Really Awful Movies: Ep 314 – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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Let’s just call Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile the Ted Bundy movie, k?

What a mouthful of a title. But unlike other depraved lunatics, for some reason Lady Killer and The Campus Killer never stuck with Terrible Ted the way that similar monikers have to BTK, The Green River Killer, Jack the Ripper, etc.

Any way you slice it (not a pun as that was not his MO) this falls into the sub genre of horror known as “serial killer drama”, into watch falls the likes of David Fincher’s Zodiac, Doctor Sleep, Se7en, and a few dozen others. And that’s excluding fictional serial killers or movies inspired by them (Psycho, for example).

So, what’s this one all about? It stays true to conventional storytelling/narrative, and has a few eyebrow raising scenes, as well as eyebrow raisers in the credits (Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory as a prosecuting attorney? James Hetfield from Metallica as a cop?).

On this episode of the Podcast, Ted Bundy, actors taking on challenging roles or going against type, David Fincher, the police and how they handled this case, the Bundy MO, and then at the end, a brief discussion about the Top 25 Horror Movies of All Time and where Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, would fit on that list.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 313 – The Stranger

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Our second TV series Really Awful Movies Podcast episode, after You. This episode focuses on the thrilling UK TV series, The Stranger, currently available on Netflix.

This one is non-stop action, and all based on the tagline / premise that “we all have secrets.” And these secrets are being exploited by the title character, a woman in a ballcap and a track suit who appears to unsuspecting citizens, revealing an envelope full of damning information they would not want publicly disclosed.

One such citizens is Adam Price, a partner in a law firm. The Stranger accosts the barrister at his son’s soccer game, providing numerous clues to what his wife has been up to, and her furtive dealings online.

And that’s just the start. Soon, The Stranger’s target is a coffee shop proprietor, whose daughter is paying her way through university in a most unbecoming way. What’s The Stranger’s motivation? What’s behind the extortion/blackmail attempts? It’s up to the barrister to get to the bottom of it.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 312 – Sorority Row

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Look out, Sorority House Massacre, stand aside, Splatter University, watch out Graduation Day…you get the gist. Here comes Sorority Row, a middling remake of the underrated House on Sorority Row from the slasher Golden Era.

Like the orginal, Sorority Row is propelled by an accidental death, one of those sorority / frat pranks that went a little too far. And someone has to pay! That means, the viewer has to sit through this slog. Actually, that’s a bit unfair. It’s not THAT bad. Bad, but not ungodly bad.

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we are in remake territory again, not to mention accidental death territory too…back to back weeks with similar themes.

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