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Really Awful Movies: Ep 41 – Prom Night and its 2008 remake

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“The killers are coming!”

In this special episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we compare and contrast Prom Night (Jamie Lee Curtis, 1980) and Prom Night (Brittany Snow, 2008).

Did you go to your high school prom? Is it OK to go stag to your prom? Why are proms so popular?

Prom Night is filmed in our hometown of Toronto. Its remake, was moved to California and didn’t have the “accidental” death of a young girl as a backstory.

We talked about whether the 1980 flick holds up. And whether the 2008 version holds true to the original Prom Night (it doesn’t).

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 17b – The Really Awful Movies Podcast

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ram_logoThis is a podcast about our podcast. That’s pretty meta! What’s the Really Awful Movies Podcast all about?

Hosts Chris and Jeff discuss how our site came about and its tagline: “A celebration of low budget cinema.” It’s really a celebration of genre film of all stripes, particularly horror movies, but also musicals, terrible comedies (like Master of Disguise), oddball monster movies, gang/urban blight films, kung fu, post-apocalyptic wasteland movies, hot rod films, ghost movies, you name it.

Also, focal points of discussion: clearing the copyright for the intro segment for the show (we actually did, to the surprise of the film’s distributor, shocked at our honesty) and choices of libations for recording.

Basically, we like to honor films that don’t get the attention we think they deserve. That’s really the mandate of the Really Awful Movies Podcast.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 6 – Why we love horror movies

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An exploration of how the founders of Really Awful Movies both got into horror films and the early movies that fueled our passion for the genre.

We focus on the seminal Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and misconceptions about how violent it is, and Friday the 13th Part II.

We also examine Grimm fairy tales, “violent” music (metal, early blues and rap) and weirdly, Christopher Plummer and The Sound of Music!

(Plummer starred in a super cool Jack the Ripper period piece called Murder by Decree)

We absolutely love horror, all genres, made in any country. We’re less warm to supernatural and found footage films, so these have to be really really well done to pique our interest.

For more, check out our review of A History of Horror Films:

http://reallyawfulmovies.com/2014/10/19/a-history-of-horror-films-nightmares-in-red-white-and-blue/