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EPISODE 431: 2024 Year in Review
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Well, here it is, the 2024 Retrospective, where we each give our Top 5 Favorite and Top 5 Worst genre films of the year that was 2024. We also have quite a few honorable mentions and runners up this year. This is always a blast for us.
When all was said and done all three of us were in general agreement with a great many others that 2024 was a great year for the horror genre particularly.
For fun, here were each of our Top 5 Favorite and Worst genre films the previous year, 2023: (as a reminder all three of us loved Godzilla Minus One, but only Jorge counted it in his Top 5 as a specific horror genre film)
Jacob:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Thanksgiving, #4-Infinity Pool, #5- Saw X
Five Worst: #1-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #2-The Exorcist: Believer, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Cocaine Shark, #5-Beaten to Death
Jorge:
Five Favorite: #1-Godzilla Minus One, #2-When Evil Lurks, #3-Talk to Me, #4-Infinity Pool, #5-Project Wolf Hunting (stateside release 2023 nerds)
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-M3GAN "M threegan dude come on", #3-Knock at the Cabin, #4-The Mill, #5-The Pope's Exorcist (this dude didn't watch any movies)
Rhett:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Infinity Pool, #4-Thanksgiving, #5-Birth/Rebirth
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Insidious: The Red Door, #5-Knock at the Cabin
Runners Up for Worst (there's always so many): Pet Sematary Bloodlines, The Meg 2, The Nun 2, The Haunted Mansion, The Outwaters
Runners Up for Favorite: all of us loved Godzilla Minus One but Jacob and Rhett excluded it from Top 5 horror, Beau is Afraid and Poor Things (both "horror adjacent"), Big Shark, Saw X (for Rhett and Jorge, #5 for Jacob), Huesera The Bone Woman, Project Wolf Hunting (for Jacob and Rhett, #5 fave for Jorge), muthafuckin Slotherhouse
Join our Patreon to support the show! As a patreon member you get the episodes early, bonus content, and access to our Discord. It also helps us keep doing it. We recently sent out a bunch of exclusive merch too.
Thanks for listening and a huge thanks as always to @calgee for his original art. Go check out his work and give him a follow on Instagram.
The Who Goes There Podcast is available to subscribe to on iTunes and Spotify. You can also find us on Instagram.
When all was said and done all three of us were in general agreement with a great many others that 2024 was a great year for the horror genre particularly.
For fun, here were each of our Top 5 Favorite and Worst genre films the previous year, 2023: (as a reminder all three of us loved Godzilla Minus One, but only Jorge counted it in his Top 5 as a specific horror genre film)
Jacob:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Thanksgiving, #4-Infinity Pool, #5- Saw X
Five Worst: #1-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #2-The Exorcist: Believer, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Cocaine Shark, #5-Beaten to Death
Jorge:
Five Favorite: #1-Godzilla Minus One, #2-When Evil Lurks, #3-Talk to Me, #4-Infinity Pool, #5-Project Wolf Hunting (stateside release 2023 nerds)
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-M3GAN "M threegan dude come on", #3-Knock at the Cabin, #4-The Mill, #5-The Pope's Exorcist (this dude didn't watch any movies)
Rhett:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Infinity Pool, #4-Thanksgiving, #5-Birth/Rebirth
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Insidious: The Red Door, #5-Knock at the Cabin
Runners Up for Worst (there's always so many): Pet Sematary Bloodlines, The Meg 2, The Nun 2, The Haunted Mansion, The Outwaters
Runners Up for Favorite: all of us loved Godzilla Minus One but Jacob and Rhett excluded it from Top 5 horror, Beau is Afraid and Poor Things (both "horror adjacent"), Big Shark, Saw X (for Rhett and Jorge, #5 for Jacob), Huesera The Bone Woman, Project Wolf Hunting (for Jacob and Rhett, #5 fave for Jorge), muthafuckin Slotherhouse
Join our Patreon to support the show! As a patreon member you get the episodes early, bonus content, and access to our Discord. It also helps us keep doing it. We recently sent out a bunch of exclusive merch too.
Thanks for listening and a huge thanks as always to @calgee for his original art. Go check out his work and give him a follow on Instagram.
The Who Goes There Podcast is available to subscribe to on iTunes and Spotify. You can also find us on Instagram.
