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Really Awful Movies: Ep 424 – The Furies

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This week on the podcast, a 2019 Aussie production titled, The Furies.

This is a survivalist/dystopian horror, occupying Battle Royale / Rollerball territory, but a hell of a lot gorier. Billed as Halloween meets The Hunger Games (wholly inaccurately) this one focuses on women who wake up in strange black coffins, only to find themselves in a fight to the death in a mining town hellscape in NSW, Australia.

There’s a harrowing atmosphere, to be sure, but things unravel toward the end, an unfortunately all too common occurrence in horror.

Tune in, check it out!

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 422 – Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger

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On this episode of the podcast, Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger, two low-budget horror films.

What links these two together is they’re both micro-budget horrors with a cult following, more so for the Troma production. In Killdozer, as the name overtly suggests, a construction vehicle becomes sentient and well…kills!

Shocker, sometimes literally. And in The Toxic Avenger, a 90-lb weakling develops super hero powers when falling into toxic waste, again, as the name suggests. Vigilante justice is then brought to Tromaville.

This is a short one this week, back to longer format podcast episodes next week.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 421 – Exterminators of the Year 3000

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On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a brief detour and foray into post-apocalyptic wasteland movies.

Some movies, like Jaws and Mad Max, are so popular, well made and influential that they spawn a host of imitators. In the case of the latter, it’s even got its own name: Maxploitation.

There is quite a laundry list of Mad Max ripoffs, of which Exterminators of the Year 3000 is one. Hell, the poster art even shamelessly admits it: “meet the new breed of road warriors.” Brazen!

These movies are always so much fun, and aren’t too taxing on the ol’ noggin.