Ep. 155 The 2026 Lillard Awards

Today, we award our Lillard’s (like the Oscars). To qualify, it just has to be a movie we watched this year. If you’re interested, here’s what we picked: •Best Host: Nick Johnson •It’s Not You It’s Me (film we were too hard on): Heat •Best Actor John Trovolta, Blow Out •This Is So Horny I Hate It: Hellraiser •Best Looking: Paris, Texas •Best Jason (slasher) Pinhead •Best Movie That Actually Came Out in 2025: Sinners •Best “White Guys With Glasses Love This Movie” Movie: Mask of the Phantasm •Best Movie Named T2 (repeated title or best in a franchise): Zombie Island •Best Actor in the Worst Movie: Ken Foree, TCM III •Sloppiest Movie: Hellraiser II •Driest Movie: Paris, Texas •Worst Movie: Scream 7 •Biggest Surprise: Mission Impossible The final Reckoning •Best Character: Nada, They Live •Best Supporting Character: Doc Brown, Back to the Future •Best Korean Film by Park Chan-Wook (Best Foreign Film): Perfect Blue •Most Disappointing: Scream 7 •Best Vampire: Irish Vampire from Sinners •I’m Horny… For Love? Christine •Boring: TCM III •Best Philip Seymour Hoffman (Actor We Watched the Most) Harry Dean Stanton •Best Lynch (Director We Watched the Most): John Carpenter’s Christine •Best Vibes The Fog •Most Tears: Paris, Texas •Best Action: Blow Out •Best Comedy: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie •Best Horror: Hellraiser   Eating Soup Alone is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Christopher Crumley and co-hosted by Nick Johnson. Each episode contains roughly an hour of rambling about anywhere from one to four movies (or so). New episodes uploaded every other Monday. Twitter: https://twitter.com/esapod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatingsoupalonepod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO94CGwlvvUgBMYTvipw5NQ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eatingsoupalone Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/esapod Website: https://www.eatingsoupalone.com Special thanks to Craig Garwood for our theme music.