525 – The Movies About Subjects That Scare Us Quell

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We didn’t say they were good movies.

It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! But the FIRST one since being named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Podcasts of All Time…

For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host brought a movie about a subject that actually scares them. Katey confronts her fear that her kids might get hit by cars with 1989’s Pet Semetary, David is worried about gun violence in schools with 2003’s Elephant, Da7e is worried about his inner monsters with 1980’s The Shining, and Patches is concerned about colon cancer with 2011’s A Little Bit of Heaven.

If you would like to attend FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM LIVE AT THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL on Tuesday November 4th at 3PM Mountain Time at The Tattered Cover on Colfax, get tickets here!

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Format

0:00 – Welcome and Da7e Attempts an Intro

05:19 – Katey – Pet Semetary (1989)

23:47 – David – Elephant (2003)

50:32 – Da7e – The Shining (1980)

1:09:43 – Patches – A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)

Previous Quarter Quells:

* OpKino Classic: First Quarter Quell (August 26th 2011)

* OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)

* OpKino Classic: Storytelling Quarter Quell (Aug 10th 2012)

* OpKino Classic: Family Interview Full Quell (Feb 8th, 2013)

* FITWR 025 – The Filmmaking Quarter Quell (June 3rd, 2014)

* FITWR 050 – QQ2: Movies for the Moment (Dec. 2nd 2014)

* FITWR 075 – QQ3: Movies We Wanted To Be When We Grew Up.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You can't fight in here. This is the war room.
0:02.0	Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. I can no longer sit back and allow. Clear and plain and coming through fine. Subversion. I'm coming through fine, too, eh? And the international conspiracy. Well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine. The sap and impurify. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. All of our precious bodily fluids. It's a hot to podcast.
0:23.7	Hello and welcome. happen and purify. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. All of our precious bodily fluids.
0:22.4	It's a hot podcast. Hello and welcome to fighting in the war room. We are finally at a quarter quail,
0:28.6	which is every 25-ish episodes. We try to do an episode that lets you know a little bit more about your
0:35.5	four hosts. This is a great place to maybe start if you want to start fighting in the war room.
0:41.2	Maybe you are planning to see us on November 4th at the Denver Film Festival.
0:48.2	If you want to get tickets, head to Denverfilm.org.
0:52.9	Yes, you can buy tickets.
0:53.9	This podcast has been completely free for over a decade.
0:57.3	This is literally the first time we're asking you to pay for anything.
1:00.8	Everyone listening.
1:01.6	Everyone listening.
1:02.5	I need to say something, which is if people don't show up to this show, if you live within an hour of Denver, you have to be take off work.
1:12.4	Don't people in Western States drive far as a regular on a regular basis? Like, should we make it two hours?
1:16.9	Like those planes are big. I understand that's challenging, but we, I promise we'll go get like a drink after.
1:22.1	I promise to have happy hour after. Come out, I will wine and dine. I won't buy you a drink, but I will drink with you.
1:29.9	But we need people to.
1:31.7	If people don't come to this, I'll be crushed.
1:34.3	I'll quit the podcast.
1:35.3	I mean, I'm not coming to it.
1:37.4	You're not watching two hours.
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