Saturday Night Freak Show

Hider in the House (1989)

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela checks all the closets, cupboards, and attics for the Hider in the House (1989) after watching crazy Gary Busey living secretly within the walls of Mimi Rogers' new family home! Lifetime thriller fans take note. Listen as we talk cigarette burn trauma, 1,000 yard death stares, marital drama, skinny dip-spying neighbors and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Under the Skin (2013)

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Holly tags along with an alien seductress wearing the face of Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin (2013), a movie that plays like an arthouse version of Species. The sexy predator seduces randos throughout Scotland and pickles them in a black ink pool before developing empathy for the human condition and going off-mission. Listen as we dive deep into symbolism, atmosphere, dream logic, and horrifying acts of alien indifference on this week's exciting episode!

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Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Sean gets gnarly by sewing reanimated body parts together like a mad scientist in Bride of Re-Animator (1990)! Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain are once again building living corpses from discarded bodies but, following in the footsteps of the Universal Monsters that preceded them, dare to create a woman! Listen as we get batty with severed heads, beating hearts, and a parade of freak show grotesqueries courtesy of director Brian Yuzna on this week's exciting episode!

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Freddy vs Jason (2003)

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Colin buys a ringside seat to the title fight matchup of Freddy vs Jason (2003), bringing together the titans of 80s slasher cinema for one last dance. The kids of Springwood have forgotten about Freddy Krueger, so he resurrects Jason Voorhees to generate some carnage, and gets irritated when ole hockey mask steals all the kills. Listen as we talk about the reality of Midwest corn raves, the films' development hell, and witness the battle royale between unkillable killers on this week's exciting episode!

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Primate (2026)

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela insists: don't monkey around with a Primate (2026) as a household pet 'cause they're certain rip your face off! This one, named Ben, gets a case of the Cujos after he's bitten by a rabid mongoose, stalking young revelers through a production designer's Hawaiian dream home. Listen as we get trapped in a pool with hydrophobia, and bear witness to face rippin', leg chompin', head bashin' mayhem on this week's exciting episode!

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The Happening (2008)

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Holly finds out it's not the Triffids but the trees that are out to get us in The Happening (2008), M. Night Shyamalan's eco-horror opus that finds Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel trying to out run the wind as nature attacks those pesky humans for destroying the planet. Listen as we emphatically proclaim "What? No!" as M. Night steers us from one improbable happening to another on this week's exciting show!

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Hell High (1987)

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Sean enrolls in nightmare school with Hell High (1987), in which a repressed biology teacher (Maureen Mooney as Miss Storm) with a tragic past finally snaps after relentless torment from a gang of delinquent students. Listen as we discuss swamp water mayhem, psychotic meltdowns, and teacher terror on this week's exciting episode!

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Colin chases Captain Kirk 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise encounter an old revenge seeking foe, slimy earworms, surprise offspring, and middle age. Listen as we get geeky with Romulan ale, Kobyashi Maru tests, Captain Ahab analogies, and bagpipe space funerals on this week's exciting episode!

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Aenigma (1987)

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Michaela trashes an all-girls' school with her psychic powers in Aenigma (1987), a late career entry from Lucio ("Zombie") Fulci that features a comatose student getting revenge on her jerk-o classmates via astral projection and Renaissance art. Listen as we discuss frozen-in-place horror, death by a billion snails, Fulci vs. Argento rivalry, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Raising Cain (1992)

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Holly splits into multiple personalities while Raising Cain (1992), director Brian De Palma's return to the thriller genre after several bruising failures, reuniting with John Lithgow, who stars as a child psychologist with a more than a couple deadly family secrets. Listen as we dread fear from sharp sundials, infidelity, smoking around children, and satirical psychobabble on this week's exciting episode!

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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

We take a return trip to hell with Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), the most requested movie of Listener Choice month, following first film survivor Kirsty as she rushes headfirst into the evil labyrinth in search of her dearly departed dad. Little does she know her wicked stepmother has been resurrected by an occultist brain surgeon. Listen as we witness sights of on screen splatter and find out if our suffering becomes legendary, even in hell!

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When Evil Lurks (2023)

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Your listener picks month payoff hits the #2 most requested flick When Evil Lurks (2023), in which an Argentine apocalypse finds brothers botching a demon dump and spreading "rotten" rot that ravages rules, livestock, and loved ones with unflinching brutality and zero mercy. Listen as we try to understand the rules of demonic possession, animal child eating, and popcorn brain munching on this week's exciting episode!

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A Bay of Blood (1971)

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood (1971), often credited as a crucial pathway to the American slasher movie, begins as a wealthy countess is murdered and it isn't long before bodies begin to pile up at an abandoned bayside resort. Listen as we try to unravel a complicated plot, have octopi nightmares, worship the gore effect by Carlo Rambaldi, and lose our minds at one of the most out-of-left-field endings in cinema history on this week's exciting episode!

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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Freddy Krueger gets the John Waters treatment just in time for his cinematic comeuppance in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay brings an offbeat, surrealist take to the origin story of the screen's most famous dream demon. Listen as we find ourselves playing with power ups, Q-tip nightmares, and go out in a big 3-D finale on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2025

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Listen as we get all misty eyed as we look back over the Best & Worst of 2025 on our epic year end recommendations, combing over the highest highs and the lowest lows of a year of cinematic (and in the case of Sean, televised) entertainment.

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Gremlins 2 (1990)

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Sean unleashes Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) inside a New York skyscraper and fills the corporate corridors with braniacs and bat winged beasts in Joe Dante's deliriously deranged sequel. Listen as we multiply the madness over mutant designs, meta musical numbers, and sequel superiority debates on this week's exciting episode!

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Terrifier 3 (2024)

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Colin clowns around in crimson with Terrifier 3 (2024), the highest grossing unrated film ever made, featuring Art the Clown making a Christmas comeback to hack through the holiday with record-breaking brutality in director Damien Leone's gore-soaked opus. Listen as we discuss lore upgrades, state-of-the-art practical splatter, and whether we really are too old for this on this week's exciting show!

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P2 (2007)

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Michaela finds herself trapped with a psycho inside a subterranean parking garage on Christmas Eve with P2 (2007), from the French Extreme folks who made High Tension. An NYC career girl plays cat and mouse with a sinister security guard in a multi-level maze of malice. Listen as we rev through relentless chases, gory garage gadgets, and Wes Bentley's basement-level creep factor on this week's exciting episode!

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The Advent Calendar (2021)

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Holly initiates a Christmastime countdown curse by unwrapping The Advent Calendar (2021), in which an antique box of 24 doors promises holiday miracles for a wheelchair bound dancer. Open at your own peril as we talk folklore frights, festive fallout, wish wrecking wraiths and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT

At long last, Sean follows the clues that lead to Dario Argento's maiden effort, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), the film that single-handedly kicked off a cottage industry of stylish giallo thrillers in Italy. An American writer witnesses a brutal attack, and then tries to solve the case while the killer zeroes in on him. Listen as we talk cat dinner delicacies, what happens when artwork attacks, and captive audiences to murder on this week's exciting episode!

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Outland (1981)

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Colin finds himself standing alone in defense of Outland (1981), a sci-fi riff on High Noon that stars Sean Connery as a marshal at a mining outpost on one of Jupiter's moons, fighting drugs and corruption on sets that feel borrowed from Alien. Listen as we talk space madness, exploding heads, slow children, and autoerotic asphyxiation on this week's exciting show!

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The Good Son (1993)

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Michaela plays favorites with The Good Son (1993), where a bereaved boy (Elijah Wood) crashes at his relative's snowy retreat, only to clash with golden-child Henry (Macaulay Culkin), a psychopath in the making. Listen as we dissect sibling sabotage, creepy kid classics, and discover that we need to talk about Kevin McCallister, all on this week's exciting show!

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Champagne and Bullets (1993)

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Holly does the Shimmy Slide with lawyer-actor-singer-director hyphenate John De Wirt's magnum opus, Champagne and Bullets (1993, aka Road to Revenge aka GetEven). De Hart recruits unhinged veterans Wings Hauser and William Smith along with Playboy Playmate Pamela Bryant for a tale of two LAPD cops-turned-limo drivers who tangle with a crooked cop/devil worshipper. Listen as we collectively loose our minds while witnessing multiple slow motion sex scenes set to De Wirt's drawling vocals, infanticide, stage hand prop maneuvers, and more on this week's exciting show!

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean sequesters us for a seaside therapy session with I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), a dreaded 'requel' to the 1997 original which finds the small hamlet of Southport once again terrorized by hook-handed havoc, with o.g. stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr reeled in for another go-round. Listen as we carve through questionable moral quandaries, dangling plot threads, and try not to lose the plot on this week's exciting episode!

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Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin summons a demonic doozy for Halloween, Amityville II: The Possession (1982), a prequel that amps up the original's haunted house chills into a full-on incest-fueled exorcism frenzy. Listen as we exorcise family feuds, practical FX monsters, and why it's the prequel punch the series needed, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Stay Alive (2006)

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela boots up Stay Alive (2006), cursing a crew of console commandoes with a haunted unreleased beta, a video game that operates on the edict of "If you die in the game, you die for real." Listen as we mash buttons on glitchy ghosts, the tortured history of Elizabeth Bathory, and give last rights at the LAN party on this week's exciting episode!

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Angel Heart (1987)

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly sells her soul for our 666th episode, investigating Angel Heart (1987), as a rumpled NYC P.I. hunts a missing singer, only to tangle with shadowy clients, ritualistic riddles, and identity crises that cut deeper than a switchblade. Listen as we eat Deviled eggs, attend voodoo rituals, and discover chicken paranoia on this week's exciting episode!

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Dangerous Animals (2025)

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean hooks us into Dangerous Animals (2025), where a surfer's Australian dream wave crashes into a serial killer's boat party, with sharks as invited guests. Listen as we dissect chum-filled chases, human predators worse than Jaws, and find the role Jai Courtney was born to play. Reel in the chaos on this week's exciting episode!

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C.H.U.D. (1984)

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin determines NYC is the grimiest, dirtiest, ugliest city on Earth after watching C.H.U.D. (1984), a movie about subterranean homeless people become monsters after being exposed to toxic waste. Listen as we talk childhood family movie trauma, cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, and ending a movie without ending your movie, on this week's exciting episode!

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The Mutilator (1984)

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela tries to survive fall break at a seaside condo while stalked by The Mutilator (1984), a slasher flick about a demented fisherman who gets drunk and sets about trying to kill his son for accidentally shooting mom as a child! Listen as we talk grossly over-the-line kills, hideously gory makeup effects, play games of Blind Man's Bluff in broad daylight, and determine Monopoly to be the root of all evils on this week's exciting episode!

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Deathstalker II (1987)

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly will have her revenge! And Deathstalker II (1987)! Cornball Roger Corman apprentice Jim Wynorski takes the reigns of this lighthearted sword and sorcery sequel, teaming a brawny thief with a cheerful deposed princess on a quest to reclaim her throne. Listen as we reminisce about our time with Dungeons & Dragons, and encounter zombies, explosive arrows, swamp portals, and wrestling on this week's exciting episode!

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Heretic (2024)

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean begins to wonder if he'll ever get out of the basement alive with Heretic (2024), in which two young Mormon missionaries find themselves a captive audience to a psychopathic, sermonizing atheist (Hugh Grant). The horror! Listen as we get theological with religious cults, iteration, mind control, miracles, the living dead, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin goes back to the bayou with The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), the campy sequel to the original 1982 flick, which swaps Wes Craven for Roger Corman protégé Jim Wynorski in the director's chair. Heather Locklear falls in love with a plant man; Louis Jourdan schemes for immortality; and DC Comic's muckman hero battles an assortment of slimy monsters. Listen as we applaud beaker science, horny plant people, and explosions galore on this week's exciting episode!

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Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela trades horror stories on the open range with Grim Prairie Tales (1990), a little-seen flick that stars Brad Dourif, as a city-slicker tenderfoot, and James Earl Jones, as a rough bounty hunter, who meet and tell each other horror stories around a campfire. Listen as we talk about reverse births, where in an anthology to place your best story, and wish to shave with straight razors on this week's exciting episode!

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The Devil's Advocate (1997)

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly finds herself in a moral swamp while acting as The Devil's Advocate (1997), with Keanu Reeves as a hotshot attorney fighting for his soul after joining a New York law firm headed by The Devil (Al Pacino). Listen as we question whether lawyers actually have souls to lose, the wisdom of living too close to work, and whether the 21st Century is the Devil's playground on this week's exciting episode?

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R.O.T.O.R. (1987)

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean chases after a Terminator Cop chasing after a woman who committed the cardinal sin of speeding in R.O.T.O.R. (1987), a movie with a spectacularly awesome poster that catfished unsuspecting video store renters for several decades. Listen as we throw up our hands trying to address the particulars of the plot, characters, or story as the cyborg killer rampages his way across Texas on this week's exciting episode!

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White Lightning (1973)

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin embarks on a sweat-soaked rip-roaring rampage of revenge fueled by White Lightning (1973). Burt Reynolds is a moonshine runner named "Gator" MacClusky who gets sent on a mission to entrap a corrupt county sheriff, but he's really aiming to kill him for murdering his brother. Listen as we talk Redneck Cinema, "Hicksploitation" classics, car chases and real stunt work on this week's exciting episode!

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Hancock (2008)

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela befriends a drunken, depressed superhero and tries to help him find his true calling with Hancock (2008), Will Smith's attempt to create an original superhero franchise just as the Marvel machine was getting started. Jason Bateman is a PR guy trying to rehab the hero's soiled image, and Charlize Theron is his wife, who harbors a big secret. Listen as we talk Hancock v Homelander, abrupt tonal shifts, and wonder if super being orgasms can kill on this week's exciting episode!

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Dead & Buried (1981)

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly pulls the dirt over her grave herself to make sure she's Dead & Buried (1981) after a visit to the seaside town of Potter's Bluff, where recently dead folks seem to have a strange habit of sticking around, stymying the investigations of a well intentioned but in-over-his-head small town sheriff. Listen as we debate black magic rituals, laud the outstanding fx work of Stan Winston, and mourn the dearth of gas station attendants on this week's exciting episode!

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Night of the Comet (1984)

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean survives the Night of the Comet (1984) with a pair of machine gun packing badass Valley Girls after the aforementioned celestial phenomena wipes out all life on earth, save for a few flesh hungry zombies. Listen as we debate the film's cult classic status, the necessity of a shopping montage in a zombie film, and willingly hire ourselves out as script doctors for explosion sequences in this week's exciting episode!

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The Food of the Gods (1976)

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin shotguns 100 giant rats who fed on H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods (1976). From the 70s cycle of ecological horror movies comes this entry from veteran monstersploitation producer Bert I. Gordon, pitting former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner against giant rats, roosters, wasps, and maggots. Listen as we mourn the rodent actors who were sacrificed for our entertainment on this week's exciting episode!

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Subservience (2024)

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela wonders how long it would take a man to have sex with his domestic housebot if it looked like Megan Fox in Subservience (2024). During his wife's extended hospital stay, awaiting a heart transplant, a blue collar dad buys a seductive fembot to "help out around the house", if you know what we mean. Listen as we wriggle under technological anxiety, wield dubious erasure commands, and hope for a Terminator ending on this week's exciting show!

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Deathstalker (1983)

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly returns to an age undreamed of, of loincloths, bare bosoms, swords and sorcery with Deathstalker (1983), a Roger Corman produced Conan the Barbarian ripoff with a musclebound hero out to save a princess and reclaim three magical objects from an evil sorcerer. Listen as we discuss barbarian mating rituals, sock puppet monsters, escort side quests, and literal pig-headed antagonists on this week's exciting episode!

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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean leaves the main road in the Nevada desert and discovers The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Wes Craven's shocking follow up to Last House on the Left, which locks an American nuclear family in life-or-death combat with an inbred clan of cannibals, inspired by the legend of Sawney Bean. Listen as we talk 70's roughness, parakeet juiceboxes, and name the movie Death Wishbone for its revenge plot involving a German Shepard named Beast.

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Twisted Pair (2018)

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin questions the sanity of sociopathic amateur filmmaker Neil Breen with Twisted Pair (2018), a nearly incomprehensible howler that has the meme-worthy director-writer-producer casting himself as a messianic figure, imbued with alien superpowers, who must save the world, and maybe his twin brother, from "programmable virtual reality." Or something. Listen as we question what constitutes a movie and discover something surprising about ourselves on this week's exciting episode!

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Stagefright (1987)

Sat, 31 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela gets trapped with both insufferable theater artistes and an owl-headed mental patient on the loose with Stagefright (1987), an Italian made attempt at an American-style slasher flick. Listen as we make sure the cat survives, grade the body count splatter effects, imagine a use for a prop 'bang flag' gun, make damn sure we "shoot him right between the eyes," and more on this weekend's exciting episode!

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The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Sat, 24 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly digs up the fossil of a pagan snake god and finds herself drawn to The Lair of the White Worm (1988), provocateur director Ken Russell's comic, psychedelic slice of English folk horror, based on a novel by Bram (Dracula) Stoker. Listen as we find Paddington pair Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi in their first on-screen teamup, cast suspicion on English food, find Kate McKinnon's on-screen twin, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Devil (2010)

Sat, 17 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean gets trapped in an elevator with the Devil (2010), a twisty supernatural thriller dreamed up by M. Night Shyamalan but directed by the guys who did The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Quarantine. Which one of the five people is the Devil in disguise? Will the dedicated cop be able to figure it out and rescue them on time? Listen as we talk about the touchtone television show The O.C. and debate theology on this week's exciting episode!

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Nothing Underneath (1985)

Sat, 10 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin tries to figure out who's killing Milan's hottest fashion models in Nothing Underneath (1985), where the Italian giallo meets 80s MTV glitz. A Yellowstone park ranger with a psychic connection to his model twin sister flies to Italy to solve her disappearance. Listen as eat sauceless spaghetti at an Italian Wendy's, play Russian roulette, and learn how to spot a killer on this week's exciting episode!

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The Color of Night (1994)

Sat, 03 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Although struck color blind by psychological trauma, Michaela gets all hot and bothered by The Color of Night (1994), our late entry into the 90s "erotic thriller" genre. A psychiatrist is murdered, and his psychologist buddy (Bruce Willis) tries to figure out which one of his group therapy patients did it, while becoming involved in a torrid affair with a mysterious femme fatale. Listen as we explore the origins of sexy movies and one that caused a heart attack on this week's exciting episode!

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The Fury (1978)

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly unleashes The Fury (1978), director Brian De Palma's follow up to Carrie, which features two telekinetic teenagers for the price of one. Golden Age star Kirk Douglas is in a spy movie, trying to rescue his abducted psychic son, while Amy Irving is a girl with a psychic connection to him. Listen as we crack wise about throbbing veins, forgetting location of the Playboy Mansion in Chicago, and then we explode! Cut to credits.

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Mosquito (1994)

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean finds that the worst giant blood-sucking bugs come from space with Mosquito (1994), in which oversized insects swarm a Michigan campground, forcing a scientist, a college couple, a park ranger, and a trio of bank robbers to team up to fight the deadly menace. Listen as we marvel at shoestring practical makeup and creature effects, watch eyeballs and butt cheeks get poked by proboscises, and shotgun a swarm of mutant bugs on this week's exciting episode!

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Vice Squad (1982)

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:29:08 GMT

Colin hits the skeevy underbelly of LA in pursuit of cinema's craziest, scariest, most sadistic psycho pimp with the Vice Squad (1982), with the late, great Wings Hauser at his demented best as Ramrod, who spends the night hunting down the call girl (Season Hubley) who set him up. Listen as we spend time learning about pimp sticks, sugar pimps, toe suckers, and profess a surprising love of sleazy movies on this week's exciting episode!

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Looker (1981)

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela can't determine if the products she dreams of owning are because she wants them or because they were subliminally implanted by the advertisements in Looker (1981), in which a plastic surgeon investigates the deaths of his beautiful models and uncovers a corporate conspiracy. Listen as we ask for answers to basic questions, witness the greatest fall onto a car roof in movie history, and lick our debit cards on this week's exciting episode!

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Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Holly screams "Oh man! Oh God! Oh man!" after a viewing of Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987), a bonkers, sleazy, drug and sex fueled neo-noir from novelist turned director Norman Mailer. The late, demented Wings Hauser co-stars alongside Ryan O'Neal, who plays an ex-con with two severed heads in his drug stash. Listen as we try to sort out the most convoluted mystery plot since The Maltese Falcon featuring grifters, witches, sadomasochists, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sean goes to the 90's high school dance with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), the original take on the iconic vampire-hunting heroine, long before she became a pop culture icon in the subsequent hit TV series. Listen as we talk about the horror of shared family answering machines, Pee-Wee Herman as a vampire, teen slang, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Silent Hill (2006)

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Colin wakes up screaming 'Silent Hill!' (2006) and thus packs up the Freak Show on a field trip to the fog enshrouded town made famous by a creepy series of Japanese video games. Join us as we run into sexy nightmare nurses, run from a giant sword-wielding Pyramid Head, and discuss horror games and their movie adaptations on this week's exciting episode!

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The Beekeeper (2024)

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Michaela wages a scorched earth campaign to protect the hive with The Beekeeper (2024), a Jason Statham action vehicle that finds him playing a retired special operations agent who opens a can of whoopass after his kindly benefactor falls prey to a phishing scam. Listen as we learn myriad facts about bees and beekeeping, unstoppable government agents, the shadow of John Wick, and kickpunch our way to the Queen Bee on this week's exciting episode!

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Werewolves Within (2021)

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Holly tries to identify who among us may be the Werewolves Within (2021), an adaptation of a VR video game from Heart Eyes director Josh Rubin. The townsfolk of a snowy mountain community are trapped in a resort and come to suspect one of their number hides a savage secret. Listen as we come to grips with satisfying internet videos, discover Sean is an algorithm terrorist, and discover everyone's a suspect on this week's exciting episode!

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TimeCop (1994, rewatch)

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Sean says "once is not enough!" and takes us back in time to revisit TimeCop (1994) in an attempt to obliterate our original 2015 review! Jean Claude Van Damme is a police officer assigned to patrol the timeline after time travel is invented and stop the nefarious politician who intends to use the technology for his own gain. Oh, and save his wife from a tragic death. Listen as we bend our brains around one of the daffiest time-travel plots ever concocted on this week's exciting episode!

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Ghost Story (1981)

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Colin suggests we form a secret society to tell a Ghost Story (1981), an adaptation of Peter Straub's novel about a 50 year old secret that binds together a group of elderly men in a snowy small town in New England, played by some of Hollywood's legendary stars, including Fred Astaire and John Houseman. Listen as we pay tribute to makeup artist Dick Smith, talk about sexy ghosts, and tell each other ghost stories on this week's exciting episode!

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Impulse (1974)

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Michaela enters into the Shat-tastic world of Impulse (1974), which finds cinema treasure William Shatner playing a homicidal con man fleecing rich women in Florida. Listen as we witness hot dog abuse, childish finger pointing, a deadly game of hangman, a slow motion chase through a car wash, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

We try not to get cleaved in half by troglodytes wielding a Bone Tomahawk (2015), the final pick of the 2025 Listener Choice Month! Four unlikely allies ride out from a small frontier town after one of their wives is abducted in this horror-Western. Listen as we talk throat whistles, pull-a-part humans, and our odds of our surviving in the Old West on this week's exciting episode!

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The Substance (2024)

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

If Frank Henenlotter had directed Death Becomes Her it might approximate The Substance (2024). Demi Moore gives a career defining performance as a fading star who takes an experimental substance that promises to create a younger, better version of herself. Listen as we applaud the decade's loopiest, nakedest, goriest body horror splatter opus from the new wave of French Extremism on this week's exciting episode!

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Terrifier 2 (2022)

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

We're getting gory with killer clowns and watching Terrifier 2 (2022) because you demanded it! Art the Clown continues his blood soaked rampage, aided and abetted by a supernatural Pale Little Girl, and the only person who stands in his way is a teen Valkyrie! Listen as we explore the appeal of Damien Leone's splatter saga on this week's exciting episode!

