For our last episode of 2023, we've decided to let our inner Grinches out to play: instead of celebrating the warmth and coziness and love of good holiday movies, as we've done in the past, this year we're going all the way to the other end of the spectrum: the most rotten-souled Yuletide misfires that ever fell out of a chimney. It's our picks for the 5 worst Christmas movies ever made - our present to all of you, since we know there's nothing you enjoy more than our suffering through lousy movies.
This episode, we're also lucky enough to be joined by a some of our AE friends and even a few special call-in guests!
We're breaking hearts and taking names on this episode and we hope you enjoy. <3
Carrie's Top 5:
- Die Hard (1988)
- Home Alone 3 (1997)
- Jack Frost (1997)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- The Polar Express (2004)
Tim's Top 5:
- The Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
- Saving Christmas (2014)
- Deck the Halls (2006)
- The Polar Express (2004)
Brennan's Top 5:
- The Psycho Santa (2003)
- Saving Christmas (2014)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
- A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
- Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen (2019)
This week’s winner for the Worst Christmas Movies is Billy the Kid!
- Black Christmas
- The Ron Howard Grinch Movie
- The other version of Black Christmas
- And the other version of Black Christmas
- Die Hard 2
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Tim and Brennan are winding down British Ghost Stories month, and a whole year of podcasting, by taking a look at the 1972 TV movie THE STONE TAPE, which originally aired on Christmas Day!
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Happy Monday!
It's good to be back after a little unplanned break. Nothing gets the mind right like Tim cackle laughing at imagining Carrie and Rob's first (and only) bath together. On this episode, Tim brings two new films out of Japan, Godzilla Minus One and The Boy and the Heron. Carrie has a whole batch of movies to choose from, but decides to go with the Netfix Original, Leave the World Behind. Also, Patreon supporter, Brian Fowler, has Carrie review the classic teen-love-drama, Summer with Monika.
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Tim and Brennan are kicking off British Ghost Stories month in honor of the Christmas tradition from across the pond. We’re kicking off with 1989’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK, which originally aired on Christmas Eve!
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To close out 21st Century Slashers month, Tim and Brennan are diving into a new-to-both-of-them franchise with the MTV original movie MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16!
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After more than 6-months of radio silence, Rob is back with an Amateur Hour update to catch up on the making of Hauntology.
In this episode, he covers how the last segment and through line came together, the current status of the project, potential release dates / plans and new projects on-deck!
Some topics are just blunt and to the point, and that's just what we've gotten this week from Patreon supporter Granger D Pole, who wants us to go right for the kill: our lists of the worst movies of the 1980s. A decade that has some of the lowest lows in all of cinema history, so expect some real stinkers...unless you're Carrie and decide to opt for some of the most beloved films of the decade.
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Carrie's Top 5:
- Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
- The Apple
- Mac and Me
- Society
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Tim's Top 5:
- The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
- Gamera: Super Monster
- Skullduggery
- Oasis of the Zombies
- Don't Open Until Christmas
Brennan's Top 5:
- The Outing
- Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-rama
- Killing of the Flesh
- Airplane II: The Sequel
- Xanadu
This week’s winner for our Bottom 5 80's Movies was Damian Oakes!
- Revenge of the Nerds
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Halloween is over, but the horror continues over on Bride of Alternate Ending! We’re kicking off a month of 21st century slashers by checking out the Norwegian import COLD PREY!
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Happy Monday!
This episode, Carrie and Tim catch up on their wild Halloween weekends and distain towards the current youth, big cities and. Tim shares his reviews of Five Nights at Freddy's and the newly released The Exorcist: Believer. Carrie shares her thoughts on two theatrical experiences she had with her family over the weekend - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Sweeney Todd!
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Happy almost Halloween! Now it’s time to cover a classic horror movie that Tim has never seen before! This week we’re once again poking and prodding the definition of “horror” to find out where Adrian Lyne’s JACOB’S LADDER fits in!
