Really Awful Movies

A Bay of Blood

In evolutionary biology, a phylogenetic tree shows physical or genetic relationships among species. And many gore-hounds forget that proto-slashers Black Christmas and Halloween share a common ancestor: A Bay of Blood. In 1971, Mario Bava might very well have birthed the first truly modern horror film. A Bay of Blood not only has all theContinue reading “A Bay of Blood”

Terrifier

Terrifier is a video nasty throwback: a lurid, squalid, and brutal affair. It’s even gorier than the last uber-violent killer clown movie we’ve seen, the wonderful Irish horror, Stitches (a movie with an unfurled ocular assault that made its way into our book, Death by Umbrella, though it was actually the killer umbrella in SilentContinue reading “Terrifier”