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Child's Play (1988)

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:00:30 GMT

We'll be friends 'til the end after revisiting Child's Play (1988), the definitive killer doll movie from Fright Night director Tom Holland, the movie that gave us the first introduction to Chucky and launched one of the longest running movie series in the history of horror. Listen as we talk about 7th Heaven, Cabbage Patch Kid chaos, sequels, shows, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2024

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 06:00:38 GMT

We look back on a year in film with our massive Best and Worst of 2024 episode, with each of us spotlighting the five best and one worst movies that we've seen this year. Grab a bucket of popcorn and settle in for the wildest ride yet that includes honorable mentions and silliest fun time at the theater we've had all year long!

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The Fifth Cord (1971)

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:48:37 GMT

Holly does her first giallo shot with the Italian whodunnit The Fifth Cord (1971), starring Django's Franco Nero as an alcoholic reporter who finds himself a prime suspect in a series of slayings committed by a gloved madman. Listen as we puzzle over red herrings galore, fawn over Italian fashionistas, and get slap happy with suspects on this week's exciting episode!

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The Cat (1992)

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:00:59 GMT

Sean watches a hiss-terical WWE throwdown between an alien cat and a junkyard mastiff in The Cat (1992), a film from the director of the equally bizarro Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. The cat is part of a trio of intergalactic visitors are just looking for a way home, but in the meantime they have to deal with a shapeshifting alien menace that threatens mankind. Listen as we discuss body melting, grappling hooks, de-tailing, shoe foley, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Deranged (1974)

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:00:32 GMT

Colin digs up corpses in snowy Wisconsin and invites them to the dinner table because he's Deranged (1974)! Bob (Black Christmas) Clark produced this unofficial Ed Gein biopic, which features a memorable performance by Roberts (Home Alone) Blossom and gore effects by a young Tom Savini. Listen as we talk grimy 70s horror movies, Ryan Murphy's serial killer obsession, and horrible ways to die on this week's exciting episode!

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Kristy (2014)

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:00:07 GMT

Michaela finds a cybercult of killers on the dark web who murder anonymous women and call them Kristy (2014). Star Haley Bennett is left alone at college over the Thanksgiving weekend and has to escape and survive a quartet of maniacs led by Ashley Greene. Listen as we identify the hallmarks of the nihilistic survival horror genre, call b.s. on college security and maintenance practices, and get triggered by FAFSA forms on this week's exciting episode!

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Blood Freak (1972)

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:00:19 GMT

Holly discovers that mixing laced marijuana and tainted turkey can turn anyone into a Blood Freak (1972), a no-budget anti-drug monster movie about a guy who imbibes the aforementioned cocktail and wakes up with a giant turkey head. The only thing that can sate his monstrous hunger: the drug blood of addicts! Listen as we struggle to interpret the signs and portents and learn key life lessons on this week's exciting episode!

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Stir of Echoes (1999)

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:00:53 GMT

Sean's "got to dig" because a ghost commands it with Stir of Echoes (1999), a working class ghost story set in Chicago, in which Kevin Bacon's doors of perception are blown open after he volunteers to be hypnotized and a specter from beyond the grave attempts to make contact. Listen as we discuss unfair comparisons to The Sixth Sense, creepy kids, horror legend Richard Matheson, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Dagon (2001)

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:00:02 GMT

Colin scrambles to escape from the fish people who worship Dagon (2001), director Stuart Gordon's long gestating adaptation of HP Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." A shipwrecked couple end up running from their lives after seeking help in a rainy, Spanish seaside town that holds a terrible secret. Listen as we chant "Ia! Ia! C'thulhu Fh'tagan," squirm from tentacled monsters, and are lucky to escape with our skins on this week's episode!

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The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 06:00:58 GMT

Michaela trains to become a cyberhacker on a night when all crime is legal with The Purge: Anarchy (2014), a sequel that takes the action out onto the mean streets of Los Angeles during the annual dystopian holiday. Listen as try to survive the night with action star Frank Grillo providing defense, all the while dreaming up scenarios for future Purge movies and TV shows, like Seinfeld Purge, Pirate Purge, Day After the Purge, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 05:00:59 GMT

Holly wanders into an underworld just as real as ours, but not as brightly lit with Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). The spiritual third Creepshow movie boasts stories by George Romero, Stephen King, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and includes mummies, cats from hell, and lovetorn gargoyles. Listen as we tally off screen cat deaths, eat the rich, and get our brains pulled out through our noses on this week's exciting episode!

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Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 05:00:22 GMT

Sean tries not to lose his head while visiting the haunted hamlet of Sleepy Hollow (1999), which recasts schoolteacher Ichabod Crane as a police inspector investigating murders committed by a headless horseman. Listen as we delve into the big screen version of America's first ghost story, witness Christopher Walken's first on-screen kiss, and visit a bog witch on this week's exciting episode!

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The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 05:00:42 GMT

Colin dances with the body-and-wife-swappin' Devil in The Mephisto Waltz (1971), in which Alan Alda plays a pianist who's body is taken over by a dying Satanist and his wife doesn't care who's in that body - she just wants more! Listen as we talk horny housewives, suburban black magic, Shakespearean dog acting, aging backwards, and blue goo on this week's exciting episode!

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Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:00:31 GMT

Michaela says 'Do your thing, cuz!' and cheers on her cannibal cousin Leatherface with Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's horror classic which finds statuesque Alexandria Daddario inheriting a plantation manor with a chainsaw-wielding psychopath hidden in the basement. Listen as we imagine Clint Eastwood beaming with pride at son Scott's first major role, and learn we can't get around the Good Book on this week's exciting episode!

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Psycho II (1983)

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:51:39 GMT

Holly thinks we all go a little mad sometimes with Psycho II (1983), a belated sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic shocker that brings Anthony Perkins back to the Bates Motel, supposedly cured... but is he? Listen as we talk the path from Psycho to Halloween to Psycho II, honoring a horror classic, and overbearing mothers on this week's exciting episode!

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Body Parts (1991)

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:00:33 GMT

Sean goes on a limb-from-limb ripping rampage to get back the Body Parts (1991) that were stolen from him in an unethical medical experiment! Jeff Fahey is the unlucky recipient of one appendage after losing an arm in a horrifying car wreck; he soon begins experiencing the dreams and nightmares of a serial killer. Listen as try to determine the physical location of evil, talk about haunted arms, and survive and improbable car chases on this week's exciting episode!

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Salem's Lot (1979)

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:00:59 GMT

Colin returns from the dead to tap at your window, begging to be let in with Salem's Lot (1979), Tobe Hooper's classic adaptation of Stephen King's small-town vampire story as a writer who returns home and finds the arrival of two mysterious antique dealers presaging a bloodsucker apocalypse. Listen as we talk picket fence drama, childhood traumas, and a love for practical fog on this week's exciting episode!

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Bats (1999)

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:00:44 GMT

Sean goes batty for Bats (1999), a late 90s eco-horror flick that turns a cloud of genetically engineered killer bats loose on an unsuspecting town, and it's up to sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and bat scientist Dina Meyer to stop them. Listen as we fawn over puppet bats, discuss the best potato bats in cinema history, and react in horror as we find ourselves up to our chests in bat guano on this week's exciting episodes!

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Eyes of Fire (1983)

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:00:59 GMT

Holly uses fairy magic to battle an evil bog witch in Eyes of Fire (1983), in which American settlers follow an adulterous preacher away from civilization and into a haunted woodland where they are bedeviled by evil spirits. Listen as we learn about dirt you can eat, get chased by naked mud covered ghosts, get our souls sucked into trees and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Sssssss (1973)

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 05:00:14 GMT

Sean conducts unethical medical experiments and tries to turn Holly into a snake with Sssssss (1973), in which crazy herpetologist Strother Martin tries to do just that to his unwitting lab assistant. Freak Show wall-of-famer Reb Brown co-stars as a football meathead who ends up confronting a Black Mamba in the shower. Listen as we relate tales of our real-life snake encounters and imagine better solutions to a global energy crisis than turning people into King Cobras on this week's exciting episode!

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The Crow: City of Angels (1996)

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:00:57 GMT

Colin opens the atrocity exhibition that is The Crow: City of Angels (1996), a cynical cash grab that followed the original monument to Goth/Industrial subculture. This time, a mechanic is resurrected to get revenge on the goons who killed him and his son. Listen as we talk about the lost art of "crowfitti," detail uncomfortable moments in a peep show booth, and light our initials on fire in the street on this week's exciting episode!

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Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 05:00:52 GMT

Michaela claims she cried three times witnessing Godzilla Minus One (2023), Japan's latest but Oscar-winning entry in the 70 year old monster series. It's really about a cowardly kamikaze pilot who finds a reason to complete his mission after the Big G threatens those he loves. Listen as we contemplate Godzilla's cat-like appearance, question black-and-white re-releases, and contemplate erectile dysfunction for giant lizards on this week's exciting episode!

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Best of the Best (1989)

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 05:00:53 GMT

Holly wants to see if she's got what it takes to be Best of the Best (1989), by representing Team USA in a Korean martial arts tournament. James Earl Jones is the coach, and the team of karate superdudes consists of Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn. Send prayers! Listen as we explore the dubious methods of winning gold in the high-stakes world of Tae Kwon Do championships on this week's exciting episode!

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Old (2021)

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 05:00:13 GMT

Sean takes us to the beach so we can grow Old (2021) together, since vacationers who visits said beach never leave. Instead, they age rapidly, children grow to adulthood, psychological and biological medical conditions bloom, and Abbey Lee wears a swimsuit. Listen as we put Benjamin Button on the island, overexplain the plot until we're blue in the face, and consider M. Night Shyamalan a Secret Genius in this week's exciting episode!

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Wicked, Wicked (1973)

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 05:00:31 GMT

Colin sees psycho killers in double double after watching Wicked, Wicked (1973), the world's first movie presented in Duo-Vision (that's "split screen" to you). A murderer is preying upon statuesque blondes at a seaside resort and it's up to the hotel detective to stop him before he targets the hotel's new lounge singer. Listen as we split our attention between two screens, find people living in the walls, learn of Michaela's distrust of blondes, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Maxxxine (2024)

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 05:00:49 GMT

Michaela won't let anything stop her from being a Hollywood star, following in the footsteps of Ti West's antihero, Maxxxine (2024). Porn star Maxxine Minx tries to go legit with a role in a low-budget horror film but events from her past and the Night Stalker's murder spree threaten to derail her career. Listen as we talk scrotum skewering, cocaine geese, neon slime, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Blow Up (1966)

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:00:32 GMT

Holly's not sure if she she may have photographed a murder with Blow Up (1966), a movie set in "mod," Swinging London, about an easily distracted photographer trying to find something to stimulate him out of his boredom. Listen as we give legit film criticism the old college try as we surround ourselves with a gaggle of "far out" and "groovy" models and work to figure out if a murder was committed and why, or if it matters at all, on week's arthouse edition of our show!

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Tango & Cash (1989)

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 05:00:43 GMT

Sean celebrates our 600th episode with a rewatch of Tango & Cash (1989), the adult action cartoon that partners Sylvester Stallone with Kurt Russell's hair, about two wrongly accused rivals who have to take down the syndicate that set them up. Listen as we break out our measuring sticks in the prison shower, send rats through a desktop maze, and visit the Q branch of the LA police department on this week's exciting episode!

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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 05:00:57 GMT

Colin thinks just by wearing a hockey mask he can call himself Jason, since it was so easy for a guy named Roy to do it in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985). Listen as we yell "He hurt me, ma!" while riding our motorcycles in circles, serenading each other with renditions of "Ooh Baby" and cursing "those damn enchiladas" as we trot to the outhouse on this week's exciting show!

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Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 05:00:57 GMT

Michaela cuts the cake while surrounded by corpses of her friends, and finds herself singing Happy Birthday to Me (1981)! Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Sue Anderson is a prep school student plagued by repressed memories and blackouts as members of her rich-kid clique are murdered by a black gloved killer. Listen as our brains explode from over-processing a overly complicated plot on this week's exciting episode!

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Backdraft (1991)

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 05:00:46 GMT

Holly becomes a fire whisperer with Backdraft (1991), Hollywood's ode to firefighters, with Highlander/The Prophecy scribe Gregory Widen pitting two adversarial Irish brothers against each other and a serial arsonist who's been terrorizing Chicago. Listen as we turn to a Hannibal Lecter stand-in to gain psychological insight on the anthropomorphic monster on this week's exciting episode!

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In A Violent Nature (2024)

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 05:00:39 GMT

This week, we took a Freak Show Field Trip to see In A Violent Nature (2024), a indie Friday the 13th-style slasher shot almost entirely from a 3rd person perspective of it's Jason-like monster. Listen as we go stomping through the woods turning campers into curly-Qs in an effort to determine if the movie is having a go at us as a deadpan comedy sendup of F13 flicks on this weeks' exciting episode!

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The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 05:00:10 GMT

God created Sean, but science turned him into a god after getting programmed by The Lawnmower Man (1992), the best remembered 90s cautionary tale about the horrors of virtual reality. Simple-minded Jobe becomes a tyrannical terror after he's given VR brain chemistry enhancements by unscrupulous scientist Pierce Brosnan. Listen as we discuss how well VR is going in the present day, trip out to the most rudimentary computer animation ever rendered, and side with Stephen King on this week's exciting episode!

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Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)

Sat, 25 May 2024 05:00:30 GMT

Colin kneels at the throne of Stirba, the werewolf queen of Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985), following Freak Show man of action, Reb Brown, into battle alongside werewolf hunter Christopher Lee into deepest, darkest Transylvania to infiltrate an orgy of punk lycanthropes. Listen as we discuss full moon sex rituals, monkey wolves, and threaten to hang the editor on this week's exciting episode!

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X-Men (2000)

Sat, 18 May 2024 05:00:52 GMT

Michaela wishes to explode over the local ruffians as a gelatinous mutant after watching X-Men (2000), the movie often credited with kick-starting the Marvel movie takeover. Listen as we reminisce about a simpler time when wire-stunts and small scale disasters were the order of the day, have nightmare flashbacks of cramming for the high school exam, and go out as swamp goblins on this week's exciting episode!

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To Die For (1995)

Sat, 11 May 2024 05:00:30 GMT

Holly finds all the boys think Nicole Kidman is To Die For (1995) playing a narcissistic, media obsessed weathercaster who seduces an idiot teen (Joaquin Phoenix) into killing her husband (Matt Dillon) in Gus Van Sant's fictionalized version of the Pamela Smart case. Listen as we discuss true-crime documentaries, 90s TV talk shows, and discover we're complicit in the ongoing media takeover on this week's exciting episode!

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Hollow Man (2000)

Sat, 04 May 2024 05:00:01 GMT

Sean tries to catch the invisible sex predator at large in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (2000), which casts Kevin Bacon as a narcissistic scientist who discovers invisibility allows him to pursue his darkest impulses. Listen as we discuss invisible peen, God complexes, science battle montages, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Constantine (2005)

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 05:00:08 GMT

"Into the light I command you," Colin exclaims, drawing out the occult investigator Constantine (2005). Keanu Reeves plays the very American version of the DC Comics exorcist, caught up in a battle between angels and demons on the streets of Los Angeles. Listen as we learn shocking things about intelligent crabs, the TV series "Lucifer," and debate if Keanu is a good actor on this week's exciting episode!

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Final Destination 2 (2002)

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:00:53 GMT

Michaela says she will never ever drive on a highway again after witnessing the catastrophic calamity that opens Final Destination 2 (2002), the movie that did to road trips what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean. Listen as we learn about Sean's real-life horror movie cat scare, challenge each other to build a red-string evidence board, and philosophize on the life of death on this week's exciting episode!

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Messiah of Evil (1973)

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 05:00:25 GMT

Holly waits for the Blood Moon to bring the return of the "Dark Stranger" from the ocean's depths with Messiah of Evil (1973), in which a woman goes searching for her missing artist father in a seemingly abandoned seaside town where residents await the fulfilment of a centuries old curse. Listen as we revisit the first film from the Howard the Duck-Indiana Jones writing team of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, get chased by crowds of cat-screeching undead ghouls, bleed from our eyes, and camp with the Donner Party on this week's exciting episode!

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The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 05:00:48 GMT

Sean creates ripples through time and fractures his mind with the time-travel mind-bender The Butterfly Effect (2004), in which childhood friends experience a catalog of traumas that one of them tries to fix as an adult when he discovers his power to warp time by uncovering repressed memories. Listen as we rate the Misery Index as "High" on this one, discover that worms' memories are the key to human survival, and remind each other of traumatic past experiences on this week's exciting episode!

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The Prophecy (1995)

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 05:00:09 GMT

Colin gets caught in the middle of warring factions of angels battling it out on Earth in The Prophecy (1995), with Christopher Walken having the time of his life as the archangel Gabriel, searching for "the darkest soul" to lead his army against heaven. Listen as we wonder what an angel smells like, suck souls out of corpses, experience apocalyptic visions, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Brainscan (1994)

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 05:00:47 GMT

Michaela downloads the latest in high tech CD-ROM interactive horror, Brainscan (1994), in which Edward Furlong gets immersed into a virtual murder simulator emceed by a big-hair Freddy Krueger wannabe named The Trickster. Listen as we discover our mail demon's secret Hollywood history, normalize mutual window peeping flirtations, and realize (with horror) that sometimes we agree with movie authority figures, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Sunshine (2007)

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:55 GMT

Holly stares into the sun at close range and gets space madness in Sunshine (2007), Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's follow up to 28 Days Later and The Beach, which fires a crew of scientists toward the dying sun in hopes of rekindling it with a nuclear device. Listen as we find dozens of new space travel related anxieties, reduce humans to dust, worship the almighty sun god and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Scanners (1981)

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:00:01 GMT

Sean's head explodes fighting the good fight against the evil telepaths of Scanners (1981), David Cronenberg's first real hit about a mind reader sent on a covert mission to infiltrate a group of other ESPers and kill their leader. Listen as we link our nervous systems, polish our holes, eat Hot Pogo Dogs, apologize for our "O" faces, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:00:04 GMT

Colin studies up on the occult to do battle with the Goat of Mendes in The Devil Rides Out (1968), in which Christopher Lee and friends discover Satanism is being practiced by a wealthy cabal of astronomy geeks and their best pal is in danger of losing his soul! Listen as we attend summonings, conjurings, woodland revels, step into protective circles and ward off the Angel of Death himself on this week's exciting episode.

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Splice (2009)

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:00:27 GMT

Michaela warns that if you create a sexy feminine creature in your lab you should not have sex with it with Splice (2009), a movie that stars Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley as scientists in Cronenbergland who do exactly that. Listen as we talk about tongue flowers, sex in the proximity of children, mommy issues, and science run amok on this week's exciting episode!

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Strike Commando (1987)

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 06:00:04 GMT

Holly chucks grenades and ten-thousand bullets at Reb Brown but nothing can touch him cuz he's a Strike Commando (1987), a Rambo clone from the Italian Ed Wood, Bruno Mattei. Former TV Captain America Brown sets out to avenge his teammates on the corrupt general who abandoned them. Listen as we talk childhood electrocution, violent innocence, and the magic of Disneyland on this week's exciting episode!

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My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:17:16 GMT

Sean gets his heart broken with a pickaxe with My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009). Ten years after an initial killing spree, a demented miner returns to pick up where he left off. The bloodbath coincides with the return of the town pariah (Supernatural's Jensen Ackles), who's come back to sell the mine and rekindle a romance with his former sweetheart, now the sheriff's wife. Listen as we applaud the return of horror legend Tom Atkins and talk about naked chase scenes, bloody love triangles, and buried psychological trauma on this week's episode!

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The City of the Dead (1960)

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:00:28 GMT

Colin's got to get to the Witches Sabbath in City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel, 1960), in which an intrepid college student goes to a spooky coastal village where a witch was burned in the 17th Century, and discovers witchcraft may still be afoot in the 20th. Listen as we discuss 60s shapewear, accidental summonings, and possessed digital devices on this week's exciting episode!

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 06:00:11 GMT

And the most requested movie of Listener Choice month is: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), in which an alien lifeform threatens to replace humanity by birthing clones from giant seed pods. Listen as we discuss wearing "backhand gloves", how to ruin a hypnotist's charades, and wonder 'if you kill a pod person can they grow another one?', on this week's exciting show!

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 06:00:05 GMT

You voted for it, so we watched Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991), a Hong Kong adaptation of a Japanese Manga that might be one of the goriest movies ever made. A super-strong man is sent to a maximum security prison and discovers its a cover for a heroin operation, and punches, kicks, pulverizes and dismembers a couple of dozen bad guys. Listen as we marvel as other people's jaws hit the floor, confront The Gang of Four, and pop Red Hots to prevent from hulking out on this week's exciting episode!

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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 06:00:18 GMT

We're back live and in person as Listener Choice month continues with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006), a mockumentary that provides self-analysis of the slasher film. In a world where Jason, Freddy, and Michael exist, a camera crew follows an up and coming serial killer as he chooses his 'survivor girl' and prepares for a homecoming massacre. Listen as we discuss moral grey areas of journalism, yonic imagery, flip phones and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Witchery (1988)

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 06:00:15 GMT

The listeners have spoken! The first of four listener choices we're watching this month is Witchery (1988), also known as La Casa 4 in Italy, a team up of David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair as visitors to a Massachusetts island resort that's haunted by a witch and a centuries old curse. Listen as we take jets of blood to the face, witness selfless defenestration, visit chicken wire Hell, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2023

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 06:00:32 GMT

It's that time of year again where we venture out of the dank, dark basement for our annual love and hate fest as we rank the Best and Worst Movies of 2023. We say "movies", but pleas for decency fell on Sean's deaf ears and he went and picked a Netflix stand up comedy special. The rest of us stuck to the mission at hand and each deliver our favorite and most hated feature films of the Year of our Lord 2023.

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30 Days of Night (2007)

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 06:00:04 GMT

Michaela tries to survive 30 Days of Night (2007) in an Alaskan town where the sun doesn't rise for a month and vampires show up. Josh Hartnett is the small town sheriff trying to keep people alive in an attic without food, or pee or poop buckets, while vampires send their Renfield to collect all the cell phones and cut the power. Listen as we take a jump back to the indie comic scene of the 00's and watch the first vampire movie from the director of Twilight: Eclipse on this week's exciting episode!

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Saint (2010)

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:00:51 GMT

Holly spends Christmas in the Netherlands to find out the horrifying origins of St. Nicholas with Saint (aka Sint aka Saint Nick, 2010), as Dutch madman Dick Maas envisions Father Christmas as a murderous zombie who visits Amsterdam every 32 years as part of an evil curse. Listen as we uncover the legend of Black Peter, strange college mating rituals, blowtorch wielding policemen, and a massive government conspiracy on this week's show!

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Deadly Friend (1986)

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 06:00:07 GMT

Sean finds out the hard way that bringing a loved one back from the dead via Frankensteinian science can create a Deadly Friend (1986). A genius highschooler does just that after his pretty neighbor is killed by an abusive parent, creating a rampaging killing machine. Listen as we smash heads with basketballs, wake up screaming from Wes Craven nightmares, and master the automaton walk on this week's exciting episode!

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The Prowler (1981)

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 06:00:50 GMT

Colin tries to piece together clues that will identify The Prowler (1981), a film that delivers rivers of blood courtesy of makeup wizard Tom Savini. College students are stalked by a killer after reinstituting a graduation dance that had ceased after a WWII-era murder. Listen as we revel in graphic impalements, slicings, piercings, and maimings and try to unravel exactly what the heck is going on with this week's exciting episode!

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Split Second (1992)

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 06:00:43 GMT

Michaela hunts the Devil in a futuristic flooded London alongside Rutger Hauer in Split Second (1992), although, in a twist, the Devil pretty much looks like Venom (or the Alien). A tough, over the edge cop is partnered with a buttoned up dweeb to follow clues that suggest an occult serial killer is at large in a dystopian futureworld. Listen as we celebrate bromance, big guns, bigger guns, heart chompin' bad guys, and getting laid every night on this week's exciting episode!

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Bunraku (2010)

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 06:00:07 GMT

Holly trades guns for swords to settle her scores the old fashioned way in Bunraku (2010), a virtual world-set mashup of Kung Fu and Spaghetti Western genres, sending two warriors, a cowboy drifter and a samurai, into battle against a despotic warlord and his army disposable henchmen. Listen as we witness fights on trapezes, trampolines, four-level side scroller video game levels, and overstimulation of color as we plow toward the eventual boss fight on this week's exciting episode!

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It Follows (2014)

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 06:00:04 GMT

Sean tries to evade a horny demon in It Follows (2014), the horror flick whose villain is an ambulatory STD. Maika Monroe figures this out quick after becoming targeted by an shapeshifting, lumbering menace while her friends coalesce to brainstorm a way to break the curse. Listen as we brainstorm our own safety radius, attempt to discern how the entity works, and raise questions, questions, and more questions on this week's exciting episode!

