Really Awful Movies
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Really Awful Movies is a tribute to our favorite genre horror, but also to forgotten treasures new and old. We feature reviews of low-budget cinema, martial arts films, and sci-fi gems that get no love or have been relegated to the far reaches of YouTube or Netflix.
Really Awful Movies
2d ago
For The Ruins, the gulf between expectation and execution is great – as is the movie. Who knew? After all, the Netflix description – “an idyllic vacation in Cancun takes a dangerous turn for four young Americans when a mysterious tourist persuades them to join an archaeological dig” at surface level, reads like you’d be ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1w ago
Every late 70s and early 80s horror film seemed to have a prologue to explain away a killer’s motivations and to pick a nature/nurture side. Don’t Go in the House is no different, with young Donny’s abusive mama threatening to “burn the evil out” of him on the stove. With such an ugly upbringing it’s ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2w ago
In Fatal Games (1984) someone is “stopping the nation’s top athletes…dead in their tracks.” And that someone is skulking around a janky, decrepit athletic academy which doesn’t look like it’d produce a decent Sunday Beer Leaguer let alone an Olympic-caliber athlete. Seriously. The sports field is full of weeds, the change rooms very Soviet/commie bloc ..read more
Really Awful Movies
3w ago
Road trip! Vicky and Burt are traipsing through Nebraska en route to Seattle so he can pursue a medical-related job opportunity. (Pro tip: next time, forget the scenic route and cash in those frequent flyer points, even if it’s JetBlue). The duo is regaled with a selection of end-times hectoring on the radio, surely a ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
We can trace the horror arc of mucking about with human life back to Mary Shelley. It’s basically a tale as old as time, and The Rejuvenator is certainly not alone as an IP tackling the subject. In fact, one of the more popular offerings shares a suffix and subject matter – site favorite, Re-Animator ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
Catfish and rabbits were two of the more unconventional killer critters in horror by way of Beneath and Night of the Lepus – at least until Zombeavers splashed by. Three college women, Mary, Jenn and Zoe (one of whom is an exhibitionist – thanks, producers!) descend on their California cabin for some fun in the ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
When you think wheelchairs and horror, maybe you’d consider the cobweb-ridden mobility device in The Changeling attic. But for most people, it’s probably the ill-fated wheelchair-confined gents, Franklin from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or the arse over teakettle Mark from Friday the 13th Part II. Either way, perhaps not the best depiction of the disabled ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
At a live taping of The Late Show with David Letterman, producers with headsets implored site author and the hundreds of fellow attendees to give the host maximal energy, so that Dave could reciprocate and put on a good show. Mics with the ability to pick up any crowd noise were conspicuously present in every ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2M ago
Night School gives us an education in unique horror movie deaths right off the bat when a Boston teacher’s aide’s dome is lopped off as she whips around a carousel. It’s enough to make your head spin too. We’re no experts in stranger danger, but she could’ve at least let go and taken her chances ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2M ago
Nobody knows…the trouble he’s seen…nobody knows his sorrow. The improbably named Hutch Mansell is played by the improbably cast Bob Odenkirk, the slight, verbose barrister of Better Call Saul and the unlikely action star here. In Nobody, we are introduced to a suburban family and a perpetually garbage day-missing put-upon dad whose days blend into ..read more