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Really Awful Movies: Ep 376 – Titane

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Titane (Titanium en Englais) is a 2021 body horror film written and directed by Julia Ducournau and is a French and Belgian co-production. And it concerns a young girl who is involved in an automobile accident, and has a metal plate put in her head, above her ear.

Years later, she’s an auto show model and really, really into cars (and vice versa). She’s also a serial killer on the lam, using whatever disguises she can to stay one step ahead of law enforcement.

Euro-horror and body horror that’s often well done. Tune in and check out the discussion of this flick on the latest podcast episode. And don’t forget to subscribe!

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 371 – Zola

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On this week’s episode of the Really Awful Movies podcast, a bit of a departure: modern exploitation. Ya’ll wanna hear a story?

It’s hard to categorize Zola, a 2020 American black comedy crime film directed by Janicza Bravo and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris. It is based on a strange idea that absolutely, positively should not work: a viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah “Zola” King and the resulting Rolling Stone article “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted” by David Kushner.

Zola stars Taylour Paige as Zola, a part-time stripper who works at a Hooters restaurant, who is convinced by her new friend (Riley Keough) to travel to Tampa, Florida, in order to earn quick and easy money, only to get in over her head. That’s the premise to something pretty enticing.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 364 – Hostel

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On this week’s podcast, Hostel, part of a polarizing movement of horror that came to prominence in the mid 2000s with the likes of Saw et al.

This Eli Roth written and directed effort (with some cash and probably creative input from Quentin Tarantino) follows two backpackers from Western to Central Europe, and the hijinks they get up to, before things take a turn for the worse.

On the podcast: putting Eli Roth’s films in context, ranking them, the influence of Tobe Hooper on his career, Italian cannibal films, the Saw movies, re-appreciating Hostel after a few viewings, vacation spots in Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia and more!