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Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 05:00:31 GMT

Colin revisits the childhood terrors of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981), in which mob justice claims the life of an innocent, mentally challenged man and then the killers die one by one, seemingly pursued by a supernatural scarecrow. Listen as we talk about 1970s TV horror movies, killer scarecrow movies, authoritarian postmen, kindertrauma, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994)

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:00:57 GMT

Michaela looks for Halloween vibes (and blood wings) in Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994), the direct-to-video sequel that finds the Demon of Vengeance summoned to life by thrill-seeking teens and seeking revenge for the killing of a feral boy in the 1950's. We don't see how those two things connect either. Listen as we witness elder abuse, feral child abuse, demon lovers, demon spawn, and find sympathy for the devil on this week's exciting episode!

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Mausoleum (1983)

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 05:00:32 GMT

Holly finds herself beset by monsters and demons after visiting the Mausoleum (1983). Playboy Bunny Bobbi Breese falls victim to a family curse and gets possessed by a succubus that intends to kill all the menfolk in town; her stalwart hubby (former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner) tries to save her soul. Listen heads explode, chests rip open, gardners have entire montages, and titty demons devour the righteous on this week's exciting episode!

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Hack-O-Lantern (1988)

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 05:00:03 GMT

Sean finds himself as the anointed one of a cabal of Satanists with Hack-O-Lantern (1988), in which a devil-worshipping uncle tries to arrange a ceremony to reveal his nephew's unholy power. Meanwhile, a devil-masked slasher makes mincemeat of the supporting cast. Listen as we pay tribute to Freak Show fav Gregory Scott Cummins while surviving pirate video legal entanglements, and stop the movie dead for 80s heavy metal and stand up comedians on this week's exciting show!

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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 05:00:12 GMT

Colin demands fried chicken and gasoline from Rob Zombie's debut feature of extreme kaleidoscopic horror, House of 1000 Corpses (2003). Four travelers, documenting weird roadside attractions, fall prey a family of killer weirdoes including Captain Spaulding, Baby, and Otis. Listen as we explore the entire cinematic ouevre of the hellbilly rocker, the film's troubled production, and the origins of 2000's torture movies and horror remakes, all on this week's exciting episode!

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eXistenZ (1999)

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:00:15 GMT

Michaela interfaces with David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999) in the most awkward way the human body possibly can, to examine the director's take on video games, warped reality, and religious fanaticism as a video game designer is hunted through virtual reality by assassins determined to destroy her and her latest creation. Listen as we jack into our flesh pods by way of umbilical cords, answer our pink phones, and reveal the terrifying psychology of The Sims on this week's exciting episode!

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The Watcher (2000)

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 05:00:05 GMT

Holly watches The Watcher (2000), about a charming serial killer, played by Keanu Reeves, who tries to convince that the cop chasing him (James Spader) that they were made for each other by giving him something to do. Listen as we learn the fine art of forging signatures, jam out to Rob Zombie, and realize the smartphone is the Great Equalizer on this week's exciting episode!

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Demonwarp (1988)

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:00:48 GMT

Sean goes hunting for the Bigfoot that fell from the sky 100 years ago in Demonwarp (1988), an all-over-the-map schlockfest that features George Kennedy and 80s scream queen Michelle Bauer, zombies, aliens, satanic rituals, neck snapping, pole skewering, head-ripping, and boobs. Listen as we reveal bear trap anxieties, man-in-the-wall anxieties, and refuse to take attic expeditions on this week's exciting episode!

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Killer Fish (1979)

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:00:12 GMT

Colin vows to protect the family jewels from Killer Fish (1979), an Italian-made combo of the disaster and "when animals attack" genres of the 70s that finds a crew of diamond thieves trying to recover their stolen goods from a piranha-filled lake at a Brazilian resort. Listen as we find Jon Voight's inspiration for his Anaconda performance, find out if you can swim in $1 million in bills, and talk about the wisdom of using action figures in your model scenes on this week's exciting show!

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Disturbing Behavior (1998)

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:00:41 GMT

Michaela witnesses some Disturbing Behavior (1998) among high school teens and employs some Stepford Wives-level remedies! New kids move to a new school and notice something off with the in-crowd: aside from them being snobby boors, they may also be hormonal homicidal maniacs! Listen as we relive our high school nightmares, decipher bizarre made-up teen lingo, and bear witness to horrific auto destruction on this week's exciting episode.

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Dead Calm (1989)

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:00:59 GMT

Holly draws up the anchor and sets sail with Dead Calm (1989), a Hitchcockian suspense thriller from Australia which sees a ride-or-die couple's self-therapy cruise interrupted by a psychotic interloper. Things don't go as expected in this tale of high seas mayhem. Listen as we go on a Lars Von Trier tangent, hear about Sean's swamp witch grandma, and dust off our nautical survival skills and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Street Fighter (1994)

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 05:00:10 GMT

Sean powers up his special attack skill to take on Street Fighter (1994), a live-action adaptation of the Capcom video game that pits the freedom fighters of the Allied Nations, headed by the Saturday Night Freak Show Wall of Fame reigning champion Jean Claude Van Damme, against the evil General Bison (Raoul Julia in his final screen role). Listen as we applaud game accurate costume design, nail down the enduring appeal of JCVD, and hire a gaggle of editors to make sense of this week's exciting episode!

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Leif Jonker's Darkness (1993)

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:00:32 GMT

Colin learns that when vampires rule the earth, even the dead will scream in Leif Jonker's Darkness (1993), a micro-budget splatter flick filmed in the wilds of Kansas. A lone survivor of a vampire attack makes it his mission to hunt down the big bad who killed his family; meanwhile, a van full of kids returns from a rock concert to find the world really has gone to hell in a handbasket. Listen as we re-visit a time when you could market a Super 8mm backyard home movie, revel in exploding bodies and heads, and drown in rivers of fake blood in this week's exciting episode!

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Insomnia (2002)

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:00:27 GMT

Michaela finds that guilt gives her a case of Insomnia (2002), a thriller about a police detective (Al Pacino) assigned to catch a killer in a remote Alaskan town where the sun never sets, and finds himself involved in a cat and mouse relationship with the suspect (Robin Williams) after he's caught in a morally compromised position. Listen as we hail the virtues of Mrs. Doubtfire, find us pursued by Internal Affairs, and compare and contrast Christopher Nolan's remake with the original on this week's exciting episode!

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Upgrade (2018)

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:00:58 GMT

Sean undergoes an unauthorized surgical procedure to receive an Upgrade (2018) that give an experimental artificial intelligence control over his body and turns him into a karate chopping badass! Saw and Insidious writer Leigh Wannell graduates to directing with this sci-fi hybrid of RoboCop and The Crow as Logan Marshall-Green hunts down the street thugs who paralyzed him and killed his wife. Listen as we talk about the best episodes of The O.C., surgically embedded shotgun arms, and find our way into the Burger Den on this week's exciting episode!

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Vanishing Point (1971)

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 05:00:08 GMT

As the last free soul on the planet Earth, Colin puts pedal to the metal and hits the Vanishing Point (1971), a movie that follows the exploits of an enigmatic driver named Kowalski and his 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T on a multi-state police chase while a psychic DJ named Super Soul guides him from afar. Listen as we eulogize the Challenger in its final model year, meet snake wrangling faith healers, and become mythological heroes of the American west on this week's exciting episode!

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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 05:00:57 GMT

Michaela heads to the Bahamas for a slaycation getaway with I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). One year after her friends were killed by a hook-wielding fisherman, college freshman Julie James and her friends head out on an island adventure only to find the nightmare never ends! Listen as we talk about the convoluted mechanics of revenge, brain damaged heroes, electric toothbrush product placement, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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DeepStar Six (1989)

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 05:00:25 GMT

Holly discovers that not all aliens come from space in DeepStar Six (1989), one of several competing terror-from-the-deep flicks that hit multiplexes the same year. This one's directed by Friday the 13th's Sean S. Cunningham and finds Navy researchers on the ocean floor terrorized by a giant crustacean. Listen as we dive into deepsea truckers, cold water nips, accidental nuclear detonations, and roaring sealife on this week's exciting episode!

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Jaws 2 (1978)

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 05:00:09 GMT

Just when Sean thought it was safe to go back in the water, Jaws 2 (1978) swam up and took a bite! The original blockbuster gets a sequel that pits Amity Police Chief Brody against obstinate bureaucrats, hormonal teens, and another great white shark that stalks and attacks its victims with all the shock and awe of a backwoods slasher. Listen as we land sharks, ghost sharks, club sharks, sand sharks and more on this week's sharktastic episode!

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Manhunter (1986)

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 05:00:18 GMT

Colin thinks like a sociopathic serial killer in order to catch one in Manhunter (1986), the very 80s adaptation of Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon," pitting empathetic FBI agent Will Graham against The Tooth Fairy, a psycho who kills entire families in pursuit of twisted wish fulfilment. Listen as we compare and contrast Michael Mann's vision against multiple screen versions of the story and witness The Becoming of the Great Red Dragon on this week's exciting episode!

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Fantasy Island (2020)

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:10:36 GMT

Michaela wants to discover the secret of the ooze that makes dreams come true on Fantasy Island (2020), Blumhouse's horror-ish remake of the beloved TV show, that finds several vacationers running from living manifestations of their past sins on a magical tropical island. Listen as we exclaim "The plane! The plane!" as guests of the mysterious Mr. Roarke and our fantasies of revenge, love, heroism, and hedonism all come true this week!

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Hard to Kill (1990)

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 05:00:12 GMT

Holly opens up a can of whoop ass by bringing Steven Seagal to the Freak Show with Hard to Kill (1990), in which the human shaped automaton plays a cop who awakens from a 7 year coma and embarks on a rip roaring rampage of revenge, slapping all the guys who murdered his wife, really hard. Listen as watch the mysterious action hero bend elbows backwards, romance nurses, grow an epic beard, and run like a girl, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:33:32 GMT

Sean leads us into the haunted woods of Burkitsville, Maryland with Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000), a meta-sequel to The Blair Witch Project that seems to suggest madness and murder are the outcomes of obsessive horror movie fandom. But that won't stop your intrepid quartet of Freak Show podcasters from plowing ahead onto haunted boat tours, encountering annoying self-obsessed Wiccans, as we blur the lines between fantasy and reality on this week's exciting episode!

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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)

Sat, 27 May 2023 05:00:53 GMT

Colin wants to discover The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971), along with a lot of other men — one of whom might be a black gloved razor wielding maniac! Giallo queen Edwige Fenech is the titular socialite, whose extramarital proclivities place her life in jeopardy. Listen as we studiously avoid becoming targets of vengeful screenwriters, enjoy wistful sadomasochistic reminiscences, and encounter the deadly love rhombus once again on this week's exciting episode!

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The Ruins (2008)

Sat, 20 May 2023 05:00:27 GMT

Michaela takes the weed whacker along on her nightmare vacation atop The Ruins (2008), which deposits tourists upon an ancient Mayan temple that holds a deadly secret. Listen as we talk about risky vacation behavior, hot rock leg amputation, creeping vines and internal organs, flesh invasion, carnivorous vegetation, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Hard Target (1993)

Sat, 13 May 2023 05:00:51 GMT

Holly plays The Most Dangerous Game and finds Jean-Claude Van Damme very hard to kill in Hard Target (1993), the first American movie by Hong Kong action pioneer John Woo. When a merchant seaman with some very special skills helps a young woman track down her missing father in New Orleans, they become the targets of human safari. Listen as we marvel at snake-punching, motorcycle surfing, double fisted bulletstorm insanity in this week's exciting episode!

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Fallen (1998)

Sat, 06 May 2023 05:00:43 GMT

Sean says time is on his side, and that's why we spent 2 hours and 4 minutes watching Denzel Washington pursue a body-hopping demon in Fallen (1998). Bizarro murders committed after a serial killer is put to death puzzle Philadelphia police, and one dogged detective finds himself the target of the Satanic trickster. Listen as we talk demon entrapment, chomp on turkey legs, and stage impossible murder scenes, on this week's exciting episode!

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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 05:00:37 GMT

Colin continues serving Giallo Shots with What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) a hybrid Italian-German co-production that fuses the German "krimi" (crime) films with the Italian giallo genre they inspired. Girls at a Catholic prep school are murdered by a sadistic sex killer and a gym teacher finds himself a prime suspect after having an affair with one of his students. Listen as we talk about the cinematic legacy of writer Edgar Wallace, what Solange Knowles did in that elevator, Eurosleaze, and try to untangle a labyrinthine plot on this week's exciting episode!

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Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:00:36 GMT

Michaela wants to time warp back to an 80's era mall but finds it's haunted by the Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)! A horribly burned lover survives the fire that nearly killed him and wreaks havoc on the greedy developers who build a mall on the spot of his family home, while trying to woo back his sweetheart. Listen as we talk about assassin snakes, killer workouts, and the cinematic legacy of action dude Gregory Scott Cummings on this week's exciting episode!

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Cellar Dweller (1987)

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 05:00:48 GMT

Holly finds that the pen is mightier than the sword in summoning a demonic Cellar Dweller (1987) from the netherworld! Students at a remote 'artist colony' (read: cabin in the woods) fall prey to a hairy creature conjured by a cloistered cartoonist in a film directed by makeup fx man John Carl Buechler. Listen as we pile hate on performance artists, tortured artists, pretentious artists, and art schools in general on this week's exciting episode!

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Evil Dead (2013)

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 05:00:54 GMT

Sean wants to swallow your soul after being possessed by Evil Dead (2013), a gory remake of Sam Raimi's no-budget classic. Five friends go to a cabin in the woods and unwittingly set loose demons that possess and kill them one by one, but those expecting a straight retread of the original are in for a surprise. Listen as we make it rain blood, summon evil spirits, hack off our own limbs, and generally get groovy on this week's episode!

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Blood and Black Lace (1964)

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:00:02 GMT

Colin tracks the slasher movie genre back to Blood and Black Lace (1964), an Italian giallo from the maestro, Mario Bava, in which a (literally) faceless, black gloved killer stalks models at a haute couture fashion house. Listen as we reveal telltale ways to spot the murderer in any mystery movie, unravel convoluted whodunnit plotwork, and ooh and awe over the use of multi-colored lighting on this week's exciting episode!

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Down (aka The Shaft, 2001)

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 05:00:42 GMT

Michaela begins to think a rocket launcher might be the only way to take out a haunted elevator in Down (aka The Shaft, 2001), a movie that features a pre-stardom Naomi Watts, about a maintenance company employee (Twin Peaks' James Marshall) who finds himself pitted against a homicidal piece of machinery that's lopping off heads at a NYC high rise. Listen as we propose Down 2: The Second Floor with Dutch angles, flying baby births, love in an elevator and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Scream VI (2023)

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:04:15 GMT

Surprise! The Freak Show makes a sudden detour to the Big Apple with Scream VI (2023), as the famed slasher saga relocates to NYC and asks "Who gives a #$%! about movies?" So much stabbing ensues. Listen as we power up on serial killer DNA, get haunted by ghosts and Ghostfaces, and find out if #JusticeForKirby is finally served on this week's exciting episode!

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There's Nothing Out There (1991)

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 06:00:14 GMT

Sean vacations at the house by the pond (not to be confused with the cabin by the lake) and shouts, There's Nothing Out There (1991), only to discover there IS actually something out there: a horny, reptilian extra-terrestrial menace determined to kill everyone in sight! Listen as we discuss VHS-themed funerary rituals, the high school phenomenon of "super seniors" as we swing from boom mics while dodging laser eyes on this week's exciting episode!

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The X-Files (1998)

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 06:00:56 GMT

Colin wants to believe the truth is out there by reopening The X-Files (1998), the first big-screen version of the hit 90's sci-fi phenomenon that hopes to explain the first five years of the show's alien mythology, placing FBI Agents Mulder and Scully on a globetrotting adventure against a government conspiracy. Listen as we fight the future, turn people in to Jello, run up an incredible taxpayer-funded expense account, and uncover the secret government agency behind it all on this week's exciting episode!

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Orphan: First Kill (2022)

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:00:11 GMT

Michaela digs into Esther's daddy bible and uncovers Orphan: First Kill (2022), a 13-years-later prequel to the cult horror flick about a homicidal girl with daddy issues, only this one takes a bugnuts turn into crazytown. Listen as we talk Otherlands, accurate 2000's technological representation, and stab cutting boards with sharp knives on this week's exciting episode!

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Significant Other (2022)

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 06:00:19 GMT

Holly finds out what love's got to do with it with Significant Other (2022), a movie that stars Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy as a couple who go backpacking in a scenic forest where a meteor crash landed to Earth the night before. Listen as we become unsure of who's who, go slapping our tentacles around with abandon, and get to the bottom of why a man is named Plop, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Dr. Giggles (1992)

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:00:15 GMT

Sean finds nothing puts a smile on his face like medical-themed murder alongside Dr. Giggles (1992), a tongue-in-cheek slasher movie about a maniacal doctor with a nervous laugh who slaughters teenagers in his old hometown. Listen as we come to grips folding parents' undergarments, are shocked at surgical simulator video games, and recast movies as we watch them, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Torso (1973)

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 06:00:10 GMT

Colin loves saying the word Torso (1973), the American title for an Italian giallo originally called "The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence", about a masked maniac murdering art students in Rome with a foulard, which we come to learn is more commonly known as a scarf. Listen as we discuss doll orgies, hippie orgies, the horrors of running barefoot in brackish water, and Sean starts another writer's feud on this week's exciting episode!

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Halloween Ends (2022)

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:00:37 GMT

We conclude Listener Choice month with Halloween Ends (2022) because you demanded it! Corey Cunningham was a bad babysitter, who accidentally killed a kid. Cast out by the town of Haddonfield, he learns how to power up and self actualize after a gaining a psychic link to one of the town's most famous sewer dwellers. Listen as we relive the trauma of watching this movie and seek out unlicensed Hollywood professionals to help us deal with our trauma, all on this week's exciting, overlong and overstuffed episode!

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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 06:00:25 GMT

We're back from the grave and ready to party with The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Dan O'Bannon's sly, punk rock zombie movie that throws all the conventions of George Romero out the window in favor of brain-eating, quick thinking, ambulatory reanimated corpses who cannot be killed after being exposed to a secret government chemical. Listen as we rave to the grave in the necropolis while Trash dances naked on tombstones on this week's exciting episode!

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Barbarian (2022)

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:00:31 GMT

You demanded it, so we're here to find out if Barbarian (2022) is the best film of 2022. A woman rents an AirBnB, discovers a man in the house when she arrives. It's raining; he invites her inside. Eventually, she goes down into the basement. Listen as we chat about movie surprises, good casting, milk bottles, and the phenomenon of comedians becoming horror directors on this week's exciting episode!

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The Fly (1986)

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:00:29 GMT

We kick off Listener Choice month by scrambling our molecules with The Fly (1986), director David Cronenberg's remake in which a science experiment fuses a scientist (Jeff Goldblum) with a common housefly, ruining a potentially beautiful new romance. Listen at our revulsion at bodily fluids, list our favorite horror movie remakes, and work our way through the potential horrors of teleportation on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2022

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 06:00:31 GMT

Listen as we rank the five best and one worst movie we saw this year as we wrap up 2022 with the annual Best and Worst Movies of 2022 episode! Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

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Curtains (1983)

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 06:00:27 GMT

Michaela would kill to get a part in Curtains (1983), in which several actresses are brought to a snowy Canadian mansion to audition for a tyrannical movie director for a role in his new movie. But, a masked slasher begins knocking them off, one by one! Listen as we talk about ice skating killers, scatological puppet jokes, and consider warning aspiring actors away from the movie business on this week's exciting episode!

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To All a Good Night (1980)

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 06:00:02 GMT

Holly regales us with a Yuletide yelp yarn with To All a Good Night (1980), a killer Santa movie directed by Last House on the Left bad guy David Hess. Sorority sisters sitting out Christmas vacation import a plane full of boys for sexy swingin' times but don't count on a slay-happy St. Nick crashing the party. Listen as we document the only horror movie that uses a draft as a jump scare, express dumbwaiter love, and sexy teeth and gum fondling, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Wild Things (1998)

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:01:36 GMT

Michaela gets hot and sweaty with the Wild Things (1998) of Florida, a movie famous for putting Denise Richards, Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon in a hotel room together with a bottle of champagne. Also, there are twists! Turns! And more twists! And turns! Listen as we get hot under the collar with the 90's era of steamy erotic thrillers, Hollywood's hills and valleys, Bacon dong, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Enter the Dragon (1973)

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:00:38 GMT

Colin tries to see past the pointing finger to the heavenly glory of Enter the Dragon (1973), a monument to O.G. martial arts wunderkind Bruce Lee, who plays a Shaolin Temple student who infiltrates the island fortress of a James Bond villain to participate in a deadly tournament and get revenge. Listen as we marvel at the athletic prowess of its star, hail the presence of Bolo Yeung, and invent a new martial arts discipline called "Slap the Snake" on this week's exciting episode!

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Orphan (2009)

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:00:04 GMT

Michaela rethinks adopting Russian girls with a penchant for murder after dealing with Orphan (2009), in which a close-knit family brings said tot into the fold and then the evil imp promptly exploits fault lines in the happy relationship. Listen as we delve into the real-life case that inspired the movie, bird murder, multiple instances of coitus interruptus, the Warner Bros horror factory, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Mortuary Collection (2019)

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 06:00:54 GMT

Holly discovers that every corpse has a story to tell in The Mortuary Collection (2019), with Clancy Brown as a grim Mortician who relates four tales of terror to a new applicant with a secret to hide in this anthology film. Listen as we witness exploding penises, child cannibalism, eternal love vows, gushing bodily fluids, and squid infested bathrooms on this week's exciting episode!

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Action USA (1989)

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:44:05 GMT

Sean speeds across the country pursued by cowboy hitmen in Action USA (1989), a movie made by a stuntman and employing lots of his movie brethren as they execute car chases, helicopter stunts, jumps, shootouts, falls, fire stunts, and death defying leaps all in the hopes of showing off. Listen as we talk camaraderie among hitmen, epic bar fights, and want you to call us Panama on this week's exciting episode!

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The Wolfman (2010)

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 05:00:00 GMT

Colin rampages through the streets of Victorian London with The Wolfman (2010) an expensive remake of the Universal Monsters classic, with Benico Del Toro as the titular character, who's plagued by daddy issues when he returns home to the family's Gothic estate after his brother is killed by a vicious beast. Listen as we salute makeup man Rick Baker, dive into the film's troubled production, and debate the merits of practical vs CGI werewolfery on this week's exciting episode!

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From A Whisper to a Scream (1987)

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 05:00:28 GMT

Michaela digs up dirt on Oldfield, Tennessee in the anthology From A Whisper to a Scream (1987), which showcases four stories all transmitted from spooky librarian Vincent Price to inquisitive reporter, Susan Tyrrell. There will be: incest, necrophilia, undead babies, exploding carnies, voodoo spells, drownings, unrequited love, blood geysers, amputations, cannibalism, and a game of pin the arm on the torso! Listen in for the time of your life on this week's exciting episode!

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The Hole (2001)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 05:00:38 GMT

Holly invites us to party in The Hole (2001), a WWII bunker in which rich prep schoolers spend a weekend to dodge parents and authorities, but then find themselves tragically trapped inside. But the stories of what transpired within, told by the survivor, may or may not be the entire truth. Listen as we plunge deep inside the hole to learn the whole truth, become consumed by the hole, and find out what else lurks inside the hole on this week's exciting episode!

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Trick 'r Treat (2007)

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:00:58 GMT

Sean reminds us to obey the time-honored traditions of Halloween with Trick 'r Treat (2007), or we may find ourselves punished by a pint sized demon! Four interconnected tales are presided over by Sam (aka Samhain), the spirit of Halloween, who blesses or murders the night's revelers in a small town. Listen as we talk the movie's rise to cult classic status, hot sexy werewolves, visceral reactions to movie vomit, and discover someone hates Charlie Brown on this week's exciting episode.

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Trick or Treat (1986, re-review)

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 05:00:34 GMT

Colin tunes his ax to electrify and rocks out with Rock's Chosen Warrior to rule the apocalypse with Trick or Treat (1986). Sure we've done it before, but what does the latest crop of Internet Radio Superstars have to say? Will they be vaporized by the awesome power of metal? Listen as we talk about tiny hand puppets, dolphin tales, Satanic panic and cassette tapes all on this week's exciting episode!