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Sometimes, no matter how much money the studios throw at it, a movie just fails. Sometimes, the studio throws a whole lot of money at it before it becomes clear that's happening. And that's how you get, not merely a garden-variety failure, but a bonafide flop, the sort of horrific financial disaster that gets discussed with a giggle of schadenfreude in the trade press and passed around as a cautionary tale for years to come. 2023 has been an especially ugly year for megaflops, contributing two contenders for the dishonor of being one of the biggest money loser of all time in The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which makes it perfect timing for Patreon Kelleson to pick our next assignment: our picks for the top 5 flops of all time! We'll be looking at all the most notorious fiascos, boondoggles, and catastrophes that ever lit a massive pile on money on fire.
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Carrie's Top 5:
- Mulan
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Tenet
- Birth of a Nation
Tim's Top 5:
- Heaven's Gate
- Ishtar
- One from the Heart
- It's a Wonderful Life
- The Thing (1982)
Audience Top 5:
- Blade Runner
- Valerian
- Cats
- Hugo
- Wonder Woman
This week’s winner for our Top 5 Flops - Conservative Policy Thinktank
- Blade Runner
- Tenet
- Blade Runner 2049
- Bicentennial Man
- Dune (1984)
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Happy October, everybody! In honor of the swift approach of Halloween, we are covering a classic horror movie that each co-host has never seen before! This week we’re kicking off by filling in Brennan’s blind spot of the 1932 Tod Browning movie FREAKS!
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This episode is ever-so lovingly brought to you by two of our long-standing Patreon supporters. Thanks to Brian Fowler, we dive into a 4-part episode (movie?) viewing of Dragon Ball? Dragon Balls? Dragon Balzzzz? If you've seen the movies we discuss... sorry. If you haven't seen them, enjoy the strangest mental picture you can possibly fathom.
Andrew Johnson added some real fun to the episode, by picking Under the Skin for our worth mentioning segment - a film that Tim admires and Carrie will surely, never forget.
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On this week's episode, we are joined by the ever-so delightful Mandy Albert (and official Raspberry Picking correspondent) to round out our movie recommendations (or one's to avoid) for this week!
Tim brings his thoughts on Helen Mirren's newest feature Golda. Mandy lightly steams things up a bit with her thoughts on Tosca Musk and her 9 part series following the romantic affairs of Gabriel & Julia, in the Gabriel's Inferno series. Carrie brings her rage towards the newest fright-flick Talk to Me and reminds listeners just how old she is by sharing a 30 min health update.
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To close out Platinum Dunes month, Brennan and Tim are - for some reason - sitting down to discuss the 2007 remake of THE HITCHER!
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This week's topic was a doozy - but we were up for the challenge, as we picked our way through The Best and Worst Years for Movies, courtesy of Patreon Andrew Johnson. Some years achieve legendary status right away, like the annus mirabilis of 1999; some grow their reputation with age and respectability, like the Hollywood golden epoch of 1939. Some years, there are pandemics and/or major industry-wide strikes, and people just plain stop putting out movies, except from some real dogs that nobody wanted to see anyways. We'll be looking at all of it as we contemplate this question more than a century in the making.
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Carrie's Best 10 Years:
- 1989
- 1993
- 1997
- 1995
- 1999
- 2020
- 1985
- 2009
- 1988
- 2001
Carrie's Worst 10 Years:
- 2021
- 2000
- 1973
- 2016
- 2009
- 2019
- 2015
- 2011
- 2012
- 2005
Tim's Best 10 Years:
- Duck Amuck
- One Froggy Evening
- What's Opera Doc?
- Rabbit of Seville
- Feed the Kitty
Tim's Worst 10 Years:
- Duck Amuck
- One Froggy Evening
- What's Opera Doc?
- Rabbit of Seville
- Feed the Kitty
This week’s winner for our Best/Worst Years in cinema history - Copyrighted Name!
Best Years:
- 1939
- 1940
- 1954
- 1964
- 1968
- 1976
- 1982
- 1984
- 1988
Worst Years:
- 1929
- 1930
- 1943
- 1947
- 1970
- 1990
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To kick off Platinum Dunes month, Brennan and Tim are starting with the movie that kicked off Platinum Dunes in the first place. It’s 2003’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!
