Episode #752: Arachnophobia (with Paul Scheer)
Added 2024-07-30 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“How do you not kill the guy on the toilet?” - Eric
On the season 14 finale of We Hate Movies, the gang welcomes actor/comedian/podcaster/author/movie-lover and all-around good guy, Paul Scheer to the show to chat about the sleepy, yet kinda crazy monster movie, Arachnophobia! Why isn’t this movie just about John Goodman’s exterminator character? Why couldn’t the major spider at the end be a huge, dumb puppet monster? How funny is it that this movie doesn’t care about those kid characters at all? Why couldn’t we see that dumb sheriff eat shit on-screen? Why would you uproot your whole family without being absolutely certain you have that job, Jeff Daniels? And you better believe we’re marveling at all the Seinfeld alums in this! PLUS: Just watch Shatner in Kingdom of the Spiders instead of this.
Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin, Brian McNamara, Mark L. Taylor, Henry Jones, Peter Jason, James Handy, Roy Brocksmith, Kathy Kinney, Mary Carver, Frances Bay, and John Goodman as Delbert McClintok; directed by Frank Marshall.
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Comments
Brett Goldstein's Films to be Buried With would be fun!
Julie Chase Buell
2024-08-11 18:24:07 +0000 UTCIt’s wild that they assembled Daniels/Sands/Goodman to be what should have been the funnier version of the Schieder/Dreyfuss/Shaw team from Jaws and then did nothing with it.
HockeenightsCT
2024-08-03 18:32:53 +0000 UTCThat John Carpenter tee shirt joke was too accurate
Boots Century
2024-08-03 16:24:57 +0000 UTCDamn, now I gotta rewatch Twisters to catch Paul in it. Love him on Veep
Smaug
2024-08-03 01:30:51 +0000 UTCIt was a great show!
Smaug
2024-08-03 01:26:18 +0000 UTCLoved Paul’s polite laugh throughout “Aaaaah”
Rod
2024-08-01 16:12:53 +0000 UTCOh, man, that would've been something! Can't believe you didn't gain any powers, that's B.S.! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-08-01 02:29:33 +0000 UTCOh, at least Warlock one is a must! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-08-01 02:28:24 +0000 UTCIt and NoES had me terrifies of drains.
Meghan McGehee
2024-08-01 02:24:36 +0000 UTC"Would you recommend it?" "If I didn't watch it, yes." 😂 I don't think we've ever heard that take on this show! Also appreciated the shout-out to June with Paul deeming the football players balls scene as "so upsetting."
Rose Esposito
2024-07-31 23:14:03 +0000 UTCTeam Sanity.
Rose Esposito
2024-07-31 23:12:11 +0000 UTCPsyched for this crossover episode!
NickM
2024-07-31 16:40:26 +0000 UTCMy brain is short-circuiting hearing voices from two of the three movies podcasts I listen to all mixed in together.
G. T. Blackwell
2024-07-31 06:28:34 +0000 UTCSwear to god, I've thought about this everytime I've used a lamp with a pull chain switch.
Erin Hardy
2024-07-31 04:04:05 +0000 UTCAndrew, your pitch about a movie character getting spider powers like Blade is near and dear to my heart. To put it shortly, when my mother was pregnant with me, she was bitten by a brown recluse (she recovered). This was in the mid-80’s when she was working as an X-ray tech. I am sad to report that whatever radiation she worked around was not enough to grant me spider powers of any description.
Nolan
2024-07-31 02:55:14 +0000 UTCPatton Oswalt would crush the Celebrity VHS Trailer Game.
Tim O'Connor
2024-07-31 00:58:51 +0000 UTCObsessed with Stephen referring to floors/levels as 'flights of house'.
Rhea
2024-07-31 00:34:03 +0000 UTCMy mom legit got mad when she found out this was a going to be a episode. "Arachnophobia is a good movie. "
Mark D Myers
2024-07-31 00:12:32 +0000 UTCLove Paul guesting! One of the greats!
Jamie
2024-07-31 00:06:14 +0000 UTCThe more I heard of this discussion and the issues with story and tone, the more I realized that the 1988 killer cockroach movie The Nest kind of did this one better. Granted, it looks much cheaper, but in a way, that is a better fit for something like this. And you talk about being underwhelmed by the finale in Arachnophobia, the ending to The Nest is fucking BONKERS.
Todd B
2024-07-30 22:32:58 +0000 UTCNow we're talking! Send it in! weallhatemovies@gmail.com - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-07-30 22:25:24 +0000 UTCBetter movie! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-07-30 22:24:18 +0000 UTCOh yeah, we'll get around to that one day. Maybe season 15? - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-07-30 22:24:03 +0000 UTCI like the idea that gets put forth here of the entry-level horror movie. My first "horror" movie was Final Destination 2, which is a pretty mild horror movie, and I couldn't believe how entertained I was. I love that stupid movie for teaching me that sp00ky is good, actually.
Tim O'Connor
2024-07-30 22:19:51 +0000 UTCThis was a fun episode but my favourite part was actually the announcement of the Gamer episode being released next week. I love the Gerard Butler episodes and have been dying waiting for this one. I literally screamed in excitement. So glad I was working from home today instead of looking like a lunatic in the office.
Bryce Zubriski
2024-07-30 21:58:34 +0000 UTCGreat episode. I would love to hear them do episodes on the first two Warlock films with Julian Sands.
DMAC
2024-07-30 21:15:49 +0000 UTCLooked up a synop - yeah, I'll have to read it, sounds far out. Wouldn't watch a movie about it tho!
