
This Movie Deserves Better is for the movies that got done dirty. The sequels, the slashers, the weird little thrillers that critics shrugged off but you couldn’t stop thinking about. We’re here to rewatch, reframe, and rant—sometimes seriously, sometimes not. Expect scene dissections, thematic rabbit holes, and the occasional defence of whatever sequel, slasher, or thriller deserves a second look... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 20 | Founded | 9 months ago |
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This episode is dedicated to Sam Neill, who passed away recently.
Event Horizon is one of his finest and most overlooked performances. A film that got destroyed on release in 1997, written off almost immediately, and has spent nearly thirty years sl... more
This week we're covering Stir of Echoes (1999) — David Koepp's criminally underrated supernatural horror film starring Kevin Bacon in one of the best performances of his career.
We dig into why this film got completely overshadowed on release (hint:... more
This week we're going to the pictures.
Popcorn (1991) — a horror film set during an all night horror marathon in a cinema, made by people who genuinely loved the genre, released in February when nobody was looking, and forgotten almost immediately. ... more
The highest grossing film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Robert Englund's personal favourite entry in the series. Praised by Wes Craven himself. And somehow it still gets dismissed as the point where everything went wrong.
This week I'm m... more
The box. You opened it. We answered.
This week I'm making the case that Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth is a genuinely effective horror film that has spent thirty years being unfairly dismissed as franchise decay.
Doug Bradley gives one of the greates... more
This week we're going underground.
Creep (2004) — not the found footage one. The other one. The really good one. A British horror film set entirely in the London Underground at night that has been buried under a name collision and not enough people ... more
This episode exists because I saw a review online that was so wrong about this film I had to do something about it.
No names. No drama. Just a podcast episode defending Jason Voorhees in space for forty five minutes.
This week I'm making the case ... more
Club Dread (2004) got buried because it wasn't Super Troopers. That's it. That's the whole reason.
This week I'm making the case that Broken Lizard's horror comedy is a genuinely effective slasher with a mystery that holds up, a killer reveal that ... more
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