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Reel Bad

Welcome to Reel Bad, the podcast that has a look at real bad movies and why they want to hurt us. Nick Jenkins hosts with a rotating panel of guests to chat about all things wrong with these flicks.

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093 The Golden Compass (2007)

093 The Golden Compass (2007)

What happens when a studio tries to recapture a massive success it had just a few years earlier? Witness New Line Cinema... Read more

5 Aug 2019

1hr 36mins

Ranked #2

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089 Reel Good: Reel Personal

089 Reel Good: Reel Personal

It's time for a bit of a break from the bad as Tobin Addington joins Nick for a discussion of two really good and really... Read more

1 Jul 2019

1hr 25mins

Ranked #3

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023 Fantastic Four (2015)

023 Fantastic Four (2015)

With Michael B. Jordan coming in at one of the best Marvel villains to date (and also absolutely destroying the gym to d... Read more

26 Feb 2018

1hr 53mins

Ranked #4

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090 3 Ninjas (1992)

090 3 Ninjas (1992)

The Patrons voted and forced us to watch the 1992 film 3 Ninjas, which one of us absolutely hated. Can you guess which o... Read more

8 Jul 2019

1hr 21mins

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022 From Justin to Kelly (2003)

022 From Justin to Kelly (2003)

It's our first "Listener Request" episode! Taylor Behnke (@ItsRadishTime) sent us From Justin to Kelly and... my god. It... Read more

19 Feb 2018

1hr 22mins

Ranked #6

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091 Zardoz (1974)

091 Zardoz (1974)

Today, we talk about boredom, sex, existentialism, and sex as Nick, Matt, Aimee, and Tuna sit down to work through the J... Read more

22 Jul 2019

1hr 46mins

Ranked #7

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092 Miami Connection (1987)

092 Miami Connection (1987)

What makes a movie good or bad? That's one of the questions at the heart of this episode of Reel Bad as Nick, Marie Ann,... Read more

29 Jul 2019

1hr 38mins

Ranked #8

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087 Samurai Cop (1991)

087 Samurai Cop (1991)

It's time for one of the great bad movies of our time. In 1990, Amir Shervan made an incredible thing called Samurai Cop... Read more

17 Jun 2019

1hr 17mins

Ranked #9

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086 Night Wars (1988)

086 Night Wars (1988)

From the team that brought you Deadly Prey comes a movie that’s… well… a lot of things. Maybe too many? Night Wars is A ... Read more

10 Jun 2019

1hr 20mins

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085 The Exorcist Prequels: Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

085 The Exorcist Prequels: Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

If the early 2000s taught us anything, it was that prequels may not be sure bets. Enter Paul Schrader and Renny Harlin, ... Read more

3 Jun 2019

1hr 30mins

Ranked #11

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084 Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

084 Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

Believe it or not, we've never talked about a Roger Corman directed film... UNTIL NOW! Maybe fittingly, Frankenstein Unb... Read more

27 May 2019

1hr 43mins

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081 Howard the Duck (1986)

081 Howard the Duck (1986)

Howard the Duck was a huge disaster at the box office in 1986. It also hurt some careers. But is it as bad as its reputa... Read more

29 Apr 2019

1hr 14mins

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077 Reel Good: Reel Long Movies

077 Reel Good: Reel Long Movies

We're coming out of a LONG Montana winter, so Nick and Matt take a break from the bad and enjoy two of their very favori... Read more

1 Apr 2019

1hr 53mins

Ranked #14

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074 Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

074 Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

Returning to the Hellraiser series with Hellbound: Hellraiser II, we find ourselves asking, "Just because we don't like ... Read more

11 Mar 2019

1hr 46mins

Ranked #15

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073 Batman & Robin (1997)

073 Batman & Robin (1997)

Back to the world of comic books we go for 1997's Batman & Robin, a legendary bad movie (some call it one of the wor... Read more

4 Mar 2019

1hr 36mins

Ranked #16

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072 Beastly (2011)

072 Beastly (2011)

In our final Month of Lurve episode, Nick, Matt, Nicole, and Aimee dive into Beastly, yet another film that exists becau... Read more

25 Feb 2019

1hr 28mins

Ranked #17

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071 Grease 2 (1982)

071 Grease 2 (1982)

Grinding through our Month of Lurve, we take a hard stop at Ridell High for the 1982 film Grease 2 starring the very, ve... Read more

18 Feb 2019

1hr 14mins

Ranked #18

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070 Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

070 Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

It’s week two of our Month of Lurve and we decided on a long and uncomfortable — yet enlightening — conversation about o... Read more

11 Feb 2019

1hr 44mins

Ranked #19

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069 Hellraiser (1987)

069 Hellraiser (1987)

It’s our Month of Lurve on Reel Bad, so we thought we’d start with the classic and gooey love story Hellraiser! As we la... Read more

4 Feb 2019

1hr 51mins

Ranked #20

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068 Masters of the Universe (1987)

068 Masters of the Universe (1987)

It's the final film in our January of children's films and... we've all been through quite a bit. Masters of the Univers... Read more

28 Jan 2019

1hr 42mins

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