Really Awful Movies

Rituals

It kills with “unholy precision, with nothing left to chance.” What IT is, is very gradually revealed in Rituals, aka, The Creeper, an underseen and unappreciated Canadian survivalist tax-shelter classic. It follows the exploits of five bickering doctors dropped by float-plane into the Lake Superior / deep Ontario wilderness for a fishing and male bonding getaway.Continue reading “Rituals”

Nightmare City

Nightmare City, AKA City of the Walking Dead (not that Walking Dead), uses a radioactive deus ex machina – a poorly-explained wellspring for turning victims into bloodthirsty “monsters.” (But NOT zombies, as director Umberto Lenzi took great pains to point out, as we discuss in our NIGHTMARE CITY podcast.) A couple of journalists are on hand atContinue reading “Nightmare City”