Is Waterworld Really That Awful? | Kevin Costner is a MERMAN Who Drinks HIs Own Pee
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Kevin Costner spent $200 million making a Mad Max ripoff on the open ocean — and the man has gills behind his ears. That's right. Waterworld's hero is a merman. A gill-having, web-toed, pee-drinking merman. And Cinema Psychos is here to ask the only question that matters: Really That Awful? Brian and John go full deep dive on Waterworld (1995), one of Hollywood's most notorious production disasters and one of the most divisive bad movies of the 1990s. They cover everything: why shooting on open ocean is genuinely suicidal for a film budget, how Kevin Costner fired his own director...
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How Corporate Greed Killed Batman Forever | Toys, Angry Parents, and McDonalds | 10th Anniversary Episode!
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McDonald's killed Batman. Then Warner Brothers buried him in neon. After Batman Returns traumatized parents and Christian groups, McDonald's panicked and pulled their Happy Meal deal. Warner Brothers, terrified of losing fast food merchandising money, forced a course correction that gave us Batman Forever—a neon-soaked, toyetic mess that abandoned Tim Burton's gothic vision for Joel Schumacher's campy, pun-filled nightmare. In this 10th anniversary episode of the Cinema Psychos Show, hosts Cottington and John Wooliscroft do a full Batman Forever fix and Batman Forever review—ranting about...
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Is Panic Room (2002) Just "Home Alone" With Competent Criminals ? ft. Anastasia Elfman
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Is Panic Room just Home Alone For Adults? David Fincher's 2002 home invasion thriller is sharper, darker, and weirder than you remember — and this week we're breaking down every inch of it. Brian, John, and returning guest Anastasia Elfman revisit one of the most underrated thrillers of the early 2000s. They cover Fincher's Hitchcockian direction, those impossibly fluid CGI camera moves, and the film's relentless tension-building — plus everything the IMDb synopsis conveniently left out. On the table this week: whether Jared Leto's cornrow-sporting Junior ruins the film or serves it...
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Ready or Not (2019): The Horror Comedy That Gets Better Every Time You Watch It | feat. KT Baldassaro
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Ready or Not 2 is in theaters — so we went back to where it all started. Brian, John, and filmmaker/critic KT Baldassaro (@MovieRuntime) dig into the 2019 original and make the case that it's one of the smartest, funniest, most satisfying horror comedies of the last decade. A bride. A devil-controlled game box. A mansion full of rich lunatics. Hide and seek to the death. What we cover: Why this is more satire than horror and why that makes it better — Samara Weaving's all-time performance and why she carries the whole film Why Adam Brody's Daniel has the real character arc, not...
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Send Help (2026) Is Sam Raimi's Triumphant, BLOOD-SOAKED Return to HORROR with Anastasia Elfman!
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Sam Raimi is BACK — and he brought the blood, gore and laughs! This week on The Cinema Psychos Show, Brian and John are joined by returning fan favorite Anastasia Elfman to break down Send Help, the gloriously unhinged, darkly comedic horror film that proves Sam Raimi still has the sickest tricks up his sleeve. We're talking demonic camera moves, Rachel McAdams absolutely losing her mind, the most satisfying workplace revenge scene in recent memory, and enough gore to make Evil Dead fans weep with joy. Is this the Sam Raimi film we've been waiting for since Army of Darkness? We think so. But...
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Is War of the Worlds (2025) The WORST Movie EVER? (Kinda...) | Ice Cube, Amazon
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Is War of the Worlds (2025) the worst Film ever or is it simply a soulless film about our capitalist hellscape of an existence? Ice Cube plays a surveillance psycho hacking his daughter's fridge while data-eating aliens invade Earth through Microsoft Teams. We watched War of the Worlds (2025) so you don't have to—this screenlife disaster is 90 minutes of PS2 CGI, shameless Amazon product placement, and a plot dumber that feels like it's written by AI. What we're covering: Ice Cube as the villain dad we root for the aliens to vaporize "Disruptor" the hacker son and the...
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The Phantom (1996): A Secretly GREAT BAD Movie!
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Is The Phantom (1996) a secretly GREAT bad superhero movie, or just purple-spandex pulp trash? In this episode, we dive deep into Billy Zane’s cult classic, The Phantom, and ask if it actually holds up in 2026. We break down the film’s weird production history, its roots in classic pulp comics, and why Treat Williams’ gloriously over-the-top Xander Drax performance might be one of the last great campy ’90s villains. In this episode of Cinema Psychos Show, Brian and John cover: The Phantom as one of the earliest costumed superheroes and pulp icons How a Joe Dante spoof...
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) is AWFUL! | FNAF2 Movie Review
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025) might be one of the most toothless horror sequels of the decade – and yes, this movie kinda sucks. In this episode of The Cinema Psycho Show, we dive into the messy lore dump, the bloodless PG‑13 kills, the bizarre FazFest setup, and why Toy Chica somehow ends up being the star of the show for all the wrong reasons. We also talk about: The opening Charlotte flashback, useless 80s parents, and the Marionette Abby’s home and school life, plus the world’s worst science teacher Mike as a guardian, generational trauma, and the total lack of...
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Does Luc Besson's Dracula (2026) Suck? (Yes, It Really Does) | Movie Review
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Luc Besson finally made a Dracula movie in 2026… and somehow turned it into a boring, horny, perfume‑addled fever dream instead of a gothic horror classic. In this episode of The Cinema Psychos Show, Brian tears into Dracula (2026) and explains why this shiny new take on the Count feels more like a knockoff of better Dracula films than a bold reinvention. We break down everything that went wrong: Vlad accidentally killing his own wife, God apparently “rewarding” him with vampirism, the unhinged sex‑perfume subplot, cartoonish suicide jumps, rubbery CGI gargoyles, and a...
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How Silence of the Lambs Created a New Kind of Monster (With Brian Raftery)
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Author Brian Raftery joins us to explain how Silence of the Lambs didn't just give us a scary villain—it invented a whole new type. Before Hannibal Lecter, horror villains were mostly slashers in masks. Lecter changed the rules: he was clever, charming, and used his mind as a weapon. That’s why this movie—and this character—still haunts us decades later. We break down what made Lecter different, why he’s scarier than a guy with a knife, and how this film changed scary movies forever. Brian also shares secrets from his new book, Hannibal Lecter: A Life. 📘...
info_outlineOh boy, just when you think you’ve gotten over that stomach ache from eating too much halloween candy, we pull you back in! This week we are analyzing the much hyped soft sequel reboot, Halloween. The newest entry in the Halloween Franchise that gives the X Men films a run for their money for the most screwed up timeline continuity awards. So does the film live up to the hype? Take a listen and find out.
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