Flick Fights!

Flick Fights!

Superbad or American Pie? The Town or The Departed? The Illusionist or the Prestige? All those heated debates you have with your friends, we settle the score once and for all. Join Devon Vestal and Nick Nye weekly as they crown the winner of some of the most heated comparisons in cinema.

  1. Oct 26

    Backrooms Vs. Vivarium! Which Existential Crisis is More Entertaining?

    It's a liminal labyrinth, a suburban slaughter of sanity, and an existential escape-room extravaganza! 🎃 This week on Flick Frights, we're getting lost in two of the strangest nightmares imaginable as Backrooms (2026) takes on Vivarium (2019)! In one corner, an impossible maze of endless hallways, unsettling architecture, and reality-bending horrors awaits anyone foolish enough to venture inside. In the other, Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots find themselves trapped in a seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood where every house looks identical, every road leads nowhere, and their new child is the creepiest little bastard imaginable. Both films turn ordinary environments into psychological torture chambers, proving that sometimes the scariest thing in the world isn't a monster lurking in the shadows—it's the horrifying realization that reality itself has gone completely off the rails. We're putting these bizarre nightmares through 10 twisted rounds, debating everything from What the Hell Is That?! and Fear of the Unknown to Psychological Warfare, The Horror Beneath the Horror, and The Nightmare's End! Which movie delivers the more disturbing experience? Which one messes with your head the most? And which nightmare would you rather be trapped inside? Two Movies Enter. Neither Can Find the f***ing Exit. 🔪 00:00 Intro 03:15 Tale of the Tape 07:27 Backrooms Plot Discussion 59:05 Vivarium Plot Discussion 01:32:37 Round 1 01:34:57 Round 2? 01:37:09 Round 3 01:39:43 Round 5 01:42:42 Round 6 01:46:18 Round 7 01:48:43 Round 8 01:51:04 Round 9 01:54:43 Round 10 01:58:43 Movie Trivia! 02:04:11 Next Week On

  2. Aug 24

    The Running Man Vs. Demolition Man! Which one is better?

    It’s a dystopian deathmatch, a futuristic face-off of bullets, biceps, and bizarre predictions! This week on Flick Fights, two action legends collide as The Running Man (1987) takes on Demolition Man (1993)! Arnold Schwarzenegger is Ben Richards, a wrongly convicted badass forced into a deadly televised game show where murder is entertainment. Sylvester Stallone is John Spartan, a frozen relic of the violent past unleashed into a suspiciously peaceful future to hunt down Wesley Snipes’ gloriously unhinged Simon Phoenix. Both movies imagined ridiculous futures filled with authoritarian control, corporate influence, bizarre technology, and societies that sacrificed freedom in the name of order. The uncomfortable part? They got way more right than they had any business getting right. We break it all down across 10 rounds, including: 💥 One-Liner Warfare 💥 The Villain 💥 Satire With a Body Count 💥 The World We Accidentally Got 💥 Most Iconic 💥 Final Verdict: Gut Check It’s Arnold vs. Stallone. Killian vs. Phoenix. Murder television vs. the three seashells. Which action-packed dystopia survives the future and wins the fight? 00:12 Intro 03:10 Tale of the Tape 08:39 The Running Man 48:27 Demolition Man 01:33:27 Round 1 01:35:22 Round 2 01:36:53 Round 3 01:38:43 Round 4 01:40:09 Round 5 01:42:05 Round 6 01:43:34 Round 7 01:45:15 Round 8 01:46:29 Round 9 01:48:32 Round 10 01:52:08 Trivia Facts 01:56:19 Next Week

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Superbad or American Pie? The Town or The Departed? The Illusionist or the Prestige? All those heated debates you have with your friends, we settle the score once and for all. Join Devon Vestal and Nick Nye weekly as they crown the winner of some of the most heated comparisons in cinema.