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Berserker (1987)

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 05:00:57 GMT

Michaela dreams of transforming into a Viking warrior to wrestle with Bart the Bear in Berserker: The Nordic Curse (1987), a weirdo slasher-wannabe about a group of teens who head off to a lakeside cabin and go hiking, get lost in fog, and meet the aforementioned Viking and bear. Listen as we find out how to get Nickelodeon Certified, meet Pappy Nyquist, have sexual flashbacks, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Dark City (1998)

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 05:00:58 GMT

Holly forgets who she is and begins to question reality with Dark City (1998), in which a man with no memory awakens in a neo-noir city to find himself accused of murder and creepy chattering Strangers in hot pursuit. Listen as we mold matter with our minds, stop clocks, send rats through a maze, and try to pin down the location of the human soul on this week's exciting episode!

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Death Race 2000 (1975)

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 05:00:18 GMT

Sean tries to rack up as many points as he can mowing down pedestrians in the Death Race 2000 (1975), a satiric, dystopian futuristic racing movie produced by Roger Corman and directed by Paul Bartel (so you can be sure Mary Woronov is in the cast). Sylvester Stallone also co-stars as a team of racers who try to beat top scorer Frankenstein (David Carradine) in a trans-continental death race. Listen as we careen off the road into sidebars about bare-assed acting scenes, propaganda clones, Looney Tunes, and the practicality of "wetting it down" down on this week's exciting episode!

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Monster Dog (1985)

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 05:00:35 GMT

Colin goes to Spain with his horror-rock idol Alice Cooper to fight a Monster Dog (1985)! The shock rocker plays a singer visiting his cursed ancestral home with the intention of filming a music video, but there's a pack of killer dogs on the loose. Or, maybe it's a werewolf movie. From the director of Troll 2! Listen as we spy on self-conscious German Shepherds, get lost in volumetric fog, and frantically search for the titular beast on this week's exciting episode!

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Cutting Class (1989)

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:26:23 GMT

Michaela spends a lot of time lurking around a high school targeted by a slasher in Cutting Class (1989), starring Brad Pitt in his first major role. Jill Schoelen (The Stepfather) stars as a pretty senior stalked by, well, everyone, as a psycho killer thins out the cast. Listen as we visit the school of sex crimes, detail the best way to be a professional lurker, and try to decide if the movie is a comedy or a horror movie on this week's exciting episode!

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Slaughterhouse Rock (1988)

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 05:00:18 GMT

Holly fights Civil War cannibal vampire ghosts on Alcatraz Island in Slaughterhouse Rock (1988), a movie we thought would have more of a music theme since it stars Toni Basil ("Hey Mickey, you're so fine...") and sports a score by Devo. Listen as we talk about demon possession, night terrors, astral plane warfare, paranormal professors, and beg for the return of cloaks as evening wear on this week's exciting episode!

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The Initiation (1984)

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:04 GMT

Sean discovers getting into college can be murder after undertaking The Initiation (1984), in which a troubled college student, plagued by nightmares, finds murder and mayhem in store after she undertakes and experiment to find what lurks in the recesses of her amnesiac mind. Listen as we talk the practicality of night caps, shopping mall slashers, how to guess a killer's identity, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 05:00:08 GMT

Colin revs his engines with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth watching Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), a neo-Western starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as the titular anti-heroes who rob a bank to save their friend's bar and find themselves the target of futuristic drug smugglers. Listen as we mourn the death of Joe Camel, have Crystal Dreams, and hang out with Jack Daniels and Jose Cuervo on this week's exciting episode!

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Vampire's Kiss (1988)

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 05:00:10 GMT

Michaela runs down the street screaming "I'm a vampire! I'm a vampire!" after getting a Vampire's Kiss (1988). Prepare for undiluted Nicholas Cage as a NYC literary agent who begins to suspect he's becoming a blood-drinking creature of the night following a one night stand with a sexy vampiress. Listen as we talk about live cockroach consumption, funny accents, recite our ABCs, and celebrate our 500th episode this week!

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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 05:00:14 GMT

Holly jams too much data into her wet-wired cranial hard drive with Johnny Mnemonic (1995), which finds our hero, played by Keanu Reeves, in the same life-threatening predicament. Only a plunge into the kaledescopic virtual rendering of cyberspace and the aid of a biologically enhanced dolphin can save him! Listen as we upload our downloads, get lo-fi with Lo-Teks and Tek Wars, burn chrome and go into full Mona Lisa Overdrive on this week's exciting episode!

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Death Spa (1989)

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 05:00:41 GMT

Sean sweats blood at the Death Spa (1989), one of the most 80's movies ever to grace screens, about a health club owner, haunted by the death of his wife, who finds the jealous missus may be reaching out from beyond the grave to kill customers at his swanky, fully automated fitness spa. Listen as we talk neon lights, pastel colors, wild fashions, angular architecture and exploding bodies on this week's exciting episode!

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The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976)

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 05:00:25 GMT

Colin girds his loins against the emasculating razor attack of The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976), about a woman who experienced sexual abuse as a child who castrates the men she fantasizes about on television. Listen as we talk about the storied career of co-star/casting director George "Buck" Flower, intestinal ailments and the treatment for them, and the need to shower immediately upon finishing this movie, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Hellbound (1994)

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:02:09 GMT

Michaela finds there's hell to pay with the final film that Cannon ever released, Hellbound (1994), starring Chuck Norris, the only man to play Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and win. Chuck Norris doesn't shower, he takes blood baths. Did you know Chuck Norris once destroyed the periodic table? Because the only element Chuck Norris needs is the element of surprise. All this and more Chuck Norris jokes on this week's episode!

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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 05:01:13 GMT

Sean files charges of lactose abuse against Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning, 1981), starring cult movie icon Susan Tyrell in a histrionic performance as a woman with an incestuous interest in her 17-year-old nephew, who may resort to murder to keep him close to home. Listen as we reel in shock and horror from multiple weaponized milk products, homophobic cops, logging truck decapitations, and plenty of psycho mama skeeviness on this week's exciting episode!

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Frailty (2001)

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:00:37 GMT

Holly finds some of that Old Time Religion hunting down the God's Hand Killer in Frailty (2001), the directorial debut from actor Bill Paxton, a Southern Gothic horror-thriller about a single dad who receives a visit from an angel and trains his sons to slay demons on Earth. Listen as we talk religious fervor, killer children, supernatural visions, and an axe named 'Otis' on this week's exciting episode!

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Highlander (1986)

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 05:00:39 GMT

Colin tries not to lose his head as he vows to claim The Prize with Highlander (1986). Immortal Christopher Lambert, born in the Scottish highlands, learns the ways of The Quickening from Sean Connery and struggles to reach the time of The Gathering in NYC when all these immortals will try to behead each other, because in the end There Can Be Only One. Listen as practice our swordplay, unravel the movie's filmic and TV legacy, and learn what a highlander is on this week's exciting episode!

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Cyborg (1989)

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 05:00:16 GMT

Michaela rings the death knell for the Cannon Films empire with Cyborg (1989), a cheaply made Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi martial arts action flick cobbled together from the remnants of the unrealized Spider-Man and Masters of the Universe 2, casting Van Damme as a post-apocalyptic warrior trying to rescue a cyborg woman from the evil bandits who murdered his True Love. Listen as we chart the rise of Van Damme, the fall of Cannon, the marvels of Baywatch Knights and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Raiders of Atlantis (1983)

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 05:01:06 GMT

Holly tries to survive an onslaught from the Raiders of Atlantis (1983) after the discovery of a sunken nuclear submarine somehow causes the mythical society to rise from the ocean depths, and its marauding citizens lay waste to the inhabitants of surrounding islands. From the director of Cannibal Holocaust. Listen as we marvel at gonzo Italian stunt work, work hard to untangle the plot, and propose a future episode dubbed by the film's English voiceover cast on this week's exciting episode!

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The Nest (1988)

Sat, 28 May 2022 13:23:00 GMT

Sean arms himself with a giant can of Raid and plunges deep into The Nest (1988), a movie about a seaside community that discovers it has been an unwitting chemical testing site that has given rise to killer cockroaches. Listen as we talk about roach-food recipes, strange human-cockroach love rituals, and witness humans puppeteered by cockroaches, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Stone Cold (1991)

Sat, 21 May 2022 05:00:00 GMT

Colin fires up his hog and prospects for The Brotherhood with Stone Cold (1991), a starring vehicle for former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth, casting him as an undercover cop infiltrating a rough biker gang led by Lance Henriksen. Listen as we praise real movie stunt teams, kill a helicopter with a motorcycle, and learn even more weird breakfast blender recipes on this week's exciting episode!

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The Apple (1980)

Sat, 14 May 2022 05:00:34 GMT

Michaela sheds common decency and takes a bite of The Apple (1980), a sci-fi disco glam rock musical directed by maverick Cannon Films co-founder Menahem Golan. In the future, a satanic music producer rules the world and attempts to lure and corrupt a young singing duo into his decadent world of sin. Listen as we dip ourselves in glitter, rigorously observe BiM hour, and meet the spectral Cadillac-driving God on this week's exciting episode!

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End of Days (1999)

Sat, 07 May 2022 05:00:49 GMT

A thousand years has ended, so Holly must bear witness to the End of Days (1999), a movie that smashes together a grim religious horror movie with a gigantic Arnold Schwarzenegger action film, pitting Arnie and all his weaponry against The Devil, who comes to New York in search of a wife. Listen as we wonder about the monthly meeting habits of Satan worshippers, detail strange hangover cure recipes, and improbable body melting couplings on this week's exciting episode!

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Virtuosity (1995)

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:00:13 GMT

Sean wants to play your screams as a symphony with Virtuosity (1995), a futuristic thriller that pits former cop Denzel Washington against a psychopathic A.I. given corporeal form (Russell Crowe), who contains the "genetic profiles" of 183 serial killers. Listen as we discuss "nano-death," personality cubes, glowing tube science, and drive semis through gaping plotholes on this week's exciting episode!

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Opera (1987)

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:46:37 GMT

Colin experiences ocular trauma at the Opera (1987), conducted by Italian maestro Dario Argento. An ingenue is suddenly thrust into the lead role in a production of MacBeth and finds herself the unwilling audience for a serial killer who tapes needles to her eyes and forces her to witness murder. Listen as we experience cursed plays, retail flashbacks, dizzying camerawork, flies on a string, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 05:00:55 GMT

Michaela plunges sight-unseen into the addictive virtual reality terrors of Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), which finds genre vet Lance Henriksen luring a group of teens, including a young Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, to a party based on their favorite video game: Hellraiser. Is that meta enough for you? Listen as we express shock and dismay at the lack of video game representation in a movie that promises just that, as we set our expectations low for the 8th direct-to-video entry in the famous horror saga.

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The Cell (2000)

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 05:00:12 GMT

Holly takes a peek inside the phantasmagoric fantasy landscape of a serial killer's mind in The Cell (2000), which finds psychologist Jennifer Lopez tunneling into the dreamworld of comatose psycho Vincent D'Onofrio to find his latest victim before it's too late. Listen as we discover strange body modification rituals, discover 'dead' bodies in the woods, and learn about a dentist who's the world's biggest Dennis Quaid fan on this week's exciting episode!

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May (2002)

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 05:00:12 GMT

Sean learns "If you can't find a friend, make one" with May (2002), about an awkward young woman and her pursuit of love. Except, after a series of painful rejections, she becomes more in love with a person's body parts than the whole. Listen as we detail cringe-worthy human dating rituals, doll dismemberment, and find the proper way to unwrap a gift on this week's exciting episode!

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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 05:00:51 GMT

Colin gets to know life by becoming a gallblader enthusiast in Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, 1973), which finds a fascist Dr. Frankenstein seeking to create a superior race of humanoids but things go wrong when he chooses the wrong subject for his experiments. Listen as we get gross with weird sex and splattery gore as body parts are flung out of the screen in three dimensions on this week's exciting show!

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Looper (2012)

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 05:01:39 GMT

Michaela hunts down a future version of herself with Looper (2012), a lo-fi sci-fi epic that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Bruce Willis and Bruce Willis as himself. When he fails to assassinate himself, JGL is a man-on-the run, trying to track down his future variant, whose on a mission to stop a future personal apocalypse. Listen as we get all timey-wimey with time travel, time loops, time pieces, and timelines on this week's exciting episode!

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Without Warning (1980)

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:44:05 GMT

Holly encounters a trophy hunter from another planet in Without Warning (1980), a pre-Predator sci-fi/horror yarn about a small town visited by a murderous, bulb-headed, frisbee-throwing alien monster. Jack Palance is a gas station attendant and Martin Landau a crazy Vietnam vet who each find themselves pitted against the creature. Listen as we take cover from toothy flesh frisbees, play hide-and-seek with an alien beast, and get plenty of advance warning on this week's exciting episode!

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New York Ninja (2021)

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 13:40:24 GMT

For cult movie aficionados who think they've seen it all, Sean says there's always New York Ninja (2021), a movie filmed in 1984 but never finished until it was reconstructed in 2021. After his wife is killed, a martial arts master becomes a ninja superhero to clean up the mean streets of NYC, but finds an arch-nemesis in the human trafficking and highly radioactive Plutonium Killer. Listen as we watch Bad Lip Reading: The Movie, discover the film's bizarre path to the screen, and extol the virtues of Ninja Magazine once again on this week's exciting episode!

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Horror Express (1972)

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 06:03:25 GMT

Colin books passage alongside genre heavyweights to fight a thawed-out, fossilized ape-man run amok aboard the Horror Express (1972). This non-Hammer Films team up of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing careens from mystery, to horror, to sci-fi before throwing Tele Savalas, as a ruthless Russian officer, into the mix. Listen as experience panic on the Transiberian Express, uncover the Missing Link, and mourn the loss of fancy dining aboard a speeding train on this week's exciting episode!

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Doom Asylum (1996)

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:00:43 GMT

Michaela figures the best place to take her friends sunbathing is outside the Doom Asylum (1996), an abandoned hospital stalked by an alimony lawyer-turned-monster who slices and dices his way to the Frankenhooker herself, Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen. Listen as we propose a summer of David Hasselhoff movies, recoil from the vocal stylings of a "screamo" punk band, receive a Wade Boggs history lesson, and determine what constitutes "dead" or "mostly dead" on this week's exciting episode!

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Space Truckers (1996)

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:00:03 GMT

Holly takes a job hauling square pigs across the galaxy in Space Truckers (1996), director Stuart Gordon's colorful sci-fi flick with Dennis Hopper as a truck driver who gets in over his head with space pirates and a cargo full of killer robots. Listen as we sing the praises of Debi Mazar in Beethoven's 2nd, think Charles Dance is having the time of his life as a cyborg pirate captain, and proclaim George Wendt a "certified genius" on this week's exciting episode!

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Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 06:01:29 GMT

Sean buys us a Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987), and we strap in with a bevy of beautiful babes chucking bullets and bombs in every direction to stop drug smugglers in paradise. And, there's a giant "contaminated" killer snake on the loose! Listen as we sing the praises of low-budget action auteur Andy Sidaris and the theme song, play with razor blade frisbees, and shoot sex dolls out of the sky with rocket launchers on this week's exciting episode!

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Brain Damage (1988)

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 06:00:46 GMT

We wrap up Listener's Choice month by completing a Frank Henenlotter trifecta with Brain Damage (1988), a movie about a New Yorker and his strange relationship with a parasite who lives on his back and injects him with psychedelic happy juice in exchange for consuming human brains! Listen as we smell colors, taste sounds, experience the DTs and sing Cole Porter tunes on this week's exciting episode!

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Color Out of Space (2019)

Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:16:33 GMT

Number Two on our Listener's Choice Month requests is Color Out of Space (2019), Hardware director Richard Stanley's return to the horror genre, adapting an H.P. Lovecraft story and starring Nicholas Cage! After a meteorite falls to earth, an alpaca farmer and his family begin to experience strange, psychedelic alien phenomena. Listen as we experience Cage Rage, space madness, alpaca blobs, and search for the Holy Grail on this week's exciting episode!

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Prince of Darkness (1987)

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:00:17 GMT

The third most voted for title of Listener's Choice month is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987), which finds a group of grad students trying to stop the rebirth of the Anti-God from a tube of swirling green goop, which has been hidden in the basement of a Los Angeles church. Listen as we ruminate on the coming cosmic apocalypse, track the concept back to the British Quatermass movies, and admire some sweet mullets on this week's exciting episode!

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Phantasm II (1988)

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 06:00:06 GMT

Coming in at No. 4 on this year's Listener Choice month is Phantasm II (1988), a studio backed, big(er) budget sequel to one of the oddest horror movies ever made, featuring the return of the sinister undertaker from another dimension, The Tall Man, and his army of silver spheres. Listen as we talk baldheaded rodeo sex, Hemi 'Cudas and cult movie cars, the Brad Pitt movie that never was, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2021

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 06:00:37 GMT

We sum up the best and worst movies and television we saw in 2021 with our annual Best and Worst episode. Listen as we go around the table and attempt to distill a year in film down to our choices for the 5 best movies and the 1 we think was the worst. Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

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Night Train to Terror (1985)

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 06:01:21 GMT

Colin belts out "everybody's got something to do, everybody but you!" after boarding the Night Train to Terror (1985), a horror anthology made up of parts cannibalized from three other feature films, framed by a train ride taken by God and the Devil as they argue over souls. Listen as our brains explode from slo-mo breakdancing, Claymation devil monsters, Tazmanian Winged Beetles, Nazi nightmares and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:00:19 GMT

Michaela seeks revenge by subjecting Sean to The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), a made-for-TV variety show so embarrassing that George Lucas sought to banish it from the planet. Han Solo has to get Chewbacca home in time for Life Day, but the Empire gets there first. Listen as we talk virtual reality Wookie erotica, psychedelic holograms, Star Wars cooking shows, and further abominations on this weeks exciting episode!

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Terror Train (1980)

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:00:58 GMT

Holly boards a New Year's Eve party Terror Train (1980) and finds out there's a killer on board! One of the 5 horror movies that Jamie Lee Curtis made following the success of Halloween that cemented her as the genre's preeminent Scream Queen finds her and a graduating college class stalked by a slasher killer onboard a locomotive. Listen as we talk about the sinister magnetism of David Copperfield, find the limit of our knowledge of New Years masquerade customs, and hazing rituals gone awry, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Society (1989)

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 06:01:04 GMT

Sean uncovers a secret Society (1989) of body transmogrifying deviants hiding out among the wealthy elite of Beverly Hills, conducting strange elastic flesh orgies and consuming the bodies of unsuspecting mortals! Will he join in annual Shunt or won't he? Listen as we applaud the makeup fx of the legendary Screaming Mad George, gobble up leftover shunt shavings, pull people inside out and turn into literal buttheads, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Habit (1995)

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:00:26 GMT

Colin tries to understand his Habit (1995) for watching weirdo independent horror films in the 90's. Director Larry Fessenden also writes and stars as a NYC alcoholic who finds himself smitten with a mysterious girl who turns out to be a vampire, and finds that might be bad for his health. Listen as we plunge into New York City grime, lick plates, and find strangers engaged in strange rituals in bar parking lots on this week's exciting episode!

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High Tension (2003)

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 06:00:55 GMT

Michaela finds High Tension (2003) in the French Extreme wave of 00's horror films. Two girls decamp to a remote country home which is immediately attacked by a brutish killer in Alexandre Aja's debut feature. Listen as we heap praise upon the practical gore FX of Gianetto di Rossi and explore plot holes big enough to drive a rusty truck through on this week's exciting episode!

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The Skeleton Key (2005)

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 06:00:45 GMT

Holly unlocks the difference between voodoo and its darker cousin, hoodoo, with The Skeleton Key (2005). A hospice worker moves out to the Louisiana bayou to care for an aging man, and comes to find out there's sinister things afoot in the old plantation house. Listen as we hide all the mirrors, get the "vapors" and eat poisoned sugar cubes on this week's exciting episode!

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Shocker (1989)

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 05:01:04 GMT

Sean prays to the TV demon, gets juiced by the electric chair and becomes a Shocker (1989) with Wes Craven's electrifying tale of serial killer Horace Pinker, who becomes a channel surfing nightmare after his execution, making life a living hell for a college football star. Listen as we watch Craven cram a notebook full of ideas into one movie trying to create the next Freddy Krueger on this week's exciting episode!

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Two Evil Eyes (1990)

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 05:00:32 GMT

Colin thinks having Two Evil Eyes (1990) are better than one as two Masters of Horror, George Romero and Dario Argento, adapt a pair of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Adrienne Barbeau oozes sexuality in The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar, while Harvey Keitel gives a master class in drunk acting in The Black Cat. Listen as we talk freely about multiple cat murders, duplicitous lovers, shadow ghosts, pagan renaissance faires, thirsty bartenders and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Halloween Kills (2021)

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 05:00:54 GMT

We think Halloween Kills (2021) should bear the subtitle "Haddonfield's Revenge" as director David Gordon Green turns our beloved slasher series into a muddled message movie about the pros and cons of assembling a mob of angry residents to track down the cold-blooded killing machine, Michael Myers. Listen as we yell and scream and chant "Evil Dies Tonight" with as much enthusiasm as we can muster on this week's exciting episode!

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Ginger Snaps (2000)

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 05:00:54 GMT

Michaela thinks its hard enough being a teenaged girl, much less coping with becoming a werewolf, with Ginger Snaps (2000). One of two misfit sisters is horrified after the other is bit by a werewolf and starts going through a transformation, and mom couldn't be happier about her girl's blossoming womanhood. Listen as we talk about dog disemboweling, bad wigs, overbearing parents, and discover the 90's Ooze on this week's exciting episode!

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Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 05:00:43 GMT

Sean learns the hard way it can be fatal to offend curse-spewing gypsies in Drag Me To Hell (2009), Evil Dead director Sam Raimi's return to the horror genre after a long absence, which finds a bank loan officer given 3 days to live before a demon, known as the Lamia, devours her soul. Listen as we wonder who deserves to get dragged to Hell, imagine Raimi cackling with glee directing gross-out scenes, and weigh the moral implications of damning someone to Hell on this week's exciting episode!

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Malignant (2021)

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 05:00:19 GMT

Holly buries childhood trauma deep in the back of her head with Malignant (2021), James Wan's off-the-rails supernatural shocker about a woman who comes to believe her one-time imaginary friend may be responsible for a series of grisly murders. Listen as we drink electricity, speak through radios, decide whether the year's goofiest movie is by design or by accident, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Ringu (1998)

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 05:00:29 GMT

Colin's only got 7 days to live after watching a cursed Japanese videotape in Ringu (aka Ring, 1998), a movie that created a worldwide interest in J-horror, inspired a wave of imitators and remakes, and made audiences afraid of VHS tapes and young girls with long hair. Listen as we present the oral history of Japanese horror movies, suffer technological anxiety, develop ESP and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:01:56 GMT

Michaela sets up cameras all over the house and digs out the VHS tapes to document Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), the entry in the long-running horror series that attempts to explain just why said spooks are haunting sisters Katie and Kristi in the first place. Listen as Sean's belief in ghosts is tested, Michaela tells horrifying babysitting tales, and ghosts get married, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Guns Akimbo (2020)

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:07:55 GMT

Holly wakes up with guns stapled to her hands and has to kill Harry Potter before he kills her, and wades in Guns Akimbo (2020). Daniel Radcliffe plays an Internet troll who is unwillingly recruited into a real-life deathmatch against Samara Weaving, for the entertainment of an online audience. Listen as we compare Radcliffe to Nic Cage, confuse Weaving for Margot Robbie, and get traumatized by a hot dog on this week's exciting episode!

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Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Sat, 04 Sep 2021 05:00:49 GMT

Sean says a bigger spider doesn't necessarily mean a scarier spider with Eight Legged Freaks (2002), a comedic throwback giant monster movie which sees David Arquette and Kari Wurher teaming up to save their small town after toxic waste creates giant jumping spiders! Listen as we wonder who would visit a spider farm, decide where we're going in the event of a giant spider apocalypse, and fail to make a ScarJo-Black Widow joke, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Dressed to Kill (1980)

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:01:44 GMT

Colin takes in a showing of the latest fashion in murder with Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980). Angie Dickinson stars as a bored, sexually frustrated housewife; Michael Caine is her psychiatrist; Nancy Allen is a high priced call girl. To say more would spoil the twisty turns of what's been dubbed De Palma's American giallo. Listen as we talk black gloved killers, homage vs plagiarism, primal urges, and movie shower scenes on this week's exciting episode!

