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Really Awful Movies: Ep 340 – Urban Legend

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This week on the Really Awful Movies Podcast: Urban Legend.

The inspiration for discussing the late 90s film is three-fold: One, the famous series of books by Professor Jan Harold Brunvand (The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, The Choking Doberman, Encyclopedia of Urban Legends – these books were instrumental in getting one of the hosts of this podcast, into the world of mainstream publishing).

Two, one of the protagonists of this film, played by Jared Leto, is a journalist, again, the profession of one of the co-hosts of this podcast…

and Finally, three the setting: the Alma mater of one of the co-hosts of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, the University of Toronto, which is where this one is set.

Join us for a discussion of Urban Legend, featuring an all-star cast (Tara Reid, Robert Englund, of Nightmare on Elm Street fame, the aforementioned Jared Leto, Joshua Jackson and more) and lots of 90s irony and silliness, but also a great concept around which to base a horror film.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 333 – Edge of the Axe

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On this week’s podcast episode, perhaps the 7th most notable axe murderer horror film of all time, Edge of the Axe.

Sure, this Michael Myers-visaged villain swings an axe, yet he remains far less well known than those maniacs in Silent Night, Deadly Night, Madman, Silent Night, Bloody Night and the granddaddy of all axe murderin’ movies, The Shining.

Still, this Spanish / American co-production has its defenders (namely, us). Edge of the Axe is a rip-roaring good time, variously filmed in Big Bear, California, and Madrid Spain, with a bunch of townsfolk being picked off one by one by a figure cloaked in black and wearing a white mask.

And the police are dumbfounded as to who could possibly be committing these heinous acts. This one was released near the very tail-end of the slasher boom, and it shows. It’s definitely quite unique and there’s a lot going for it, particularly the quirky characters, the strange Gothic Euro feel, and much more. Tune in!

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 329 – Intruder

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With the pandemic in the second wave, we figured we’d venture inside a location people are frequenting less and less of late: the grocery store. Intruder is a terrific 1989 slasher, and one of two movies we know about with such a setting (the other being, The Mist).

Much like The Burning and Burnt Offerings it’s very very criminally underrated.

We get the Raimi brothers, Ted and Sam, plus the iconic chin himself Bruce Campbell in a small role. But there are no small roles, only large chins.

Intruder takes liberties with the conventional slasher format, and is incredibly fun and silly with loads of great kills. So many, in fact, we could’ve easily included some in the sequel to our book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons (pick up a copy and support the show if you like what you are hearing).

So…clean up in aisle six. Let’s do this, shall we?

On this episode, the grocery store as a setting for horror, our experience writing about the grocery space in journalism, working in grocery, the Evil Dead films, red herrings, trick endings, and of course, lots and lots of gore.