HeyJaredThis Movie Deserves Better
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.
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THESE Movies Deserve Better - 20th Episode Bonanza (opens the original)
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This week is something different. No single film. No full breakdown. No awards segment. Instead — twenty horror films that deserve better, grouped into four categories and defended with absolutely no apologies. Deep cut sequels nobody goes to bat for. Reboots and remakes that got a raw deal. Underseen gems that almost nobody talks about. And big budget horror that got buried under expectation and bad timing. Plus listener picks from some of you lot who actually have great taste. Twenty episodes
Event Horizon (1997) - The Greatest Sci-fi Horror Nobody Has Seen (opens the original)
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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 slowly becoming one of the most beloved cult films in science fiction horror. This week we cover the full history of one of the most troubled productions of the 1990s — the Titanic connection that rushed everything, the thirty minutes of footage found i
Stir of Echoes (1999) - The Kevin Bacon Horror Movie You Slept On (opens the original)
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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: it came out the same summer as The Sixth Sense), what makes its hypnosis sequence one of the most effective in horror, where the film stumbles, and why — twenty-plus years later — it deserves so much better than being a footnote to another ghost movi
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