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:49:02 GMT

Michaela's got a strange idea of entertainment and digs up Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), a pre-Scream postmodern, self-aware entry in the long running slasher series that pits former victim Tommy Jarvis against the reanimated hockey masked killer. Listen as we talk all things Friday the 13th, including sorting out the series' timeline, the addition of comedy and Alice Cooper, and bemoan the legal status of the video game on this week's exciting episode!

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Godzilla (1998)

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 05:01:08 GMT

Holly says size does matter when you're talking about the first American version of Godzilla (1998), director Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich's big-budget distortion of Japan's famous movie monster. Listen as we talk about the 50+ year history of the Big-G, various attempts to bring him stateside, memorable marketing tie-ins, kettles of fish, and the ill conceived casting of Matthew Broderick on this week's exciting episode!

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House of Wax (2005)

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 14:00:57 GMT

Sean makes the case for the touchstone movie of 00's horror being House of Wax (2005), aka the movie where you will See Paris Die. An in-name-only remake of the 1953 Vincent Price 3-D classic borrows the plot of Tourist Trap and sees a group of 20-somethings finding themselves trapped in a spooky tourist attraction with a sinister secret. Listen as we discuss stunt casting, melting architecture, cultural seepage, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Grizzly (1976)

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 05:00:34 GMT

Colin loses limbs in pursuit of a rampaging 18-foot maneater terrorizing a national park in Grizzly (1976), the first out-of-the gate "animal attacks" films to capitalize on the success of Jaws. A stalwart team of heroes, Christopher George, Andrew Prine and Richard Jaeckel team up to hunt down the giant bear who's making mincemeat out of campers, hunters, kids and forest rangers. Listen as we talk about horse decapitations, rocket launcher climaxes, and witness a bear vs helicopter fight on this week's exciting episode.

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Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 05:01:55 GMT

Michaela saddles up and rides West with a laser wrist gauntlet for a mashup of Cowboys and Aliens (2011), a surprisingly serious take on the subject that pairs a James Bond (Daniel Craig) with Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). A Western is interrupted by an alien abduction of the townspeople of Absolution, NM, and a posse is formed, The Searchers-style, to go bring 'em back alive. Listen as we talk about chicken feet, Sam Rockwell's status as a national treasure, and how we all want to go live in the Wild West on this week's exciting episode!

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Moonraker (1979)

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 05:01:43 GMT

Holly brings her license to kill to bear upon what as widely considered the goofiest James Bond entry, Moonraker (1979), the long-running series' (financially successful) attempt to capitalize on the Star Wars excitement of the late 1970s. And that means, yes, Bond leads a laser battle in space. Listen as we talk steel-toohed giant assassins, double-taking pigeons, python wrestling, gondola shenannigans and all things Bond on this week's exciting episode!

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Species (1995)

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 05:01:00 GMT

Sean puts a team together to track down a sexy alien nymphomaniac with Species (1995). Nasty aliens give humankind their DNA; foolish humans combine it with ours to create Sil, a gorgeous blonde vixen with only one desire: mate and reproduce, to create progeny which will destroy the entire human race! Listen as lament the absence of sex in modern movies, marvel at the dark genius of H.R. Giger, and praise stuntwork and practical effects on this week's exciting episode!

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Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 05:00:33 GMT

Colin brings Conan the Barbarian (1982) to the Freak Show, sees them become the most listened to show in the universe, and hears the lamentation of other podcasters! Come with us as we visit the Hyborean age of Robert E. Howard's iconic character, trace the origins of sword and sorcery, and discuss the proper food to cook for orgies and other large parties on this week's exciting episode!

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Cool as Ice (1991)

Sat, 26 Jun 2021 12:21:40 GMT

Michaela ditches the zero to get with the hero with Cool as Ice (1991), a starring vehicle for rapper Vanilla Ice, who plays an alien who falls to Earth and tries to mate with an teenage equestrian trainer, but becomes involved in a kidnapping plot. Ok, we're kidding. Listen as we witness bizarre romantic rituals involving ice cubes, motorcycle riding montages, the use of construction projects as jungle gyms, and the career of Robert Van Winkle on this week's exciting episode!

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I, Madman (1989)

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 05:00:49 GMT

Holly finds that terror doesn't stop at the page in I, Madman (1989), a movie in which a pretty bookworm finds herself stalked by the deranged antagonist of a pulp horror novel in real life. Listen as we confront the horror of hoarder houses, film noir lighting, stop motion monsters, and fashion faux pas involving berets on this week's exciting episode!

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The Beastmaster (1982)

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 05:00:33 GMT

Sean talks to birds, tigers, bears and ferrets and calls himself The Beastmaster (1982), Phantasm director Don Coscarelli's insanely popular sword and sorcery epic about a warrior born with the ability to communicate with animals, who vows revenge on those who burned down his village. Listen as we become suspect of George R.R. Martin, encounter fleshbats, talk about Dungeons and Dragons, and future adventures in time on this week's exciting episode!

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Death Wish 3 (1985)

Sat, 05 Jun 2021 05:00:43 GMT

Colin watches as a movie loses its grip on reality and become an over the top Cannon Films extravaganza, Death Wish 3 (1985) in which architect-turned-vigilante Paul Kersey returns to New York and incites war between a gang of punks and the geriatric residents of a seedy tenement building. Listen as we throw bazookas, pipe guns, booby traps, explosions, girlfriend murder, reverse mohawks and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Sat, 29 May 2021 05:00:31 GMT

Michaela unloads 10,000 bullets in defense of Shoot 'Em Up (2007), a movie with a title that promises exactly what you get, as a robotic Clive Owen plays a purveyor of hot lead trying to protect a lactating prostitute and a baby from an army of gunsmiths led by Paul Giamati. Listen as we encounter Clive Owen worship, slippery black leather trenchcoats, gunkata, Bugs Bunny, and not one person mentions Hard Boiled on this week's exciting episode!

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The Others (2001)

Sat, 22 May 2021 05:01:26 GMT

Holly says we can't live on junkfood alone and serves up the classic ghost story The Others (2001), which finds Nicole Kidman and her two children, who suffer from sunlight photosensitivity, living in a post-WWII English mansion where things go bump in the night. Listen as the Freak Show is reunited live in the dank dark basement to talk about scary ghost stories, creaky doors, spooky whispers, twist endings and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

Sat, 15 May 2021 05:00:56 GMT

Sean ponders the effect of horror movies on both their fans and their creators in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) a meta-movie in which Freddy Krueger is set free from the Nightmare on Elm Street series to plague Heather Langenkamp in the "real world," a fictionalized version of Hollywood in which New Line Cinema president Robert Shaye even gets a role. Listen as we get all nerdy discussing the moral responsibilities of horror filmmakers and the long standing appeal of one of cinema's iconic boogeymen on this week's exciting episode!

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Shivers (1975)

Sat, 08 May 2021 05:00:41 GMT

Colin fears that scientists will develop a parasite as a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will turn the world into an endless orgy of Shivers (aka They Came From Within, 1975). Canadian madman David Cronenberg put his stamp on the face of horror cinema forever with his story of a icky sexual revolution taking place at a luxury apartment tower where the aforementioned monsters get loose, turning the residents into sex fiends. Listen as we discuss the cautionary side of sexual freedom, define the term "body horror," and discover what types of movies we watch with the blinds closed on this week's exciting episode!

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Nomads (1985)

Sat, 01 May 2021 05:01:57 GMT

Michaela discovers that roaming bands of L.A. punks are actually Nomads (1985), immortal supernatural entities that have existed since time immemorial, living unnoticed on the fringes of human society. French anthropologist Pierce Brosnan discovers this too, and attracts their ire in future Predator and Die Hard director John McTiernan's metaphysical thriller. Listen as we pin down the origin of "the A24 style," and try to decipher this arty horror film for you on this week's exciting episode!

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Dracula 2000 (2000)

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 05:00:38 GMT

Holly brings an immortal bloodsucker roaring back to life in the new millennium with Dracula 2000 (2000), which finds the suave fiend traveling to Louisiana to hunt down a girl with whom he shares a psychic bond, while the still-kickin' Van Helsing and his protégé race to stop him. Listen as we talk about vampire leeches, Biblical secrets, and the Nu-Metal 90's, all on this week's exciting show!

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Howard the Duck (1986)

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 05:00:20 GMT

Sean finds himself trapped on Earth with a space mallard named Howard the Duck (1986), producer George Lucas' big-budget take on the odd Marvel Comics character. Rocker Lea Thompson explores inter-species love with the wisecracking hero as they work to stop a bunch of evil alien creatures from destroying the world. Listen as we talk about traumatic exposure to duck boobs, inappropriate sexual innuendo in a kids movie, and kickass alien scorpion overlords on this week's exciting episode!

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Swamp Thing (1982)

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 05:00:17 GMT

Colin sits ringside for the colossal battle of the swamp monsters alongside Swamp Thing (1982), Wes Craven's adaptation of DC Comic's iconic plant man. When a laboratory incident transforms a scientist into a swamp monster, he finds blossoming love with none other than 80's monster girl Adrienne Barbeau. Listen as we talk helmet hair, bug-eyed rubber monster fights, PG-rated boob shots, and the perils of actors navigating alligator infested swamp water on this week's exciting episode!

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The Stepford Wives (2004)

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 05:00:54 GMT

Michaela takes to task Frank Oz' comedic reworking of The Stepford Wives (2004), a big budget all-star misfire which turns a chilling 1970's feminist paranoia thriller into a toothless skit show starring Matthew Broderick and Nicole Kidman. Listen as we talk about square dancing gradeschoolers, mandatory fun days, piggy bank robot wives and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Serial Mom (1994)

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 05:00:49 GMT

Holly finds life might be perfect by murdering those who disrupt domestic tranquility along with Serial Mom (1994), director John Waters satirical take on American suburbia and the celebrity culture around serial killers. Kathleen Turner stars as the picture perfect housewife-slash-serial killer. Listen as we talk about Franklin Mint collectibles, having a dog wash your feet, and commit the cardinal sin of not recycling our trash on this week's exciting episode!

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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 05:00:16 GMT

Sean loves slasher sequels just like Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), a killer-on-the-loose-at-a-college-campus vintage that finds a group of co-ed film students stalked by a demented whacko in a fencing mask. Listen as we wallow in watered down teen horror, try to make sense of nonsensical plots, and then try to make an impassioned-but-illogical defense of the movie for our final act!

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Slugs (1988)

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 06:00:44 GMT

Colin thinks weaponized salt battle trucks should be a no brainer in the fight against Slugs (1988), a gory eco-horror flick from the director of Pieces. When mutant, man-eating slugs ooze up from the earth, a band of working class heroes must unite to stop the slimy suckers before they consume an entire town! Listen as we talk about methane pollution, bloody sex scenes, exploding heads, exploding towns, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Iced (1988)

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 06:00:00 GMT

Michaela thinks there should be more ski resort-set slasher movies like Iced (1988), which transplants the tried-and-true formula to a snowy mountain cabin where several couples are menaced and murdered by a masked skier, probably as retribution for a long-ago death. Listen as we tell tales of killer Jeffs, hot tub electrocutions, ski pole impalements, icicles as murder weapons, and even more on this week's exciting episode!

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Nightbeast (1982)

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:00:47 GMT

Holly joins the hunt for an ugly (but sharply-dressed) alien spree killer in Nightbeast (1982). After crash landing on Earth, the titular creature begins alternately vaporizing and eating the residents of a woodsy small town, leading the sheriff, his female deputy, and the town's man-of-action to track it down. Listen as we marvel at the wonders of backyard filmmaking while enduring cinema's most awkward love scene, while an alien lunatic runs around disembowling and beheading the townsfolk, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Nothing But Trouble (1991)

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:00:01 GMT

Sean commits the cardinal sin of bringing Nothing But Trouble (1991) to the Freak Show, a movie reviled for being too gross, too weird to exist. But here it is. Writer/director/star Dan Aykroyd reimagines the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a PG-13 comedy, casting himself as a cantankerous judge who holds Chevy Chase and Demi Moore hostage in his boobytrapped hoarder mansion. Listen as Holly and Michaela curse the day Sean was born and relive trauma involving grey hot dogs and even more on this week's exciting episode!

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Never Too Young to Die (1986)

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 06:00:19 GMT

Colin finds that when you're the son of a secret agent, you're Never Too Young to Die (1986). John Stamos plays an unlikely action hero, a college student pressed into service against his deceased dad's arch enemy, a hermaphrodite terrorist played by KISS' Gene Simmons in drag! Listen as we talk about an aversion to long fingernails, sexual frustration and apples, water hose seduction, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Rad (1986)

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 06:00:28 GMT

Michaela gets behind the handlebars of a BMX bike and finds it's Rad (1986). Stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham guides a small town group of bike enthusiasts as they compete against world-traveled pros in an arena dubbed the Helltrack. Listen as we talk toy stuntman playsets, terrible paperboys, cakes in the oven, and marvel at the BMX prom on this week's exciting episode!

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Killer Workout (aka Aerobicide, 1987)

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:00:44 GMT

You demanded it, so we're watching Killer Workout (aka Aerobicide, 1987), the last of our Listener's Choice picks for 2021! Someone's murdering the customers of Rhonda's Workout with a giant safety pin; it's up to a detective and an undercover private eye to unmask the suspect. Listen as we talk about beautiful gyrating bodies, backyard fights, broken drywall, and the hidden origins of the 80's video aerobics videos on this week's exciting episode!

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 06:00:35 GMT

You asked for it, so we're blasting Lectroids from Planet 10 along with The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), a totally bizarro cult item that stars Peter Weller as a scientist, neurosurgeon, martial arts expert and rock star trying to prevent John Lithgow from stealing a device and preventing aliens destroying the planet. Listen as we discover that "wherever you go, there you are" as we try to unscramble one of the world's weirdest movies on this week's exciting episode!

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The Hidden (1987)

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 06:00:15 GMT

You demanded it, so we're chasing down body-hopping alien thrill-killers in The Hidden (1987), a genre-bending sci-fi buddy cop movie that pairs Flashdance's Michael Nouri with Twin Peaks' Kyle MacLachlan as a cop and an FBI agent on the trail of a criminal alien slug from another planet! Listen as we talk alien physiology, what it means to be human, and find out we're driving the meat puppet on this week's exciting episode!

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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 06:01:38 GMT

We shake the pillars of Heaven and burrow deep into the mystical Chinese underworld of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986), the first of our Listener's Choice month selections. Join us as we hop aboard the Pork Chop Express with blowhard hero Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and get into all sorts of martial arts mayhem beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown and listen to Carpenter croon the film's title track on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst of 2020

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 06:01:56 GMT

It's that time of year again where we compile our lists of the Best and Worst Movies of 2020, except this year there was a dearth of new movies so we went a little broader for this special episode, tackling Best TV Show, Best New to You Movie or TV Show, Most Unexpected/Guilty Pleasure, Best/Favorite Movie of 2020, and Biggest Disappointment/Worst Movie of 2020!

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Night Claws (2012)

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 06:00:30 GMT

Holly goes hunting a Sasquatch who maims his victims with his Night Claws (2012), a sub-low budget horror flick from prolific C-grade action movie helmer David A. Prior, pitting sheriff Reb Brown (Yor: The Hunter From the Future) against the titular rampaging beast. Listen as we reminisce about the direct-to-VHS rental days, try to get Sean to sing the film's "Legend of Cooter Brown" ballad, and the bizarre twist-upon-a-twist inclusion of Frank Stallone, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Bloodbeat (1983)

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 06:00:43 GMT

Sean tries to break reality itself (and the brains of the Freak Show crew) with Bloodbeat (1983), a rightfully forgotten Christmas horror pic, shot in rural Wisconsin, which features a woman possessed by the spirit of a vengeful Samurai. Because...why not? Listen as we explore the phenomena of mystical boinging, the sonic landscapes of the Wisconsin farmland, and collectively lose our minds on this week's exciting episode!

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The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 06:00:01 GMT

Colin think's Peter Cushing's doctor is the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Hammer Films full-color, blood and guts version of the classic tale, which made a star out of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee and launched a revitalized interest in Gothic horror in the age of sci-fi and atomic monsters. Listen as we deep dive into stuntman safety, punchable faces, child murder and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Fire in the Sky (1993)

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 06:00:22 GMT

Michaela wants to believe the truth is out there about the Fire in the Sky (1993), a dramatization of the supposedly true story of Travis Walton, a forester who was allegedly abducted by a UFO in 1975. We've got an all-star cast including Robert Patrick, D.B. Sweeny and James Garner and one of the most nightmarish sequences ever conducted on an alien operating table. Listen as we talk belief in extra-terrestrials, anal probes, hot magma, flannel, and the secret origin of Wonder Woman, all on this week's exciting episode!

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John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993)

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:00:05 GMT

Holly discovers every body tells a story in the morgue of John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993), a made-for-TV anthology film which was intended to be Showtime's answer to HBO's Tales From the Crypt...but never took off. The Horror Master uses his wit and ghoulish panache to introduce three terrifying tales. How do they stack up? Listen as we talk serial killer slashers, horrifying hair histrionics, and Mark Hamill at his craziest on this week's exciting episode!

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2020 Thanksgiving Special - Blood Rage

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:00:49 GMT

We felt bad that Holly missed out when we discovered the greatest Thanksgiving slasher movie ever made, Blood Rage (1987), last year, so we threw our pumpkin pie at the wall, declared "it's not cranberry sauce" and headed back to relive the nightmare at Shadow Woods and get her wrap up. You can find our original, full length Blood Rage episode here

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Of Unknown Origin (1983)

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:00:21 GMT

Sean confronts the terror of going insane trying to rid his home of a giant rat in Of Unknown Origin (1983), which stars Peter Weller as a fellow in the same predicament. On the cusp of having it all, a trust fund manager finds his home under siege by a creature hellbent on destroying everything he's built for himself. Listen as we explore obsession, cat-killing rats, the career of Shannon Tweed, and find some of our membership is more pro-rat than pro-human on this week's exciting episode!

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From Beyond (1986)

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 06:00:43 GMT

Colin overstimulates his pineal gland for the ability to see creatures From Beyond (1986), director Stuart Gordon's follow-up to Re-Animator, which reteams him with Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton for another gonzo, over-the-top slime, sex and splatter extravaganza. Listen as we talk about dangling brain stalks emerging from glistening, pulsating orifices and other gory delights on this week's revolting episode!

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Wishmaster (1997)

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 06:00:50 GMT

Michaela learns to be careful what she wishes for after tangling with the Wishmaster (1997), a movie featuring a who's who of horror movie all-stars in the story of an evil genie who wanders around modern day L.A., twisting people's desires into gory, FX-driven deaths. Listen as we talk of djinn, 90's horror, the long shadow of Freddy Krueger, those Wes Craven Presents movies, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Night Killer (1990)

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 05:00:14 GMT

Holly celebrates Halloween with the Yuletide set Night Killer (1990), an Italian-made flick, from the director of Troll 2, that was advertised there as the 3rd Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, despite having no relation. A woman suffers a psychological trauma at the hands of a mask-wearing nutjob, suffers amnesia, and undergoes even more derangement while cops try to catch the killer. Listen as we wonder what the hell was going through the minds of the makers of this movie as we howl with uncontrollable laughter on this week's exciting episode!

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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 05:00:39 GMT

Sean finds vampires in the Wild West in Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), a drive-in classic that was shot in 8 days and features John Carradine, reprising his interpretation of the vampire count, this time trying to steal Billy the Kid's girlfriend. Listen as we talk vampire Westerns, bats with top hats, questionable Wolfsbane, and watch one of the West's famous outlaws save America from a bloodsucking menace on this week's exciting episode!

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The Haunted Palace (1963)

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:00:19 GMT

Colin opens his copy of the Necronomicon to summon the Great Old Ones alongside Vincent Price in The Haunted Palace (1963), one of the big screen's earliest adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and possibly the first time the name C'thulhu is uttered aloud in a movie. The movie was sold as an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, but we know better, don't we? Listen as we talk smoking jackets, possessed portraits, and Bill Hader's Vincent Price impression, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Pumpkinhead (1988)

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:00:28 GMT

Michaela gets into the Halloween spirit with the backwoods-folktale-monster movie Pumpkinhead (1988), in which a grieving father summons the demon of vengeance to hunt and kill the big city interlopers responsible for a family tragedy. Listen as we worship at the majesty of effects creator-turned-director Stan Winston, swamp witches, thick atmosphere, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Village (2004)

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:00:30 GMT

Holly tries to adapt to Ye Olde English and other rules of The Village (2004), the movie that effectively ended the promise of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, who predicates the entire enterprise on a revelation that brought scorn, dismay, and much head wringing from audiences everywhere. Listen as we go on a deep dive into a spoiler-filled analysis of the truth behind The Village on this week's exciting episode!

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Offerings (1989)

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:00:26 GMT

Sean wanders into the bog of cheap-o 80's slasher films and finds Offerings (1989), a movie that rips off so much of Halloween that royalties might be necessary. You know the story: kids push a mentally challenged kid down a well; 10 years later he escapes from a sanitarium, disfigured but supernaturally empowered to seek out and murder each of them. But, have you seen it done in Oklahoma? Listen as we go varmint hunting "ground squirrels," eat pizza with Questionable Sausage, and decry the sad state of crappy streaming apps on this week's exciting episode!

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Zoltan: Hound of Dracula (1978)

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 05:00:47 GMT

This week, Colin can't believe there's a vampire dog movie called Zoltan: Hound of Dracula (aka Dracula's Dog, 1978), a drive-in cheapie in which the titular vampire mutt travels to America in search of Dracula's last living descendant: a guy named Mike Dracula. You may think we're kidding, but we're not! Listen as we talk vampire puppies, Dracula Motors, flashbacks from the point of view of a dog, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Ghost (1990)

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 05:00:14 GMT

Listen as we celebrate our 400th episode with Michaela's nostalgia pick of Ghost (1990), yes, the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore/Whoopi Goldberg romantic-comedy-fantasy-thriller which put a premium on at-home pottery kits and landed the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" on the Billboard Top 100. Listen as we tunnel through eight years of Freak Show history and lore and get appropriately high on our own supply on this week's exciting episode!

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Broken Arrow (1996)

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 05:00:02 GMT

Holly doesn't know what's worse: that we've lost the nuclear weapon, or that it happens so often they call it a Broken Arrow (1996). John Travolta plays a crazy Air Force pilot who steals two of them; Christian Slater is the good guy who has to get them back. Current SAG-AFTRA president Samantha Mathis is a park ranger who helps him out. Ain't it cool? You know it is. Listen as we go all in on John Woo and the Golden Age of the American Action Movie on this week's exciting episode!

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Pet Sematary 2 (1992)

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 05:00:00 GMT

Sean discovers that "sometimes, the original is better" after a return trip to Pet Sematary 2 (1992). The sequel finds a sullen Edward Furlong with mommy issues discovering the sinister power of a cursed Indian burial ground, while Clancy Brown stops around as a clownish undead sheriff. Listen as we talk dead kittens, zombie rape, dog-headed sex, pug taxidermy and more on this week's episode!

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The Beast Must Die (1974)

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:01:20 GMT

Colin stops the movie to guess who the werewolf is in The Beast Must Die (1974), in which a wealthy hunter invites a group of suspects (including Peter Cushing and Michael Gambon) to his estate with the goal of adding a werewolf trophy to his collection. Listen as we talk a little history of England's Amicus Productions, casting German Shepherds as werewolves, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Phantoms (1998)

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:00:08 GMT

Holly puts on a ten gallon hat and takes on an amorphous puddle of alien goo in Phantoms (1998), a movie in which Ben Affleck, Rose McGowan and Peter O'Toole confront an ancient menace living beneath a quiet Colorado town. Listen as we talk about bad 90's horror movie posters, Liev Schreiber going off the reservation, talking computers, giant moths and squid men, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Uninvited (1987)

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:00:56 GMT

Michaela goes yachting with the Russian nesting doll of killer cats with Uninvited (1987), a movie in which the aforementioned killer feline sneaks aboard a slimy rich guy's boat and starts killing the vacationing spring breakers aboard. Listen as we discover a movie - starring Oscar-winner George Kennedy - in which cats come out of the mouths of other cats to feast on the nubile flesh of bikini clad babes in the most relentlessly sexy horror movie of 1987.

