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
12h ago
“Dripping with mucus and goo” is about as close as you’d get to an endorsement from the famously horror-averse, Roger Ebert (who actually liked Stuart Gordon’s companion piece, Re-Animator). And it’s a pretty fitting descriptor for one of the slimiest films ever made. From Beyond takes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into another dimension – literally, as ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1w ago
Cameron Mitchell had to be, without question, the Hardest Working Man NOT in Show Business. His countless contributions to this site and associated book (Mine’s Bigger Than Yours! The 100 Wackiest Action Movies) cannot be discounted, and he came with a work ethic that made uber-prolific Vincent Price look like a dilettante. In Raw Force ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2w ago
Dire remakes outnumber their capable counterparts by oh, 20:1. So, with that said, it’s worth noting that the mod version of The Town that Dreaded Sundown doesn’t blow like a sad trombone, but in some ways at least, betters the original. When tackling remakes, it’s probably better to reboot something that isn’t overwhelmingly held in ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2w ago
With croaking frogs, jungle drumming and the mysterious presence of one Murder Legendre, a man whose name alone should’ve raised a few eyebrows (especially if they belong to Bela Lugosi), White Zombie paints quite a picture. We’re on a Haitian plantation and Neil and Maddy are about to celebrate their nuptials. The only thing standing ..read more
Really Awful Movies
3w ago
If you ever had any reservations about medical tourism in Eastern Europe, Yummy will confirm your suspicions and then some. A mom and daughter duo from the Netherlands, visit a decrepit century-old hospital for a tummy tuck and boob job. With an exterior that looks like you’d need to have your tetanus shots up to ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
Dirty Pop is almost the upside-down, sinister version of Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon. Both documentaries feature talent managers with an almost Gumpian way of hobnobbing with industry movers and shakers; both have unassuming/unremarkable Queens, New Yorkers in central roles; both star men who moved thousands of miles away to make it (Orlando ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
While Rocky Horror Picture vaulted into cult hyper-fandom, its musical cousin, The Phantom of the Paradise remains relatively obscure. And that’s a shame, as dammit, Brad and Janet, but P of the P is superior film. An early directorial effort by the legendary Brian De Palma, Phantom tells the story of the diabolical proprietor of ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M 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
1M 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
2M 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