Don't google this movie title without additional keywords like "plot", "film" or "netflix". Otherwise you'll just get a hotline number and some consolation. What's spookier in the spooky season than a fever dream trip to visit your current dating partner's parents? Well, there's plenty of existential concepts that Charlie Kaufman wants you to consider. Join Dixon, Ryan, and John as they attempt to navigate I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), the unsettling Charlie Kaufman horror / thriller / existential head trip adapted from a novel of the same name.

Welcome to a spooky edition of Recommend or Refute. Ryan tackles another horror franchise with Terrifier (2016), Dixon reviews a scary twist on Barney and Friends with Casper Kelly's new film Buddy (2026), and John delves into the existential dread of Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York (2008).

Spooky Season is upon us and Ryan has hand picked a lesser known horror film to share with the crew. The simplistically titled Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) is about exactly what it sounds like, but is there more to it than that? What would compel a studio to name it with such bluntness? What kind of budget does it have? Is it actually scary? Should you add it to your Spooky Season watch list? Dixon, John, and Ryan are here to help you determine that and dig a little deeper while we're at it.