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
3d ago
Terror in the tunnels has been the subject of many a horror movie, think Bradley Cooper navigating turnstiles in The Midnight Meat Train or Frank Zito on the prowl in Maniac, one of the best horror movies of the 80s. While those efforts explored the empty creepiness of solo late night train travel, action thriller ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1w ago
Derided upon first release and championed with some benefit of hindsight, the truth rests somewhere in the middle for Night of the Living Dead (1990). A beat for beat retread of George A Romero’s transcendent 1968 original, the only key differences are Tony Todd in the Duane Jones role, and Patricia Tallman’s channeling of her ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2w ago
Urban sophisticates visit a small town and are met with suspicious, evasive locals. That is the plot of about, oh, 1,000 horror films at last count – and in particular, Demons 3. Demons 3 gifts us a prologue, which every horror film in the 80s was required by have by law, featuring a young mom ..read more
Really Awful Movies
3w ago
An odd mashup of Lifetime movie and travel vlog, the latest Road House tries to steer itself in a people-pleasing direction. The Road House – so named by its owner, who also meta-named his watercraft, The Boat, is in a pickle. You see, the violence-plagued saloon’s going through bouncers like Italy does prime ministers. The ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
Kiss of the Vampire – not to be confused with Vampire’s Kiss – is a lip-smacking good time. Despite the absence of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, who alone or together were in nine Dracula Hammer Films (with Cushing also in the third installment of the Count Karstein trilogy, Twins of Evil) Kiss of the ..read more
Really Awful Movies
1M ago
Meatcleaver Massacre features an Egyptologist, but Celtic, rather than Egyptian lore, and top billing for one minute of Christopher Lee, who thought he was going to be in a different film and nearly sued as a result. And most tellingly, absolutely, positively, no meat cleavers! Meatcleaver Massacre is another one of those wonky, idiosyncratic 70s ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2M ago
When it comes to an author despising a screen adaptation of their work, Stephen King’s remarks about The Shining being “a maddening, perverse, and disappointing film,” are almost complimentary, at least if you compare them to Sol Yurick’s take on The Warriors. The novelist never came to terms with the film’s status as a cult classic. And ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2M ago
“Ninjas? That’s preposterous! This is 20th century Manila.” What would we do without low budget dreck lensed in the Philippines? After all, the country has been a favored filming location for all manner of trash that’s in part been the inspiration for this very site. You’ve got the likes of “erotic kung fu classic” (er ..read more
Really Awful Movies
2M ago
With no apologies to fans of Scream, The Last House on the Left is Wes Craven’s second best, a masterpiece that’s a cut below the all-time great A Nightmare on Elm Street because of the latter’s sublime creativity. This one’s a gut-punch, as unrelenting and uncompromising as they come. And one of the more harrowing ..read more
Really Awful Movies
3M ago
Your peepers will enjoy Jeepers Creepers’ visual appeal, and low budget DIY feel. The film competently combines rustic hicksploitation (think Dark Night of the Scarecrow or Hatchet) and roadside horror (think Tourist Trap or Duel) but with a mythical monster in the mix too (think Pumpkinhead or Cellar Dweller). Siblings Darry (Justin Long) and Trish ..read more