Episode 7 - The Craven, The Bad, & The Ugly

Merry Axemas to everyone out there. We apologize about the delay in releasing our newest episode but the holiday crunch got us. This time we decided to take a fresh approach, so instead of a film franchise we picked out one of the most notorious horror directors of all time - Wes Craven - and a highlight of the good, the bad, and the ugly of his career. But you know us, we stuck primarily with the bad.

We start off with 1986's horribly aged "Deadly Friend" which stars Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a role that she's likely to forget (and not acknowledge) about a robot who's sensitive microchip ultimately progresses this film into bad movie territory.

We then moved onto our main segment dealing with Shocker - no not the sex move, but the film about a convicted killer who can't be stopped by thousands of volts of electricity. Sounds like an enticing premise? Yeah, that's just what we all thought till you actually watched the movie and were overwhelmed with bad 80's CGI and countless callbacks to A Nightmare on Elm Street which just so happened to be directed by…

Then we moved onto modern day, which we tackled a couple of painful films marketed for a Gen Y generation, starting with Cursed which lazily throws a couple of talented actors in front of the screen to let them do battle with bad CGI and a werewolf who decides to flip off the camera, and then My Soul To Take, which happens to….do nothing interesting at all.

So grab your freshly ordered Freddy-sweater and whatever holiday-themed beverage you may have handy - eggnog, mead, whiskey - and saddle up for another episode of The Autopsy Podcast and its takedown of Wes Craven's worst of the worst. No more mister Nice Podcast….

Relevant Links

Deadly Friend's Basketball death scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW2pPlZF-M

Shocker on Rotten Tomatoes (8% fresh) - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shocker/