Messed Up Movies

Today Griffey and Dandino get greasy, wrestling demons in Shudder's When Evil Lurks. They discuss the rules of Demonic Possession in the world of the film, how the film leaves religion out of the mix to make the horror more universal, and rank the onslaught of Messed Up Moments in this gnarly film. Not all movies can have a happy ending, but DAMN! Synopsis: In a remote village, two brothers find a...

On this New Movie Monday Griffey, Heath and Sam turn the volume up on Undertone. They discuss the film's auditory premise as the delivery system for terror, why this demon is so mean spirited and the movie's slow burn into explosive ending. This movie really makes you wait for the balloon to pop. Did this new Messed Up Movie deliver the goods or is it a case of too little too late?  Synopsis: The...

Today Griffey, Heath, Sophia and Sam search cover as their Luck Runs Out in this Film Festival Draft. The idea is each player will select a character they loved who met an untimely and unfortunate end before the credits roll. The group discusses the perfect formula to create a beloved character and then destroy them along with the audience's heart. This Draft reaches to an Alien Prison Planet, Zom...

The Academy Awards are coming up this Sunday and more horror movies than ever have been nominated, including a record-breaking 16 nominations for Sinners! Join us for this bonus mini episode and root for all the Messed Up Movies nominated: Sinners, Frankenstein, Bugonia, Weapons and The Ugly Stepsister! Help us make our first feature length Messed Up Movie: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mr-cr...

Today Griffey and Dandino move in with Single White Female. They discuss the lost art and genre of the erotic thriller, how the film creates the most insanely awkward adulting nightmares, and how Leigh and Fonda form a perfect frenemy relationship to build this flick upon. Join us for this Rent Controlled Messed Up Classic.  Synopsis: A woman advertising for a new roommate finds that something ver...

Today on New Movie Monday Griffey and Heath witness the rebirth of The Bride! They discuss the livewire performances from Bale and Buckley, if the film's stylistic decisions help or hamper the narrative, and how this films adds to the long legacy of Mary Shelly and the Frankenstein stories. Brining people back from the dead is messy business but did this film find more than a primal scream?  Synop...

Today Griffey, Heath, Sam, Sophia and Josh Hull try and lure you into their most diabolical Cult Film Festival Drafts. We discuss why we can't escape the pull of movies about cults, what makes these cult leaders such captivating cinema villains, and how their evil deeds take shape in our nightmares. From Giant Burning Men, New York Wrestlefest, Jonestown like reimaginings, Fight Clubs and Children...

Today Griffey and Dandino ride the lightning in Wes Craven's Shocker. They examine the evidence that Pileggi's performance as Horace Pinker is one of the most insane in serial killer history, what deal Pinker made to get his ill defined but incredible powers, and Berg's all American boy who can't mind his own business. This film while often seen as a cheap Nightmare on Elm Street redo, Shocker is...

Today on New Movie Monday the boys return to Woodsboro to burn it all down in Scream 7. Griffey, Heath and Sam discuss the franchise returning to the Sidney Prescott well, Kevin Williamson helming the directors chair, how we felt about the new teens and Ghostface killers, and Griffey's odd theory as to what this movie is really trying to do. From rocky pre-proudction to box office heights, does th...

Today Griffey, Sophia, Sam, and Josh Hull take cover as Aliens Invade the Pod! After Obama said that Aliens are real, we thought it would be fun to draft a film festival with our most nightmarish...or whimsical movies about the collision of human and extra terrestrial. From Killer Klowns, to fuzzy eating machines, Lovecraftian beast, vegitative shape shifters, and even aliens who are brave enough...

Today Griffey and Dandino rip the human suit of Under the Skin. They sink deep into the inky blackness of the films most bizzare alien mission, the Female driving around unblinking taking in a wide swathe so human moments, and why the Female eventually derails her mission of consumption. This is a cold, Messed Up examination of base human desire, join us as we uncover all it's bizarre findings. Sy...

Welcome to From and Inspired by hosted by Alex Dandino. The show that dives deep into the movie soundtracks of our favorite movies and life. In this premiere episode Dandino is joined by drummer Mike Robinson as their hands throw up the devil horns against their will as they blast the Idle Hands soundtrack. What kind of end of the century tunes underscore a madcap comedy about the devil possessing...

