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Really Awful Movies: Ep 463 – Fatal Games

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This week on the podcast, an atypical 80s slasher: Fatal Games.

In advance of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, we turn our attention to sports-related horror on the show.

This shoestring effort dials back the gore, and dials up the eye candy.

It’s a spirited effort that benefits from strong performances and notable character actors like Sally Kirkland (The Sting) in lead roles.

So, subscribe, check out the discussion of Fata Games and watch this not exactly podium-worthy entry into the 80s horror milieu.

 

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 444 – The Conference

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We turn our eyes to Sweden on the podcast, and check in on the spirited and gory horror-comedy, The Conference.

More accurately a corporate retreat, the folks behind a contentious shopping mall development head out to some rustic cabins to brainstorm and team-build and all that fun stuff.

They do some zip lining, eat and drink, question a few barriers/headwinds the real estate development project could face, and generally have a swell time at first.

That is, until, something incriminating is found on a laptop.

Meanwhile, there is a killer on the loose. And he’s masked, of course.

The Conference has a lot of neat backstory, and some terrific kills. It’s marred by slickness, but is overall a pretty compelling effort.

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