Dominic Kovell
2024-07-30 20:28:37 +0000 UTCOh, and now that I've actually listened to the episode, nice of you to bring up the cow from Kingdom of the Spiders; cinema's greatest cow actor. Seriously, amazing cow.
Mark Ibarra
2024-07-30 16:33:59 +0000 UTCLove the idea of a movie podcast festival. Who do we all want to see there?
Shamus R McClelland
2024-07-30 15:50:31 +0000 UTCThis movie freaked me out as a kid and I had a false memory of the final spider being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
jribs
2024-07-30 15:30:17 +0000 UTCaudible shriek over here
Matt
2024-07-30 15:20:00 +0000 UTCFrank Marshall does the same thing he does to Congo; the same thing he does to Alive. He's a producer who didn't need to direct. It's not even a workmanlike movie. It's a series of barely connected Point A to Point B sequences. The only charm is from the effects and John Goodman. Joe Dante or Sam Raimi would have KILLLLLLLLED this material.
Mark Ibarra
2024-07-30 14:45:50 +0000 UTCFun (?) fact: the real spiders used in the film were Australian huntsmen, which can be found pretty much everywhere including in city apartments! I recently caught one for my neighbour and took it outside at her request . It was so big that when I dropped it on the dirt it landed with an audible thud.
Craig
2024-07-30 13:54:31 +0000 UTCThe Philip K Dick short story “Expendable” was made for you. It’s available on the web in various places.
Craig
2024-07-30 13:53:31 +0000 UTCOver the top bombastic monster movies are a dime a dozen. I appreciate how relatively grounded this movie is by comparison.
Justine Prudhomme
2024-07-30 13:31:40 +0000 UTC15 minutes in and this is already an instant classic episode. I love it! It’s like somehow Paul Scheer is bringing the show back to its roots.
Derek Baxter
2024-07-30 13:19:03 +0000 UTCTHE SHOWER SPIDER I saw this trailer ONCE on a VHS tape in 1990. I am now thirty nine years old and STILL think about this at least once a week in the shower. Scariest movie ever made to me personally.
Matt
2024-07-30 13:17:06 +0000 UTCI'm afraid of just about everything that creeps and crawls - weta are my worst nightmare - but for some inexplicable reason, I don't have a fear of spiders. I find them to be cute, weird, or fascinating. I think it's because spiders tend to eat insects, which are infinitely more disturbing to me, so they're heroes in my mind. That and we have a Spiderman superhero and not a... Silverfish Man. *shudders*
Dominic Kovell
2024-07-30 12:46:09 +0000 UTCIf you mention a “Spider King” in the first act, it better show up wearing a tiny gold crown in the last act.
Excitemike 64
2024-07-30 12:35:39 +0000 UTC“Middle America loves to hear about your bespoke wine” 😂
Jaime Lee Ezell
2024-07-30 12:03:27 +0000 UTCI fucking hated this movie as a yute and I fucking hate it now 🤣 Not because its a bad movie, but as many others have said it gave me a terrible fear of spiders. This episode will be very cathartic.
Christopher Bruce
2024-07-30 09:11:05 +0000 UTCI have a story about this one that might be mailbag-worthy. And yes, it involves a kid freaking out over it.
Craig
2024-07-30 08:53:18 +0000 UTCA movie I saw only bits and pieces of as a kid but I've seen that (pretty great) poster a thousand times. This is a great cap to a great season - seeing you guys collab with Paul is a big, pleasant surprise. Hope you guys enjoy the summer break!
Busiris
2024-07-30 07:33:40 +0000 UTCOh man, I'm not even a dedicated HDTGM listener but even I know the Drop Dead Fred episode is an all-timer.
Busiris
2024-07-30 07:31:19 +0000 UTCSame, i also like the subtle Drop Dead Fred reference. That is one of my favorite HDTGM shows.
Dan Craftwerk
2024-07-30 07:09:00 +0000 UTCI saw this when I was 7, I remember having a fat kid vacation eating a bowl of just cool whip, cereal box scene, i just imagine spiders were in my cool whip. I threw up.
Dan Craftwerk
2024-07-30 06:17:16 +0000 UTCI am so thrilled to have this crossover of my two favorite podcasts!!! Love! ❤️ This movie has lived in my nightmares since it came out lol ETA I think this is my new favorite episode!!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2024-07-30 06:13:21 +0000 UTCSorry but I have to strongly disagree with you guys on this one....it's a slow-burn creature feature with humor and tension and several well-drawn characters. Jeff Daniels is fantastic in this - he's playing a particular scaredy-cat type and he does a endearing job of it.
Geoff Gershon
2024-07-30 05:36:15 +0000 UTCI remember all the ads for Arachnophobia selling it as a John Goodman vehicle. The fact that he is barely in the movie constitutes the worst case of false advertisement since The Neverending Story.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-07-30 05:19:44 +0000 UTCSaw this when I was a little kid in '92 and I still check the shower curtain bar for spiders to this day
Robert Calvillo
2024-07-30 04:32:49 +0000 UTC+1 vote for an episode about The Relic
Robert Calvillo
2024-07-30 04:30:49 +0000 UTCI've only seen the ending of this film and it freaked me out as a kid. Also this is another time Chris has mentioned The Relic and I find myself hoping that one ends up on the feed sometime soon in the future.
Voror
2024-07-30 04:21:13 +0000 UTCSaw this at the drive in when I was 10 and since then have had a crippling fear of spiders like Jeff Daniels.
Darryl Bowen
2024-07-30 04:07:47 +0000 UTC
