Dispatch One Hundred and Eleven, October 29th, 2026

Greetings WHM Family! 

Welcome to November where we at WHM HQ quite literally, flip the script! That’s right We Love Movies is on the main feed and We Hate Movies moves over to the Patreon for our monthly paywalled episode! It’s one of our favorite months of the whole year, where we get to really play with stone cold classics on the Main Feed and also serve up feature length offerings over on The Nexus & Animation Damnation as well. You might consider it a We Hate Movies Sweeps Month, and as you can see below we’ve got a killer line-up for you folks.

Banner Credit: We Hate Movies Logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Image Credit: We Love Movies Logo by Felipe Sobreiro

LAST MONTH ON WHM

Episode 888 – The Frighteners (1996)

Welcome back to the Spooktacular, our ghouls and goblins! The fellas got back into the ghastly mood with the great Michael J. Fox as a supernatural schemer who works with ghosts to con the denizens of his small town until a serial killer’s ghost finds a way to continue his killing spree from the other side. Why didn’t they release this in October rather than summer? Would it have been so bad to let Peter Jackson go hard on this one like his earlier, goopier work? Does anyone have a more unsettling stare than Jake Busey? After the film, take the whole family down to Excalibur’s for burgers with small plastic swords in them and some armored onion rings on the side.

Episode 889 – Scream (1996, WLM) (Patrons Only)

For this month’s We Love Movies, the gang headed back to high school to gossip about the ghostface killer and possibly get sliced and diced by the men themselves in the humble small town of Woodsboro, California. What makes this movie so easy to rewatch without losing its tread? Was this what restarted Henry Winkler’s career? Is Drew Barrymore’s introduction (and farewell) the best cold open in horror movie history? Was Randy your idol or your adversary growing up and how has that affected your life?                                                                                                                                                                                  

Episode 890 – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 

Eric, Chris, Steve, and Andrew headed back to Crystal Lake - just in time for Crystal Lake - to witness the grand return of favored son, Jason Vorhees following the terror of Roy’s massacre in A New Beginning. Did that sheriff just get folded like a pair of slacks or what? Did Tommy Jarvis have to be so brazen with his grave digging? Haven’t you banged along to a ten-minute-plus guitar opus while stuck in a mobile home? You probably haven’t had your face pulverized into the (aluminum?) side of that same mobile home’s bathroom though.

Episode 891 – Child’s Play 2 (1990)

I got it by the way! The boys traveled to a foster home with Andy Barclay as he sought refuge from the warpath of notorious killer-doll, Chucky as he attempted to transfer his malevolent soul from $29.99-worth of plastic and stuffing, into a real, live boy. Can you not find a safer place for all your old trinkets and bullshit that you love so much, supposed parent, Gerrit Graham? Are you throwing yourself into fire if you find out you’re a doll for the rest of your days? Is this the only other thing Christine Elise did besides 90210? Thank Christ, this one has some good kills at least.

Episode 892 – Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood  (2003) with James A. Janisse & Chelsea Rebecca

In anticipation of their new anthology horror film Fresh Meat, James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca of Dead Meat came on the pod once again to help our team trudge through another 100 minutes of Leprechaun content. And as the title might suggest, this time, Warwick Davis’s evil, Irish menace finds himself in the middle of a turf war. Is it better when they lean more openly into the comedy rather than trying to actually make this scary? Is Laz Alonso the third most recognizable person to appear in a Leprechaun movie? What’s with the fairytale book framing device in this non-period film? Please rent and stream Dead Meat’s anthology horror film, Fresh Meat on Pijama now.

WHAT ARE WE WATCHING?

This is a space for us to talk about some NON-We Hate Movies-related content that we've shoved into our eyeballs in the last month: TV, Movies, Cartoons, and Sports (maybe?). Just about anything that isn't pornography.

