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Podcast: Retro Blood
Episode: Retro Blood 214: Mothers Day (1980)
Description: James Kline and J.H. Alison continue 1980s Killer Family Month with one of the nastiest low-budget backwoods shockers of the era: Mother’s Day (1980).
We kick things off with our first impressions—why this grimy hillbilly horror flick doesn’t hit the same cultural impact as I Spit on Your Grave or Last House on the Left, yet still carves out its own bizarre identity. We talk why the film was made, who made it, and how the Kaufman brothers brought their trademark off-beat grit to the project.
In our weekly History Segment, we cover...