Worst Horror Husbands (Dead Meat Podcast Ep. 207)

I know this is late and maybe y'all are old enough to know (maybe not) but 143 was beeper code for I love you.

god i fucking hate that when you put dan cain on the list i went like 'i mean herbert isnt any better to him, really' and then remembered myself

Oooooo, this isn't worst horror partners. They goin get youuuu

Hardin Scott voice: "Fucking TREVOR?!" Trevors are just the worst 😂
I agree with Ethan Hawke's character over Christian. Like Christian sucks horribly, but I think most people use the r4pe scene as their justification for hating him, and that makes me super uncomfortable.

The sudden kink shaming when they got to Gerald really caught me offguard. A daddy kink is like...incredibly common. Weird to see two very open minded, accepting people just...mock people for it, essentially. It's gross and disheartening

What about Alex from Ready or Not? He does try to kill her at the end so maybe that disqualifies him

Would love to see Jennifer Check from Jennifer's Body discussed in the worst best friend tier.

Another one could be the sorority sister from Black Christmas that betrays her friends.

I HAAATTEEEEE Francis from the Watcher. Anther one of his crimes.. at the end he sees his girlfriend’s throat has been cut and he just stands there 😭
She has to ask him to call the cops!

Another detail I don’t think they mentioned about Crispan is that HE WAS ERIN’S TEACHER!! So he was her professor and she stopped taking his class to date him thus starting out with an unbalanced power dynamic, plus he hired the team of assassins.

What about Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath?

If the logic for Ethan hawk was that he couldn't have predicted the supernatural element then couldn't that same logic be used for Mika too?

I stand by it that Christian is as much a victim as Dany, yeah he's kind of shitty but he really didn't want to be in that relationship anymore but felt obliged to because of the awful situation she was in. He tried to be good but just made things worse.

This would be a good survivor episode, bad husbands vs final girls

Not the Amish X'D

I think the husband from The Fall and the husband from The Descent would have been great paired together for which was the worst. Both had affairs with their wife's friends and died in the beginning of the films. Also in both movies their deaths then lead to the wives going on another trip that ultimately leads to a worse situation for them. Also the wife finds out about the affair during the terrible trip/adventure that follows.

Another bad horror husband is Halloween 6's John Strode who complains about his wife Debra giving their daughter Kara money and later gets pissed off when Debra finds out he only moved the family into the Myers house because he couldn't sell it.

Technically wasn't it the husband in Paranormal Activity 2 the one who caused all the problems and not Micah, because his wife got possessed and he passed it on to her sister katie? Regardless of what Micah did Katie was always going to get possessed because of her brother in law

rory from the new beetlejuice movie would've made the list for sure

Wow, this was disappointing. I really wanted to enjoy this episode but hearing Chelsea defend sexual assault just to make Mika out to be the “worse husband” can only be dissapointing

Shouldn’t Billy from scream be on there

I just watched EVERY paranormal activity. Y'all over sell how responsible Micah is for everything. The rest of the franchise is the fault of a cult, not Micah's actions.

If they ever do a worst girlfriend March madness, my vote is the girlfriend from Hell House Origins. I have never wanted anyone to die in a movie more than her

Omg I love your Zags shirt!!!! Proud Spokanite

Husband from orphan literally did nothing wrong.

I think Francis is so much worse because Micah has the benefit of not taking an assertion of supernatural beings seriously, while Francis ignores the assertion of a serial killer that is known to them to really exist in the area. And whether or not Francis believes the serial killer bit, his partner is still telling him that a creepy guy is leering at her while she's home alone and he doesn't even take that seriously, either.

Also, the deliberately not translating thing is just so freaking heinous. My wife and I have different native languages and intentionally leaving someone hanging like that? I am definitely biased but just the description of his behavior raises my hackles so much more.

"tyler doesn't count" that would be devastating for him 😂

what about the husband killed at the start of Malignant?

We can't forget the number one bad husband in any horror media, James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2

The husband from The Witch could have been in there.

A little late to this, but I have 2 which might qualify:
1. Jonathan Terry (Colonel Glover) in Return of the Living Dead - when his wife has the candles lit and the fine China laid out and he's just like, "I had turkey for lunch...". So much disdain... and you can see the pain in the wife's face 😂
2. Adrian Brody (Clive) in Splice... 😬

I’ve honestly never really felt boyfriend/girlfriend vibes from Trent and Jenna. They never really act romantic with each other, they don’t kiss. Granted she doesn’t correct Clay when he says something like “are you sure your boyfriend wouldn’t mind?” I remember when the character descriptions were announced and Jenna was described as “Trent’s date for the weekend” Which I’d be more inclined to be believe that based on their interactions.

Another worst horror bestie would be Corey from The Scarehouse.
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While yes, she and Elaina were wrongfully convicted of an accidental murder, which led to her mother taking her own life, that still doesn’t fully justify her tricking Elaina into a su*cide pact after taking revenge on the sorority girls who got them jailed, only to back out at the last second to pin all the murders on Elaina.

trevor in smile saying “i googled mental illness” to his psychiatrist fiancée gets me every time

The fact you guys came up with excuses for Peter’s behavior (some based on things you fabricated and assumptions on his background) and he was somehow deemed a better partner to Jess than some of these other guys is kind of disgusting. It doesn’t matter if his emotions “ran away from him,” there is no excuse for a man to threaten a woman and try to control her body simply because he had a hand in creating the thing that is inside HER body. If you were actually feminists it wouldn’t even be a debate. Peter is worse than a large majority of these guys simply based on the fact he is fully trying to control Jess by way of oppressing her bodily autonomy and trying to force her to cater to him when his dreams fall apart. Your decisions and conversations regarding him and his behavior honestly grossed me out and makes me view you differently. Very sad day.

Trevor never had the makings of a varsity douchebag

As a Freemason, it makes me very happy that you use the Temple for your live gigs :)

When i think of worst horror husbands, I think Don from 28 Weeks Later. Abandons his wife to die because he is a coward, lies to their kids and says she died, then she is found alive, gets used for science research then gets her eyes gouged out by him! The dishonesty to his entire family coupled with his contribution to the perpetuation of the outbreak was pretty damning. Bonus points for it entirely being him being terrible and that terribleness not being related to disbelief or gaslighting which is a bit unique in terms of this list.

rewatched black christmas recently, he also springs the 'we're getting married' and 'you're NOT getting an abortion' on her when shes already said that shes looking for her missing friend and that another little girl is dead.

Guy Woodhouse is the absolute worst.

Non-horror: Jerry Lundegaard and Earl Hunterson

Molly being slumped

Not tyler, but the older husband from The Menu. The guy that hired Erin before Tyler. He definitely wouldve been on my bracket

How about worst horror movie moms bracket?

Worst bestie is Jennifer. Jennifer's body.

No idea why Chad from Tucker & Dale vs. Evil was my immediate thought but he is certainly a bad boyfriend

I think the husband from ready or not could’ve given the husband from your next a good fight. I’m not sure if he counts but I feel like it’s the same grey area.

You guys should do a rating if horror husbands that actually do kill their SO oof