Big Daddy Dispatch: November 2025

Dispatch One Hundred and One, October 30th, 2025

Greetings WHM Family!

It’s a crazy time of year for your old pals at the podcast factory! We just wrapped up our best Spooktacular ever and launched our quarterly video show, Scaredy Cats, on Zach Cregger’s Barbarian (available now on the top tier of the Patreon), and now we’re jumping headlong into the busiest month of the year–We Love Movies month! We’ve got full-length Patreon episodes on the Animation Damnation and Nexus feeds, as well as a crazy-fun We Hate Movies episode on the WLM feed and another hangout for After Dark as well! There’s so much killer content coming your way this November, you won’t know what to do with yourself! 

Banner Credit: We Hate Movies Logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Header Credit: We Hate Movies Scaredycats Screengrab from Barbarian  

15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW AT THE BELL HOUSE IN BROOKLYN

Tickets are now on sale for our 15th Anniversary show on December 6th at the Bell House in Brooklyn! We’re doing a live episode on Total Recall!  Yes, it’s the Arnold one. The good one! It’s gonna be a WLM episode talking about Kuato, Mutant Dean Norris, and Sharon fucking Stone, plus a ton of bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions, live on stage! These Brooklyn shows sell out fast, so get your tickets ASAP here!

LAST MONTH ON WHM

Episode 824 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)  (Patrons Only)

For the 2025 Spooktacular’s We Love Movies episode, the fellas took their beat-to-shit van down to the unexplored corners of Texas and nearly got made into a sausage platter by Leatherface & Co. How is this movie still so effectively unsettling and gross? Would you be able to handle more than a few hours of Franklin? What if human ribs are actually really good? What if the man has a great sauce? Probably still wouldn’t do it, but still, maybe?

Episode 825 – Needful Things (1993)  

If you’ve been missing the Von Sydow impressions, get your slop trays out! Andrew, Chris, Steve, and Eric took a trip back out to King County to help Ed Harris save his town from a demonic antiques dealer. How quickly would most Yankees fans kill their neighbor for great memorabilia? Is it possible to casually skin a dog? Seems unlikely. Plus, another lengthy report from the J.T. Walsh Appreciation Society.

Episode 826 – Halloween (2007)  

The boys took their first trip to Zombie Town to pick apart the good and the plentiful bad in the first full-on retelling of the original story of Michael Myers’ return to his hometown for a good, old-fashioned massacre. Does Zombie go a little too hard with all the gross familial stuff in the beginning? Is there any logic to the way in which this Michael kills? Is this Loomis purposely supposed to be a complete joke? What separates this from its far more beloved sequel? Take a good, hot shower after this one.

Episode 827 – Thir13en Ghosts (2001)  

The gang headed out to the middle of fucking nowhere with Shannon Elizabeth, Matthew Lillard and Tony Shalhoub to get lost in the most confusing house to ever be built specifically to imprison and harness the power of ghosts. Why isn’t this more of a comedy like the William Castle original? Could we get some more kills for the table, please? Why does this movie look so bad, even aside from the effects? That all being said, Lillard innocent.

Episode 828 – Leprechaun in the Hood (2000) (with James and Chelsea from Dead Meat 

Once more into the potato-strewn breach, dear friends? Those dear friends would be Chelsea and James, the hosts of everyone’s favorite horror show Dead Meat, who joined Andrew, Steve, Eric, and Chris once again to talk about another Leprechaun movie. This one co-stars Ice-T and features one of the stranger rags-to-riches stories to be captured on film. Why does the flute just make them good and where does the flute come from? How does Ice-T even know about the flute? Okay, let’s stop talking about the flute. Why is the Leprechaun such a small part of the story of Leprechaun in the Hood? What’s with the Lynchian interlude with the pawn shop owner? We’ll see you next year for the similarly inexplicable Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha’ Hood (2003).

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: 

October is usually me watching (or more likely, RE-watching) horror flicks just like a lot of folks. Let’s see what all got in front of these big baby blues this month: 

Friday the 13th Part III (1982) - After I QC’d our commentary track on Part 2, Paramount+ autoplayed this one and I left it on. I find the 3-D shots stupid, but not without their charm. We’ve got a lotta good kills here, especially obnoxious Shelly, the Prankster Extraordinaire who winds up gifting Jason his hockey mask after being brutally murdered by our Main Man. Death to all pranksters in slasher flicks! 

