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Wes and Iris turn movie titles borrowed from songs and lyrics into a bracket-style showdown. What movie classic takes the crown, and which titles face the music? 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some nightmares are too good to wake up from. OWM dreams again with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, featuring great practical scares, questionable long arms, the studio ending, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “cameo,” and other Dude Bros. Originally released October 23, 2025. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

HALLOWEEN goes out with OBSESSION, a twisted tale of unrequited love, bad decisions, and the terrifying consequences of getting who you wish for. Iris and Wes unpack why the bareness of Bear is only amplified by the craziness of Nikki, and whether this deeply uncomfortable love story is an instant horror classic. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn...

What’s Halloween without inviting the neighbors back in? OWM returns to ROSEMARY’S BABY, where the siblings debate what’s scarier: the Satanic coven, Mia Farrow’s haircut, or being a dude talking about BROSmary’s Baby. Originally released October 9, 2025. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apparently evil wasn’t done lurking. Head back into WHEN EVIL LURKS, where the kids are having a great time, Dad is ranting butt-naked, and the Rotten is absolutely everywhere. Originally released October 2, 2025. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leatherface is getting another swing this Halloween. Fire up OWM’s discussion of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, featuring corpse art, wrench toast, going ham, and possibly the biggest bummer in Texas history. Originally released October 10, 2024. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some movies deserve to come back from the dead. Resurrect OWM’s discussion of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, featuring horrible stinks, the Bilbo cameo, and the surprisingly happy fate of Di. Originally released October 3, 2024. Contains spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pick up the phone for Wes Craven’s SCREAM! Thirty years later, Iris and Wes revisit the suspects, the clues, and Matthew Lillard’s tongue. Plus, does knowing whodunit take the scream out of SCREAM? Find out at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another Halloween, another full moon. Howl along with OWM’s discussion of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON to determine whether it’s hysterical or awkward, whether Mom and Dad walked in during See You Next Wednesday, and, most importantly, whether John Landis “land ’dis” movie. Originally released November 2, 2023. Contains spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can put evil down, but apparently it’s going to rise again. Unearth OWM’s discussion of EVIL DEAD RISE, featuring rat kings, Wesley’s horror movie requirements, and the important discovery that evil is actually very inefficient. Originally released October 12, 2023. Contains spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pazuzu has been waiting patiently for another invitation upstairs. Get possessed by OWM’s discussion of THE EXORCIST and the freaky stuff filmmakers somehow pulled off 50 years earlier, including why Ellen Burstyn is “the man” and who the hell Pazuzu is. Originally released October 26, 2023. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad ch...

The Overlook has a room waiting for you this Halloween. Check back in with OWM’s discussion of THE SHINING, Wes’s favorite horror movie, including cinephilic mental illness, lurching around the condo with a weapon, and whether the impossible window is actually possible. Originally released October 5, 2023. Contains spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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