This Movie Deserves Better

The Rob Zombie Halloween special concludes — and this time I've got backup.Joining me for the first ever guest episode of This Movie Deserves Better is Janine from Graeae Horror. We are defending Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009) together and we are not apologising for a single frame of it. The boldest swing in the entire franchise. A Halloween film that has something genuine to say about trauma, survival, and what violence actually does to people over time. Scout Taylor-Compton giving everything. Malcolm McDowell's Loomis arc. The white horse. The feast scene. All of it.Full breakdown, where it stumbles, the full defence, and the brand new awards segment — including the Kevin Bacon GOAT Award, the Buck Flower Award, and the Roy Burns Blank Stare Award.Plus Janine tells you everything you need to know about @GraeaeHorror and where to find her.If you haven't listened to part 1 yet — go do that first.

This is the show we're we dig out the movies that got dropped, dismissed, and written off — and take another look at whether they actually deserved that.Kicking off a two-part special on Rob Zombie's Halloween duology. Today: Part 1, the 2007 reimagining of Carpenter's original. Next time: Part 2, Halloween II — joined by a special guest.Zombie didn't just remake Halloween — he tried to answer the question Carpenter's original deliberately left alone: why did Michael Myers become this? Half tragic origin story, half beat-for-beat remake of the 1978 classic, this one's divided audiences since release. We're digging into both sides.In this episode:Michael's childhood, the Myers household, and the murders that started it allSmith's Grove Sanitarium and the most underused fifteen years in horrorWhy the backstory concept splits horror fans right down the middleThe pacing imbalance, the unrated cut's most uncomfortable scene, and that unexplained physical transformationCinematography, sound design, and a soundtrack that earns its place alongside NOES4 and F13 Part 6Carpenter's blessing, the Devil's Rejects ensemble, and the Easter eggs for original fansNEW segment: introducing our awards — the Kevin Bacon GOAT Award, the Buck Flowers Award, and the Roy Burns Blank Stare AwardGet involved: send in your own picks for the awards — Best Performance, One Scene Wonder, Worst Performance — for any film we cover, and yours might get a shoutout on the pod.Follow @tmdbpodcast, leave a review, and let us know where you land — bold reinvention, or missed the point entirely?

We're back. New house, mic unpacked, and ready to defend a film that absolutely nobody asked me to defend, unless it's a listener vote.The Haunting (1999) won that listener poll and this week I'm making the case for it — not as a secretly great film, not as a misunderstood masterpiece, but as a great bad film. And those deserve champions too.Jan de Bont directing and starring Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson in a haunted house being completely and utterly Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor carrying the whole thing on her shoulders. And production design so extraordinary that Roger Ebert gave it three stars on that alone.It's got a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $180 million worldwide. The critics buried it. The audience showed up. Tonight we find out who was closer to the truth.Full history of how Spielberg and Stephen King's creative differences accidentally created both this film and Rose Red simultaneously. Scene by scene breakdown. Where it stumbles — and boy does it stumble. And the full case for why The Haunting deserves better.Plus an award for Owen Wilson for simply existing in this film. 🏚️🔪This Movie Deserves Better is a solo horror podcast championing the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the unfairly buried. Reviews and follows mean everything. 🎙️

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 in and the list of movies that deserve better keeps growing. Thank you. Sincerely.This Movie Deserves Better is a solo horror podcast championing the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the unfairly buried.Reviews and follows mean everything. Find us on socials @tmdbpodcast.🎙️🔪

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 in a Transylvanian salt mine that can never be restored, the hell orgy sequence that test audiences couldn't handle, and the version of this film that existed before Paramount got involved and is now gone forever.Full plot breakdown, what was lost, where it stumbles, and the full case for why Event Horizon deserved better than August 1997 and a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.Plus — instead of the usual awards this week — my top 5 Sam Neill performances. Because one episode wasn't enough.For Sam Neill. Rest easy.This Movie Deserves Better is a solo horror podcast championing the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the unfairly buried. Reviews and follows mean everything. @TMDBPodcast