Night of the Reaper (2025) - I’m always a bit nervous to check out a new horror film on Shudder these days. Not because of the scares, but because, as I’ve said before, I find the current state of indie horror to be quite abysmal. Studio horror is having a renaissance, but I’m still finding most new indie horror to be… not great. So I was pretty happy when Night of the Reaper kinda broke that trend a bit. It’s a pretty solid slasher, with some decent kills and a fine little mystery. It doesn’t quite stick the landing, but indie horror can, and has done worse. 

An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Caught this on Hotel TV in Vegas and I flipped it on right when they get to the Slaughtered Lamb, so I knew I was totally fine to LOCK IN. I had a maintenance guy come in with a security guard right when the nazi werewolves take out the family while they’re watching The Muppet Show. Sure hope those dudes knew what I was watching. If not, at least they left before the sexy sex scene. 

Hider in the House (1989) - Picked up the new blu-ray from Vestron/Lionsgate and I gotta say, it looks great. The movie is a total trip — Busey is in full-on Maniac Mode, Bruce Glover plays the pervert neighbor, and Michael McKean is the shitty husband who’s “stuck” married to a 1989 Mimi Rogers. Big recommend. I think if I ever win the VHS Trailer Game, this would be one of my options for a REDUX episode, if only to get the four of us in a room doing Busey saying, “Julie,” repeatedly. 

V/H/S/HALLOWEEN (2025) - Very rarely does a found footage film do it for me in any way, so alas, the V/H/S franchise is never something that ever fully hits with me. I watch them every year in case Hell itself freezes over and I’m entertained by the whole shebang, and while this latest installment bucked the curve, overall it still just ain’t for me. The through-line segment with the haunted soda was pretty solid, and I really liked Alex Ross Perry’s one about the child murderer working at that tape store. The rest went from bad, to “that’s a cool VFX reel”, to even a couple where it just felt like I’d seen them done before—and done better. 

Chris:

Vampyres (1974): As much softcore porn as gruesome horror, with very little in the way of narrative engine. Still, it gets by on the nudity and the ample mood provided by the technical and creative teams. Never felt the impulse to skip-forward a few times, which is becoming rarer and rarer.

The Card Player (2003): Starting to really scrape the bottom on my journey to becoming an Argento completist. This one cast Game of Thrones mainstay and genuinely inspiring political activist Liam Cunningham as a rogue detective helping the Polizia beat a psychotic, homicidal online poker player who challenges the cops to games and provides them with fresh victims when they lose. Picks up at the end but it is quite the slog before that. Sleepless remains the best of Argento’s aughts output in my opinion, and I even prefer the unhinged, aimless blast that is Mother of Tears to this, but it is undeniably preferable to Giallo, the nadir of the master’s catalog in my approximation.

In the Dark (2000): Shoutout to Adam Nayman for pointing me towards this lo-fi wonder, available on mail-order DVD or on YouTube for free. It begins with a young woman competing in a strange game, which quickly sparks a flirtatious partnership with a member of the local library where she works. Like so many other things, however, that relationship changes and nearly dissolves by the end of the film’s well-paced runtime. Go in as blind as possible and try not to get out in front of it, as tempting as that may be. It’s a uniquely mysterious and weirdly satisfying experience if nothing else.

Noroi: The Curse (2005): Excellent. Countless recommendations led me to finally take the plunge and it’s all true: about as great a found-footage film as the post-Blair boom produced if my memory serves me correctly, in the upper-echelon with The Visit, [rec], What We Do in the Shadows, The Bay, Lake Mungo, and the superb Unfriended films. The use of unused TV footage for a reality show really gave it an appealing through line, though that led to less use and comparisons of textures the way that the very best of this particular subgenre often build upon. Still, well worth any avid fan’s time.

Knife + Heart (2018): Smartly echoes certain elements of giallo and euro-flecked slashers without ever giving its soul completely over to genre. I was surprised how moving I found this ultimately, despite how gleefully crass and pleasingly unbridled it was in much of the rest of the ever-so-slightly bloated runtime. Very good.

Spree (2020): Blech! No good. Interesting idea though, and I think I generally like Joe Keery but all of this felt half-baked and there’s little done to give depth to the lead character or explore different sides to his gruesome depravity. It just keeps happening.

Hideki: Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992): Nearly as good as the first one and just as lovingly restored. This one isn’t quite as gripping and tightly woven as the first film but the imagery is similarly stirring, haunting, and peppered with the genuinely unsettling. Undervalued diptych, along the aforementioned Unfriended twosome.