On this New Movie Monday Griffey, Heath and Sam attempt to avert a meltdown over Psycho Killer. We follow the Satanic Interstate Serial Killer's mayhem spree with the most head scratching conclusion, the film's split narrative structure and how it helps/hurts the film, and discover a new No-No moment for all Serial Killer movies going forward. This movie is getting slaughtered by critics, but is t...

Today Griffey, Sophia, Sam, and Josh Hull turn their bodies over to the depravity of Cronenbergian cinema by exploring the most Messed Up body horror movies of all time! There are 3 entries from the master himself, plus 2 from his son Brandon. We twist, we contort, we writhe in agony to draft the ultimate entries in this Messed Up Film Festival! Let us know whose list you think wins this heated ba...

Today Dandino and Griffey cower before a Skating Vampire in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. They discuss the films use of Black and White as a commentary on reality and false truths, the beauty of Bad City, and how the film makes a real Monster we still feel for.  Synopsis: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being...

Today on New Movie Monday Griffey, Heath and Sam try to save man kind from AI in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. We discuss the film's incredible time travel set up that swirls around the magnetic Sam Rockwell, the use of various timelines to sell the horrors of our modern technological morass, and if the film's ending unravels a lot of the fun and meaning of the movie. This is an ambitious Messed...

Today Heath, Sam, Sophia and Josh Hull get caught in some Bad Romances as we draft these broken hearted Film Festivals. They discuss what makes us love bad love affairs on the screen, what makes us drawn to the monster in many of these tales, and the kharmic come-uppance when you betray the heart of another. From Men with Scissor Hands, Thin Cannibals, Leather Clad Catwoman, and River Monsters we...

Today Griffey and Dandino try and unwrap the tentacles of amore and relationship trouble in The Untamed. We discuss how the film doesn't remove the physical to make the characters more pitiful, the symbolism of the alien in the barn blowing out backs, and what this creature demolishes and reveals in it's partners. This is a Messed Up romp into some of the deepest, stickiest waters of the human con...

On today's New Movie Monday Griffey and Sam get welded into a vessel to sink to into the depths of Iron Lung. We discuss the Win for Independent Film narrative that has grown around this film, The film's confined narrative and vast run time, and finally what we think occurred as the ending comes up for air. Like a beast from the deep Markiplier has put his teeth deep in the cinema, make sure you r...

Today Griffey, Heath, Sam, and Josh Hull investigate what makes the most depraved serial killer movies as we draft film festivals. We discuss the idea of the every man killer, the empty spaces left by these crimes without answers, and what it says about us as a people that we can't get enough of these evil tales. We head back to early cinema for a child abduction nightmare, battle sexy writers, tr...

Today we do our best to resist the patriarchy and avoid being the husbands who insist on subservient wives. We discuss the pervasive gaslighting of Katherine Ross, marital dynamics in the 1970s, and the broken masculinity that encourages men to turn their spouses into robots. Synposis: Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers t...

Today on New Movie Monday, Heath and Sam do their best to provide for the podcast while Griffey is cast away recovering from appendicitis! We discuss what makes Sam Raimi such a unique cinematic voice, debate which character was the real villain, and fantasize about being stranded on a deserted island with Rachel McAdams. Synopsis: An employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserte...

Today Heath, Sam, Sophia and Josh Hull return to the year 2016 to unearth some movie magic. They discuss what what happening in film a decade ago and the rise of some of today's most powerful horror directors. From cutting open witches, horrible dinner parties, multiple personalities, fighting nazis, to the most emotional damn zombie movie of all time, 2016 had a little bit of something for everyo...

Today we search for some cold hard truth in Christopher Nolan's frigid remake of Insomnia. We discuss the films use of cold and never setting sunlight to illuminate untruth, the unique features of the alaskan landscape for a serial killer hunt, and the films massive cast including Robin William's dark turn.  Synposis: A Los Angeles detective chases a murder suspect in a remote Alaskan town. Starri...

Today on New Movie Monday we roll around the soil with Death in Mother of Flies. We discuss the Adams Family's continued domination in low budget folk horror, the use of a Witch to play with our modern assumptions, and the beautiful, yet shadowy lore of the film. Mother of Flies is another soon-to-be beloved Shudder Original.  Synopsis: When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark m...