This Movie Deserves Better

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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. Expect scene dissections, thematic rabbit holes, and the occasional defence of whatever sequel, slasher, or thriller deserves a second look . Because sometimes, the cult classics haven’t been crowned yet.

  1. Oct 8

    Rob Zombie Halloween Special - Part 1 Halloween 2007

    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 all Smith's Grove Sanitarium and the most underused fifteen years in horror Why the backstory concept splits horror fans right down the middle The pacing imbalance, the unrated cut's most uncomfortable scene, and that unexplained physical transformation Cinematography, sound design, and a soundtrack that earns its place alongside NOES4 and F13 Part 6 Carpenter's blessing, the Devil's Rejects ensemble, and the Easter eggs for original fans NEW segment: introducing our awards — the Kevin Bacon GOAT Award, the Buck Flowers Award, and the Roy Burns Blank Stare Award Get 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?

    Rob Zombie Halloween Special - Part 1 Halloween 2007

  2. Sep 23

    The Haunting (1999) - This is a GOOD Bad Movie

    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. 🎙️

    The Haunting (1999) - This is a GOOD Bad Movie

  3. Aug 6

    THESE Movies Deserve Better - 20th Episode Bonanza

    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.🎙️🔪

    THESE Movies Deserve Better - 20th Episode Bonanza

  4. Jul 23

    Event Horizon (1997) - The Greatest Sci-fi Horror Nobody Has Seen

    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

    Event Horizon (1997) - The Greatest Sci-fi Horror Nobody Has Seen

  5. Jul 9

    Stir of Echoes (1999) - The Kevin Bacon Horror Movie You Slept On

    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 movie. If you want the spoiler-free case for this one first, check out my article in the latest issue of AFH (@wellthatsucksreviews).  New episode every two weeks — defending overlooked and underrated horror, one movie at a time. Follow @tmdbpodcast for clips, discussions, and more

    Stir of Echoes (1999) - The Kevin Bacon Horror Movie You Slept On

  6. Jun 26

    Popcorn (1991) - The Horror Love Letter Nobody Saw

    This week we're going to the pictures. Popcorn (1991) — a horror film set during an all night horror marathon in a cinema, made by people who genuinely loved the genre, released in February when nobody was looking, and forgotten almost immediately. This is probably the most This Movie Deserves Better episode I've made yet. No franchise name. No recognisable face on the poster. Just a really good film that got completely buried and deserves to be found. Five years before Scream got all the credit for being self aware about horror, Popcorn was already there — paying tribute to the golden age of William Castle showmanship with three original films within the film, gimmicks that become weapons, and a villain reveal in the third act that is simultaneously intense and absolutely unhinged. Full history of the troubled production, scene by scene breakdown, where it stumbles, and the full case for why Popcorn deserved a proper audience in 1991 and a proper champion in 2026. 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

    Popcorn (1991) - The Horror Love Letter Nobody Saw

  7. Jun 11

    Nightmare on Elm St 4: Dream Master - Don't Fall Asleep On This One

    The highest grossing film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Robert Englund's personal favourite entry in the series. Praised by Wes Craven himself. And somehow it still gets dismissed as the point where everything went wrong. This week I'm making the case that The Dream Master is a visually extraordinary horror film with one of the best protagonists in the entire franchise, dream sequences that actually feel like dreams, practical effects kills that belong in the 1980s horror hall of fame, and a soundtrack that is genuinely one of the greatest ever assembled for a horror film. Full history of how Renny Harlin, a virtually unknown Finnish director was handed the most commercially pressured horror sequel of the decade and delivered something extraordinary. Scene by scene breakdown including the beach sequence, the cockroach transformation, chef Freddy's soul pizza. Where it stumbles. And the full defence of why The Dream Master deserved better than thirty seven years of middling scores. Plus the DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince story that nobody talks about. And an award for Kincaid's dog who was frankly the smartest person in the film. Don't fall asleep.  This Movie Deserves Better is a solo horror podcast championing the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the unfairly buried. Reviews and follows mean everything.  Follow us @tmdbpodcast

    Nightmare on Elm St 4: Dream Master - Don't Fall Asleep On This One

  8. May 29

    Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth - The Fanbase Got This One Wrong

    The box. You opened it. We answered. This week I'm making the case that Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth is a genuinely effective horror film that has spent thirty years being unfairly dismissed as franchise decay. Doug Bradley gives one of the greatest horror villain performances of the decade and nobody talks about it. The nightclub sequence is one of the great horror set pieces of the 1990s and nobody acknowledges it. We're fixing that. Full history of how the film got made, scene by scene breakdown, where it stumbles, and the full defence of why Hellraiser 3 deserved better than the reputation it's been saddled with. Plus the behind the scenes chaos — six weeks to shoot, North Carolina standing in for New York, Clive Barker's complicated involvement, and a Motörhead music video that nobody asked for and everyone needed. No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering.  This Movie Deserves Better is a solo horror podcast championing the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the unfairly buried. Reviews and follows mean everything. Follow @tmdbpodcast on Instagram/Threads/YT/TikTok

    Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth - The Fanbase Got This One Wrong
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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. Expect scene dissections, thematic rabbit holes, and the occasional defence of whatever sequel, slasher, or thriller deserves a second look . Because sometimes, the cult classics haven’t been crowned yet.

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