WO 1st Anniversary

We're going to talk about the podcast in general.

We're also going to talk about something that's been fantastic in 2026.

And that is horror.

God damn, 2026 horror has been the thing to witness globally,

right?

Yeah.

I hesitate slightly because there's sort of two or three that have absolutely smashed the box office.

That isn't everything, obviously.

but there's a buzz about horror every time a teaser, every time a trailer comes on, the people attached to it.

I was watching a brief interview with Zach Crager earlier, and just the joy and the anticipation for that particular genre and all the various sub-genres is higher than anything else.

I think that's fair.

I mean, we're talking right now as sort of Odyssey fever is sweeping, but on the whole, this year has been absolutely resolutely a horror year, and A lot of people I work with who perhaps don't watch films that often are getting really excited about, oh, this is coming out.

Have you seen this? Or I could barely get through this.

And it's yeah, it's a real pleasure.

We can talk.

We will talk about it a little bit.

I think it's interesting to see the movement from the much hated expression, elevated horror into what we have now.

And now we're settled into a, to me, a lovely middle.

It's heightened in the sense that people making those films have obviously seen a lot of films, appreciate a lot of films from a wide variety.

So it's really classy stuff we're watching, but it has appeal.

That's where you want to be.

And I think that's where Brad generally is on the scale of films.

It's like, I want to know it's been made really well, but I want to fucking enjoy it.

I don't want to slog my way.

I like a slog.