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:00:19 GMT

Sean heads back to Texarkana to track down the Phantom Killer who terrorizes The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976). Based on the real-life Moonlight Murders of 1946, a sleepy town finds itself under siege from a hooded killer while local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers set in to solve the crimes. Listen as we talk about independent drive-in moviemaking, prototypical slasher movies, and the use of a trombone as a murder weapon on this week's exciting show!

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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:00:37 GMT

Colin bonds with the T-Virus to fight the Nemesis and tries to take down the Umbrella Corporation with Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), the second installment in the six-film series that loosely adapts the popular video game. This time, heroine Alice must escape the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City before the government nukes it, but a hulking, genetically-engineered bioweapon stands in her way. Listen as we deep dive into the history of one of the most influential video game series in history on this week's exciting episode!

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Dredd (2012)

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 05:00:11 GMT

Michaela becomes judge, jury and executioner of Mega-City One with Dredd (2012), the more-comic-accurate rendering of the classic 2000 A.D. character, in which Karl Urban plays the angry chin with a fistful of guns who must fight his way up 1,000 levels of an apartment block controlled by a sadistic drug kingpin called Ma-Ma. Listen as we get facial cramps from trying to frown like Judge Dredd and then proclaim "I am the law!" in many variations on this week's exciting episode!

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Steel Dawn (1987)

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:00:55 GMT

Holly puts her killin' days behind her but finds its all she's really good at in the wasteland of Steel Dawn (1987), a forgotten Patrick Swazye vehicle that's a cross between Mad Max and Shane. A retired swordslinger befriends a frontier woman and her son and finds himself pushed back into a life of murderin' when an evil baddie sets his sights on their land. Listen as we discover one of the most hilarious hairdos in cinema history among the walrusmen of the post-apocalyptic futureworld on this week's exciting episode!

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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 05:01:02 GMT

Sean learns that people who live in ornate glass houses shouldn't throw stones at the Thirteen Ghosts (2001) housed within! Twelve of the creatures are trapped inside with Tony Shaloub and family, who must figure out how to stop an infernal machine, which is the clockwork house itself, from opening the dreaded Eye of Hell. Listen as we discuss the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright(!), bisected lawyers, AVID farts, and the surprise participation of James Gunn on this week's exciting episode.

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City of the Living Dead (1980)

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 05:00:08 GMT

Colin upchucks in his Upchuck Cup™ while watching the splatter classic City of the Living Dead (1980) from Italy's Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci. A priest hangs himself in a graveyard, thus opening the Gates of Hell, and only a clarivoyant medium, a dogged journalist, and a small town psychiatrist have any chance of stopping it. Listen as we describe vomit disemboweling, brain scooping, maggot storms, and cranial drilling in lovingly disgusting detail on this week's exciting episode!

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After Earth (2013)

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 05:00:44 GMT

Michaela implodes along with Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan with the sci-fi box office dud After Earth (2013). A gruff military dad and his son (Jaden Smith) are marooned on a hostile planet and have only each other to rely on as an extraterrestrial menace - which hunts by sensing their fear - stalks them. Listen as we plot the trajectory of Shyamalan's fall from grace, expose the subtext of Scientology, and bathe in the sin of cinematic nepotism, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Congo (1995)

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 05:01:20 GMT

Holly goes on an adventure safari with an amorous, talking gorilla in Congo (1995). Based on the Michael Crichton novel, the movie finds 3 separate groups of people with 3 separate motives venturing into the jungles of Zaire and running afoul of rhinos, snakes, heat seeking missiles, and, ultimately, killer gorillas. Listen as we tackle implied bestiality, the criminal under-utilization of Bruce Campbell, and frickin' lasers, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Bug (1975)

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:01:25 GMT

Sean learns the hard way that when man tampers with nature, he makes monsters in Bug (1975), the final film from legendary producer William Castle. A California earthquake releases prehistoric, firestarter cockroaches, and that's not bad enough - a mad scientist experiments with them to create an apocalyptic species of devil bug! Listen as we talk about burning down the Brady Bunch house, cat murder, jellied chicken and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Invasion USA (1985)

Sat, 30 May 2020 05:01:10 GMT

Colin finds the third time's the charm in bringing the Freak Show over to team Chuck with Invasion USA (1985). Chuck Norris is a one-man-army, a mythical being that rises from the Florida Everglades to open up a can of whoop ass on foreign terrorists who've invaded his territory: America. Listen as we reveal the secret origin of Chuck Norris Facts, get into the history of the man himself, and hit you with so many right's you'll be begging for a left on this week's exciting episode!

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Jonah Hex (2010)

Sat, 23 May 2020 05:01:37 GMT

Michaela was cool with the big-screen version of DC Comics classic anti-hero Jonah Hex (2010) until he started talking to dead people and rode off into steampunk territory! Hex is a bounty hunter seeking revenge on the evil Confederate colonel who burned down his life, and Megan Fox is the feisty prostitute that he must save before the end of the movie. Listen as we talk supernatural steampunk Westerns, rock out to Mastodon, and mention Wild Wild West more than once on this week's exciting episode!

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Virus (1999)

Sat, 16 May 2020 05:01:03 GMT

Holly finds out flesh is weak but metal is forever when she becomes a robot cyborg after watching Virus (1999), a haunted ship/Alien clone, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland as sailors who make the unwise move of investigating a derelict Russian science vessel with a killer alien robot on board! Listen to tales of yelling 'yar!' at cats, ommetaphobia, find out which mainframe is THE mainframe and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Spookies (Rewatch, 1986)

Sat, 09 May 2020 05:01:19 GMT

Sean couldn't get enough of Spookies (1986) the first time we covered it on our show, so he warps time and space so we can do it again (a Freak Show first)! It's true we watched Spookies before...on December 19th, 2015, to be exact...but Holly and Michaela weren't on the show then and missed out on this cinematic landmark. Listen as we talk farting muckmen, spider women, a menagerie of monsters and the terrible twisted history of Spookies on this week's exciting episode.

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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Sat, 02 May 2020 05:01:03 GMT

Colin geeks out over Hammer Films' single wolfman movie The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), which finds future superstar and tabloid hellraiser Oliver Reed making baptismal fonts boil and howlin' at the moon as a young lad cursed with lycanthropy from birth. Listen as we do a super nerd deep dive on Britain's Hammer Films, fire stunts gone awry, monster makeup and more, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Serenity (2019)

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:01:23 GMT

Michaela beings to question everything about the world she's living in after watching Serenity (2019). You might wonder how this alleged "sexy noir" thriller qualifies as a Freak Show candidate but we can only tell you it does, a bizarre trainwreck of a movie with an A-list cast that runs right off the rails of both sanity and good taste before it's over. Listen as we ponder the metaphysical sciences, and concepts of free will, in our attempt to sort it all out on this week's exciting show!

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Bad Taste (1987)

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 05:01:41 GMT

Holly discovers aliens have turned a small seaside town into a fast food human buffet in Peter Jackson's Bad Taste (1987), a virtuoso splatstick comedy from the director/writer/cinematographer/editor/makeup effects/star. Listen as we get recall experiences with DIY filmmaking, nearly barf thinking about aliens drinking barf, and get closer to mastering the technical hurdles of social distancing, all on this week's exciting episode!

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The Relic (1997)

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:01:41 GMT

Sean ventures into the rainforest and comes back as a big, scaly monster in The Relic (1997). Said creature gets shipped back to Chicago's Field Museum where it decapitates 25 people and is hunted down by the bulk of the metropolitan police force while scientists try to decode its genome, ad nauseum. Listen as we question the wisdom of shooting an entire movie without lighting, wonder about the nutritional value of the hypothalamus, and find out about the St. Lawrence Seaway, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Tourist Trap (1979)

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 05:01:41 GMT

Colin forgets one of life's most valuable lessons: never stop at a backwoods Tourist Trap (1979)! Friendly proprietor Chuck Connors shows off a wax effigy of his wife to young travelers in his off-road "museum" while his telekinetic brother runs around in a creepy mask, encasing beautiful women in plaster. On this episode you'll hear about mannequin orgies, hearts bursting in fright, random nose-blowings and more on this weeks exciting episode!

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Final Destination 3 (2006)

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 05:01:43 GMT

Michaela has a premonition of bad things to come after watching Final Destination 3 (2006), aka the one with the rollercoaster. Mary Elizabeth Winstead suffers survivors guilt after her friends are killed and then tries to save the rest from the machinations of Death itself. Listen as we explore death by tanning bed, the therapy of yelling at bears, Choose Your Own Adventure DVDs, and the legacy of the entire Final Destination series on this week's exciting episode!

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Alone in the Dark (1982)

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 05:01:21 GMT

Holly is lured in by the promise of watching Donald Pleasance, Jack Palance and Martin Landau together in a slasher movie with Alone in the Dark (1982). During a citywide blackout, a quartet of psychos escape from a mental hospital and lay siege to the home of their therapist. Listen as we contemplate bizarre dream sequences, punks against nuclear power, and Jack Palance's lung capacity on this week's exciting show!

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 05:01:23 GMT

Sean wonders if 10 years may have softened the pain of witnessing 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Once upon a time, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes set about to remake every sacred horror movie classic, this time casting Oscar-nominee Jackie Earl Haley as pederast child killer-turned-dream demon Fred Krueger. Listen as we heap scorn at the feet of creatively bankrupt Hollywood money men and ultimately drown in a pit of despair on this week's exciting episode!

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Popcorn (1991)

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 06:01:22 GMT

Colin says you'll "buy a bag, go home in a box" of Popcorn (1991), a slasher film set in a movie theater where lovingly-crafted throwbacks to William Castle-style 50's "gimmick" movies play on screen during an all-night horror movie marathon. Listen as we recount uncomfortable 4D movie theater experiences, explore death by mosquito proboscis, and encounter the terror of crusty corpuscles on this week's exciting episode!

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Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 06:01:07 GMT

Michaela couldn't wait for Sean to get around to showing us his brand new Blu-ray of Tammy and the T-Rex: The Gore Cut (1994), a new version of a video store staple which reinstates a bunch of bloody sequences into formerly "family-friendly" sci-fi comedy. Denise Richards stars as a cheerleader who's jock boyfriend (pre-Fast and the Furious Paul Walker) is killed by bullies and his brain transplanted into an animatronic T-Rex. Listen as we marvel at girl-robot romance, mad scientists, testicular standoffs, and the blistering sexuality of Richards' climactic striptease on this week's exciting episode.

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The Boy (2016)

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:01:34 GMT

Holly says she'd take a job babysitting a haunted doll after watching The Boy (2016). Lauren Cohan, from TV's The Walking Dead, stars as an American nanny who relocates to a spooky English manor house to watch over an eccentric couple's "son," who turns out to be a porcelain doll. Strange occurrences ensue. Listen as we discuss reverse hauntings, giant British billiard tables, and test our tolerance for domestic disturbances on this week's exciting episode!

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Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995)

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 06:01:50 GMT

Greetings, boils and ghouls! Sean tries to resist temptation, survive the night and save the world with Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995)! The popular 90's HBO TV series gets a big-screen upgrade as seven unlucky souls find themselves in an apocalyptic last stand between scruffy paladin William Sadler and a demonic cowboy (Billy Zane) with a coterie of demons in tow. Listen as we discuss the enduring appeal of The Crypt-Keeper, ask 'what ever happened to Billy Zane?', and the value of saving cooking grease, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Deep Red (1975)

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:01:44 GMT

Colin supposes Dario Argento is the godfather of the slasher film after watching Deep Red (aka Profundo Rosso aka The Hatchet Murders, 1975). An English pianist in Rome witnesses a murder and must discover who the black gloved killer is before he becomes the next victim. Listen as we compare the Italian giallo to the American slasher, find direct correlations between Deep Red and Halloween, and explore the strange beauty of giallo titles as we play another round of Giallo Shots on this week's exciting episode!

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The Fanatic (2019)

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 06:01:54 GMT

Michaela supposes that every celebrity's worst nightmare is The Fanatic (2019), in which a movie star-obsessed fan named "Moose" (John Travolta) suffers a series of humiliations at the hands of his screen idol (Devon Sawa), setting the feeble-minded fellow off on a quest to be acknowledged by his hero, at any cost. Listen as we chat about the directorial prowess of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, self-absorbed movie stars, lunatic fans, questionable acting choices and more, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Creepshow (1982)

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 06:01:49 GMT

We wrap up Listener's Choice month with our most requested title: Creepshow (1982), as George Romero and Stephen King team up to pay homage to EC's horror comics of the 1950s. Prepare yourself for five jolting tales of terror, featuring ghouls, monsters, creepy crawlies and revenge from beyond the grave, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Sat, 18 Jan 2020 06:01:21 GMT

Listener's Choice month continues as we move on to our 2nd most requested movie, Sleepaway Camp (1983). Honestly, it's strange we haven't already covered this (although we did watch the sequel, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers). Odd duck Angela and her cousin Ricky spend a summer weekend at Camp Arawak where, almost immediately, people begin dying one by one. What beef does the slasher hold against this wholesome, cheerful bunch of boys and girls? Listen as we talk about required reading in the horror genre, gender confusion, 80's fashions, and the importance of a strong ending on this week's exciting episode!

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John Carpenter's The Fog (1980)

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 06:01:30 GMT

We're watching movies you voted for this month, and coming in at #3 is John Carpenter's The Fog (1980). The seaside hamlet of Antonio Bay is haunted by a 100 year old curse as a supernatural fog descends, bringing with it the ghosts of angry shipwrecked sailors! Listen as we tremble in awe at the power of Tom Atkins' un-mustached upper lip, our fear of being turned inside out, pirate ghost stories, and atmosphere so pungent you can smell it, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:01:49 GMT

We're spending January 2020 watching movies you voted for, kicking off the celebration with #4: Jaws: The Revenge (1987). Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) discovers this time it's personal as a Great White shark sets out to kill every member of her family, presumably in retaliation for its brethren destroyed in the first set of movies, and even follows her from Long Island to the Bahamas to get even. Listen as we talk grandma's romance-filled tropical vacation, obviously mechanical sharks, improbable endings and voodoo, on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2019

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 06:01:00 GMT

It's that time of year again, as we gather 'round the bar to make our picks of the Best and Worst Movies we saw in 2019! Will your favorite make the cut? As always, thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy it!

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John Carpenter's Christine (1983)

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 06:01:36 GMT

Holly burns rubber with John Carpenter's Christine (1983), based on Stephen King's novel. High school nerd Arnie becomes obsessed with restoring an old '58 Plymouth Fury, and gradually, as Christine comes back to life, Arnie gains a new self confidence. But who is killing off the high school bullies who tormented him? Listen as we discuss creepy car salesmen, teenage rebellion, automotive snuff films, and demon cars from hell in this week's exciting episode!

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The Baby (1973)

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 06:01:16 GMT

Sean finds out that what goes on in the baby's room isn't for kids in The Baby (1973)! A new social worker forms and unhealthy obsession with her latest client, a grown man with the maturity of a baby, who's kept in a giant playpen my his peculiar mother and sisters. Listen as we collectively cringe at all the diaper changing, breast feeding, cattle prod-wielding weirdness on this week's exciting episode!

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I Drink Your Blood (1970)

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 06:01:35 GMT

Colin proclaims that "Satan was an acid head" and proceeds to freak out with I Drink Your Blood (1970), a notorious gorefest in which a vengeful tot poisons meat pies with rabies and feeds them to a group of satanic hippies, who then go on a blood-soaked rampage. Listen as amplified lip-smacking sends Sean and Michaela into a paroxysm of disgust, while we learn about Walt Disney's sex education cartoons and the glory days of exploitation cinema on this week's exciting episode!

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Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984)

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 06:01:24 GMT

Michaela thinks dressing up as Santa Claus might prove hazardous to her health in Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984), in which a psycho slasher prowls the streets of London, killing Father Christmas wherever he finds him! Two lovebirds and a Scotland Yard detective try to run down the Santa killer before he slays again. Listen as we mine the shallow subgenre of British slasher movies, Kensington gore, the castration of Santa Claus and more, all on this week's exciting show!

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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 06:01:50 GMT

Holly winds up a reanimated ghoul after aliens enact Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959). Infamously described as "the worst movie ever made", director Ed Wood's sci-fi opus brings aliens to Earth to bring the dead back to life in an effort to conquer the planet. Listen as we expound on the career of Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi's posthumous guest starring role, and generally get a bunch of trivia wrong in this week's exciting episode!

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Eye See You (D-Tox, 2002)

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 06:01:11 GMT

Sean mounts the head of Sylvester Stallone atop the Saturday Night Freak Show Wall of Fame with Eye See You (2002), the closest the Italian Stallion will ever get to being in a horror movie (outside of Cobra). Stallone is a despondent FBI agent who gets shipped off to a cavernous detox center in the wintry wilds of Wyoming and discovers one of the patients there is a killer. But which one? Listen as we talk cigarette censorship, Stallone's killer mitts, and how a flamethrower makes everything better, in this week's exciting episode!

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Blood Rage (1987)

Sat, 09 Nov 2019 06:01:04 GMT

Colin emphatically declares "It's not cranberry sauce!" while surveying the crimson carnage of the holiday slasher Blood Rage (1987). Terry and Todd are identical twins. One of them is a psychopathic killer. After escaping from a mental hospital on Thanksgiving, he of them heads back home to bring a nightmare to the tenants of the Shadow Woods apartment complex. Listen as we talk about condom salesmen, Oedipal complexes, pumpkin pie mutilation, and bloody mayhem on this week's exciting show!

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Countdown (2019)

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:01:23 GMT

Michaela finds she can't uninstall the grim reaper in the smartphone horror flick Countdown (2019). A young nurse finds herself stalked by death after downloading a killer app which ticks off the minutes until her predicted death, and must enlist the help of a sardonic wireless salesman and a rap-loving priest to save herself. Listen as we talk technological terrors, #MeToo in the workplace, and user agreements from Hell, on this week's exciting episode!

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Jennifer's Body (2009)

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 05:01:54 GMT

Holly finds that all the boys, the girls, and the demons are obsessed with possessing Jennifer's Body (2009). Sex symbol Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried star in a tale of two childhood BFFs whose friendship begins to fracture when one of them becomes possessed by a demon and starts eating people. Listen as we discuss satanic rock bands, female power fantasies, the career longevity of Adam Brody, and the made-up slang of writer Diablo Cody, all on this week's exciting episode.

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Halloween II (1981)

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:01:05 GMT

Sean gets us to watch his preferred version of Halloween II (1981, aka "the censored, alternate universe TV cut"). Listen as we reminisce about watching R-rated movies get sterilized for television, marvel at the editorial free-reign afforded Universal's broadcast wing in the 1980's, and bash Halloween (2018) again, all on this week's supernerd episode. WARNING: Intimate knowledge of every editorial decision made for the theatrical version of Halloween II may be required for full enjoyment of this podcast.

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The Funhouse (1981)

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:01:15 GMT

Colin runs for his life from a hideously deformed carny after witnessing the strange goings-on inside The Funhouse (1981). Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper's first studio feature follows a quartet of teens into a traveling carnival which may be hiding a monster within. Listen as we talk about county fairs, turkey legs, freak tents, fortune tellers and monkeys-riding dogs, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Phantasm (1979)

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 05:01:21 GMT

Michaela finds herself on the receiving end of head-drilling, brain-sucking silver spheres of death with Phantasm (1979)! Brothers Mike and Jody, along with hippie ice-cream man Reggie, investigate creepy goings-on at the local mortuary and run afoul of the sinister Tall Man. Listen as we chat about nightmares, drive-ins, impromptu jam sessions, and worship at the altar of the '71 Hemi 'Cuda, all on this week's exciting episode!

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House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 05:01:05 GMT

Holly offers the Internet Radio Superstars $1 million a piece to spend the night in the House on Haunted Hill (1999). Five strangers find themselves trapped in a former art deco insane asylum along with ghosts, creeps, ghouls and a rich married couple (Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen) who amuse themselves by plotting to kill each other. Listen as we remember horror's PT Barnum, William Castle; late 90's haunted house movies; and try to get a sponsorship from Cameo.com; all on this week's exciting episode!

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 05:01:13 GMT

Sean takes a whack at the Big Apple with Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989). Getting tired of chopping up teens at a woodsy summer camp, Jason hops aboard a cruise ship bound for NYC where he finds himself welcomed by a city in which he fits right in. Listen as we rank all the Friday the 13th movies, pay tribute to Kane Hodder's contribution to the series, and marvel at improbable teleportation and ghostly visions in this week's exciting episode.

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It: Chapter Two (2019)

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 05:01:57 GMT

We go on a return Freak Show Field Trip to the clown-haunted sewers of Derry, Maine for a final confrontation with It: Chapter Two (2019). Twenty-seven years have past since 7 kids thought they beat a child-eating monster that lives beneath their hometown; now, they're summoned back once it's discovered to have survived. Listen as we talk about killer clowns from outer space, changes between Stephen King's novel and the screen adaptations, and all sorts of other It-related nonsense on this week's exciting episode!

Get caught up by listening to our It (2017) review!

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Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

Sat, 07 Sep 2019 05:01:11 GMT

Colin lives through the holy terror of communion with a freaky Catholic slasher with Alice, Sweet Alice (1976). Little Brooke Shields, in her first film role, is murdered in church and suspicion falls on her troubled sister, Alice. Is she the masked killer in the yellow rain slicker? Listen as we talk about religious fanaticism, pedophile landlords, schizoid tweens, and soap opera dynamics on this week's exciting show!

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Hell Night (1981)

Sat, 31 Aug 2019 05:01:25 GMT

Holly finds that fraternity hazing rituals aren't complete without a deranged murderer on the loose on Hell Night (1981). A quartet of pledges locked up in a spooky old mansion who discover that tales of a psychotic killer loose in the house may be true. Listen as we fathom the post-Exorcist sex appeal of Linda Blair, the bizarre bedroom rituals of college surfers, face grabbing as a power move, and more strange behavior on this week's exciting episode!

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Vacancy (2007)

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 05:01:27 GMT

Michaela swears off going on vacation after watching Vacancy (2007). Quarreling marital duo Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsdale, en route to getting a divorce, stop off at an out-of-the-way motel and end up tormented by three masked men who are intent on adding them to their snuff film enterprise. Listen as we talk about the zeitgeist of horror films in the 2000's, motel-set horror movies, and tips to surviving the worst night of your life on this week's exciting episode!

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Roar (1981)

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 05:01:29 GMT

Sean makes a bet that he'll never be killed by lions, a claim that can't be made by the makers of Roar (1981). Called "the most dangerous movie ever made," a madman takes his family (including Melanie Griffith and her mother, The Birds star Tippi Hedren) into a habitat full of man-eating lions, tigers, and leopards to make a movie, resulting in over 70 cast and crew injuries. And that's what really happened, not the plot of the film! Listen as we share our slack-jawed disbelief at watching one of the most nail-bitingly irresponsible films ever made on this week's exciting show!

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The Sentinel (1977)

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 05:01:49 GMT

Colin finds himself forever standing guard over the Gates of Hell as The Sentinel (1977), in a star-studded Satanic supernatural shocker from Death Wish director Michael Winner. A beautiful model moves into a New York City brownstone and finds herself terrorized by bizzaro neighbors and nightmarish visions while a blind priest, who lives in the apartment above hers, may hold the answers. Listen as we talk naked orgies involving the elderly, a touching scene involving Mrs. Clark Griswold, and one of 70's horror's most scary moments on this week's exciting episode!

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Strays (1991)

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:01:52 GMT

Michaela finds herself surrounded by killer felines in Strays (1991), in which a family moves into a country home only to find it's cellar is the lair of one super-pissed off, territorial cat and a furry army of murderous pussies. Listen as we debate the existence of the LA Metro, discuss the dynamics of Lifetime movie dramas, and unravel the mysteries of one Chuck Lubin, all on this exciting episode!

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Idle Hands (1999)

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 05:01:34 GMT

Holly gets baked with the stoner horror comedy Idle Hands (1999), in which forgotten teen heartthrob Devon Sawa discovers his right hand is possessed by Evil, his stoner buddies come back to life as zombies, the hot girl across the street improbably has the hots for him too, and a Druidic demon hunter wants to kill him. Listen as we talk about the career trajectories of Seth Green and Jessica Alba, severed hand movies, and teen girl crushes, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Carnosaur (1993)

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 05:01:31 GMT

Sean imagines ending the world with a plague of dinosaurs courtesy of this week's flick, Carnosaur (1993), an ultra low budget Roger Corman-produced quickie designed to ride the dinosaur phenomenon created by Jurassic Park. Diane Ladd stars as a mad scientist determined to destroy the civilized world and restore dinosaurs to their place at the top of the food chain. Somewhere in there, newly minted dinosaurs rampage through the small town of Climax, NV. Listen to our instructive advice for budding filmmakers after our brains overheat while trying to follow the plot of this movie!

