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 T…

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…

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 e…

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…

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 th…

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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…

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 Laur…

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…

This sequel to our Patreon exclusive episode was released a whopping SIX YEARS after the original, seeing the return of Fred Ward and Michael Gross, but notably not Kevin Bacon. Ward is now an ostrich farmer and graboid hunter for hire, recruited to help a Mexican oil company eradicate their infestation south of the border. Joined by a new, forgett…

This month's installment of Dirka Classic Movies is a classic monster movie with a silly twist! When reports of a clawed beast cause hundreds of natives to flee their Brazilian plantation jobs, the landowners send a macho troubleshooter aptly named Rock Dean and cancer researching doctor Andrea Romar deep into the rainforest for a steamy odyssey of…

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Like Super Mario Bros from July, this is one of the movies that inspired Derrick to start the podcast back in 2022, so what better time to discuss it than the day after its 29th anniversary? Johnny Lee Miller stars as a cool little hacker kid, Zero Cool, all growed up into a cool hacker teen, Crash Override. After being barred from using the intern…

Our second bonus Friday the 13th episode was chosen at random by our good friend Vern, and we are discussing one of the weaker entries in the series, Part V! Also known by fans of the franchise as Roy: The Movie. This one is a direct follow-up to Part IV: The Final Chapter in which Jason is defeated by an adolescent Corey Feldman. This one kicks of…

For our 100th episode, we chose one of our favorite bad movies, John Woo's American directorial debut, HARD TARGET, starring Jean Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo and Wilford Brimley! JCVD agrees to help a woman who is searching for her missing homeless father in the streets of New Orleans. Henriksen and Vosloo run a service that le…

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Dolph Lundgren stars in this forgotten gem from the early 90s, directed by Craig R Baxley, the director of one of our favorite films so far, Stone Cold! This is basically a riff on Stone Cold with 100% less Nazi bikers and 100% more drug-dealing aliens, stealing heroin and hunting down people to extract their endorphins for a rare drug coveted by h…

Against our better judgment, we are going back in time to take a look at Disney's controversial classic about how black people loved being slaves and sang songs with little white kids and magical animated woodland creatures! Our friend, and Disney expert, Vern will be joining us for this one and it's guaranteed to be a good time with a horrendous f…

Tying to our episode on E.T., Henry Thomas also stars in this 80s flick alongside the recently passed Dabny Coleman. A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret government spy gadget. Espionage, clandestine activities and covert actions abound in this 80s classic that Derrick has remastered on 4K... fo…

Remember when we talked about Dutch last November? This is a lot like that but less funny and more racist because it stars Chevy Chase and Johnathan Taylor Thomas! JTT refuses to accept his mom's new boyfriend despite Chase's efforts to win his respect. So this little bastard forces him to join a Boy Scout-esque group with an offensive name in an e…

We kick off shitbird month with a movie about "teenagers" with attitude that gain superpowers and have to fight a galactic boogerman named Ivan Ooze with the assistance of "Ninjetti" powers bestowed upon them by a mostly naked sexy lady from another planet. Along the way they fight mini-boogermen, talking birds, skeletons, rock monsters and, of cou…

Our friend Brandon from Music Box joined us to discuss this wonderful travesty, which is one of the movies that inspired Derrick to start Bad Movies Worse People back in 2022! It's bizarre, cheesy, completely unrelated to the source material and we kinda love it. The late great Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper star in this one alongside John Leguizamo…

Get more Bad Movies Worse People at patreon.com/worsepeople for only $3 a month! THIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR LATEST MENTAL HEALTH EPISODE AVAILABLE ONLY ON PATREON! One of those classic 90's stoner comedies where no one smokes weed or even talks about it, but you know what's going on. Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Michael McKean, Ernie …

This obscure made-for-TV film is a horror-fantasy noir detective story featuring aspects of the eldritch tales of the Cthulhu mythos starring Fred Ward (see previous episode Remo Williams), Julianne Moore and Clancy Brown! Set in an alternate 1948, where magic and mythological creatures are common, private detective Harry Lovecraft is hired to reco…

Flashback to the heyday of corny sci-fi with this Universal classic about a meteor that may have brought aliens to Earth who are abducting and replacing the townsfolk for nefarious purposes, or are they?! Our friend, and Derrick and Whitney's tattoo artist, Zip, joins us for this one to lend us his classic horror-sci-fi knowledge! Get bonus content…

A beloved 80's comedy starring and directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, this one has been requested or suggested by people since Derrick first started talking about doing a movie podcast. This was one case where Jack got to say "I have it on blu-ray" so the gang got together to crack some cold beers and watch some Canadians fumble their way th…

Check out patreon.com/worsepeople Brendan Fraser stars in this adaptation of a forgotten cartoon from the 70s about a young boy left in the jungle to be raised by apes only to fall in love with a beautiful woman from a world he doesn't understand. Sounds a lot like Tarzan, right? That's because it is! But "FUNNY"! Brendan Fraser is playing the doof…

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Our good buddy Vern joins us on this episode as we discuss the Joel Schumacher-directed next entry in the Batman franchise, BATMAN FOREVER. Schumacher ditches the drab grays, blacks and bizarre architecture of the Burton world for a neon-fueled nightmare vision of Gotham! Val Kilmer stars as Bruce Wayne/Batman alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey,…

