The Really Awful Movies Podcast
Horror and action movie reviews
Episodes
February 6, 2025 • 4 mins
That's it folks!
After 10 excellent, fun-fueled years, I have decided to hang up my cleats (or rather, turn off the mic) and put this show to rest.
Really appreciate everyone listening!
Episodes will remain online for at least a year or so.
All the best...
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January 23, 2025 • 19 mins
On this episode of the podcast, two films that represent two of the three archetypes of the modern horror film, Longlegs and Halloween Ends.
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January 9, 2025 • 27 mins
Welcome to Wrexham.
We start the new year with something a bit different, a documentary (sorta) about a Welsh soccer club. And efforts by actors, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, to revive the team's fortunes.
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December 6, 2024 • 6 mins
Happy Friday.
Thanks for tuning in, once again.
Today's episode, a brief outreach about where the Really Awful Movies Podcast is heading as we progress to year's end.
The show is nearing 500 episodes and a decade (!) in existence...so...
Seeking feedback for how or if the Really Awful Movies show should continue, and what kind of direction I should take it in.
All feedback, constructive criticism, praise, plaudits, indifferenc...
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November 28, 2024 • 17 mins
On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, the quirky 2021 feature, The Advent Calendar.
A paraplegic woman, Eva, who works a humdrum job at an insurance company, gets a strange gift from her best friend: an advent calendar she purchased in Munich, Germany.
Every midnight, Eva opens a door and finds a different kind of chocolate. And of course, much more, as this strange box is a cursed antique.
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November 8, 2024 • 21 mins
This week on the Really Awful Movies Podcast, another sequel in a well-known horror franchise: Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice.
Time for some hicksploitation...
And it comes in the form of a "corny" sequel to an 80s quasi-classic, featuring a bunch of rustic, Bible Belt folk.
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(if you're interested in a discussion of the first Children of the Corn, give it a listen)
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November 1, 2024 • 22 mins
Happy Halloween!
And Happy Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the subject of today's show.
On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a look back at this idiosyncratic (and still underappreciated) sequel from the 80s.
Topics:
Tom Atkins
Halloween-related films that are not in the Halloween franchise
John Carpenter's anthology series vision
Blumhouse's take on the franchise and much more!
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October 24, 2024 • 22 mins
Ah, the comfort of an '80s slasher.
This week on the podcast, a star-studded flick, The Initiation - which features the combined forces of Clu Gulager (Return of the Living Dead) and Vera Miles (Psycho, Psycho II).
And in the lead, the incomparable Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs).
On this episode of the show:
Greek culture (not the country, or the yogurt...but frats and sororities).
Variety in 80s horror
College campuses in th...
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October 17, 2024 • 21 mins
Today on the podcast, a mockumentary (or rather, a rockumentary) that is undoubtedly one of the funniest films ever made.
Turn this up to 11, as the Really Awful Movies Podcast dives into This Is Spinal Tap, a master class in improvisation and character development.
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October 10, 2024 • 21 mins
This week, The Black Phone.
From the director of the Ethan Hawke-starrer, Sinister, this is one of the better Blumhouse productions (not saying much, to be fair).
On this episode, a dissection of the at times quite excellent horror/thriller.
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October 3, 2024 • 23 mins
This week, the Netflix doc, Mr. McMahon.
If you're not a fan of wrestling, maybe pass on this one? Or better yet, give it a shot.
It's about the brains (so to speak) behind pro wrestling and his seedy background promoting the enterprise which fused sport and entertainment, the WWF / WWE.
So, brother...step into the squared circle, and throw yourself off the top turnbuckle.
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September 26, 2024 • 20 mins
To the 80s we go, and investigating another backwoods horror film, The Forest.
A micro-budget affair, this one sees California hikers set upon at a remote park in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
But this isn't your run-of-the-mill slasher. No, it's a multi-genre horror extravaganza!
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And don't forget to support the show by picking up a copy of Mine's Bigger Than Yours! The 1...
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September 20, 2024 • 28 mins
This week on the show, some Canadian horror. And an IP that's filmed in Ontario, this reviewer's home province.
Since making waves at Sundance, In a Violent Nature is continuing to provoke discussion as it moves to Shudder.
Is it a plodding bore, or a sinister masterpiece? Are we witnessing the next Art the Clown, another addition to the Mount Rushmore of Horror occupied by Pinhead, Freddy, Jason, Michael, Norman, etc?
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September 13, 2024 • 21 mins
It's sequel time!
On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a re-examination of Lamberto Bava's Demons 2, the less popular of the two canonical series entries.
Here, condo dwellers are trapped in their building once zombies are unleashed through a movie that's playing on TV.
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Support the show by picking up these nonfiction titles, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapon...
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September 6, 2024 • 14 mins
This week on the podcast, we head to Charles Band Land and the 1980s, for a curious post-apocalyptical sci fi horror and Demi Moore's uh...breakout role?
Dr Paul Dean was compelled to create a bio-weapon for an evil corporation on behalf of the mysterious group, The Merchants. Once he realizes the error of his ways, he tries to destroy it...BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
Tune into the latest episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, and...
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August 30, 2024 • 11 mins
On today's truncated version of the podcast, a few impromptu thoughts on the the disappointing remake of the 90s classic, Candyman.
This is a shorter podcast than normal.
But rest assured, back to regularly scheduled more in-depth shows in September!
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August 22, 2024 • 20 mins
This week on the podcast, WWE wrestler, Stone Cold Steve Austin stars in Damage.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that oh, 50% of action films released these days feature clandestine pit-fighting tourneys. And you'd be half right.
We are back in beautiful BC, portraying Washington State as it often does, in this cheap but undeniably fun meat-head action flick.
Austin plays an ex-con, Brickner, who's trying to live life on the stra...
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August 16, 2024 • 16 mins
This week on the podcast, 2004's Creep.
A woman en route to a party finds herself stuck overnight at the Charing Cross tube station in London, near Piccadilly Circus.
A dark, stinky, atmospheric horror which stars Franka Potente (Run Lola Run).
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August 9, 2024 • 17 mins
A bunch of desperate young people sign on for a big pharma drug trial, with terrifying results.
If you're into body horror, check out the Irish production, Double Blind.
Tune in and don't forget to subscribe to the Really Awful Movies Podcast.
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August 1, 2024 • 15 mins
Funeral Home, aka, Cries in the Night is a relatively obscure Canadian horror flick from the 80s.
It never reached the masses to the extent fellow Canuck offerings - Prom Night, Happy Birthday to Me, My Bloody Valentine, Shivers, Curtains, etc - did. And probably with good reason.
This isn't fantastic.
Here's a short episode of the Really Awful Movies podcast, with longer, more in-depth ones to come in the fall.
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