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American Ninja (1985)

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 05:01:57 GMT

Colin geeks out to flame-throwing, laser-blasting, smoke pellet-chucking ninja action in American Ninja (1985). Michael Dudikoff was chosen by Cannon Films to step in when Chuck Norris passed on the project, to play an American G.I. (named Joe!) who must use his master-level ninja skills to defeat an arms dealer and his army of ninja assassins. Listen as we marvel at hitherto unknown ninja magic, the star power of underappreciated action star Steve James, and the wisdom of keeping your kids away from ninja movies, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Orca (1977)

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 05:01:42 GMT

Michaela finds herself pursued by a killer whale with a death wish in Orca (1977)! After a fisherman (Richard Harris) kills his mate and her baby, a killer whale single-mindedly hunts him down, killing everyone he knows in an attempt to bait him out to sea for open fish-vs-man combat! Listen as we talk about Jaws ripoffs, post-apocalyptic roller derbies, leg-capitation, and the best place to eat at the Wisconsin Dells, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Motel Hell (1980)

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 14:01:42 GMT

Holly finds that it takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters, and worries about the fate of Igor the mailman as we watch Motel Hell (1980). A kindly farmer and his wife sell the best smoked meats out of their rural motel/hog farm -- the kind of cannibalistic treat made from the body parts of unfortunate visitors! Listen as we talk about the life and career of Freak Show Hall of Famer Rory Calhoun, the best way to season BBQ, chainsaw duels, and pig-headed killers on this week's exciting episode!

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Circle of Iron (1978)

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 05:01:42 GMT

Sean heads off to a magical land of barbarian kickboxers in search of enlightenment with Circle of Iron (1978, aka The Silent Flute). Allegedly Bruce Lee's personal dream project, it was realized after his death with David Carradine taking on the role of The Blind Man (and several other characters) who lend wisdom to a muscular warrior on a quest to retrieve a sacred book from an evil wizard. Or something. Listen as Eastern philosophy comes crashing down on Western knuckleheads as we weigh the merits of dissolving the Terrible Thing with Eli Wallach, face the trials, and espouse our own nuggets of ancient wisdom on this most excellent episode.

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Forbidden World (1982)

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:01:15 GMT

Colin celebrates Alien's 40th anniversary by watching the sleazy, low-budget Roger Corman version: Forbidden World (1982, aka Mutant)! An intergalactic "troubleshooter" is summoned to a distant research outpost where all the women get naked and throw themselves at him while a giant creature alternately eats the crew and/or turns them into pulsating puddles of goo. Listen as we marvel at the styrofoam sets - designed by future wunderkind James Cameron, and witness gratuitous space nooky, gory prosthetic effects, and kamakaze space flute playing, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 05:01:31 GMT

Michaela spins us a full-on spider apocalypse as we watch William Shatner versus the Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), a movie that finds The Shat (in a lull between Star Treks) playing the curiously christened "Rack" Hansen: Horseback Veterinarian, a good-old-boy who must save his arid Arizona community from an attack by thousands of poisonous tarantulas. Listen as Shatner puts his real-life cowboy skills to use as hundreds of spiders learn how to cut power and phone lines (before breaking windows en masse) and one woman makes the questionable choice to use a firearm to remove spiders from her body; all this and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Copycat (1995)

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 05:01:40 GMT

Holly explores the 90's movies' fascination with serial killers with the Serial Killer Greatest Hits movie Copycat (1995), wherein Sigourney Weaver plays agoraphobic psychologist who lends her expertise to the San Francisco P.D. when a psychopath begins recreating the murder scenes of infamous mass killers all around town. Listen as we revisit the "computer morph", ogle open floor plan houses, and marvel at the way the 90's understood the Internet, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)

Sat, 25 May 2019 05:01:58 GMT

Sean sneaks a made-for-video movie into the dark bowels of the Saturday Night Freak Show screening room with his pick of Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996), the promised final entry in his 2019 Spring of Sequels selections. Listen as we talk about the extended life of the beloved(?) Tremors movie series (and retirement savings project for series regular Michael Gross) which currently stands at four sequels, a prequel, and a TV series, with an announced 7th movie on the way!

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The Manitou (1978)

Sat, 18 May 2019 05:01:55 GMT

Colin thinks The Manitou (1978) is the greatest movie ever made about a woman with a reincarnated 400-year-old Indian medicine man growing on her neck! In one of the 70's strangest supernatural thrillers, Tony Curtis plays a fortune teller who has to recruit a modern day Native American shaman to combat an evil spirit that's taken possession of his girlfriend. Listen as we endure hysterical fortune telling, breezy seances, Indian mysticism, an evil dwarf, ghost lizards, skinned men, frozen hospitals, exploding typewriters, and cosmic encounters on this week's episode.

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Man's Best Friend (1993)

Sat, 11 May 2019 05:01:04 GMT

Michaela thinks Jaws would have been better with paws, and to prove it she offers up Man's Best Friend (1993)! Intrepid reporter Ally Sheedy frees Max, a Tibetan Mastiff, from an experimental medical facility and slowly learns, to her horror, that the genetically-engineered mutt is an unstoppable, blood-thirsty killer. Meanwhile, dogged scientist Lance Henriksen does his best to retrieve the beast before it's too late. Listen as we talk about "when animals attack" movies, "lecture" movies, and potential health benefits of drinking "celery water," all on this week's exciting episode!

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Lake Placid (1999)

Sat, 04 May 2019 05:01:17 GMT

Holly takes us back to a simpler time, when a giant crocodile ate a small Maine town called Lake Placid (1999). National treasure Betty White feeds cows to the beast, which eventually starts eating the locals, which doesn't set well with the local sheriff, who calls in DNR specialist Bill Pullman, paleontologist Bridget Fonda, and crocodile-worshiping freak Oliver Platt to deal with the creature. Listen as we make a case for Twister being the best giant monster movie of the '90's on this week's exciting episode!

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RoboCop 2 (1990)

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 05:01:04 GMT

Sean gets under the hood of Robocop 2 (1990), which sees our favorite cyborg police officer go up against both a corrupt corporation and the minions of a cult leader/drug peddler/terrorist before becoming literally transformed into the P.C. police and then regaining his senses to lead what's left of Detroit's law enforcement against a technological terror known as RoboCop Two. Listen as we get into the nuts and bolts of comic-book scribe Frank Miller's dystopian sequel and hear your thoughts on the new Pet Sematary remake, all on this week's exciting show!

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Waxwork (1988)

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 05:01:05 GMT

Colin brings on the monster apocalypse by opening the doors to Waxwork (1988). Six friends spend the night at a ghoulish wax museum where each fall through portals into scenes from monster movies from the past, facing werewolves, Dracula and the mummy, as a diabolical warlock plots to bring the creatures back to life and destroy the world. Listen as we long for the halcyon days of Vestron Video, VHS movie nights, steak tartare, self referential horror movies, and goopy special effects, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Pet Sematary (2019)

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 05:01:19 GMT

Michaela comes to find out there's truth in the phrase "sometimes, dead is better" as we watch the remake of Pet Sematary (2019). Stephen King's classic novel gets resurrected, this time with stars Jason Clarke, John Lithgow, and Amy Seimetz. Listen to our overlong therapy session (masquerading as a podcast) and talk about Wendigos, kids in animal masks and undead cows, all on this week's exciting episode!

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The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:01:01 GMT

Sean wonders if The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) is the most '90's movie that ever '90'd. A sort-of-sequel to Stephen King's troubled teenager story, The Rage features an angsty teenage protagonist who begins to manifest telekinetic powers while being tormented by the jocks on the football team. Listen as we learn more about Sean's love of sequels, discuss "artistic" filmmaking, and find out why CD's make the best murder weapons, all on this week's exciting episode!

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No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 05:01:02 GMT

Holly squares off against the Red menace with her dope karate skills with No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) which finds perennial Freak Show favorite Jean-Claude Van Damme as the villainous Ivan Kraschinsky, a Russian enforcer for the New York Mafia, tasked with defeating an American kid who's been trained in the martial arts by the ghost of none other than Bruce Lee himself. Listen as we talk about spontaneous break dancing, garage dojos, sexy training techniques, missing reels, alternate cuts, and full contact karate tournaments on this week's exciting show!

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The Burning (1981)

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 05:01:02 GMT

Colin stirs the wrath of a horribly scarred, killer summer camp caretaker with The Burning (1981), a splatter flick from the genre's Golden Age that features gore and grue by legendary makeup FX man Tom Savini. A guy named Cropsey gets burned alive in a prank gone wrong and returns to camp five years later to murder every teenager alive, including Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens and Holly Hunter! Listen as we compare classic and modern slasher movies, the FX career of the Sultan of Splatter, and challenge you to try Malort, all on this week's exciting episode!

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The Descent (2005)

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:01:16 GMT

Michaela dives deep into the bowels of the Earth on a caving expedition that uncovers mutant monster people in The Descent (2005), the second film from Dog Soldiers director Neil Marshal. Listen as we experience claustrophobia, nyctophobia, androphobia, discuss evolutionary biology, and the improbability of the hero neck snap, all that and more on this week's thrilling episode!

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Frankenhooker (1990)

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 06:01:05 GMT

Holly wades through exploding hookers, severed limbs, and mad science with Frankenhooker (1990)! When his girlfriend is killed in a freak remote-controlled lawmower accident, Jeffrey Franken will stop at nothing to resurrect his lost love, even if it means sewing her head on the body parts of dead New York City hookers. Things go wrong when the resurrected ho-bag returns to her old Times Square stomping grounds. Listen as we analyze East Coast Horror, your dad's BBQ grilling shoes, and the dangers of smoking supercrack, all on this week's thrilling episode!

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Blacula (1972)

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 06:01:05 GMT

Colin dusts off the crucifix and holy water to deal with Dracula's soul brother, Blacula (1972). African prince Mamuwalde visits Dracula's castle and is cursed with vampirism. He later awakens in 70's L.A. and uses his supernatural charm to woo the reincarnation of his long lost love while leaving a trail of bloodless bodies in his wake. Listen as we chart the intersection of the modern day vampire and the Blaxsploitation genres, talk about the birth of Black horror films, find no love for Dark Shadows, and think Thalmus Rasulala might be one of the coolest names ever, all that and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Mac and Me (1987)

Sat, 23 Feb 2019 06:01:00 GMT

Michaela thinks Spielberg could have a strong legal case against Mac and Me (1988), which follows an adorable, wart covered, pucker-faced creature from another world stranded on earth. He's taken in by a young boy and spends the movie getting into mischief while trying to get home to his alien family. Listen as our jaws gape at improbable physics, dangerous paraplegic stunt work, impromptu McDonald's musical numbers, and stomach-churning but friendly aliens, all that and more on this week's exciting show!

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Malone (1987)

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:01:00 GMT

Holly charts the fall of a Hollywood icon with Malone (1987), which finds fading superstar Burt Reynolds playing a modern day Shane, here an ex-CIA hitman, who winds up intervening in a battle between a sinister corporate developer and the inhabitants of a small mountain town. Listen as we dive deep into the lore, the loves, and the life of the legendary Burt on this epic episode!

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Valentine (2001)

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 06:01:10 GMT

Sean wants you to be his Valenine (2001), even if that means he has to dress up like Cupid and kill you to death! A masked murderer stalks a group of five girls who each turned down the advances of an awkward kid in 6th grade. Has he held a killer grudge against them for 13 years? Listen as we discover hot tub phobias, improbable ninjitsu serial killers, and improbable endings; all this and more on this week's exciting show!

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Train to Busan (2016)

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 06:01:12 GMT

We try to outrun the zombie apocalypse aboard the Train to Busan (2016), the last of our listener choice picks for the year. As a zombie outbreak threatens South Korea, a father and his young daughter join other survivors on a bullet train from Seoul to Busan, where they must overcome the terrors on board, both human and non. Listen as we discover Korean action heroes, punchable bad guys, do our best zombie impersonations, and that Sean would leave us all to the zombie horde, all this and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Magic (1978)

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 06:01:52 GMT

Abracadabra! We experience all sorts of split personalities when we watch Magic (1978), the creepy ventriloquist dummy movie starring Anthony Hopkins as a stage magician whose grip on reality begins to slip when pressures in his life begin to mount up. Listen as we talk about creepy puppets, Jeff Dunham, the best method to dispose of a body, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Super Mario Bros (1993)

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 06:01:07 GMT

Where's Wario? We may have plugged up the toilet and are in need of a coupla plumbers after watching Super Mario Bros (1993), the big-budget adaptation of the popular Nintendo game. Brothers Mario and Luigi are whisked into another dimension full of dino-people, ruled over by the evil King Koopa. Their mission: rescue Princess Daisy and a gemstone that could destroy the world. Listen as we talk about dystopian movies from the 1990's, magic plumber powers, and bleeding edge 1993 CGI and puppetry on this week's exciting show!

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Detention (2011)

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 06:01:30 GMT

Can a movie drive its viewers insane? That's the warning label we're putting on Detention (2011), the first listener pick of the month! A slasher, UFO's, time traveling bears, and alien vegetable people disguised as Canadians collide in a high school obsessed with 90's pop culture nostalgia in an ADHD movie that defies rational thought and may have you reaching for the Ritalin. Listen as we try to keep up on this week's episode!

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Best and Worst of 2018

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 06:01:15 GMT

Gather 'round as we sum up the best and worst movies we saw in 2018 with our annual Best and Worst episode. Listen as we go around the table and attempt to distill a year in film down to our choices for the 5 best movies and the 1 we think was the worst. Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

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New Year's Evil (1980)

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:44:28 GMT

Colin celebrates the New Year with a murder in each of America's four time zones with New Year's Evil (1980)! An L.A. radio personality receives threatening phone calls during her televised New Year's Eve bash from a psychopathic killer on a schedule to murder someone each hour, with her as the final target. Listen as we dissect the tropes of the American Slasher Film, early 80's New Wave music, and discover a movie where a bag of marijuana is used as a murder weapon: all this and more on this week's exciting show!

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Bad Moon (1996)

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 06:01:02 GMT

Michalea chains herself to a tree to avoid going on a Bad Moon (1996) rampage! Thor is a German Shepherd who becomes agitated when werewolf Uncle Ted (Michael Pare) moves his trailer into his sister's picturesque Canadian Pine backyard. Listen as we talk about the movies of writer-director Eric Red, name five favorite movie werewolves, and talk wholesome family sex-and-gore movies, all that more on this week's episode!

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Sidekicks (1992)

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:01:14 GMT

Holly suggests that if you spend as much time daydreaming of Chuck Norris as Jonathan Brandis does in Sidekicks (1992), you may have a mental health problem! The Chuckster plays himself in a series of vignettes designed to play as a child's fantasy of adventure along side his favorite screen hero, while in real life the kid learns martial arts to take on school bullies and learn to rely on himself. Listen as we talk about mental disorders, ruin our childhoods by psychoanalyzing kids movies, and try to understand the inscrutable appeal of Chuck Norris on this week's exciting episode!

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Chopping Mall (1986)

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 06:01:24 GMT

Sean tries to find the killswitch for the Killbots of the 80's cult classic Chopping Mall (1986). A group of mall workers stay after-hours to have sex in a furniture store and end up getting locked in with the mall's state-of-the art security system, a trio of killer robots. Listen as we avoid the pitfalls of buying used mattresses, talk about 80's movie robot design, the career of schlockmeister director Jim Wynorski, and discover that a movie called Chopping Mall is all mall and no chop, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Angel (1984)

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:01:51 GMT

Colin takes a trip back to the rain-slicked, neon streets of Hollywood Boulevard in the 1980's with Angel (1984), about a high school honor student by day who moonlights as a hooker by night. She's being stalked by a psycho who preys on streetwalkers while a virtuous cop and a colorful gang of misfits look out for her. Listen as we find out the correct way to eat a raw egg and bathe in the sewer of cinematic sleaze on this week's exciting episode!

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No Holds Barred (1989)

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:01:53 GMT

Michalea asks "Whatcha gonna do when the Hulkster runs wild on you?" and gets in the ring with Hulk Hogan in No Holds Barred (1989). Hogan, fittingly, plays a wrestler named "Rip" who is lured into the fight of his life in rules-free Battle of the Tough Guys tournament organized by an oily cable TV executive. Can better believe it, brother! Find out the meaning of life, the universe and everything as we review one of wrestling cinema's greatest achievements on this week's episode!

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Miami Connection (1987)

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:01:53 GMT

Holly takes on cocaine-fueled, motorcycle-riding ninja warriors with the power of rock n' roll with Miami Connection (1987), purported to be one of the best worst movies ever made. Evil Miami ninjas threaten the peaceful existence of Tae Kwon Do-practicing Orlando, and the chosen warriors of the band Dragon Sound are called upon to take them on. Listen as we recount tales of how a bad movie of this magnitude became a beloved cult classic while Michaela performs Jim's monologue, all on this week's exciting episode!

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My Soul to Take (2010)

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:01:48 GMT

Sean takes his love of ornithology to new heights as he soars like a California Condor over Wes Craven's My Soul to Take (2010), which finds bird-loving teenager Bug (Max Theiriot) -- along with six of his friends, who are all celebrating the same birthday -- wondering if he is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer, known as the Riverton Ripper, who allegedly died on the same day 16 years ago. Listen as we try to untangle and keep up with the convoluted plot of one of Craven's most dense (and oddly autobiographical) movies on this week's exciting episode!

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Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 05:01:44 GMT

Colin swears an oath to join the Count Dracula Society and summons the prince of darkness with Dracula A.D. 1972, a late-cycle entry into Hammer Films' Dracula series. The sinister majesty of Christopher Lee's Count is paired with the unflappable determination of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing, with the action updated into the silliness of Austin Powers-era swinging London. Listen as we talk about vampire movie rules, questionable fashion choices, and talk about how much of a badass Christopher Lee was in real-life, all on this week's exciting show!

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Halloween (2018)

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 05:01:50 GMT

The Internet Radio Superstars take a Freak Show Field Trip to go see the newest Michael Myers' stab-a-thon, Halloween (2018), which brings back 5-time series regular Jamie Lee Curtis, still suffering from the trauma of his Halloween night homecoming 40 years ago. Listen as we dive into a spoiler-heavy, nuts and bolts discussion of what we thought worked and what didn't, and we each rank the entire Halloween movie series on this week's exciting episode!

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Intruder (1989)

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:01:52 GMT

Michaela proposes 'The Night Stocker' might be a better title for Intruder (1989), a slasher movie set within the confines of a grocery store. Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, and Bruce Campbell all appear in this gory tongue-in-cheek thriller which finds a late shift crew killed off one by one by a homicidal maniac. Listen as we relive the trauma of our retail job experiences, revel in the gory delights of practical effects' slaughter, and talk about famous movie families in this week's exciting episode!

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The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 05:01:38 GMT

Holly hopes she doesn't get thrown in with The People Under the Stairs (1991), Wes Craven's social comment on class warfare between a ghetto-born kid named Fool and a couple of wealthy weirdos, played by Twin Peaks alumni Everett McGill and Wendy Robie. To keep from being evicted, Fool and Co. break into the ridiculously fortified, booby-trapped house of their landlords and finds breaking out nearly impossible. Listen as we find there's no truth in advertising, mourn the loss of Wes Craven, and celebrate out 300th Episode with champagne and cigars, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Slaughter High (1986)

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:01:05 GMT

Sean discovers what is perhaps the only 80's British slasher movie, Slaughter High (1986). It's set in the USA but filmed in England, with British actors faking their way through American accents as they recount the tale of a tormented nerd, disfigured by his classmates, who returns to stalk and kill them at a high school reunion. Listen as we get the theme music stuck in our heads, add the beautiful Caroline Munro to the Freak Show Hall of Fame, and catalog the slaughter of Slaughter High -- all on this week's exciting episode!

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1973)

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 05:01:21 GMT

Colin hits the road with the Shogun's executioner and his son in Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1973), the fourth in a series of cult Japanese samurai movies that follow the exploits of the deadliest father/son duo in the history of mass slaughter. Together they cut through an endless supply of hypertensive ninjas and tangle with a topless, tattooed female assassin. Listen as we mispronounce all sorts of Japanese words, marvel at the film's excessive bloodletting, and stand in awe of stone-cold child warriors on this week's exciting episode!

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Catwoman (2004)

Sat, 22 Sep 2018 05:01:15 GMT

Michaela thinks Catwoman (2004) is the purrrfect way to prove that no matter how bad you think comic book movies can get, they can always get worse. Oscar winner Halle Berry stars as a meek graphic designer who becomes possessed by an immortal housecat, which leads her to dress like a stripper to get revenge on the evil cosmetics company who wronged her. Listen to the dismay in our voices as we try to puzzle out who thought this movie was a good idea on this week's exciting episode!

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Cliffhanger (1993)

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 05:01:14 GMT

Holly scales to the height of adventure with Sylvester Stallone's Cliffhanger (1993), which finds the action star as a rescue climber crawling over mountains at the command of super-villain John Lithgow (and his phony English accent) in pursuit of three suitcases containing $100 million. Listen as we marvel over the film's stuntwork, twirl our mustaches with over the top villainy, and try not to leave you hanging by the end of this week's exciting episode!

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John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1993)

Sat, 08 Sep 2018 05:01:53 GMT

Sean suffers a parental nightmare when kids start reading minds and killing people with their thoughts in John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1993). After an unexplained blackout, women in a small, isolated village awaken to find themselves pregnant; the children grow up to be emotionless, blonde automatons who all share a collective consciousness and ultimately want to enslave humanity with their alien will. Listen as we chat about the downslide of John Carpenter's directorial career, question the acting prowess of Mark Hamill, and answer a Super Mailbag on this week's exciting episode!

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10 to Midnight (1983)

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 05:01:36 GMT

Colin tries to rescue the Summer of Cannon with the Charles Bronson-starring slasher hybrid 10 to Midnight (1983). The flick finds cop Bronson squaring off against a coed-killing psycho who strips buck naked to stalk and kill his quarry; he eventually bends the law to keep his nursing student daughter (Beverly Hills Cop's Lisa Eilbacher) safe from the killer's clutches. Listen as we talk about Hollywood vigilantes, Bronson's career, flesh dongles, strange 80's sex toys, and coin the phrase 'slipping someone a Cosby', all on this week's exciting show!

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The Thing (2011)

Sat, 25 Aug 2018 05:01:04 GMT

Sean would prefer not to spend the winter tied to a couch with The Thing (2011), a remake of John Carpenter's seminal 1982 sci-fi/horror classic that's disguised itself as a prequel. Here, we get to find out what happened to that ill-fated Norwegian team before Kurt Russell and co. discovered it, only this time we're lead into battle by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Listen as we give the poorly received reThing another shot, tell tales of practical effects-averse studios, and take a look at each other's teeth in an attempt to verify we're still human, all on this week's exciting episode!

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The Meg (2018)

Sat, 18 Aug 2018 05:01:39 GMT

Holly goes chumming for a giant prehistoric shark in the action-thriller The Meg (2018), a tale of a hungry megalodon, which has survived for thousands of years at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that gets loose thanks to some meddling deep-sea scientists. Man-of-action Jason Statham is called in to track and kill the fearsome beast before it can make lunch out of hundreds of Chinese beachgoers. Listen as we consider the film's troubled production history, contemplate all the killer shark movies that have come before, and find a new appreciation for Jason Statham in this week's exciting episode!

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The Boy Next Door (2015)

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 05:01:41 GMT

Michaela might like to live next to The Boy Next Door (2015), as long as he doesn't turn out to be a raving psychopath! Unfortunately for Jennifer Lopez, she doesn't have that kind of luck. Teacher J Lo has one night stand with the 19-year-old next door neighbor/student and quickly comes to regret it as he turns out to be a unhinged nutball. Listen as we pine for the return of the erotic thriller genre, consider the career longevity of director Rob Cohen, and imagine the process to get one's heinie insured, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 05:01:05 GMT

Kolin kontends with Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)! In this pastiche of 1950's-era alien invasion flicks, clown-like creatures from space arrive in a small American town and begin luring and trapping the citizenry using circus-inspired gags including cotton candy cocoons and lethal popcorn guns, while two lovebirds try to get the authorities to believe and assist them in stopping the killer clowns before it's too late. Listen as we prattle on about the Chidodo Brothers, clown gags, old school special effects and 50's sci-fi movies on this week's exciting episode!