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Well, here it is, the 2024 Retrospective, where we each give our Top 5 Favorite and Top 5 Worst genre films of the year that was 2024. We also have quite a few honorable mentions and runners up this year. This is always a blast for us.
When all was said and done all three of us were in general agreement with a great many others that 2024 was a great year for the horror genre particularly.
For fun, here were each of our Top 5 Favorite and Worst genre films the previous year, 2023: (as a reminder all three of us loved Godzilla Minus One, but only Jorge counted it in his Top 5 as a specific horror genre film)
Jacob:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Thanksgiving, #4-Infinity Pool, #5- Saw X
Five Worst: #1-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #2-The Exorcist: Believer, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Cocaine Shark, #5-Beaten to Death
Jorge:
Five Favorite: #1-Godzilla Minus One, #2-When Evil Lurks, #3-Talk to Me, #4-Infinity Pool, #5-Project Wolf Hunting (stateside release 2023 nerds)
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-M3GAN "M threegan dude come on", #3-Knock at the Cabin, #4-The Mill, #5-The Pope's Exorcist (this dude didn't watch any movies)
Rhett:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Infinity Pool, #4-Thanksgiving, #5-Birth/Rebirth
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Insidious: The Red Door, #5-Knock at the Cabin
Runners Up for Worst (there's always so many): Pet Sematary Bloodlines, The Meg 2, The Nun 2, The Haunted Mansion, The Outwaters
Runners Up for Favorite: all of us loved Godzilla Minus One but Jacob and Rhett excluded it from Top 5 horror, Beau is Afraid and Poor Things (both "horror adjacent"), Big Shark, Saw X (for Rhett and Jorge, #5 for Jacob), Huesera The Bone Woman, Project Wolf Hunting (for Jacob and Rhett, #5 fave for Jorge), muthafuckin Slotherhouse
Join our Patreon to support the show! As a patreon member you get the episodes early, bonus content, and access to our Discord. It also helps us keep doing it. We recently sent out a bunch of exclusive merch too.
Thanks for listening and a huge thanks as always to @calgee for his original art. Go check out his work and give him a follow on Instagram.
The Who Goes There Podcast is available to subscribe to on iTunes and Spotify. You can also find us on Instagram.
When all was said and done all three of us were in general agreement with a great many others that 2024 was a great year for the horror genre particularly.
For fun, here were each of our Top 5 Favorite and Worst genre films the previous year, 2023: (as a reminder all three of us loved Godzilla Minus One, but only Jorge counted it in his Top 5 as a specific horror genre film)
Jacob:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Thanksgiving, #4-Infinity Pool, #5- Saw X
Five Worst: #1-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #2-The Exorcist: Believer, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Cocaine Shark, #5-Beaten to Death
Jorge:
Five Favorite: #1-Godzilla Minus One, #2-When Evil Lurks, #3-Talk to Me, #4-Infinity Pool, #5-Project Wolf Hunting (stateside release 2023 nerds)
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-M3GAN "M threegan dude come on", #3-Knock at the Cabin, #4-The Mill, #5-The Pope's Exorcist (this dude didn't watch any movies)
Rhett:
Five Favorite: #1-When Evil Lurks, #2-Talk to Me, #3-Infinity Pool, #4-Thanksgiving, #5-Birth/Rebirth
Five Worst: #1-The Exorcist: Believer, #2-Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, #3-Children of the Corn (2023), #4-Insidious: The Red Door, #5-Knock at the Cabin
Runners Up for Worst (there's always so many): Pet Sematary Bloodlines, The Meg 2, The Nun 2, The Haunted Mansion, The Outwaters
Runners Up for Favorite: all of us loved Godzilla Minus One but Jacob and Rhett excluded it from Top 5 horror, Beau is Afraid and Poor Things (both "horror adjacent"), Big Shark, Saw X (for Rhett and Jorge, #5 for Jacob), Huesera The Bone Woman, Project Wolf Hunting (for Jacob and Rhett, #5 fave for Jorge), muthafuckin Slotherhouse
Join our Patreon to support the show! As a patreon member you get the episodes early, bonus content, and access to our Discord. It also helps us keep doing it. We recently sent out a bunch of exclusive merch too.
Thanks for listening and a huge thanks as always to @calgee for his original art. Go check out his work and give him a follow on Instagram.
The Who Goes There Podcast is available to subscribe to on iTunes and Spotify. You can also find us on Instagram.
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