Bad Movies Worse People

For this week's Made in Arizona episode, we're diving into Roland Emmrich's UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren! This also kicks off our new monthly segment SHLOCK & LOAD, where we'll be getting into the nitty gritty of 80s and 90s shlock action cinema. A secret group within the US government is taking dead troops and bringing them back with cybernetic enhancem...

We kick off Made in Arizona month with a Nic Cage/Tommy Lee Jones banger! FIRE BIRDS is essentially a Top Gun rip-off, but with helicopters and less Scientology, and we had a great time with it. Nic Cage plays hotshot helicopter pilot Jake Preston, who gets accepted into an Apache training program to fly missions against America's biggest enemy at the time: drug cartels! Tommy Lee Jones has to tra...

Our final 1989 flick of the month is directed by Friday the 13th's Sean S Cunningham and stars.... no one you've ever heard of. Produced quickly and on a small budget to beat the other two films to the box office, this one is very similar to LEVIATHAN, but without any of the special effects talent or acting chops. This time we have a team of Navy members trying to install underwater missiles that...

Get the full episode on THE ABYSS as well as every other Mental Health episode we have released and the brand new show Latchkey Vids on Patreon for only $3 a month at patreon.com/worsepeople ! James Cameron's incredibly troubled masterpiece was one of three water-based sci-fi action flicks released in 1989 and our favorite movie of the month. Starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Mi...

One of three 1989 underwater sci-fi action flicks this month, LEVIATHAN is directed by George P Cosmatos and stars Peter Weller, Ernie Hudson, Daniel Stern and Hector Elizondo. A team of underwater miners (very different from underwater oil drillers like The Abyss) encounter a bizarre creature in the depths of the ocean that shouldn't exist, but it does and they have a battle on their hands. There...

Here's a sneak peek of our latest Patreon segment available for only $3 a month at patreon.com/worsepeople ! In this month's installment of Latchkey Vids, we continue the journey into 1990's COP ROCK. The consequences of Detective LaRusso's unjustified shooting are felt while we meet a new member of the squad and get some great songs including an epic rock opera about wishing for riches, a sexy sa...

With a stacked cast including Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Sam Jackson and Liev Schreiber, this Barry Levinson picture sounds like it should be awesome, but god damn is it a chore. Don't worry though, we watched it so you don't have to! A team of scientists are dropped into a mysterious situation involving an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the sea and a perplexing golden sphere that is more th...

We kick off DROWNuary with a favorite of all members of this podcast, Kevin Costner's post-apocalyptic epic WATERWORLD! The polar ice caps have melted due to global warming and humanity survives on scattered floating settlements and boats. Of course, not only good people make it, Dennis Hopper and his Smokers roam to open seas, pillaging and murdering for survival. This one is long and you can jus...

Last year, we had our friend [BLEEP] on the show to interview us about some of our most and least favorite movies, borrowing the questions from the Films to Be Buried With podcast and we had such a good time that we invited him back to toss some more questions at us. Plus we had a little surprise for him as well. Find music by GRIPES! on Spotify or you can support them and not some internet billio...

Here's a free episode for all of you listeners of our BRAND SPANKIN' NEW Patreon show starting in 2025, LATCHKEY VIDS! We'll be discussing canceled and forgotten TV shows from the 1990s starting with COP ROCK, the gritty police drama that is also a delightfully lighthearted musical. Subscribe to our Patreon for only $3 a month to get more of these episodes every single month plus a ton of other co...

Here's a FREE preview of our latest Mental Health episode available exclusively on our Patreon for only $3 a month at patreon.com/worsepeople ! For only $3 a month you get a bonus MENTAL HEALTH episode about a movie we love, access to our new series LATCHKEY VIDS, a monthly newsletter, early access to regular episodes of HAN TOOK SHOTS FIRST plus you can help us choose future episodes, submit list...

We've had a lot of fun doing these Dirka Classic Movies episodes for the past year, but, in 2025, we have something new coming your way, so we decided to close out the DCM series with an absolute treasure featuring some killer special effects from the legendary Ray Harryhausen, 1981's CLASH OF THE TITANS. Giant scorpions, a steampunk owl, gods, men and skeletons abound in this absolute masterpiece...