Andrew: 

The Death of Robin Hood (2026): One of the more exciting things about “Da Moviez” is you never know when something is going to work for you, but when it does, it doesn’t matter if you’re the only person on the planet the film grooves for, a situation I find myself in with Michael Sarnoski’s brilliant The Death of Robin Hood. I didn’t see Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One in 2024, but I was 100% there for Pig in 2021, so I was stoked to check out another film from this guy and he didn’t disappoint. There is a ton of brutality in this movie, and yeah, Jackman comes off like Jason Voorhees at times, but I also found the film quite beautiful, especially the back half as Robin deals with the tsunami of guilt that crushes him every waking minute as he prays for death to take him at Jodie Comer’s isolated hospital/retreat/leper colony/island hideout. The film was released with nearly zero fanfare from A24 — a brighter, shinier, new film of theirs was right around the corner, I’m sure — and really fell away before barely anyone noticed it had been released. It’s a big recommend from me.

Toy Story 5 (2026): This series continues to fail to justify its existence after the third entry and wow, I am tired of watching toys have existential crises. I have no doubt there will be a Toy Story 6 and when they go to write it, my lips to God’s ears, how about letting these little plastic fuckers just have some fun, huh? 

Matchbox: The Movie (2026): I was hard-pressed to figure out how exactly this was a film about Matchbox cars, and that’s mostly what I remember about watching this movie. I guess I just assumed there’d be some kind of magic or some shit where our heroes are taking their tiny, childhood Matchbox cars and making them big somehow to drive around on an adventure, etc. No, this is just a dull spy movie where people drive some real anonymous-ass cars to varying degrees of shoulder-shrug-inducing action. John Cena plays a government guy of some kind and he gets wrapped up taking his childhood friends on some mission with him to get a bomb? I dunno, it’s hard to call this one simply creatively bankrupt when it’s also somehow incompetent in its creative bankruptcy? Every actor in the film deserves better, but I don’t know what I was expecting from the director of those two Extraction films…

Gone Girl (2014): Hot dog, such a fabulous movie and a great rewatch. Having blown through the first three seasons of The Gilded Age over the summer (season four starts November 1!), it was wild going from that to watching Carrie Coon in modern dress, speaking in contemporary parlance. Really goes to show you the range she has, because Margo Dunne is nothing like Bertha Russell, but both performances are 100% uniquely Carrie Coon. Affleck is also totally solid here. It’s a great movie that still has yet to receive a 4K release because Disneyfox doesn’t much care for shit like that, so Criterion, Arrow, somebody else, get off your duffs and license this sucker!

Seed of Chucky (2004) / Curse of Chucky (2013) / Cult of Chucky (2017): So, one of my big viewing accomplishments for the spooky season was to cap off the rest of the film portion of the Child’s Play franchise by catching the back three that I’d never seen and I gotta say, I had a good time! Seed is a full blown comedy, Curse is a return to horror, and Cult is a real gore-fest (the hardest kills in the franchise) that doesn’t end terribly well but is still a good time. Overall, I think these movies are well worth exploring if you’ve dug some of the other Chucky-related films over the years. I’ll get to the show some day, but I’m glad I finally got these in.

Chris: 

Exhibit A (2007): Another rare win for the found-footage genre that I had heard about for years but never got around to until last week. An absolutely terrifying depiction of middle-class repression and obsession with shoddily constructed images of masculinity quickly mutating into forceful violence as we bare witness to the titular bit of evidence, a long-form diary made by the closeted daughter to a performatively cheery father who begins to act erratically following a series of embarrassing incidents and financial setbacks. It’s not a very pleasant watch, but shows a masterful sense of pacing and lively, dread-inducing moments of revelation for not just the daughter and her father, but the mother and brother as well, who are equally developed with care and a sense of fullness. A truly unsettling piece of work from director and co-writer Dom Rotheroe.

Tales from the Crypt (1972): Unsurprisingly, the slab of British horror that inspired the great American horror anthology series of the same name is just about as good as the show. In fact, the (very good) vignette that Joan Collins stars in was remade with Mary Ellen Trainor in an early episode of the U.S. series. All the stories are good but I have a soft spot for Peter Cushing playing a humble, loving widower who is driven to suicide by a zealous yuppie who gets more than his just desserts later on. Solid stuff.

