We welcome the man who brought us to the Maximum Fun network, Mr. Jesse Thorn, to the show this week. And how did we repay him? We made him watch Smurfs. We never said life is fair. Anyway, of all the Smurfs movies in the world, this will definitely go down as "the one with Rihanna and James Corden."

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Wikipedia page for Smurfs

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Batman (1966)

Stu: Roofman (2025)

Elliott: Flow (2024)

Jesse Thorn: A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Writer, producer, and podcaster Scott Weinberg kicks off the FOUR FULL EPISODES OF "MOVEMBER," with a discussion of 2024's remake, The Crow. The original Crow was a defining movie for legions of goths and black-trenchcoated teens. This one... has a lot of people thirsting after Bill Skarsgård's abs? And not much else?

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Wikipedia page for The Crow

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Next of Kin (1982)

Stu: After the Hunt (2025)

Elliott: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Scott Weinberg: Primitive War (2025)

Hallie stuck around to help ease your Hallie-ween hangover, as Elliott guides the peaches through a survey of Halloween costumes in cinema. Who wore it best, and whose costumes were just lame? We put on our cattiest Mr. Blackwell costumes and decide! And remember -- MOVEMBER starts next week. Other than this brief Shocktober close-up mini, all four of November's remaining shows will be FULL EPISODES!

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We wrap Shocktober 2025 up with a discussion of the extremely-loosely-based-on-the-videogame meta-slasher UNTIL DAWN. But that's enough about the movie! We're burying the lede! Hallie Haglund returns to join us in our filmic antics. Has she seen a ghost yet?

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Wikipedia page for Until Dawn

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)

Stu: Deathstalker (2025) The Lost Bus (2025)

Elliott: Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

Hallie: Weapons (2025)

Stuart's popular "let's discuss TV instead" mini format Tuboy Talkin' Tube to Two Dudes, Tonight All Right returns with a little serious first amendment talk up front and then a lot of goofy Emmy talk.

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Boo! Hahahha, gotcha! It's SHOCKTOBER, when all the ghouls and ghosties and ghremlins and ghrim reapers come out to scare us! And at The Flop House it's our traditional all-horror month! We kick off with 2024's IMAGINARY, about the scariest thing in the world -- an imaginary friend! And if you don't believe us, watch that awful John Krasinski imaginary friend movie. We're shivering just thinking about it!

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Wikipedia page for Imaginary

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Little Women (2019)

Stu: Lust, Caution (2007)

Elliott: This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

We've made it no secret that we at The Flop House are proud to have been included in the newly-published, The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen. On this episode we welcome the author of that book, Sean Malin, to the show, to help us discuss the MOVIE pantheon, and which canonical films we could all live without.

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From the (?)genius(?) that brought us the legendary A Talking Cat!?! comes another tale of a talking animal and the humans who live with him in a California porn-shoot-mansion, doing mundane things in scenes that take way too long, in-between luxurious establishing shots and footage of people driving. It's the absolutely bonkos Smallvember new classic, An Easter Bunny Puppy.

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An Easter Bunny Puppy has NO Wikipedia page!

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)

Stu: Lurker (2025)

Elliott: The Vourdalak (2023)

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Dan challenges Stuart and Elliott to lose as much money as they can by turning hit movies into bombs.

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It's Smalltember (Elliott pops into frame to say "Smallvember!") -- that special time of year when we allow ourselves to stray from big Hollywood movies to examine some tinier, more idiosyncratic pictures. And boy howdy is Lumina idiosyncratic! So we welcomed actor Ashlie Atkinson (The Gilded Age, The Lost Bus, Mr. Robot and much more) to help decipher the madness!

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Wikipedia page for Lumina

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Deep Cover (1992)

Stu: The Order (2024), It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive (1987)

Elliott: Heroic Times (1983)

Ashlie: We Are The Best (2013)

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