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Really Awful Movies: Ep 83 – Hospital Massacre

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We know some hospitals suffer from funding cutbacks, but the lack of staff here is ridiculous. And that’s BEFORE some masked doc is on the loose killing nurses.

Hospital Massacre, AKA, X-Ray, features Playboy’s Barbi Benton in a protracted topless scene and some neat kills too.

Because it’s an 80s horror, there’s also a ridiculous backstory from the killer’s childhood offered as explanation for the subsequent psychopathy. It’s quite unnecessary, but we have to admit, the kill scene is quite innovative and hilarious.

An indictment of Obama care? An examination of the medicalization of women’s bodies? Um, there’s more subtext in a re-run of Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

This one is bloody hilarious.

While typically slashers feature some of the worst police-work imaginable, Hospital Massacre showcases some truly unusual healthcare protocols.

Change into your gown and join us for a discussion of…HOSPITAL MASSACRE.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 74b – Black Christmas

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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone. In the spirit of giving, we at the Really Awful Movies Podcast, are giving our listeners a holiday treat — what is arguably the first slasher ever, Black Christmas.

Featuring a POV killer, pre-Carpenter’s Halloween, and a whole lot of mouth- breathing dirty phone calls, Black Christmas is a lovely film which still has the ability to shock. It’s well worth a look, especially as an alternative to the ubiquitous ELF or It’s a Wonderful Life.

On this episode of the show, we delve into Canadian horror…and the impact of Black Christmas.

In the mid-70s, director Bob Clark (Porky’s/Murder by Decree) gave us this, a film which features tropes later beaten like a dead horse and requiring dental identification in the slasher boom: you’ve got the threatening phone calls, the sorority sisters trapped in a house, disbelieving authority figures, a killer with a murky backstory and of course, blood.

To heck with Bing Crosby, we’re dreaming of a Black Christmas. This one may haunt your nightmares, although it’s been usurped by later films and somewhat stripped of its influence as years have gone by. However, its place in the horror pantheon is undeniable.

Don’t forget to check out new episodes of the Really Awful Movies Podcast every Friday.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 61 – Blood Feast

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Blood Feast!

This 1963 low-budget gore-fest is a first of its kind. Widely acknowledged as the first splatter, Blood Feast is by no means a great work of art. However, there is no denying how ahead of its time this was. Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pittsburgh-born maker of “nudie cuties,” who moved into the horror culture when the latter died out, anyone who calls themselves a horror fan has to check this out.

Blood Feast features a psychopathic food caterer who kills women so that he can include their body parts in his titular feasts and perform sacrifices to his “Egyptian goddess” Ishtar. Some ineffectual cops, unfamiliar with cause and effect, have a problem figuring out the denouement.

The nastiness still holds up. Check out the DJ Kool Herc of horror, the first of its kind.