Tag: horror classics

Really Awful Movies: Ep 160 – Green Room

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A punk band gets offered a seemingly lucrative gig, after tanking it at a crappy restaurant in front of indifferent dozens. But the band in GREEN ROOM ( the Ain’t Rights) doesn’t know what’s comin’ to them, as they answer the bell to open for Cowcatcher, a band that has a sizable neo-Nazi following. What could go wrong?

Find out, and tune in to the podcast.

But first, try and watch Green Room. It’s probably one of the better horror films released in the last few years, featuring an excellent performance by Patrick Stewart as an evil goon, as well as the late Anton Yelshin, whose talents will be greatly missed.

Director Jeremy Saulnier is one to watch. We know this because of his superlative efforts, Murder Party and Blue Ruin.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 127 – The Burning

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This week, a look at the exemplary summer camp slasher, The Burning.

The horror is based on a New York state urban legend, Cropsey.

Legendary effects guru Tom Savini (Maniac/Dawn of the Dead) is the man behind the awesome effects here.

For a slasher, there’s a lot of investment in the characters in The Burning…and why not? We’ve got the likes of Holly Hunter, Fisher Stevens, and yes…George Costanza himself, a hirsute Jason Alexander.

Do yourself a favor and watch this.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 123 – Martyrs

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This week, Pascal Laugier’s excellent and devastatingly effective horror MARTYRS.

Stellar performances by Mylène Jampanoï and Morjana Alaoui propel this captivating story of Lucie and Anna, two friends who grew up at the same orphanage, one of whom (Lucie) was rescued from an abattoir were sinister experimentations took place.

A home invasion / revenge / supernatural / torture horror, Martyrs defies expectations and categorization.

We urge listeners to check out this genre-defining 2008 film before tuning into this week’s podcast. There will be spoilers aplenty.

Over at Shock Till You Drop they said (rightly) the film is “the new yard stick against which all forms of extreme genre films should be measured against…”