This Could be Bad
- Episodes
- 18
- Released
- weekly
- Latest episode
- Nov 8, 2026
About the podcast
“This Could Be Bad” is a movie podcast where three film nerds with 145 years of combined movie viewing experience are forced into the edges of their cinematic wheelhouses. Each month, the Reel of Fortune selects a different theme, and each of our Casters selects a movie in that theme to view and discuss. What will it be this month - Micro-Budget Marvels? Low latitudes horror? NOW the world likes it? Jodorowski vs Zulawski vs Tarkovsky? B-Movie Bonanza? Documentaries? Wild, Weird, and Wondrous? Movies that frightened you as a child? or Scandinavia! (to name just a few).
Episodes 18
La Casa Lobo (2018) - Low-Latitudes Horror: Part 1 of 3
Recorded: 10/27/26Picked by: Carlos AARON: "The nation of Chile is officially out of masking tape."CARLOS: "Pinochet's ripples are still felt today."MOLLY: "Little fish, big fish swimming in the water. Come …
Show notes
Recorded: 10/27/26
Picked by: Carlos
AARON: "The nation of Chile is officially out of masking tape."
CARLOS: "Pinochet's ripples are still felt today."
MOLLY: "Little fish, big fish swimming in the water. Come back hear and give me my daughter" -PJ Harvey
SCANDINAVIA!! Wrap-up & Theme #4 Reveal
Carlos, Molly & Aaron discuss the also-rans for Scandinavian films and reveal their next movie theme. Recorded: 10/8/2026
Songs from the Second Floor (2000) - SCANDINAVIA!!: Part 3 of 3
Recorded: 10/8/26Picked by: Molly AARON: The whimpers of the world's end.CARLOS: Spookier than anticipated.MOLLY: Every frame of painting, every scene of stanza, every interaction inspired by Kafka.
Worst Person in the World (2021) - SCANDINAVIA!!: Part 2 of 3
Recorded: 9/29/26 Picked by: Carlos AARON: In a world of indecisiveness we find a character challenged by over-decisiveness. MOLLY: Other people can't solve what you have not figured out for yourself. CARLOS: I …
Show notes
Recorded: 9/29/26
Picked by: Carlos
AARON: In a world of indecisiveness we find a character challenged by over-decisiveness.
MOLLY: Other people can't solve what you have not figured out for yourself.
CARLOS: I actually think she is the worst person in the world.
Another Round (2020) - SCANDINAVIA!! : Part 1 of 3
Recorded: 9/22/26Picked by: Aaron MOLLY: Male friendships can be the very best thing or the very worst thing for men. You never know how it's gonna go.AARON: This movie features a montage of drunk politicians …
Show notes
Recorded: 9/22/26
Picked by: Aaron
MOLLY: Male friendships can be the very best thing or the very worst thing for men. You never know how it's gonna go.
AARON: This movie features a montage of drunk politicians, two of which are named 'Boris'.
CARLOS: No, bro... I think I can handle it actually.
MOLLY: It's possible to lose yourself so completely you can't find your way back.
Recovery Position InfoLGBTQ+ Movies ... Wrap-Up and Next Theme Reveal
Carlos Molly & Aaron discuss other LGBTQ+ movies, as well as reveal next month's pod theme. Recorded: 9/8/26
Nowhere (1997) - LGBTQ+: Part 3 of 3
Recorded: 9/8/26 Picked by: CarlosMOLLY: Love means never having an insulting nickname thrown at you ever againAARON: What is the cumulative psychological effect of continually seeing your fantasies become …
Show notes
Recorded: 9/8/26
Picked by: Carlos
MOLLY: Love means never having an insulting nickname thrown at you ever again
AARON: What is the cumulative psychological effect of continually seeing your fantasies become nightmares?
CARLOS: Is it prescient that teenagers think the world is always ending?
Tomboy (2024) - LGBTQ+: Part 2 of 3
Recorded: 9/1/26Picked by: Aaron CARLOS: Do kids even know, or would they care about this sort of thing? MOLLY: A loved and loving child discovers the bigotry inculcated in children at a very young age.AARON …
Show notes
Recorded: 9/1/26
Picked by: Aaron
CARLOS: Do kids even know, or would they care about this sort of thing?
MOLLY: A loved and loving child discovers the bigotry inculcated in children at a very young age.
AARON: If this movie was set in Denmark, would Mikhael have made a Lego penis?
Will & Harper (2024) - LGBTQ+: Part 1 of 3
- Recorded: 8/25/26Picked by: Molly CARLOS: Distracting famous white guy, good or bad? AARON: it was great to see Ricky Bobby drop his guard MOLLY: Honest desire to understand and a couple of gut punches.
Movies that Scared Us as a Child Wrap-Up and Next Theme Reveal
Carlos Molly & Aaron recall other movies that scared them as children, as well as reveal next month's pod theme.