Clayface (2026): Part of me wonders if this might have gone better if Mike Flanagan had also directed this bloated sack of tired, middlingly recalibrated horror tropes. The pacing is off from the start as there is a noticeable rush to get us away from the charmed life of soon-to-be mega-star Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) and into the desperate chase for his old, gorgeous face after local head-hood Szabo (David Dencik) cuts up Hagen’s chiseled features for sleeping with his girlfriend. The back-and-forth between Harries and Naomi Ackie as the experimental doctor who gives him the (inconsistent) power to mold his face makes up the majority of the film, and little of the talk goes beyond plot recitation and the most basic and indistinguishable character details imaginable. The last 20 minutes moves this into trainwreck territory for me - Szabo’s death not only doesn’t make sense, it requires him to turn into a porter on the CGI Polar Express to do whatever is going on. The final “form” is…fine…I guess, but also underlines the stone-cold fact that no version of this was ever going to look or act half as cool as the animated version from Batman: The Animated Series. 

Eric: 

Basket Case 2 (1990): I completely forgot there were sequels to Basket Case. Check out our episode on Basket Case from our Side Order of Sleaze series. This is similar, but now we're living in a halfway house for nightmare freaks. There's a guy who looks like Mac Tonight. It's gross, but the production had more money, so it's pretty interesting compared to the low-budget, 1981original (which is the better movie.) 

Krull (1983): I loved this as a kid. The production design and direction of this movie is incredible. We film shit outside. We film shit on elaborate sets. There’s an element that feels like a love letter to 60s/70s psychedelic fantasy novels with the usual things: moving castles, crystalline spiders, undefined magick, and of course, a love story. Peter Yates made this all work, but it doesn’t work perfectly. The biggest problem is the world of Krull itself; while incredible to look at, it’s an empty sandbox. We should see more citizens of Krullsylvania. I want to see the consequences of the Beast and the Slayers taking over the world beyond fucking up a royal wedding. Have the cojones to kill some villagers. Or maybe show them at all. I’d actually like 20 minutes or so of less “questing” - maybe you can get the fire mares from a stable that got fucked up by the Slayers? Maybe we don’t do the quicksand set piece if we’re going to immediately do the spider web set piece? Maybe we have one wizard instead of two? Bonus points here for introducing us to some major upcoming stars: Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane, and of course, the Cyclops who was phenomenal in The Odyssey. The Glaive rocks too, I'm sorry. Great vibes here too and that counts for a lot.

Frailty (2001): Dug this a lot when it was released but now I'm kinda disappointed in it. It's still good but it's a bit too "this could be a play" for me. However, Powers Boothe is so good in everything he's ever done and this is no exception. Paxton and Matthew McConaughey are also good. So a lot of solid performances and some good ideas, but rewatching it for the first time in like 15 years, it felt like I was constantly waiting for it to pop off and it didn't. Matthew McConaughey is also dressed exactly like his future character in Interstellar. So that's neat.

The Slayer (1982): This movie was on the "Video Nasties" list and I have no idea why. It feels more dramatic than most horror movies. There are POV kills, but most of the movie is spousal bickering, fishing, and talking about fishing. One lead character is named "Eric" and that's weird / fun for me to hear people yell "Eric!" non-fucking-stop. 

Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald (2026): I'm disappointed in this Judd Apatow documentary about Norm Macdonald, but I still gave it 3 and half stars on Letterboxd. Why? It's just a YouTube compilation. There's next to nothing in here about Norm the person. It's a clip show. And the clips are funny.

Steve: All Spooky Edition! 

The Being (1981): Quite stupid and slow, but there are fun effects and it’s a good, “I’m not tired enough to go to sleep and I’d like to pretend to watch a B-Movie while I nod off” kinda deal. The lead actor was a porn producer & sometimes actor and it shows (complimentary). 

Rosemary’s Baby (1968): Decided to treat myself and re-watched one of the best horror movies of all time.There’s so much to love and laud here, but this time around I was struck by John Cassavetes employing his pitch-perfect (maybe too perfect?) ability to play a devious character with seething resentments about the woman in his life. He’s a great metronome  for Mia Farrow’s desperate tumble down into physical and psychological hell.The Car (1977): This one is an absolute riot. I’ve been circling watching this since the early days of WHM—I think the rest of the guys watched it without me one night and were over the moon about it—and they weren’t wrong! Absolutely silly, but played deadly serious (my personal favorite). It’s basically like Jaws, but instead of a shark it’s a car that is haunted in an ill-defined way. Extra points for Ronnie Cox’s sad portrayal of a man driven back to alcoholism by a murderous, self-driving car.

