Messed Up Movies

Is Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma a slasher movie, an art film, a psychosexual fever dream, a two-hour therapy session about making movies... or one of the best films of 2026?

Jane Schoenbrun's follow-up to I Saw the TV Glow takes the bones of an '80s summer-camp slasher and uses them to dig into sex, death, nostalgia, identity, fandom, filmmaking and our increasingly complicated relationship with the movies that shaped us.

And blissfully, Gillian Anderson is at the center of all of it giving one of our favorite performances of the year.

This week on Messed Up Movies, Griffey, Heath, Sam and Sophia dig into Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, from Little Death and the movie's gloriously ridiculous kills to its obsession with horror nostalgia, Hollywood exploitation and the terrifying prospect of actually being seen for who you are. Some of us think it's one of the year's best movies. Some of us think it's a gorgeous, self-indulgent cinematic therapy session. Somehow, both might be right.

FULL SPOILERS AHEAD.

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We've been holding back on this one for awhile, but the time has finally come... we are drafting the greatest, the raddest, the most totally Messed Up Movies from the decade DEFINED by horror - THE 1980s!

It's the decade that gave us Freddy Kreuger, Jason Vorhees, Tony Montana, Marty McFly, and on and on and on! Join Griffey, Heath, Sam and Sophia as they travel back to the most iconic era in horror and battle it out to pick the ultimate list of Messed Up 80s flicks.

Vote for the winner on Instragram and tell us in the comments which 80s movies we missed.

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Today Griffey and Dandino return to Camp Bloodbath in The Final Girls. They cut open the movies blend of 80's sleepaway camp horror riffs and powerful emotional core, the dynamics of horror fans entering their favorite slasher flick, and if the movie would have been served better by attempting to further deconstruct the genre. This movie is so funny and had an enomrous heart that fills this comedic riff into much more than it's peers.

Synopsis: A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Adam Devine, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, Angela Trimbur

Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson

Youtube: https://youtu.be/UzgrLgeIo9o

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We thought the Insidious franchise was dead. Turns out The Further had other plans.

This week on New Movie Monday, we're diving into INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER, the sixth entry in a franchise that has spent years desperately trying to recapture the nightmare fuel of James Wan's original.

And somehow... this one almost pulls it off.

We're talking grotesque dental horror, nightmare pillow forts, creepy old cultists, some surprisingly effective scares, an absolutely bonkers expansion of The Further's mythology and a third act that threatens to undo almost everything the movie gets right.

Is Out of the Further actually the best Insidious sequel? Has this franchise finally found a reason to keep going? And why the FUCK is there so much horrifying dentistry in this movie?

FULL SPOILERS AHEAD.

Join Griffey, Heath, Sam and Sophia as they break down Insidious: Out of the Further, pick their Most Messed Up Moments and decide whether we're ready to go back into The Further one more time.

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Relax, this episode if fully spoken in English... and whatever language Sam speaks. No subtitles necessary (looking at you, Sophia)! But if you don't like subtitles, you're missing out on some of the most Messed Up Movies ever made!

That's why Griffey, Heath and Sopha-Sam are going to Google translate to find the best movies from around the globe! We're going J-Horror, Mexican-horror, even French-Canadian! As long as the majority of the movie is spoken in a foreign language, it's getting picked.

So grab your baguettes, your sushi or your poutine and enjoy a messed up meal of foreign delights!

Vote for the winner in the comments and tell us which foreign language frights we missed.

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Today Griffey and Dandino clock in for the final time with Last Shift. They discuss the film's abilty to generate dread on such a small budget, the haunted ghost that fill this police station and rookie cop's heart, and the wild Manson Family wanna be cult. This film achieves a lot with a little making it a MESSED UP movie to watch.

Synopsis: A rookie cop is tasked with taking the last shift at a police station before it is permanently closed, but it turns into a living nightmare.

Starring: Juliana Harkavy, Josh Mikel, Hank Stone

Directed by Anthony DiBlasi

Youtube: https://youtu.be/oylsYadjDhs

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This week, Griffey, Heath and Sam review the new dinosaur thriller from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. It is a big, dumb, expensive throwback packed with plenty of violence, dinosaurs with feathers and a sex scene you have to see to believe.

Is this the dinosaur movie we've been waiting for, or a Spielberg imitation powered entirely by human idiocy? We debate Anne Hathaway carrying the movie on her back, Ewan McGregor swinging a sledgehammer at a T. rex, a gigantic prehistoric snake, and mountains of dinosaur shit.

WARNING: We spoil the absolute shit out of this movie. Go see it before listening if you care about surprises.

Have you seen The End of Oak Street? Tell us whether it was glorious dumb fun or just plain dumb.

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What makes the perfect gateway horror movie? Is it a family-friendly introduction to the genre, the movie that personally traumatized you as a kid, or simply something so fun that it leaves you craving another scare?

Griffey, Sam, Heath and Sophia draft the movies they believe create lifelong horror fans. The picks range from The Lost Boys, The Monster Squad and Hocus Pocus to Pinocchio, Beetlejuice and Poltergeist. Along the way, they debate whether Disney movies count as horror, revisit the VHS covers and childhood nightmares that warped their young minds, and discover that Sam may only understand gateway horror as "hot teenagers fighting vampires."

Who built the best list? Vote for the winner in the comments and tell us which movie first opened the gateway to horror for you.

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Today Griffey and Dandino witness a gargantuan battle in Frankenstein vs Baragon. They discuss the bizarre Nazi origin story of this massive nuclear Frankenstein Monster, the added benefit of having a more human Kaiju battling the rubber monster suited beast, and the incredible miniature work in this film. This is a classic MESSED UP Kaiju battle that we can't wait to share with you!

Synposis: An American scientist and his Japanese colleagues study a feral boy born from the radiated heart of Frankenstein's monster, while a subterranean dinosaur ravages the Japanese countryside.

Starring: Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Takashi Shimura

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Youtube: https://youtu.be/SMEIJM0Mr-s

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Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man promised an unrated throwback packed with gore, mayhem and ice cream-fueled murder. What arrived is one of the most baffling and creatively bankrupt horror releases we have seen in years.

On New Movie Monday, Griffey, Heath and Sam dig into a movie apparently made for children, yet far too grotesque for children to watch. We discuss its personality-free villain, juvenile humor, incoherent characters, recycled horror imagery and a finale involving a basement freezer, a necromancer and one extremely convenient grave.

Then the debate gets heated as we confront the movie's use of generative AI, Roth's misleading explanation and whether this disastrous launch betrays everything The Horror Section claimed it would represent.

Is Ice Cream Man merely a terrible movie, or a warning about where cynical, shortcut-driven horror is headed? We disagree about Roth's intentions, but not the result: this thing is putrid.

FULL SPOILERS

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