Directed by Ivan Nagy and starring Reb Brown, Christopher Lee and Katherine Justice. This iteration of Captain America, made for TV in 1979, is a van-dwelling artist who travels from town to town while also battling purse snatchers, muggers and the occasional freelance revolutionary terrorist. Christopher Lee, playing General Miguel, kidnaps a scie…

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Alec Baldwin stars in and Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, Razorback) directs this mid-90s attempt to capitalize on the Batman bandwagon! Set in 1930s New York, Baldwin plays Lamont Cranston, a reformed criminal and Asian gangland kingpin (maybe?), who has taken up the mantle of THE SHADOW to fight crime and corruption. He uses his mystical powers and …

We kick off our Superhero Spectacular with the obscure made-for-TV cheesefest, NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D.! Directed by Rod Hardy and starring David Hasselhoff, Sandra Hess, Lisa Rinna, Tracy Waterhouse, Ron Canada, Gary Chalk and most of the rest of Canada! Nick Fury is called out of forced retirement to stop Hydra when they acquire Baron von…

We get incredibly filthy while discussing this childhood classic and one of the best films ever made, this one is directed by Mel Stuart and stars the great Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Denise Nickerson, Paris Themmen and a bunch of other people you haven’t seen much from. An eccentric candy millionaire holds a contest for some lucky children to get …

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Directed by Edgar Wright, written by him and Simon Pegg and starring Pegg, Nick Frost and Timothy Dalton. A big city London cop with an impeccable record is transferred to the seemingly tranquil country town of Sandford, winner of village of the year several years running. But at what cost? Nicholas Angel begins discovering that things in this peac…

The directorial debut of Richard Kelly, who also wrote it, stars Jake Gyllenhaal, his sister Maggie, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wiley and Patrick Swayze. Donnie is a troubled teen with dark visions of the future delivered by a terrifying 6-foot-tall bunny rabbit named Frank. With only 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds to stop the end of the wor…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so we are taking a break from our usually crapfest and covering movies that we love! This week, we have Jack's pick, THAT THING YOU DO! Written and directed by Tom Hanks and starring Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn, Johnathan Schaech, Ethan Embry, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron and Mr. Thomas Hanks himself. Jack’s lo…

For all of May, in apprecitiation of mental health awareness month, we are discussing MOVIES THAT WE LOVE! Our first pick comes from Whitney. Directed by Jim Henson and starring Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie, alongside Jennifer Connelly and a host of amazing puppets. Sarah (Connelly) is a whiny shitbird teen that makes a wish for the goblins …

For this year's installment of It's Gonna Be Bay, we visit the sequel to last year's Transformers movie, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT! Directed by Michael Bay (of course) and starring Marky Mark, Laura Haddock, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Isabela Merced and a huge cast of amazing actors doing voices for stupid robots. Some ancient robots he…

Our Kaijubilation celebration concludes with the Paul W.S. Anderson video game “adaptation”, 2020’s MONSTER HUNTER. Starring his wife, Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa and Ron Perlman (kind of). A group of Army Rangers on a rescue mission are sucked into another world where giant monsters rule the roost and Milla Jovovich has to fight her way through some …

Join our Patreon for only $3 a month to gain access to exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com/worsepeople This month's Patrons-only film, GODZILLA (2014), kicked off the Legendary Monsterverse, and was directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One and The Creator). Starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olson with a specia…

Our throwback movie for Kaijubilation month was the first giant monster movie filmed in glorious TECHNICOLOR! Gorgo is a tale of an Irish Kaiju, stolen away by some filthy Brits and an American asshole to become a circus act and his mama’s struggle to free him from his colonial oppressors. Hailed as the British Godzilla, this film was directed by E…

For this installment of our monsterthon, we dive into Dwayne Johnson’s video game “adaptation”, RAMPAGE, from 2018. Directed by Brad Peyton and starring Mr. Rock himself alongside Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and big ol’ white ape named George. Covert corporate experiments lead to an outbreak of gigantic creatures, including th…

We kick off a month of Kaijubilation by pulling an April Fool’s joke on ourselves and choosing to sit through the 1998 Roland Emmerich tragedy, GODZILLA! We have our good friend, and Kaiju expert, Vern in the house, who “delighted” us by bringing along his 4K copy of this clusterfuck. Matthew Broderick stars across from some poor girl whose career …

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Easter is coming up, so what better time to discuss 1984's HARD ROCK ZOMBIES? Directed by Krishna Shaw and starring no one you've ever heard of! An 80's hard rock band travels through a small redneck town on their tour and encounters a town full of psychopaths, cannibals, judgmental hicks and ein BIG surprise! Zombies, werewolves, cannibals, musica…

In this month's installment of DirkA Classic Movies, we dive into Roger Corman territory with 1966's THE WILD ANGELS! Directed by Roger Corman himself and starring Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Nancy Sinatra and Diane Ladd. A gang of Nazi bikers terrorize California in search of revenge for their dead friend... or something. Hardly any plot to be found …

Directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe and Sam McMurray! We also have our good friend {BLEEP} back in the house for the biker mayhem schlockfest. The Boz is a cop from Alabama who has to go undercover with a violent, insane Mississippi biker gang led by the great Lance Henriksen. What follows is a…

In this listener requested episode, the gang covers the 1995 true-ish crime "thriller" DEADLY RUN directed by Mark Bender and Donald Farmer and starring literally no one you have ever heard of. A rich dude likes to pick up ladies and fly them to his secluded cabin for murder, mayhem and masculinity but a cop and a friend of one of the victims are c…