It's Friday the 13th again, so it's time for another SPECIAL episode. On our last Friday the 13th special we randomly drew a movie from THE BAG and we are discussing the original, classic, wonderful FRIDAY THE 13TH! For this, we invited our friend and horror movie expert Zip back to record with us and he gladly jumped at the opportunity. The original entry that spawned an empire, this film sees a...

Back in May we were guests on our friend Steve's podcast Bucket of Chum for his new Seasick Cinema segment and here we have the audio for the episode presented in full for you, our listeners. Be sure to check out Bucket of Chum anywhere you get podcasts! Forgive me father, for I have finned... Mega Mayhem starts with the first episode of the side series "Seasick Cinema" In this episode, I brought...

Get the full video version on Patreon ! It's our 2nd anniversary and just like last year, we're celebrating by revisiting one of our favorite movies from the very early days of the podcast. We didn't know what the hell we were doing back then (let's be honest, we barely know now), so we're going back to Orlando to fight the ninja! There were some technical difficulties, so Whitney bowed out of the...

For the final week of our Tucson Music Scene month, we ventured out of our recording dungeon to Brickbox Brewery to record with the owner of the venue and a world-class hip-hop artist, Runt of the mighty Jivin' Scientists ! We talk about the second entry in the Freddy Krueger oeuvre, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE, directed by Jack Sholder and starring Robert Englund, Mark Patton an...

Get the full episode on our Patreon for only $3 a month along with every other Mental Health episode we've ever done and will do in the future at patreon.com/worsepeople Whitney chose this month's Mental Health episode as her birthday episode, 1995's EMPIRE RECORDS, directed by Allan Moyle and starring Liv Tyler, Rory Cochrane, Ethan Embry, Robin Tunney and Renee Zellweger. The crew of stereotypic...

For the next entry in our Tucson Music Scene month, we welcome Ty from the ska punk band Swigfoot and he's bringing us 1998's ALMOST HEROES directed by the great Christopher Guest and starring Matthew Perry and Chris Farley, in his final role before his untimely death. Leslie Edwards and Bartholomew Hunt are two explorers in the 1800s, racing their way across the country to chart a path to the Pac...

We continue Tucson Music Scene Month with our pal, and local synth musician, 3CEUS brings us this black sheep entry in the Halloween franchise, HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and starring Tom Atkins and Stacey Nelkin. Better known as "the one without Michael Myers", we'll talk about why that happened and what is even going on in this batshit crazy tale of child m...

This week we welcome our good friend Patch from Evasion to dive into the 1994 smash hit turd, STREET FIGHTER directed by Steven E. de Souza and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, the incomparable Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Wes Studi and Kylie Minogue. When General Bison, the evil dictator of Shadaloo, takes a busload of relief workers hostage for ransom, Colonel Guile leads the Allied Nation's forces a...

Jamie Lee Curtis makes a short appearance in the film she describes as "a joke", but the meat of this turd sandwich takes place back in Haddonfield where a live internet reality show called Dangertainment hosted by Busta Rhymes is being filmed in Michael’s old home. This stupid throwback to the early 2000s is widely considered the worst entry in the Halloween franchise and, in fact, was so bad tha...

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For our penultimate entry in the Dirka Classic Movies series and our next episode of Halloween Horrorfest, we discuss this flick, directed by a guy apparently known as Mr. B.I.G., Bert I. Gordon, a monster movie master and schlock king. This one stars Joan Collins of Dynasty fame and follows her and a group of unsuspecting shlubs that she is trying to con into buying fancy houses in a high-class n...

The next installment in our Halloween Horrorfest, THE FACULTY is directed by one of Derrick's favorite directors, Robert Rodriguez, and stars a deep cast of future stars including Josh Hartnett, Clea DuVall, Jordanna Brewster, Jon Stewart, Famke Janssen, Elijah Wood and Usher (in his film debut) as well as old favorites like Selma Hayek, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick and Chris McDona...

A direct-to-video early 90s oddity starring a little baby Seth Green, Alfonso Ribeiro (yes Carlton himself) as a street tough named Panic, Clint Howard and a whole cast of nobodies! A group of troubled and misfit teens go on a camping trip with a youth group to commune with nature and find some peace, but the local pot farmers are using a dangerous chemical on their crops that leads to football-si...