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The Franchisees
Two film-loving friends devour entire franchises, tracing their theatrical rise, direct-to-video-fall, and occasional redemption. Banter, bits, and bad impressions follow.
Episodes
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An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) (with Joel Edmiston)
We're back with special guest Joel Edmiston to cover the much maligned 1997 sequel to our beloved AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, fittingly titled AN AMERICAN…
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) (with Joel Edmiston)
We're back! So sorry for the delay, we missed last week due to Ben being stricken with shingles. A late October witch's pox no doubt. But now we're back with…
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Queen of the Damned (2002)
The Vampire Lestat has been asleep for many many years... until he finally hears something that excites him out of his slumber: nü metal! In the very 2002-core…
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Interview with the Vampire (1994) (with Jordan Seccareccia aka Dis Count's Discount Diss Count)
It's October and we're neck-deep in the bottomless pit of horror films! Our good friend Jordan Seccareccia joins us again to revisit a Certified Cruise…
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)////The 50th Toronto International Film Festival
We're back and we're going down down down down, way down in the direct-to-dvd hole with THE DESCENT: PART DEUX. More caves, more crawlers, more throat-ripping!…
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The Descent (2005)///Charlie Kirk and 'cherubslayer123'
New franchise, we're spelunking, we're caving, come join us! But before we talk about Neil Marshall's 2005 horror hit, please join us as we talk about this…
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)///Jimmy Kimmel Lemon Party
Comedy is now illegal in America and by extension Canada... we regret to inform you that this will have to be the final episode of The Franchisees. But boy are…
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
In ancient timesHundreds of years before the dawn of historyLived a strange race of people, the druidsNo one knows who they wereOr what they were doingBut…
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Not a great franchise tbh! But here we are at the end anyway, at least the end for now. It'd be funny if they just called the sequel to this legasequel I STILL…
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I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
This piece of shit, I mean really what are we doing here talking about this garbage, life is short, it's summer time we're supposed to be surfing and…
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
More like I still know what you did two summers ago am I right? It's summertime again and the survivors of the first film win a free trip to the Bahamas…
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
A killer fisherman? A web of lies and guilt? 90s teens standing together on a poster in a vaguely triangular formation? It's all from the #twisted mind of…
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The Naked Gun (2025)
We're back on track with a fresh new episode on the new NAKED GUN film starring Liam "Leslie Nielsen" Neeson and directed by Akiva "Lonely Island Boy"…
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) (with Chris Moroz, Matthew Nicholson, and Maxim Gertler-Jaffe)
ANOTHER EMERGENCY FRANCHISE UPDATE: they went and made another Jurassic movie. Hooray! Alex and Ben were dreading this one but to their surprise, this new…
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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
We're back and we're spoofin' and goofin' yet again with THE NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR. Is this sequel, full of laughs and gags, as funny as the first…
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
In anticipation of the upcoming, similarly titled THE NAKED GUN (2025), we're looking back through the files of Police Squad an covering the beloved…
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28 Years Later (2025)
We're talking about the newest entry in the 28 DAYS franchise, 28 YEARS LATER. Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Anthony Dod Mantle... they're all back baby and…
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28 Weeks Later (2007) (with Imogen Poots and Mackintosh Muggleton)
Robert "Hitler" Carlyle stars as Johnny Weeks in 28 WEEKS LATER, the underrated(?) sequel to 28 DAYS LATER. Join us next week for 28 YEARS LATER, here's a…
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Ballerina (2025) SPECIAL EMERGENCY FRANCHISE EPISODE
SUPER SPECIAL AND VERY IMPORTANT EMERGENCY BROADCASTA NEW JOHN WICK MOVIE OR SPINOFF OR WHATEVER HAS BEEN RELEASEDBEN & ALEX, YOU SWORE A BLOOD OATH TO COVER…
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28 Days Later (2002) (with Nick Armstrong, Adam Bovoletis, and Sacha Kingston-Wayne)
They made the chimps watch too much LiveLeak and it infected them with Rage, cut to 28 days later and the entire British Isle is fucked. That's right, we're…
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) (with Rob McLay)
So it's come to this... the FINAL RECKONING. We've had so many reckonings over this series but this is the last one, we promise. To help us process this…
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (?) [the First of at least Two Reckonings]
We're back and we're talking about MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, the first reckoning of an epic two-part reckoning. Ben remembers enjoying…