Watership Down (1978) - Movies that Scared us as a Child: Part 3 of 3
Recorded: 8/18/26Picked by: Aaron CARLOS: I too would be this anxious if I was that size MOLLY: Bad bunnies. Bad, bad bunnies and so much death.AARON: Were there any happy movies made during the 70s?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - Movies that Scared us as a Child: Part 2 of 3
Recorded: 8/4/26Picked by: MollyAARON: Any criticisms will be stomped out by Dick Van Dyke dancing.CARLOS: Is the Child Snatcher a Hans Landa inspiration?MOLLY: If you scrape away the child catcher with a meat …
Show notes
Recorded: 8/4/26
Picked by: Molly
AARON: Any criticisms will be stomped out by Dick Van Dyke dancing.
CARLOS: Is the Child Snatcher a Hans Landa inspiration?
MOLLY: If you scrape away the child catcher with a meat hook, the chauvinistic xenophobia, an original author with serious Madonna-whore issues, the repeated attempted spousal murder, a dog that falls to his death during a dance number about candy, and about five songs too many by characters you don't care about, it's a pretty decent Mary Poppins stand-in with, let's face it, one of the catchiest earworms of a theme song in any kid's movie.
E.T. (1982) - Movies That Scared Us as a Child: Part 1 of 3
Recorded: 7/28/26 Picked by: Carlos AARON: What's scarier?: A greasy little croaking alien or a single mom leaving her 5-year old home alone so she can go pick up her drunk 10-year old from school? CARLOS …
Show notes
Recorded: 7/28/26
Picked by: Carlos
AARON: What's scarier?: A greasy little croaking alien or a single mom leaving her 5-year old home alone so she can go pick up her drunk 10-year old from school?
CARLOS: Climate change never happened if he stayed.
MOLLY: A lonely boy in California meets some G-men in the forest and ends up living on Sesame Street.
Soundtracks & Scores Wrap-Up & Next Theme Reveal
Recorded: 7/15/26Carlos, Molly & Aaron discuss alternative Soundtracks & Scores films ("Also-rans"??) as well as spin the Reel of Fortune to reveal next month's Theme.
Tommy (1975) - Soundtracks & Scores: Part 3 of 3
Recorded: 7/15/26Picked by: MollyCARLOS: The highs are high and the lows are low concerning rockstar haircuts. AARON: About 8 seconds into Superfly you realize the target audience is black people. About 8 …
Show notes
Recorded: 7/15/26
Picked by: Molly
CARLOS: The highs are high and the lows are low concerning rockstar haircuts.
AARON: About 8 seconds into Superfly you realize the target audience is black people. About 8 seconds into this movie you realize the target audience is white people.
MOLLY: This is a perfect movie!
Mandy (2018) - Soundtracks & Scores: Part 2 of 3
Recorded: 7/7/26Pick by: CarlosMOLLY: This particular movie is a comprehensive occult education as transmitted through heavy metal t-shirts. Conveyed through the slow motion, heavily color saturated catechism …
Show notes
Recorded: 7/7/26
Pick by: Carlos
MOLLY: This particular movie is a comprehensive occult education as transmitted through heavy metal t-shirts. Conveyed through the slow motion, heavily color saturated catechism of 40-tab acid trips.
AARON: This could have taken place on an alien planet or in medieval times or in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it took place in 1983.
CARLOS: 80's and hippies and comics and fantasy novels and metal and bikers and drugs and revenge and shit. We're throwing it all in. Figure it out.
Superfly (1972) - Soundtracks & Scores: Part 1 of 3
Recorded: 6/30/26 Picked by: AaronTheme: Soundtracks & ScoresPart 1 of 3 AARON: I bought the soundtrack decades after the movie came out and didn't actually watch the movie until decades later. The movie plays …
Show notes
Recorded: 6/30/26
Picked by: Aaron
Theme: Soundtracks & Scores
Part 1 of 3
AARON: I bought the soundtrack decades after the movie came out and didn't actually watch the movie until decades later. The movie plays like the songs, taking itself seriously, but not too seriously.
CARLOS: One last job to Groovy Funk soundtracks. So it's like fun 'Heat', basically.
MOLLY: The most culturally influential texts of the 20th century: The Great Gadsby, Childhood's End, The Heart of Darkness, and Superfly.
THIS COULD BE BAD - Intro Episode
Carlos, Molly & Aaron give a taste of things to come in their new podcast, "This Could Be Bad". Each of us will take turns picking a movie based on a randomly selected theme in 3-episode cycles. *All of the …
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Carlos, Molly & Aaron give a taste of things to come in their new podcast, "This Could Be Bad". Each of us will take turns picking a movie based on a randomly selected theme in 3-episode cycles.
*All of the previous podcast (What Else Did You Watch) episodes are still available. See link in the description.
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