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This episode, Carrie and Tim meander their way through the last week's happenings and share about a few good movies a long the way too. Carrie brings The Animatrix, thanks to Harold Bleacher and Meet Me In St. Louis, thanks to the ever-so kind listener, SpaceIce. Tim brings a review of a newer flick coming out of Sundance, Birth/Rebirth.
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To close out Masters of Horror month, Tim and Brennan break down William Malone’s season 1 episode “Fair-Haired Child!”
PS: Please forgive the haphazard audio quality of this episode, it’s tough recording remotely and sometimes it makes you want to tear your fair hair out.
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It's rabbit season here at Alternate Ending, thanks to Patreon supporter Hallvarður: this episode centers on our picks for the top 5 Looney Tunes cartoons! Between 1930 and 1969, Warner Bros. released 1000 short cartoons starring such animated icons as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Speedy Gonzales, Tweety Bird, Cool Cat, Goopy Geer, Merlin the Magic Mouse, and all your other favorites.
Enjoy this episode sifting through that list of some of the best comic animation ever produced to come up with our absolute favorites for the best of the best. Or, the least despicable, anyway.
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Carrie's Top 5:
- Soup or Sonic (1980)
- Birds Anonymous (1957)
- Little Boy Boo (1954)
- Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
- For Scent-imental Reasons (1947)
Tim's Top 5:
- The Village Smithy (1936)
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)
- The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
- Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
- Duck Amuck (1953)
Audience Top 5:
- Duck Amuck
- One Froggy Evening
- What's Opera Doc?
- Rabbit of Seville
- Feed the Kitty
This week’s winner for our Top 5 Looney Tunes - David Zaslav
- The Foghorn Leghorn
- Tweetie Pie
- Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
- For Scent-imental Reasons
- Bedevilled Rabbit
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To kick off Masters of Horror month, Tim and Brennan break down Tobe Hooper’s season 1 episode “Dance of the Dead!”
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It's a Patreon-palooza this week thanks to Gavin (Society), Ann Yourell (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Travis (The Hill) and Carl Beasley (Secrets of the Hot Spring). It was a bit of a Goldilocks story on this episode, with some movies being incredibly enjoyable, some just so-so and then so bad you want to light yourself on fire.
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"Every movie's a circus", in the words of a song from the proudly mediocre Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Blvd. But we're going to be a little bit more selective than that. At the request of Patreon supporter Carl Beasley, this episode focuses on on our top 5 circus movies: movies celebrating the wonderful entertainment form that has made such a rich pageant out of exploiting people with unusual bodies, abusing animals, and of course, the indescribable, unholy nightmare terrors of those funny fellas, the clowns.
It'll be fun for girls and boys of all ages, so come check out our favorite examples of all the wonders that can be found under the big top!
Carrie's Top 5:
- Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
- Toy Story 4
- The Greatest Showman
- Water for Elephants
- Dumbo
Tim's Top 5:
- Dumbo
- The Circus
- La Strada
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh
- Nightmare Alley (1947)
Audience Top 5:
- Dumbo
- Freaks
- The Circus
- He Who Gets Slapped
- Nightmare Alley
This week’s winner for our Top 5 Circus Movies – Grooves
- Nightmare Alley (2021)
- Dumbo
- The Circus
- Freaks
- The Greatest Showman
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To close out Disney horror month, Tim and Brennan break down a nostalgic classic that isn’t particular nostalgic for either of them. it’s 1983’s SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES!
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This episode came a week later than expected, due to unforeseen, lower than expectations reviews of the Indiana Jones series from the Jarosinski children. With an extra week gone by, we were prepared to face the situation head on. Sort of. Thoughts differ on Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, but thankfully Tim finds it in his heart to only break Carrie's heart in written form and mostly spare her feelings on air. Sort of.
With thanks to Patreon M.C. Steffen Tim brings his review of Little Boy. In retaliation for Tim's recent IJ reviews, Carrie makes Tim sweat by sharing her thoughts on Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, which is assures him will be spoiler-free.
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