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HALLOWEEN 2026 gets hobbled with Rob Reiner’s MISERY, the 1990 Stephen King adaptation about the terrifying consequences of having a stan. In this special Change My Mind episode, Wes makes a questionable case for Annie Wilkes. Plus, a little Dracula for good measure. Contains spoilers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wouldst thou like to revisit deliciously? Live deliciously with OWM’s discussion of Robert Eggers’ THE VVITCH, featuring stylish Puritans, Anya Taylor-Joy, and the pressing aeronautical question of what exactly fuels broom flight. Originally released October 20, 2022. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Some doors are better left locked. Naturally, OWM is opening this one again. Turn THE SKELETON KEY for a discussion featuring Kate Hudson, witch lore, and the curious story of how the filmmakers hoodwinked Hollywood. Originally released October 13, 2022. Contains spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Against all better judgment, OWM is reopening the airlock to hell. Board EVENT HORIZON again for Sam Neill’s Dr. Weir, the disaster movies and movie disasters of 1997, and the legendary “hell footage” dailies. Originally released October 28, 2021. Contains spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s still a vacancy at the Bates Motel. Check back in for OWM’s discussion of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, featuring extreme embalming, movies as artifice, and Wesley’s surprisingly specific final wishes. Originally released October 21, 2021. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HALLOWEEN 2026 moves into HOUSE, the horror-comedy where haunted memories, missing children, and Vietnam all inhabit the property. Grab a midnight snack, put on your lavender nighty, and join the siblings for a weird discussion about an even weirder movie. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The dead are getting up again, so OWM might as well join them. Rise again with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for zombie acid trips, multi-hyphenate producer Karl Hardman, and George Romero’s cautionary tale. Originally released October 14, 2021. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If it’s in a word or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of this re-release. Let THE BABADOOK back in for Babadook in the badonkadonk, Jennifer Kent’s Babydook, and what the Babadook monster actually represents. Originally released as a bonus ep on October 7, 2021. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Some things simply refuse to stop following you. Let IT FOLLOWS catch up with OWM for the slow zombie genre, boobs, and whether David Robert Mitchell’s horror film delivers on its truly inspired concept. Originally released as a bonus episode on October 22, 2020. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Seven years of Halloween means some movies deserve to come back from the dead. Revisit OWM’s discussion of TRAIN TO BUSAN, featuring fast zombies, deep symbolism, and a valiant attempt to avoid ignorant questions about Korean culture. Originally released October 15, 2020. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

OWM kicks off HALLOWEEN 2026 with CARRIE, Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror classic. Celebrate 50 years of alienation, fanaticism, high school cruelty, and the worst prom night ever with Sissy Spacek and early Travolta, and Mrs. White in white at Carrie White’s wedding. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

OWM sheds new light on Sunshine. Wes and Iris dig into Reese Witherspoon’s production company, from its Blackstone deal and film catalogue to the potentially complicated business behind the book club. Thanks for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Or Whatever Movies too inside baseball? Wes and Iris debate whether the show’s personal references, spoilers, and producer-level movie talk make it harder for casual listeners to jump in, while Iris argues that the loose, conversational format is exactly the point. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris quizzes Wes on one of cinema’s most quietly chaotic questions: when a movie title has a number, is it spelled out or written as a numeral? Wes puts his movie-title instincts to the test with surprisingly strong results. Thanks for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s OWM’s 7th annual Halloween spooktacular! Tune in every day in October for scary movie discussions, including this year’s new collection of genre-defining horror movies spanning 50 years! Thanks for listening. And Happy Halloween! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who gets your money sight unseen? Wes and Iris debate the actors and filmmakers worth a full-price ticket on name alone, from Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper to Nolan and Cameron. Plus, Mystery Movie Monday trauma and the Jack Black movie that may have cost Emily Blunt BLACK WIDOW. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices....

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH goes out with a bang with Academy Award Best Picture winner THE HURT LOCKER, a movie about the kind of reckless adrenaline junkie the world apparently needs. Find out why one sibling is an alpha when it comes to movies at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Next up: Halloween 2026!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Strong, or Bradley Cooper: who would you marry, box, or have babysit your kids? Wes and Iris take F, Marry, Kill way past its logical endpoint, including apple-picking with Mom, a Dracula tour, and replacing Wes as OWM co-host. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once you notice them, you can’t unsee them. Wes and Iris identify the signature moves (tics?) actors keep bringing from movie to movie, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s shaky finger and Brad Pitt’s busy mouth to Seth Rogen’s laugh, Nicolas Cage’s hoot, and Ryan Gosling’s panicked yelp. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

Ever love a movie enough to buy the DVD, then never watch it again? Wes and Iris confront the movies they had to own but apparently didn’t need to open, including MASTER AND COMMANDER and BLACK BOOK, still shrink-wrapped decades later. Plus, the performances that make Hollywood ask, “Who is that?” Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your...

What happens to the movie after the movie couple breaks up? Wes and Iris revisit Hollywood romances that outlived their films, from Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, plus the curious case of FERRIS BUELLER’s parents. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do female-led reboots of male-driven franchises keep struggling? Wes and Iris debate GHOSTBUSTERS, OCEAN’S 8, and whether the problem is gender swapping itself or something more un-original. Plus, the female DIE HARD we might actually want to see. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH gets strange with STRANGE DAYS, her raw, sinewy, greasy, confetti-filled VR trip through the final hours of 1999. Find out why this wildly ambitious sci-fi noir feels uncomfortably ahead of its time at orwhatevermovies.com. Now available on Disney+. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Are fan conventions joyful celebrations of the things we love… or kind of sad? Wes and Iris debate fandom, $400 autographs, celebrity economics, and the strange power of the superfans who keep entire corners of pop culture alive. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What food becomes absolutely disgusting the second it gets cold? Wes and Iris tackle one of life’s least important but surprisingly divisive questions, only to discover that one inconvenient food may undermine the entire debate. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices