On this special episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast…two movies “inspired” by the great JAWS, The Car and Grizzly.

We’re gonna need a bigger boat…and we’re going to need a special guest too.

We decided to bring back one of our favorite people in the horror community, a gentleman and a scholar, Scott Drebit from Daily Dead (who’s previously joined us to talk about all sorts of terrific eco-horror films) to chat about these two very similar films.

If there’s ANY type of creature, from the slimiest little protozoa to the largest blow-hole spewing whale, that’s going around killing people…SIGN US UP.

We really dig animal attack fare, and yes, The Car is a a killer sentient vehicle…but in the film, the title car still adopts the mannerisms of a predatory creature…huffing and stalking its human prey. And both films feature the killer POV as a car/grizzly hunts down victims.

The 70s was a fertile time for horror, and it’s easy to forget just how weird and undeniably fun the films were.

On this episode of the podcast, we delve into these topics:

• Blumhouse offerings, from Get Out to Split and Sinister
  
• The Editor
  
• The Void
  
• Why it is that certain creatures in the animal kingdom are frequently depicted, while others not
  
• The excellent square-chin presence of iconic Christopher George
  
• The similarities between the characters chasing the giant bear in Grizzly, to the cast in Jaws
  
• The awesome force that was the late William Girdler
  
• The predatory instincts of sentient vehicles
  
• The fantastic facial hair of James Brolin
  
• How everyone does not love a parade
  
• How it is that someone playing a French horn met their demise
  
• Ratings and how films were violent and yet easily accessible to the (younger) masses in the 70s.
  
• What’s up with John Carpenter
  
• The upcoming summer blockbuster season
  

And much much more!