The Hitcher (1986): Another one I’ve been wanting to get to for years (and pairs well with The Car, too!), and this was well worth the wait. Evil vibes for days, with a slippery and cruel performance from Rutger Hauer played against dopey and perpetually boy-ish, C. Thomas Howell. A great, white-knuckled nightmare with dreamy, beautiful shots of the landscape. This is the kind of movie I’d like to see Tom Holland do, not a remake, but something that pushes his affability to the brim when faced with pure malevolence. 

PATREON MAILBAG LIGHTNING ROUND

Here's a fun space where folks on Patreon get to ask us Questions directly. This month's entry comes from

Jacob from Seattle who asks:

“2017 was a big year for me when it comes to getting into the theater experience and watching the award shows; Get Out, Moonlight, and Three Billboards were particularly impactful and have great memories attached. What particular year of movies do you guys appreciate most of all, respectively?

Andrew: The year of films I appreciate the most is 2000. Not necessarily because all the films from that year are masterpieces, but because in July of 2000, I started working in film exhibition as an usher at a multiplex and it changed the course of my life forever. So, especially when I re-watch films from that year, or we cover films from around my first six months, to a year of working at the multiplex on one of our shows, it always brings a comforting hit of nostalgia to my brain. Some of those titles are: X-Men, The Perfect Storm, Scary Movie, What Lies Beneath, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, The Patriot, Chicken Run, Gone in 60 Seconds, Space Cowboys, Hollow Man, The Kid, Coyote Ugly, The Cell, The Replacements, Bring It On, Frequency, The Original Kings of Comedy, The Art of War, Loser… I could go on, but won’t.

Chris: Watching Exhibit A, which I wrote about above, gave me another healthy reminder that 2007 really may be up there with 1999 as far as movie release years go. One of the last years with not “pretty good” but flat-out great big-budget comedies in the forms of Superbad, Knocked Up, Hot Fuzz, and the initially undervalued Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Hell, Hot Rod is much better than it gets credit for too. There was a line of massive, adult-oriented North American releases: Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, I’m Not There, Michael Clayton, Eastern Promises, Margot at the Wedding, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, We Own the Night, and then there’s Grindhouse too. Major foreign works from the likes of Breillat (The Last Mistress), Hsiao-hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Rivette (The Duchess of Langeais), Andersson (You, the Living), Herzog (Encounters at the Edge of the World), Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), Schroeder (Terror’s Advocate), Rohmer (The Romance of Astrea and Celadon) and the list could go on from there. And a grab-bag of arty and genre gems to rival any other year: Frownland, Quiet City, Go Go Tales, Savages, Cargo 200, Diary of the Dead, Inside, Youth Without Youth, Heartbeat Detector, The Mist, All is Forgiven, Import Export, Alexandra, Sunshine, Secret Sunshine, Yella, No End in Sight, Actresses, Useless, and, yes, Zoo. Phenomenal year.

Eric: I'm sure I'm not the only one to think 2007 was a great year for movies. No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Zodiac, Grindhouse, Hot Fuzz, Superbad, etc. Pretty good year. I was an adult though so for more nostalgia tinged memories: 1997. This year not only marks the Star Wars special editions coming out, but the movie theater became my defacto babysitter. So, I saw so much shit in theaters. A lot of big releases that year: Titanic, Air Force One, Face/Off, Con Air, Men in Black, Breakdown, Event Horizon, L.A. Confidential, Jackie Brown, and Lost Highway (I bought the soundtrack due to Nine Inch Nails but didn't see it in the theater sadly).

