Really Awful Movies: Ep 297 – Friend Request

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Marina is a social outcast at a made-up California university. She sits in the back of her psych class and pulls her hair out, and wears a hoodie and is gothed up – so you know she’s messed up.

She’s at the heart of Friend Request, this being just an expression as this is a movie with no heart, or soul, or passion for that matter. What we describe as “aggressively mediocre.”

Marina soon starts stalking a popular girl on social media, through a Facebook-like platform (it’s like Facebook and not actual Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg did not take too kindly to this movie using his copyright).

Tied into all this is some witchcraft backstory, some unspectacular deaths, some cyber-bullying. It all amounts to a big, fat zero.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 296 – Crackerjack

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Is it Lethal Weapon? Is it Die Hard? More like, tries hard. Crackerjack is a spirited knock-off action flick, complete with a German uber-villain (played by Christopher Plummer, of all people).

First off, biases aside, we LOVE Crackerjack III, one of the wackiest, bonkers action flicks of all time. And like that effort, the first installment in the unrelated series, does not disappoint.

A hard-boozing Chicago cop is suspended from the force (what? A corrupt Chicago police! Who would’ve thought?) When he’s cooling his heels, resting his jets and doing other cliche things, his sister and brother-in-law figure some R&R is in order, so they book a vacation to a BC mountain resort. Why BC? Because British Columbia is notoriously cheap and offers tax credits.

To ITS credit, there are some hilarious action scenes here, some dubious dialogue, and even overt references to other, better movies (there’s a Godfather-esque Fredo) and of course, a Hans Gruber from Die Hard.

Yippee-ki-YAAAAAAY!

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 295 – The Final Terror

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You’re in the bucolic redwood forests of Northern California/Oregon on a camping trip. What could possibly go wrong?

The Final Terror answers that question and more…

A bunch of forest rangers (including the wonderful Joe Pantoliano) and some gal pals (including Daryl Hannah) are getting away from it all. And is par for the course for these kinds of films, regale one another with scary campfire tales on the first night.

Turns out, that far scarier things lurk in the brush and soon, members of their ranks are being depleted.

While many people liken this one to Friday the 13th, The Final Terror has more in common with the survivalist horror, Southern Comfort than it does with maniac-in-the-woods movies released during the slasher boom.

Join us for this episode of the podcast. Bring your bug spray.