Tag: Italian horror

Really Awful Movies: Ep 445 – Stage Fright

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This week on the podcast, Michele Soavi’s Stage Fright AKA Deleria.

This is an 80s Italian horror that’s based around a theatrical production all about, you guessed it, a murderer on the loose. Does art imitate life? Is the Pope Catholic?

This is a super fun flick from a protégé of Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, who is of course, the masked quasi star of the excellent Demons.

Genre fans will also get a kick out of Italian gore whipping boy, Giovanni Lombardo Radice as one of the dancers.

Break a leg, and join us for a quick chat about Stage Fright!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 436 – Primal Rage

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Primal Rage!

Genre legend Bo Svenson (The Inglorious Bastards/Walking Tall/Snow Beast) plays Florida college research geek Dr. Ethridge, who is toiling away on a protein that will revolutionize how we treat Alzheimer’s disease.

It’s so revolutionary in fact, that the dean threatens to pull his funding if he doesn’t make a scientific breakthrough in two months (publish or perish, right?)

Frank Duffy, a hard-drinking/smoking gonzo journalist for the school paper, decides to investigate the goings-on at Ethridge’s lab.

When he’s bitten by a baboon, a “new party animal on campus” is unleashed.

This one is co-written by Umberto Lenzi, so you know it’s bonkers!

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 432 – Demonia

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Fulci lives! Today on the Really Awful Movies podcast, the underseen, Lucio Fulci directed and co-written feature, Demonia.

A mob of villagers attacks five nuns in 15th century Sicily. Liza, an archeological grad student in Toronto, of all places, has vision of this disturbing event via a séance centuries later.

Soon, Liza and a University of Toronto professor are off to Italy for an archeological dig. What could possibly go wrong?

On the show:

  • Toronto as a scene setting for horror
  • Séances in Fulci films
  • 90s-era Fulci
  • The “eyes” have it. Ocular trauma in the Italian director’s oeuvre
  • Nunsploitation and genre bending
  • “Irish” characters in Demonia