Steve: Lot of good stuff off the board already, so I’ll say probably one of the most formative movie years for me was 1995. Specifically, the release of The Usual Suspects, seeking that movie out and watching it on my own and having my 12 year-old mind blown by the style and my God the twist! I spent the next decade looking for movies with twists, which was a very unsatisfying journey. Other than that, it’s stacked with movies that I loved and had a big impact for me at the time and for years to come: Casino, Heat, Goldeneye, Dead Man, Se7en (see you this month!), Mallrats, Desperado, Toy Story, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Bad Boys, Clueless, Get Shorty, Devil in a Blue Dress, Tommy Boy, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Clockers, Safe, Mortal Kombat (ehh heh heh), and the single most anticipated movie of my life… Batman Forever. ‘95 left its mark in a big, bad way on this fat kid.

NOVEMBER SCHEDULE

Say what? The schedule in advance?! It's the least we could do! By subscribing to this newsletter, you get a sneak peek at what we're putting out for the We Love Movies Month:

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November 3rd  – Touch of Evil (1958) (theatrical cut)

November 10th – Rocky (1976)

November 17th – Se7en (1995)

November 24th – Sideways (2004)

Patreon Episodes:

November 5th – We Hate Movies:  Sudden Death (1995)

November 12th –  MELR0210: 90210: “Otherwise Engaged” (s4, e9) Melrose Place: “All About Booke” (s3, e25)

November 17th at 8pm EST – WHM After Dark: Come with your questions at the ready and spend an hour hanging out with the gang!

November 19th  – Animation Damnation: The Incredibles (2004)

November 20th – The Nexus: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

November 25th  – The Star Wars Gleep Glossary: Wedge Antilles

UPCOMING NEWS AND PROMOTION

In case you missed it we added to our Patreon Shop and released the previously unavailable Scream 4 virtual live show for purchase on our Patreon shop! This was a super fun show with a ton of fun tangents about Wes Craven’s last tango with Ghostface. You get a new introduction recorded by us, the show from that night, and an audio file of the whole thing so you can enjoy the show again on the go!

Do you love the art above…like all of it, all the way back to the top of this newsletter? It all comes from one place, the irreplaceable Felipe Sobreiro! We want you all to check out his new Kickstarter for a new comic called SPACE HELL! SPACE HELL an all-new, 24-page, black and white, one-shot comic book of creeping dread and science fiction horror in the darkness of space by Adam P. Knave & D.J. Kirkbride, Felipe Sobreiro, and Frank Cvetkovic.

The vibes are already off the charts for this one, so everybody check out the link below and support a very talented friend of the show!

You’re keeping up with our Youtube channel, right? On-Screen Live is back on a bi-weekly basis! We just had a banger last week where we had a spirited debate about Digger and talked about the phenom that is You Can See Everything. Tune in on Monday at Noon EST about Clayface and more! Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode! Also, Eric’s been killing it uploading full episodes like The Family Plan 2, Terror Train, Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker, and breakouts of all the VHS Trailer Games!

Also, speaking of Video Content, are you aware We Hate Movies is on TikTok? We are @whmpodcast! We’ve got some kick-ass short form videos releasing there, on the aforementioned YouTube channel, and of course on Instagram! These are short, super fun ways to relive your favorite bit and share on these platforms to get new folks into the show too! All credit for these amazing videos goes to @gnarcissist on TikTok!

That’s not all that’s on offer for short form video content! Nick Q has been doing some stellar original animations of classic WHM bits that we’re calling WHM Toons. There’s ones on Man of Steel and Star Trek (2009), live now and are MUST see on our Instagram, TikTok and YouTube pages. 

Hooked on T.J. Hooker has another classic ep in the books and this time Stacy is almost murdered! Like those True Crime Podcasts you folks like. Listen here!

If you're a fan of the show and a fan of looking sharp, you should check out our merch on our new and improved merch store on Dashery! We have some new, super fun designs by Felipe Sobreiro such as the exclusive design for our residency at this summer’s ST:LV, our Total Recall Live show logo, a pair of vaguely gross ones like “Hot Out the Hole” and “The Coin Slot” and the Barbarian Scaredy Cats design! We also have "The DILF Den", and a "Crispy Critters" design from friend of the show, Nathan Hamill!  There’s a ton of other great designs like The VHS Trailer Game Logo, Demon-o's Pizza, Egg Lawyer, The Order of the Boop, The Kornkast design and many more, with more to come! That's going to do it for this month's Dispatch. See you next month!

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