Eric: 

The Rich Man's Wife (1996): I really had no idea there was a Halle Berry movie from 1996 wherein she's married to Christopher McDonald, cheating on him with Clive Owen, and getting into hot soup with Peter Greene. Deep cast and decent enough for a domestic thriller. It's incredible that we used to essentially make Lifetime movies with real actors and real money and put them out in real theaters. Retvrn. 

The Hunted (1995): I watched this over 10 times growing up. My brother and I would be like "well, we have to stay up to rewatch The Hunted at midnight on Showtime." At some point we taped it. I rewatched it tonight for the first time in 20 years. It's crazy seeing this on Blu-ray and not a piece of shit VHS tape. Christopher Lambert versus ninjas is good enough for genre trash, but this movie actually super-sincerely believes in its premise. It's almost more interested in showcasing Japan than anything else. So many locations. That bullet train sequence, ooh baby!

Prisoner of War (2025):  I always try to check in on Scott Adkins. This movie looks good and the fights are great. However, since it's a prison camp movie there's nowhere to go and it begins to feel like you're in prison there too. Those talking in captivity scenes? No, thank you. 

TRON: Ares (2025):  A complete miss. Every cool thing you've seen in the trailers is all of the cool things in this movie. Jared Leto is particularly bad in this. He's an A.I. boyfriend app that wants to be a real boy to no real end, "just want to hear about your day, babe!" Oh, and why not have Tron in your TRON movie? First one of these to not write Bruce Boxleitner a check is a mistake. All that said... killer soundtrack!

Time Bandits (1981): I remember liking this as a kid but the older I got I thought this must be a shaggy dog based on how others spoke about it. They were wrong. I was right. Rewatched this and had a blast. To me, this is Terry Gilliam at the height of his powers. 

Steve: 

Evil Puddle (2025): As many who know me and read me in this space know, I’m a big fan of the Spectacle theater in Williamsburg Brooklyn. During the pandemic they had some livestreams that kept me and my wife sane, and one of my favorite movies we saw was Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You (2012), which is a mini-miracle of a movie that you can laugh with and laugh at, at the same time. it's aware enough to let non-actors with killer New England accents and bizarre acting choices run riot over a silly script. I was happy to see Motern Media’s newest offering in person at the Spectacle and this is now my favorite movie of theirs. It’s just bonkers fun and has all of the aforementioned charm and some incredibly quotable dialogue. This time around it’s a 70’s style disaster movie made for about $300, wherein a time-stopping stone causes a town’s water supply to turn “evil,” and you freeze whenever you touch it. It’ll be available on Vimeo on Halloween, and if any of this sounds like fun to you (your mileage may vary), you should check it out! 

Frankenstein (2025): This one had a significantly larger budget than Evil Puddle, and it shows! I love me some Guillermo del Toro and this is such a gory, gothic delight. We were lucky enough to see this at the Paris Theater with an in-person Guillermo introduction, and he said that he’s been making and trying to make this movie his entire career and this one does feel like a big encapsulation of so many of the themes he’s explored throughout his films, while still feeling fresh and, more importantly, big. I’m happy to see Oscar Isaac swinging for the fences here and and it’s easily my favorite Mia Goth performance thus far, but it’s Jacob Elordi’s show. Once he’s on-screen you’re totally captivated by the vision he and GDT cooked up and the way he manipulates his body and works under heavy make-up is worthy of Sir Doug Jones, which is no small feat.

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971): I do a lot of Letterboxd lurking to see what to watch and I saw a bunch of folks going through this one this spooky season and I figured, hell, why not! It’s a cool slow burn of a low budget horror film with a truly unique spin on the legends it's playing with. Effectively creepy and briskly paced, but man, those hippies need to do a better job of cleaning that flophouse! I’m more afraid of tetanus than ghosts. 

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

Jonathan from Illinois, who asks:

“If you had to team up against one Universal Pictures classic monster a la Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which would you choose and why?

Andrew: No question, it’s gotta be We Hate Movies Meets The Creature From The Black Lagoon. I think we’d get along pretty well with that dude. He always wanted to be left alone to chill and I think the four of us have that in common with the Creature. You get us on a boat in South America, heading down river in search of our scale-y, swimming monster to get the story moving. But, unlike our scientist counterparts, we’re not interested in dragging the Creature back to “civilization” to be vivisected and studied, so, naturally, we wind up siding with the monster over corporate interests. After the scientists have been vanquished, the Creature invites us to hang at his private beach, sip on some cocktails, spark up a jay, and live the sweet & easy life in his secluded rainforest hideaway.

