S16 Ep825: Needful Things (1993)
We Hate Movies
WHM Entertainment
4.7 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, we’re kicking off our 2025 Halloween season with a wild episode discussing the Stephen King adaptation, Needful Things! How amazing is J.T. Walsh in this film? Would you buy something from this old shopkeep? Does Ed Harris defeat the Devil just by yelling? How is that kid hucking apples through a microwave door? And, now THAT is how you blow something up in a movie, folks! PLUS: Turns out Leland Gaunt loves the Spice Girls!
Needful Things stars Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, Ray McKinnon, Duncan Fraser, Valri Bromfield, Shane Thomas Meier, Don S. Davis, and the late, great J.T. Walsh as Dan Keeton; directed by Fraser C. Heston.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, gang, before we get into this week's devilishly delightful episode on Needful Things, |
| 0:05.3 | just wanted to give you a couple quick reminders. First up, don't get sold out of our 15th |
| 0:08.9 | anniversary show happening this December 6th. It's a Saturday night. We're going to be at the |
| 0:14.1 | beautiful bellhouse in fantastic Brooklyn, New York, talking all about Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 0:19.2 | in Total Recall that he stars alongside |
| 0:22.7 | Sharon Stone, of course. So you are not going to want to miss that. Celebrating the better |
| 0:26.9 | part of two decades on the air. Holy cow. Tickets are available now, folks. Just go to our website |
| 0:33.3 | WHMpodcast.com. Go to our tour page. The information is right there. Again, Saturday, |
| 0:39.2 | December 6th, we're talking total recall. We're back at the beautiful bellhouse. It's our |
| 0:43.9 | favorite venue to play in the city. Holy smokes, folks. We want to see you there. And also |
| 0:48.1 | the Craveneer now alive and kicking on our Patreon. Patreon.com slash we hate movies where that's right. |
| 0:56.3 | We have two new video shows going into that top tier. |
| 1:00.0 | First of all, you do get all the audio, all the audio shows that we release every month on |
| 1:04.2 | Patreon. |
| 1:04.8 | When you sign up for the Craven, you of course get all of that. |
| 1:07.6 | You of course get the Big Daddy Dispatch. |
| 1:09.3 | But on top of all that stuff, you also get two |
| 1:11.7 | brand new shows. One is called After Dark, which is a monthly show where we do sort of an AMA, |
| 1:17.9 | kind of ask us anything format, where you, the patron, the audience member, get to hang out. It's all for you. |
| 1:24.5 | Chat with us, ask questions. We tell stories on the air. It's kind of like the old after parties we did at the moment shows. |
| 1:30.8 | But this is just for our supporters. |
| 1:32.9 | And then, of course, the other show quarterly, folks, quarterly now, we're talking |
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