Tag: Italian horror

Really Awful Movies: Ep 56 – Phenomena

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The master. Dario Argento is the man and here is one of our absolute favorites. Phenomena is a beautiful oddity.

In this week’s episode, we get ourselves psyched up with the magnificent soundtrack. What is it about the Italians, your Bavas, your Fulcis and your Argentos?

Suspiria was a mind-blowing experience and from there, it was giallo films and Tenebre. We’re Argento addicts. Is the “Italian Hitchcock” moniker justified? Who knows but he’s a master of suspense in his own right. He is a Caravaggio with his mastery of cinematic bloodletting.

This one stars a young Jennifer Connolly (Requiem for a Dream) as a sleepwalking boarding student who befriends entomologist Donald Pleasance, set against the backdrop of a mysterious Alpine murder.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 32 – Horror Movie Gore

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Is gore required in horror movies?

On this podcast we discuss Zombi 2, Dr. Butcher MD and how Italian directors became known for shocking gory films.

We discuss movies and magazines that influenced us, such as Friday the 13th and Fangoria.

In Tenebre, an arm is sliced off and blood splatters absolutely everywhere.

Not every film needs gore to be effective, but it helps with the horror experience.

Also, the French gore new wave, Inside AKA l’interieur and Martyrs. Martyrs is one of the most harrowing films ever made. It’s worth seeing once, but it’s damn-near impossible to see it again. Cutting Moments also discussed.

We also discuss protracted torture scenes in mob shows/The Sopranos and Marathon Man and appendages lopped off in Terror Firmer.

What kind of gore gets to you? We look at eye gouging, needles and the Brandon Cronenberg (son of David) film Antiviral.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 17c – The Beyond

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The Italian horror classic, The Beyond.

On this week’s podcast, a look at this gore-fest which is set in Louisiana.

“I can feel a presence, someone else is in here!”

Room 36 of a Bayou hotel is where something evil transpired a century ago. Flash forward to a woman who inherits the building and is restoring it to its former glory.

We look at how Fulci loves to focus on the eyes. We discuss where this film places among the Italian director’s work.

The plot is pretty thin gruel, but hey it’s Italian. Who needs plot when you can have Gothic atmosphere to spare and loads and loads of blood??