Chris:  Two schools of thought here that yield two different answers. If we’re talking about what would bring about the most entertaining movie ala Abbott and Costello, then I agree with Andrew and we’d go for Creature from the Black Lagoon or some kind of sea beast in general. The WHM boys feel uncomfortable in their bodies enough as it is and having to deal with all of that on a swimming-and-boats-heavy adventure that puts them up against a deadly supernatural creature really gives you a lot to play. That being said, if we’re talking about who I’d want to be up against if we were actually up against a monster and wanted to survive, we go Dracula every time, baby. That is a monster with clear demarcations and easy ways to kill and wound that everyone, including many babies, know outright. No need to get complicated with these four personalities being put under the heat, to say nothing of all the vampiric seduction powers and mind control stuff. Still, garlic, holy water, sunlight, a few wooden stakes...hard to fuck up.

Eric: I'd like to get into shenanigans with the Invisible Man. That could either mean mischief or one of those restaurants with shit on the walls. The We Hate Movies guys ordering apps at a Chili's-level establishment and who ate the last mozzarella stick? Don't blame me! It was the invisible man! Seriously though, invisibility is a great power and I would like to help him explore its limits and ride the edge of morality. 

Steve: I gotta go Frankenstein here, because he seems like the best hang. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the dude enjoys music and a good smoke. I think the four of us could introduce him to streaming television, getting really stoned, and takeout. Also, bonus: none of us have kids so no way he’s gonna accidentally kill one of them! 

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 We Love Movies month:

November 4th  – Rear Window (1954)

November 11th  – The Dark Knight (2008)

November 18th – Hellraiser (1987): Live from the Oxford Comedy Festival

November 25th – Tombstone (1993)

Patreon Episodes:

November 6th – We Hate Movies: The Book of Henry (2017)

November 11th at 8pm EST – WHM After Dark: Come with your questions at the ready and spend an hour hanging out with the gang!

November  13th – Animation Damnation: Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)

November 14th  – MELR0210: 90210: “Something in the Air” (s3, e28) Melrose Place: “Just Say No” (s3, e13)

November 20th – The Gleep Glossary: A Gleep Double Header!: 

BlasTech E-11 Blaster Rifle on the Patreon Feed &

Darth Vader: Live from the Oxford Comedy Festival on both the Free and Patreon Feeds!

November 21st – The Nexus: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
 

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UPCOMING NEWS AND PROMOTION

In case you missed it we opened our Patreon Shop with our very first offering, our virtual live show from 2021 on Terminator: Dark Fate is now available for purchase! This is a killer show from the dark times and it’s safe to say we were still suffering from QUARANTINE MADNESS. If you missed it and always wanted to listen, here’s your chance! 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!

On Screen Live has had some kick-ass episodes lately! We had a fun one in September wherein we talked One Battle After Another and we’re planning a doozy for you on Monday, November 3rd! Subscribe on our YouTube Channel to never miss a broadcast! 

We also have all officially sanctioned VHS Trailer Game episodes up to this point. Eric has also put out great clip packages likeWTF Exorcism with Marc Merrin, Dr. Loomis is the Worst Doctor, Dilf Den, George Bailey as Michael Meyers,John Wick-Mentary,  Toby Jones in Bee Movie, Sausage Claus, David!Muppet Hitchcock Presents, and many more! You can also watch the entirety of ourWitchboardepisode! Complete with visual gags (most of which are almost funny.). You'll find all sorts of cool shit like Mailbags, VHS Trailer Games, Full Episodes likeRampage (2018),Any Which Way You Can,Bram Stoker’s DraculaandSaw III. Like we said above, these are great for sharing and introducing folks to the show. There's so much content there we can't list it all here. Just go and subscribe already!

TJ Hooker…Is back! Join Eric and Ben as Sharon Stone shows up for a failed backdoor pilot!  Listen here!

Please note that from now until at least the end of 2025, ALL PROFITS from our merch store store will be going directly to the Center for Reproductive rights! Shit’s bad out there and we know it’s likely to get worse and we want to do something,  SO, 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 hot off the presses designs by Felipe Sobreiro such as the Barbarian logo from our upcoming Scaredy Cats, Too Old For This Shit and Sheenpril Logos as well as A Certain Fat Director enjoying his favorite film filter of all time! 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! Enjoy We Love Movies month! 

Take it easy,

Andrew, Chris, Eric, and Steve
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