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On this week's episode, the gang ventures back into the world of Marvel Comics with the 2004 misfire, The Punisher! What's with this destination wedding-style family reunion the Castle Clan is throwing? How was this dye job approved by the producers? And how do you have John Travolta play your villain and you don't let him tap dance all over the scenery? PLUS: Yes, we also talk a bit about that new Netflix Punisher that's much, much better!  The Punisher stars Tom Jane, John Travolta, Ben Foster, Laura Harring, Samantha Mathis, Will Patton, Rebecca Romijn, Kevin Nash, John Pinette, and Roy Scheider; directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this month's WHM Mail Bag, the gang reads letters about moms taking kids to inappropriate movies accidentally, people getting caught lying about not hating Collateral Beauty, Sean Connery golfing, pre-teens taking innocent grandmothers to sexy thrillers, watching movies on bootlegs, and sleeping in airplane bathrooms! If you want your questions answered or stories told on the air, write into the mail bag—[email protected]! We record the final Mail Bag of the year on Saturday so write in quick! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this special WHM On-Screen, the gang gathers to chat about all the superhero nonsense that's happened at the movies this year. Topics of discussion include: the Avengers: Infinity War trailer, Thor: Ragnarock, superhero film rankings, and, yes, Justice League! And of course, SPOILERS ABOUND! Also: This Saturday we're recording the final mail bag of 2017, so get your emails in by Friday!! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, we sadly bring Snipesgiving to an end with an all-time Wesley fave, Drop Zone! How is Michael Jeter allowed to play with kittens in jail? What's with all the mid-air pranks? And look at Busey bite that hand! PLUS: Finally, some good news to report on SNN, the Skydiving News Network! Drop Zone stars Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter, Corin Nemec, Grace Zabriski, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner; directed by John Badham. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, it's Snipesgiving the week of Thanksgiving as the guys chat about the Washington D.C. turkey-pardoning thriller, Murder at 1600! What's with all the huge battleground models Wesley's character has built in his apartment? Were those Kennedy sex tunnels real? And who in the world thought Dennis Miller would be a good fit for this film? PLUS: ED 209 dispatches with turncoat Alan Alda.  Murder at 1600 stars Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda, Ronny Cox, Harris Yulin, Charles Rocket, Diane Baker, and Tate Donovan; directed by Dwight H. Little. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the blessed month of Snipesgiving rolls on with Tony Scott's 1996 baseball thriller, The Fan! What's with everyone demanding Bobby Rayburn hit them a home run? Did anyone check the lyrics in the song choices during shots of child actors? And who wouldn't have a security team on hand when firing this total lunatic knife salesman? PLUS: Andrew hears whispers on the film's soundtrack that may or may not be telling him to kill! Be sure to continue the Snipesgiving festivities this Saturday night at our final east coast tour date for quite some time: Talking Blade: Trinity at The Bell House—part of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival! Tickets here! The Fan stars Wesley Snipes, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro, Chris Mulkey, Patti D'Arbanville, and Kurt Fuller; directed by Tony Scott.  Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the guys kick off the blessed month of Snipesgiving with the one and only Michael Crichton snooze, Rising Sun! What's with that terrible interrogation framing device they barely use? Why couldn't they find better lines and a stronger subplot for Steve Buscemi? And how in the world do you make us wait a whole eleven minutes before we see us some Wesley Snipes? PLUS: Sean Connery mixes up Jurassic Park dinosaurs with Japanese businessmen! And to continue the Snipesgiving celebrations, be sure to catch WHM at the Bell House on 11/18 talking about the ridiculous Blade: Trinity! Get your tickets here! Rising Sun stars Wesley Snipes, Sean Connery, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mako, Steve Buscemi, Ray Wise, and Tia Carrere; directed by Philip Kaufman. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the WHM Halloween Spooktacular comes to an end as the guys have some fun with 1986's Trick or Treat! What's with this kid's horrible nickname? Why didn't the writers set any boundaries with the powers this ghost/demon has? And what was with that cowboy hat, Gene Simmons? PLUS: The Trickster gets kicked out of Sammi Curr's band! Trick or Treat stars Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Doug Savant, Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne; directed by Charles Martin Smith. And be sure to get your tickets to see us at the Brooklyn Podcast Festival at the Bell House on 11/18 when we'll be talking about Blade Trinity! Tickets here! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded at the HeadGum studio in sunny Los Angeles! On a very special WHM Mail Bag, the gang welcomes If I Were You's Amir Blumenfeld on to read letters about earthquakes, giving up on rotten movies, bad date etiquette, Halloween pranks gone awry, parents showing their young kids inappropriate horror films, and sexy escapades gone terribly, terribly wrong!  Be sure to check out Amir's show, If I Were You as well as all the other rad shows on the network over at HeadGum! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Halloween, gang! Just in time for the year's greatest holiday, we're here to rank the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise! With wretched jokes, ridiculous back stories, actually produced fan fiction, a crude remake, and one Grade-A Tom Arnold/Roseanne Barr cameo, the Nightmare franchise has somehow aged into one of the worst of the "big" horror franchises. PLUS: John Saxon will always be there for a friend to ask, "How ya holdin' up?" Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the program, the 2017 Halloween Spooktacular pulls back into Franchise Town by discussing the 2004 extreeeeeme smash hit, Saw! How does Jigsaw lay on that floor for so long without cramping? Did he really need the puppet after all that other Mouse Trap nonsense? And how many times have the people making this movie seen Se7en? PLUS: Chris Cabin will be monitoring the "Asshole Count" in all Saw sequels from here on out—Jigsaw included! Saw stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Leigh Whannell, Ken Leung, Monica Potter, and Michael Emerson; directed by James Wan.  Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the gang goes back to Craven Country to discuss the bloated sequel, Scream 2! What's with all the emotional scenes reuniting characters from the first movie? How are we supposed to believe that Laurie Metcalf lifted Jamie Kennedy up off the ground? And why does David Warner insist on this college theater production continue despite the multiple murders? PLUS: Terminator 2: Budnick Day! Scream 2 stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O'Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Liev Schreiber, Omar Epps, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Duane Martin; directed by Wes Craven. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the 2017 Halloween Spooktacular takes a sick day with the ridiculously fun 90's slasher, Dr. Giggles! What's with this veteran cop wearing NFL merchandise? Who's responsible for that horrendous prop vanilla ice cream? How did this film never get a sequel—direct to DVD or otherwise? And what's with this kid and his mom's underwear? PLUS: Dr. Mario is actually just Mario Mario's 1970's drug dealer persona! Dr. Giggles stars Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn, Keith Diamond, Richard Bradford, and Doug E. Doug; directed by Manny Coto. Be sure to catch our live commentary over I Know What You Did Last Summer, October 27th at the Jacob Burns Film Center's fourth annual Halloween Marathon! Get your tickets here—the early bird passes are still available until 10/18!  Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, we kick off the 2017 Halloween Spooktacular by tackling the super-silly, super-stupid, Freddy sequel, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare! Why did they stop trying to make these movies scary? What's with those quotes at the beginning? And did anyone really care to learn this much about Freddy's back story? PLUS: We play another round of the classic game: Ponytail or Rat Tail?  Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare stars Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Ricky Dean Logan, Breckin Meyer, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Arnold, Roseanne Barr, and Oprah Noodlemantra; directed by Rachel Talalay. Be sure to catch our live commentary over I Know What You Did Last Summer, October 27th at the Jacob Burns Film Center's fourth annual Halloween Marathon! Get your tickets here!  Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the gang finally gets around to a hotly anticipated title, the absolutely fun and ridiculous, Samurai Cop! The final selection in the now-defunct Patreon Selects tier, this D-Grade cult classic features one of the worst wigs in cinema history, no less than five parking lot fight scenes, and several goons on PCP! PLUS: Patrick Stewart and the TNG cast get dragged to the film's big Hollywood "premiere!" Samurai Cop stars Robert Z'Dar, Mathew Karedas (here as Matt Hannon), Janis Farley, Mark Frazier, Melissa Moore, Gerald Okamura, Dale Cummings, Cranston Komuro, and Joselito Rescober as "Costa Rican Waiter"; directed by Amir Shervan. And hey, gang, be sure to catch us this year at the L.A. Podfest, October 6-8. More information is available at www.lapodfest.com! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode, the guys go back to school with the spectacularly ridiculous, high school spy comedy, If Looks Could Kill! Why doesn't Richard Grieco just sit these people down and explain the situation calmly? How often were they waxing his eyebrows on set? And how much of this film was stolen by later Bond films—or was it the other way around? PLUS: A big bit of information about our L.A. Podfest appearance!  If Looks Could Kill stars Richard Grieco, Roger Rees, Linda Hunt, Robin Bartlett, Gabrielle Anwar, and Roger Daltrey; directed by William Dear. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the first WHM Mail Bag of season 8, the guys read letters from listeners about accidentally going on a blind date with a racist, sleazy creeps in grade school stealing toys from their friends, throwing up while watching Fellowship of the Ring, and more! If YOU want YOUR weird stories read on the air, or if you have questions for the gang, write into the mail bag—[email protected]! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the SEASON EIGHT premiere of WHM, the guys return just in time to have some fun with the cult classic TV gem, It! Why did they make this movie for ABC and not for the theaters? Did the It monster kill off the dinosaurs? And what is with that ponytail?! PLUS: Harry Anderson and Richard Dean Anderson get mixed up... a lot. It stars Tim Curry, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Richard Masur, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Jonathan Brandis, Seth Green, and Richard Thomas;; directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded live at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY — 8/05/17 On this week's episode, the guys finally get around to trashing the feature-length McDonald's commercial, Mac and Me! How is it these alien puppets' mouths were shaped so it was impossible for them to eat McDonald's products? Why didn't that mother tell those kids about the cliff? And you can NOT just jump to a citizenship scene like that! PLUS: Lots of talk about UFOs and aliens "coring out" livestock! Mac and Me stars Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Jade Calegory, and Ronald McDonald as 'Himself;' directed by Stewart Raffill. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this special WHM On-Screen, the guys gather 'round to chat about the seventh—and shortest!—season of HBO's Game of Thrones! What's with all the wonky and wacky geography that's going on in this season? Does the shortened season hurt the show or help it? And was Maisie Williams taking notes from Anthony Hopkins? PLUS: Game of Thrones and Married with Children aren't as different as you may think! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.