Really Awful Movies: Ep 127 – The Burning

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 […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 123 – Martyrs

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 […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 114 – Bone Tomahawk

Serene, leisurely, dialogue-driven western with bursts of extreme horror violence, Bone Tomahawk is a very unique film indeed. When three people are kidnapped from a frontier town, the law hauls in a native guide to see if he knows what’s happened. He claims it wasn’t the work of his tribe at all, but the handiwork […]