being tailed by a creep out on a deserted mountain underpass. The jeep is on her, lead footing around dangerous twists and turns. She manages to extricate herself from the road menace, only to meet up with him again at the local rest stop.
Before too long, the creepy stranger has inserted himself into her life, and things morph into a tale of rugged wilderness survival.
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