Dead Horse

59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings

Queer comedian/writers Becky Granger (she/her), Dixon Cashwell (he/him), and PJ Audenzia (she/they) take silly, chaotic, earnest deep dives on improbably-extended or overlooked movie franchises. Each episode throws a single franchise entry under a critical microscope, looking at unlikely, misguided, or underrated sequels with geeky analysis and the dumbest jokes you've ever heard.

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Episodes

The Mummy Returns

May 25, 2021 10:02 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Your Favorite Funky Foals are desecrating an all new grave with 2001's THE MUMMY RETURNS! Stephen Sommers and darn-near the entire cast return to double-down on everything Becky loved (and everything Dixon hella didn't) about the original Mummy, as Brendan Fraser enters the era of the Middle Part-- and begins to get taken for granted as screen presence. The Horses talk about what it's like to adore a movie against all logic, whether or not the magic of the first movie can be recaptured, and ...

The Mummy (1999)

May 18, 2021 09:43 - 1 hour - 91.4 MB

HEY BENNY! This week, the Podcasting Ponies resurrect Universal's Mummy franchise for another hyper-earnest, ultra-forensic deep dive on Bisexual America's favorite imperialist adventure series, as well as the peculiar skillset/career of one unmistakable goober who captured the hearts of a generation: Brendan God Damn Fraser. The horses discuss nostalgia-for-nostalgia, orientalism, film music, and the absolute dang racket of physically obtaining a college degree. Brendan call me

Annabelle Comes Home

May 11, 2021 08:33 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB

She's back! AGAIN! The prancing ponies wave a warm farewell to the vanilla-creepy Annabelle series in the final (for now) entry in the horses' second miniseries. The gang examines the brain of series screenwriter Good Goin' Gary the Dimwit Dauberman as he steps up to the director's chair, the themes and relative success of the series as a whole, and the national babysitter's union. We also announce our next miniseries-- tune in to find out for yourself!

Annabelle: Creation

May 04, 2021 09:41 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB

"Those awful Horses are at it again"- Gene Siskel. This time, our Merry Mares investigate the improbably solid prequel-to-a-spinoff ANNABELLE: CREATION, from the mind of gifted internet filmmaker turned Time Warner workhorse David S. Sandberg. The gang discuss how a good director can (or can't) elevate thin material, what makes a good "gag," and how come it is it that how when you do, the number 70 its, like how it is almost like it's pretty much just one number away from 71 when you thank a...

Annabelle

April 27, 2021 05:46 - 1 hour - 80.5 MB

The Horses dive into their second series: from the pages of the Conjuring which is from the pages of the case files of the pages of Ed and Lorraine Warren's case files' pages, it's ANNABELLE! Will the bottle ceremoniously smashed against the bow of the S.S. Miniseries 2 be filled brim with Dom Perignon? Or will it be like a one-pint carton of Barefoot white wine you got from 7/11 because Kroger closed before you got cut from work?

Spy Kids 4-D: All the Time in the World

April 20, 2021 06:37 - 1 hour - 79.2 MB

The horses are ending their tenure with the OSS for now, but they're going out with a booger-and-candy smelling bang: SPY KIDS 4D! Imagine the blind Lady Justice statue and she's holding a precisely balanced scale and on one of the little scale-platform-things is Jessica Alba doing a great job and on the other one there's a dog voiced by Ricky Gervais going like "ooh that was a cheeky li'il fart i did innit!!!" or something like that

Spy Kids 3: Game Over

April 13, 2021 05:14 - 1 hour - 84 MB

Dixon, Becky and PJ loved Spy Kids 3: Game Over so much that they spend like 10 minutes this episode trying to remember stuff that happened in Antz

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

April 06, 2021 08:51 - 1 hour - 87.9 MB

The Horses— Dixon (he/him), Becky (she/her), and PJ (they/them)— help themselves to a second serving of Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids series and are still finding things to love, albeit in the face of thirty or so A-plots, cruddy greenscreen, and some cinematic devilry courtesy of the good folks at Skywalker Ranch. Is this the beginning of the end for their affection toward the series? i dunno but Sylvester Stallone wears some disguises or something in the next one so it can only go up from her...

Spy Kids

March 29, 2021 02:15 - 1 hour - 87.7 MB

DEAD HORSE kicks off their mission to explore underdiscussed film franchises-- the forgotten, the derided, the actually-pretty-good-- with Robert Rodriguez's singular Spy Kids! This movie absolutely rips and we're a little afraid that it's all downhill from here. DEAD HORSE is Becky Granger, Dixon Cashwell and PJ Audenzia; @deadhorsepod (Instagram) and @deadhorsethepod (Twitter). Cover art by Max Huffman (@maxhuffman - insta), and bad music/production by Dixon Cashwell.