Horror and action movie reviews
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This week on the podcast, the passing of Italian genre legend Ruggero Deodato and his unheralded 1986 slasher boom era flick, Body Count. Lensed in Italy, standing in for Colorado, the movie (also known as Camping del Terrore) is Deodato’s attempt at a straight-ahead American-style slasher. And it deploys the time-honoured trope of the cursed […]
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On this episode of the podcast, venturing into giallo territory with Knife of Ice. Il coltello di ghiaccio, as it’s also known, is directed by site favorite Umberto Lenzi, who gifted us Nightmare City, Cannibal Ferox and many others. In this one, there’s the conceit of a mute character, a woman who is traumatized by […]
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On this week’s episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a bit more Italian horror for ya. Welcome to a discussion of Absurd, which goes variously by Anthropophagus 2, Zombie 6: Monster Hunter, Horrible and The Grim Reaper 2 in keeping with the title multiplication common to Italian exploitation genre cinema. It’s a batty 1981 […]