Movies, argued at full speed.
Messed Up Movies treats strange, violent, slippery movies like a group argument after midnight. The panel bounces from plot logic to jokes to sharp movie-reading without trying to sound polished.
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Messed Up Movies is a rowdy film podcast about the kind of movies that invite argument as much as analysis. It moves fast. Griffey and the regular crew talk over, around, and through one another while working out what a movie is doing, why it is strange, and whether the strange parts actually hold together. The show’s home turf is horror, remakes, cult objects, violent premises, soggy disaster movies, and oddball genre swings. It can spend time on Identity, Faces of Death, Dark Water, Crawl, or They Will Kill You, then flip into a draft format where categories such as killer queens, bad trips, or apocalypse teams become competitive movie-brain exercises. The jokes land first. The criticism catches up quickly. A discussion of Crawl turns into a serious-minded complaint about human survival fantasy, animal threat, disaster-movie grit, and the way perseverance gets sold as invincibility. A conversation about They Will Kill You gets hung up on ritual rules, stakes, shortcuts, and whether cool images can cover for a story that does not make sense. The panel does not pretend to be neutral. They argue positions, defend pet picks, call out weak logic, and compare films through familiar genre shorthand. That gives the show a lively middle ground: not a formal review program, not pure hangout noise. It is a table full of movie obsessives turning jokes into points and points into louder jokes. The draft episodes add a repeatable engine, because the category matters less than the way the crew fights over definitions, loopholes, and taste. The regular appeals for Mr. Cream Jeans, Patreon support, and Misfit Parade also make the show feel like part of a larger scrappy movie project rather than a sealed-off review feed. Messed Up Movies works best when the film is unstable, extreme, wet, nasty, ridiculous, or somehow all of those at once. It likes the question underneath the mess: did this movie earn its own insanity?
Made for: For horror fans who want lively, opinionated movie talk instead of tidy critical lectures. Best for listeners who enjoy group banter, strange premises, remakes, cult titles, and draft-style debates.
What sets it apart: The show pairs loose, chaotic panel chemistry with real attention to genre mechanics: rules, stakes, imagery, pacing, and whether a movie’s wildest choices actually work. Its movie-draft episodes turn taste into a combative game instead of a simple list.
A podcast celebrating movies and filmmakers that embrace the unhinged, the insane, the outrageous, the off-kilter and all around kind of MESSED UP fun that you can't take your eyes off of.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rowdy group arguments sharpen into concrete observations about horror logic, editing, performance, and the stubborn pleasures of defending a favorite film.
Messed Up Movies turns horror and offbeat cinema into a spirited argument among Griffey and his co-hosts, mixing close attention to filmmaking with jokes, disagreements, and firm personal loyalties.
Even the immortality pig has to explain the rules before you buy the ending.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A rowdy takedown of a movie that keeps breaking its own rules.
Messed Up Movies' New Movie Monday turns to They Will Kill You with Griffey, Heath, and Sam, and the episode settles quickly into a pointed gripe over a movie whose rules never seem to stay put.
A review that starts with Mr. Cream Jeans fundraising frustration and ends with a firm House of Wax defense.
Messed Up Movies opens with a long, angry push for Mr. Cream Jeans and the claim that Indiegogo shadow banned the campaign, then settles into a lively run at Us.
Crawl turns grit into a storm-soaked argument about humans, alligators, and the limits of dominance.
Crawl works for Josh Griffey and Alex Dandino as a clean survival premise pushed to its breaking point: a category 5 hurricane, vicious alligators, and a body forced to keep moving anyway.
A focused found-footage review of the editing and camera choices behind The Man With the Black Umbrella.
Messed Up Movies treats The Man With the Black Umbrella as a compact study in why found footage depends on construction, not just immediacy. Griffey, Sam, and Heath keep returning to the film's long shots, jump cuts, and handheld movement, with particular attention to how a…
An evil kids draft becomes a rowdy debate over whether a killer's mission can survive the bodies it leaves behind.
An evil kids draft turns into a rowdy argument about the moment a teenage scumbag stops being even faintly rootable and becomes a killer. Griffey, Josh, and Sam keep pressing on the gap between backing a character's mission and excusing what he does, with one sharp riff likening…
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas argue their way through terrible movies.
The hosts of Messed Up Movies review 'The Man with the Black Umbrella,' a found footage horror film directed by Ricky Umberger.
This episode discusses the 1975 film 'The Stepford Wives' as part of a February curation exploring how tedium in everyday life and relationships can lead to extreme horniness and criminality.
The hosts introduce the episode about the movie 'Spirited Away' while promoting their podcast's Patreon, upcoming content, and filmmaking projects.
The hosts introduce their podcast and discuss upcoming projects and crowdfunding for their independent film while teasing a future episode about Frankenstein.
Host Griffey and panelists Sophia, Sam, Josh, and Heath draft the most messed-up evil kids in film history.
Griffey, Sam, Heath, and Sophia draft historical horror films set before the invention of cinema, with a loose pre-1900 cutoff.
Heather Langenkamp discusses A Nightmare on Elm Street, recalling that she first read it as a teen drama and initially thought its dream premise was threatened by the concurrent film Dreamscape.
Messed Up Movies hosts Griffey, Heath, and Sofa Sam draft Shudder originals while debating whether Shudder's core value is risky independent films, curation, or its horror-fan community.
The hosts of the Messed Up Movies podcast introduce a draft episode focused on selecting films featuring 'killer queens' or femme fatales, while promoting their crowdfunding and social media channels.
The hosts introduce their podcast about celebrating insane and outrageous movies, discuss their April curation theme 'the pod gets wet', and promote their Indiegogo campaign for their first movie 'Mr.
The hosts discuss the new remake/reimagining of the horror film 'Faces of Death' and its connection to the original footage.
The hosts and a guest conduct a messed up movie draft as part of a podcast celebrating outrageous and unhinged films, with banter about their movie project and fundraising efforts.
The hosts introduce and discuss the 2002 horror film Dark Water as part of their podcast celebrating unconventional and outrageous movies.
Griffey opens New Movie Monday with Heath and Sam and the whole thing quickly veers off the rails.
It starts with a plea to go to Indiegogo, and the show immediately veers into a long-running gripe about Mr.
Crawl gets the full Messed Up Movies treatment.
This episode features host Dan Dino interviewing Mike Robinson about movie soundtracks and their personal connection through the music scene in Akron, Ohio.
The hosts introduce the podcast, promote their film project 'Mr.