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Hercules (1983)

Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:01:08 GMT

Michaela parts the continents, brings down the wrath of the gods, and tosses bears into space alongside Hercules (1983), starring Lou ("The Incredible Hulk") Ferrigno as the musclebound hero. In this unholy alliance between Cannon Films and Italian genre cinema, Starcrash director Luigi Cozzi guides Hercules through his 12 labors, complete with power swords, laser beams, robot monsters, scantily clad ladies, and feats of strength. Listen as we marvel at the adventures of the mighty Hercules on this week's exciting show!

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The Last Exorcism (2010)

Sat, 21 Jul 2018 05:01:49 GMT

Holly tries to cast out the Devil (and his junior partner Abalam) using The Last Exorcism (2010). A documentary film crew follows a charismatic preacher who has fallen from grace and now intends to expose exorcism as hokum; but, of course, the remote farm he's summoned to may be home to real demonic evil after all. Listen as we dive in to the Freak Show's first found-footage movie and talk about demons, religion, and giant sharks on this week's exciting episode!

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:01:17 GMT

Sean uses the word "nostalgia" one time too many in his review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) as a quartet of Hollywood up-and-comers, including Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar, appear in this Scream-style "diet" slasher movie in which they are each stalked by a killer in a fisherman's getup as payback for a murder they covered up the year before. Listen as we try to work out some slasher-movie logic, connect dots between performers in 1990's TV shows, and admire J Love's stylish cleavage-enhancing ensembles on this week's exciting show!

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Alligator (1980)

Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:01:27 GMT

Colin discovers there really are giant alligators living in the sewers in the monster movie Alligator (1980), which finds cop Robert Forster hunting down the 25 foot long beast that ate his partner. Said gator had been down in the sewers eating disposed of test animals from a pharmaceutical company, and all hell breaks loose when it comes above ground and starts chomping its way through the mean streets of the city! Listen as we talk about receding hairlines, live animals on miniature sets, horror movies for dogs, and get gleeful about monsters eating kids on this week's exciting episode!

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Double Impact (1991)

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 05:01:33 GMT

Holly thinks the only actor good enough to star opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in Double Impact (1991), which finds the action star stretching his acting muscles to play two brothers - separated at birth - who meet up in Hong Kong to get revenge for their parents' murder. Listen as we talk about Hollywood's history of actors acting opposite themselves, the weirdness of neon-lit sex dreams, and reluctantly (accidentally?) add JCVD to the SNFS Wall of Fame, on this week's exciting episode!

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:01:48 GMT

Michaela's chases her Cannon Films fixation directly into a chainsaw duel against The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). It's 13 years later and the cannibalistic clan of psychos prowl the back roads of Texas, selling their own brand of BBQ and stalking a radio DJ while a vengeful ex-Texas Ranger named "Lefty" pursues them in order to meet out his own brand of justice. Listen as we ponder the cultural significance of the official sequel to one of the greatest horror films of all time, bask in awe and wonder at Bill Mosely's Chop-Top character, and try to kill the composer to one of the worst movie scores ever recorded on this week's exciting episode!

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Shocking Dark (1989)

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Sean gives up on life and happiness by subjecting himself and to the Italian-made Aliens/Terminator ripoff Shocking Dark (1989). Borrowing so liberally from James Cameron's films as so we're sure there was a lawsuit involved, a group of soldiers get trapped in a tunnel underneath futuristic Venice where slimy creatures are out to get them. And, there might be a Terminator. And time travel, too. Listen as we analyze the new Halloween trailer! But first, you have to listen to us talk about Italian rip-off artists and the films they've made, all on this week's exciting episode!

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The Blob (1988)

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 05:01:54 GMT

Colin celebrates the 30th anniversary of the practical effects monster movie The Blob (1988). A meteor falls to earth carrying a sentient, gooey substance that grows larger by absorbing living organisms and soon grows large enough to threaten a small town. Only The Lesser Dillon and that girl from the Saw movies stand between humanity and a killer glob of alien goo in this sci-fi remake of the 50's classic. Listen as we talk about remakes, practical effects magic, and mullets on this week's exciting episode!

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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:01:55 GMT

Michaela finds the soul for getting down to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) a Cannon-produced cash-grab sequel with one of the most memorable titles in all of filmdom. In this musical adventure, our heroes Special K, Ozone and Turbo find that an evil corporate developer wants to install a shopping mall (gasp!) on the site of their community performance hall. What can be done to save the day? Put on a dance show, of course! Listen as we begin 2018's Summer of Cannon with our own sequel show of sorts; invent a movie called Turntable Time Machine; and Sean nearly passes out from a summer cold, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Samurai Cop (1991)

Sat, 26 May 2018 05:01:15 GMT

Holly is pretty sure the makers of Samurai Cop (1991) don't know anything about samurai, police procedure or the fundamentals of filmmaking. In a film that's become a cult classic because of its enthusiastic ineptitude, man-of-action and chick-magnet L.A. cop Joe "Samurai" Marshall becomes the target of the Japanese mob and leaves a trail of bodies across the city on a crusade to wipe out "drugs and destruction". Listen as we marvel at the lack of samurai cops, badly staged chase scenes, cheap production value, corny dialogue, and paper-mache lion head trophies on this week's exciting episode!

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The Faculty (1998)

Sat, 19 May 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Sean begins to think that tiny, ear-burrowing aliens are taking over the world in The Faculty (1998), as director Robert Rodriguez assembles a who's-who of 1990's screen talent to perform in Scream-writer Kevin Williamson's mashup of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing. Listen as we bring in a real-life teacher to confirm or deny the accuracy of onscreen events, talk about alien invasion movies, the curse of indie cinema directors, 90's wallpaper soundtracks and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Rambo III (1998)

Sat, 12 May 2018 05:01:02 GMT

Colin breaks his Bowie knife, explosive tipped arrowheads, and red bandanna out of mothballs in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Rambo III (1988). This time, Rambo has to go bail Colonel Trautman out of a Soviet jail in Afghanistan and along the way he blows stuff up so much he sets the silver screen on fire! Listen as we talk at length about shearing sheep, the tipping point of 80's action movies, Rambomania, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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In Time (2011)

Sat, 05 May 2018 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela keeps one eye on the clock all through In Time (2011), a futuristic sci-fi yarn in which time has replaced money as the world's currency. Justin Timberlake finds he has all the time he needs once he's gifted 100 years by a random stranger. Soon, he's watching his time tick away while on the run from the Time Keepers as he tries to punch the clock of the rich and powerful masters of society. Listen as we declare "it's about time someone made Justin Timberlake an action hero!", debate the mechanics of how the movie's central premise actually works, and do our best to explore the film's subtext on this week's exciting episode!

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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Holly discovers where the wild things are when ventures into the jungle to watch The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), the legendary Hollywood debacle that featured the combustible on-screen pairing of egomaniacs Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, and obliterated the career of earnest-but-in-over-his-head director Richard Stanley. Listen as we try to determine why it's taken so long for us to review the movie, talk about the tortured behind the scenes chaos, and wonder aloud why Marlon Brando is considered one of the movies' greatest actors.

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Runaway (1984)

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Sean sees a need for law enforcement to police renegade Roombas in Runaway (1984), a what-if futuristic scenario from writer/director Michael Crichton that finds domestic robots turned homicidal killers. TV's Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck leads the charge against evil chip manufacturer Gene Simmons, who does look very sinister in a suit and tie. Listen as we dog on the movie for where its future technological prognostications went wrong, recall the dread of being called on in class, and we pledge to mindwipe Howard the Duck from the collective memory, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Humanoids From the Deep (1980)

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:05:00 GMT

Colin doubts interspecies fishsex is anything but gross after watching Humanoids from the Deep (1980), a Roger Corman-produced schlockfest in which mutant fishmen attack a small seaside community to kill the men and rape the women in an attempt to further their biological evolution. Listen as we dive deep into the flipside of the Shape of Water and say NO to merman intercourse while finding joy in rubber monster suits, splattery gore, and find time to name our celebrity crushes, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Fear (1997)

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Michaela remembers what it was like to be a teen girl in the 90's when she catches Fear (1997). Cute-as-a-button Reese Witherspoon falls in love with unhinged sociopath Mark Wahlberg who displays increasingly aggressive behavior until her father (William Petersen) gets into the mix, triggering a violent showdown between her family and Wahlberg's gang of thugs. Listen as we talk a walk on the wildside with the Funky Bunch and decide Wahlberg's definitely not giving off good vibrations in this coming-of-age home invasion thriller by way of a gender-flipped Fatal Attraction. All aboard!

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Anaconda (1997)

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Holly ventures deep into the Amazon and gets wrapped up in the giant snake movie Anaconda (1997)! Jennifer Lopez and company set sail down the river and pick up Great Snake Hunter Jon Voight who proceeds to imperil the crew and chew scenery in his search for the biggest snake that ever lived. Listen as we take the wayback machine to the glory days of big budget, big studio creature features and face off against an animatronic snake and his CGI stunt double on this week's exciting episode!

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The Wraith (1986)

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Sean is heaven-sent and hell on wheels after choosing to watch The Wraith (1986)! A murdered teen exacts revenge from beyond the grave on the street-racing gang who killed him after the netherworld outfits him with a sleek black racing suit and a Dodge Interceptor. Listen as we take a look back at one of the 80's-iest of 80's movies, fawn over the rock n' roll soundtrack, explosions, drag racing, and ghosts on this week's exciting show!

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The Delta Force (1986)

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 05:01:00 GMT

Colin introduces the Freak Show crew to their first proper Chuck Norris movie, The Delta Force (1986). Norris teams up with tough guy Lee Marvin in Cannon Films' "this is how it should have ended" re-staging of the 1985 hijacking of TWA 847, only this time climaxing with America's decisive and explosive victory at the hands of the steely-eyed, quick-footed Chuckster and Co. Listen as we discuss terrorism-themed movies in a post-911 world, try to fathom the cult of personality that surrounds Chuck Norris, and Colin tells way too many Chuck Norris jokes.

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Drive Angry (2011)

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Michaela finds that spending time watching Nicholas Cage movies makes her want to Drive Angry (2011)! Cage stars as a dead man who breaks out of Hell to pursue the cultists on Earth who have abducted, and plan to sacrifice, his granddaughter to Satan -- and to do that he's gonna need muscle cars, supernatural shotguns and Amber Heard. Listen as we discus improbable hairstyles, battle sex, and 3D eye-poking mayhem on this week's exciting show!

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Sphere (1998)

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Holly discovers that terror can come in any shape after watching Sphere (1998), an attempt by Hollywood's A-list to imbue geometric shapes with unworldly menace. After discovering an alien craft at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy recruits Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel Jackson to investigate. Once in the murky depths, paranoia, hallucinations and death take hold. Listen as we try not to lose our own minds as we experience the Sphere-effect of retrograde amnesia while watching the movie, discuss other (better) aquatic sci-fi movies, and generally try to keep ourselves from dying of boredom on this week's exciting episode!

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Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983)

Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Colin discovers that in Yor's world, he's the man, as we grovel before Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983) in which we follow our musclebound hero (Reb Brown, TV's original Captain America) on a sword and sorcery quest to rescue fair maidens, defeat hideous beasts, and ultimately discover the mysterious origin of his people. Listen as we discover there's no bad movie magic like that of bad Italian movies; discuss the pros and cons of using action figures as your stunt performers; and, bemoan and the absolute disservice the Razzies awarded to Yor's epic theme song; all that and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Babadook (2014)

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Michaela discovers that neither by hook nor by crook can she get rid of The Babadook (2014). A troubled youngster and his widowed mother find themselves pushed to the breaking point when a sinister pop-up storybook appears in their home, heralding the arrival of a malevolent spirit. Listen as we discus the critical vs audience reactions to the movie, what the Sundance hype train means for horror movies, and deep dive into the meaning behind the titular monster on this week's illuminating episode!

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The Wicker Man (2006)

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Holly suggests a better sacrifice to The Wicker Man (2006) might be the film itself, as the often-imitated-but-never-duplicated screen icon Nicholas Cage finds himself alone on an island populated by an all-female pagan cult; he thinks he's there to rescue a young girl from becoming a sacrificial victim but, well, you've seen the "not the bees!" memes. Listen as we are denied our moment of ultimate satisfaction by watching the theatrical cut instead of the unrated version; compare the film to the 1973 original classic; Sean gets a brain cramp; and Holly mistakes director Neil LaBute for 90's pop stars La Bouche, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Cathy's Curse (1977)

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Sean sends us all to the madhouse after watching Cathy's Curse (1977), a Canadian Exorcist-rip off about a little girl who becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt (we think) or her dead great-uncle (could be), which may have taken control of her doll (possibly) and now wants to kill everyone else in the family (definitely). Listen as we try to deal with a series of anti-climaxes, uncomfortable situations, crazy psychics, creepy neighbors and foul mouthed youngsters on this week's exciting show!

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The Green Slime (1968)

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 07:28:00 GMT

Colin unwittingly brings back rubber-suited monsters from space after coming in contact with The Green Slime (1968)! After destroying an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, the space station Gamma 3 finds itself host to a green, slimy substance that transforms into a horde of electricity-sucking, tentacled creatures that threaten all life as we know it. Listen as we talk about this slice of 60's sci-fi cheese, swinging martini parties, beehive hairdos, and dish out love for the film's swanky title song on this week's exciting episode!

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Buried (2010)

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Michaela spends time trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds in the thriller Buried (2010). Reynolds plays an American contractor, taken hostage in Iraq, who awakens to find himself buried alive in a wooden coffin and - armed only with a cigarette lighter and a cell phone - must try to figure a way out. Listen as we talk about the "one man show" movie genre, Holly's fear of snakes, claustrophobia, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Mortal Kombat (1995)

Sat, 13 Jan 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Holly earns a Flawless Victory by accepting a challenge to appear in the Mortal Kombat (1995), a martial arts tournament held on a secret island, the outcome of which will affect the fate of the entire world! In this colorful adaptation of the popular fighting video game, the god of lighting, Lord Rayden, gathers a disparate group of fighters to battle the forces of evil wizard, Shang Tsung. Listen as we talk about puppet performers, EDM, the history of the Mortal Kombat franchise, bloodless fatalities and more on this week's exciting show!

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Cemetery Man (1994)

Sat, 06 Jan 2018 06:01:00 GMT

Sean wonders why the dead won't stay dead in Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte, Dellamore, 1994), an existentialist Italian zombie movie from Dario Argento protege Michele Soavi, which stars Rupert Everett as the beleaguered caretaker of a rural cemetery where the dead return to life. Listen as we talk about zombie boy scouts, severed head romances, odd Italian burial practices, and commit Sean's Last Will and Testament to the permanent record on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2017

Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:01:00 GMT

We wrap up 2017 with our 2nd annual Best and Worst Movies of the year episode. Listen as we go around the table and attempt to distill a very good year in film down to our choices for the 5 best movies and the one we think was the worst. Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

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Possession (1981)

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Colin considers assault and battery charges against Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981), which chronicles the apocalyptic implosion of the marriage between Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani in Cold War-era Germany. While he gets kicked around by her effete German lover and sleeps with her doppelganger on the sly, she has sex with a slimy, tentacled creature that she may have given birth to in the subway. Listen as we break down reality, wonder about pink socks, lost shoes, God, relationships, Armageddon, and try not to lose our minds on this week's exciting episode!

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I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

Sat, 16 Dec 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Michaela makes the case for Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me (2007), a 8-time Razzie award winning thriller in which Lohan plays dual roles - as a diligent student and a exotic dancer - one, or both, of whom are targeted by a blue-glove wearing serial killer who has a fondness for torture and amputation. Listen as we try to unravel the film's color-coded plot mechanics, debate Lohan's questionable stripper techniques, and determine if the film qualifies as an American giallo, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Holly learns the Way of the Samurai for a Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) which features a potentially epic team up between action superstar Dolph Lundgren and the late Brandon Lee, starring as two renegade cops thrown together to stop the rise of the Japanese Yakuza in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood. Their mission escalates into an explosion of bloody mayhem after Lundgren recognizes the head Yakuza as the man responsible for his parents' murder! Listen at we marvel at Brandon Lee's bad acting; Lundgren's capacity for carpentry; and the absurdity of taking on Dolph Lundgren in a street fight; all this and more on this week's exciting show!

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Sleepwalkers (1992)

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Sean breeds an attack cat to take on the soul sucking menace of Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992). When his owner is killed by a duo of ancient, incestuous, shape-shifting creatures (Brian Krause and Alice Krige), Clovis (Sparks) rises to become the hero he was always meant to be and must save the Sleepwalker's virginal target (Mädchen Amick) from their clutches, while rallying together the town's house cat population for a fiery raid on their booby-trap laden lair. Listen as we talk about slimy rubber monsters, bad 90's computer morph effects, Electric Boogasplooge and more, on this week's exciting episode!

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The Devil's Rain (1975)

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Colin hopes to survive the melting Hell on Earth of The Devil's Rain (1975). William Shatner's family guards a Satanic book from the clutches of evil goat-headed cult leader, Ernest Borgnine, who needs it to enslave all mankind. They do battle in an abandoned Western mining town while Tom Skerritt and his wife hope to save the day from Satan's followers. Listen as we talk about the involvement of mobsters and the Church of Satan in the film's making, fantasize about satanic Westerns, and get all squishy over the gooey special effects-filled finale, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Scream 4 (2011)

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Michaela has a bone to pick with the black sheep of the Scream movies, Scream 4 (2011). Wes Craven's final film reunites the surviving cast of the hit, self-aware series of horror films with a fresh cast of up and comers, while writer Kevin Williamson throws shade at millennials and the conventions of horror movie remakes and reboots. Listen as we talk about horror movie home design, dump hate on the movie's propmaster, and gush over Hayden Panettiere, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Slither (2006)

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 06:01:00 GMT

Holly develops a taste for raw meat and a hunger for world domination after being possessed by the aliens of Slither (2006), James Gunn's affectionate homage to 80's sci-fi/horror films. When Grant Grant (Michael Rooker) is taken over by a malevolent extraterrestrial intelligence, it's up to the small town sheriff (Nathan Fillion) to save his dream girl (Elizabeth Banks) and the townspeople from the gooey, tentacled menace. Listen as we discover the joys of Mr. Pibb, laud the talents of Gregg Henry, and discover startling things about Sean's TV viewing habits, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Urban Legend (1998)

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 05:05:00 GMT

Sean tells us a story that happened to someone who knows someone he knows, and an Urban Legend (1998) is born. Someone in a winter coat is murdering students at snooty Pendleton University, using the hook of urban legends as his deadly punchline. The late 90's cast of the CW Network has to team up with the Noxema girl to sleuth out the killer's identity before they become his next victim. If you love the 90's then this is the episode for you, as we go on Full-On 90's Throwback Mode to discuss the post-Scream slasher wave, the decade's horror output, and share stories of meeting Jared Leto - all on this week's exciting episode!

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Black Sabbath (1963)

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 05:05:00 GMT

Colin cranks the fog machine and creeps around the haunted world of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (aka I Tre Volti Della Paura - "The Three Faces of Fear," 1963), an anthology horror movie hosted by and starring Boris Karloff. In "The Telephone," a beautiful woman is terrorized by threatening phone calls; in "The Wurdulak," a mountain family worries that their elder has returned home as a vampire; and in "The Drop of Water," a nurse robs a medium who died during a seance, and supernatural shenanigans ensue. Listen as we're joined by Brandon of the Sock Monkey Sound podcast, talk Italian horror, expose "hidden" subtexts and more, all on this week's exciting episode!

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The Craft (1996)

Sat, 21 Oct 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela joins a circle of teenage witches who practice The Craft (1996) and makes poor Fairuza Balk lose her mind! Balk plays a sullen, Goth misfit who lures Sarah, the new girl in school, into her coven of witches (alongside Neve Campbell and Rachel True) in hopes of getting revenge on their high school tormentors, but things turn deadly and escalate into a full blown Satanic freak out! Listen as our invocations and magic spells lead to a surprising Freak Show duet, reveal surprising details about your hosts' off-mic proclivities, and force Colin to broadcast from the Great Beyond, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Holly hopes to survive an apocalypse of running zombies as she outmaneuvers Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004), a remake of George Romero's classic. As before, a disparate group of strangers must band together within an abandoned shopping mall as hordes of the living dead gather outside. Listen as we contribute to the slow zombie vs fast zombie debate, compare and contrast the remake to its namesake, imagine a zombie movie starring only a cast of pets, and more - on this week's exciting episode!

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Fright Night Part 2 (1988)

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Sean cozies up to the seductive vampire fantasy that is Fright Night Part 2 (1988), which finds Charley Brewster and the Fearless Vampire Killer, Peter Vincent, re-teaming when the sister of the original film's vampire descends on Los Angeles with revenge on her mind. Listen as we try to uncover how this sequel ended up in movie limbo; discuss the high fashion of vampire chic; and wistfully long for cheesy 80's rubber monster FX, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Colin uses benign pharmacology and energy sculpting to trip out Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011), director Panos Cosmatos' nod to science-fiction and horror films of the 1980's. A mad doctor keeps a young woman with telekinetic powers trapped in an underground clinic, where 60's-era psychedelic experiments have produced inhuman results. Listen as we discuss the merit of pop culture objects that imitate the style and design of the 80's, movies that value atmosphere over character or plot, and lay the ground work for what constitutes an "art" movie, and more, on this week's exciting episode!

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American Psycho 2 (2002)

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela wants to go serial killer-hunting with American Psycho 2 (2002), an in-name only cash grab sequel to the Christian Bale-starrer. This time, That 70's Show's Mila Kunis plays a college student who killed Patrick Bateman as a child and becomes obsessed with hunting other serial killers, so much so that she's willing to kill her rivals for a teaching-assistant post that guarantees a spot at the FBI academy in Quantico. Listen as we cast shame upon quick buck sequel producers, ponder William Shatner's sex appeal, and drum up the idea for the Canadian version called North American Psycho, all on this week's exciting episode!

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It (2017)

Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:19:00 GMT

Sean takes us on a Freak Show Field Trip to the sewers of Derry, Maine to scrutinize not one but two screen adaptations of Stephen King's IT - both the 2017 theatrical feature and the television mini-series from 1990. Listen to our IT overindulgence as we compare and contrast the novel, the mini-series, the screenplay for the aborted Cary Fukunaga-directed version, and the final Andy Muschietti-helmed version and talk Deadlights and cosmic turtles, compare both Tim Curry and Bill Skarsgard's takes on Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and discuss what's been added or removed from both attempts to bring King's gargantuan final thesis of horror to the screen!

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Pet Sematary (1989)

Sat, 09 Sep 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Holly doesn't want to be buried in a Pet Sematary (1989), especially not one that once belonged to Micmac Indians and has the power to bring the dead back to life! Louis Creed and his family soon find out that "sometimes, dead is better" after moving into an adjacent home and taking advantage of its evil magic, once tragedy strikes. Listen as we discuss zombie kittens, Zelda, ghostly harbingers, and wonder what Pet Sematary would have been like directed by George Romero and starring Bruce Campbell, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Near Dark (1987)

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Colin prays for daylight after hanging with the grimy vampires of Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), which follows a farmhand named Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) who is seduced by a sexy Southern belle (Jenny Wright) into joining a group of fangless, hillbilly vampires who prowl the American Southwest. Listen as we spend way too much time talking about the Twilight movies, contrast Near Dark with it's similarly-themed cousin The Lost Boys, and invent plots for half a dozen vampire movies on this week's exciting show!

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Dog Soldiers (2002)

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Michaela kits up, heads into the brush, and howls at the moon with Dog Soldiers (2002), which sees a squad of British squaddies (that's soldiers to you) who, during training exercises in the wilderness of the Scottish highlands, come under siege from a pack of werewolves. Listen as we discuss the career of director Neil (Game of Thrones) Marshall, learn new English slang, rate the surprise villains, and generally cause mischief on this week's exciting episode!

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Dead Alive (1992)

Sat, 19 Aug 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Holly is bitten by a Sumatran Rat-Monkey and finds herself Dead Alive (aka Braindead, 1992)! After his overprotective mother is bitten by the aforementioned rat-monkey, her grown son, Lionel, finds himself over his head in a pile of zombies, romance, zombie babies, and anthropomorphic entrails in what has been called "the goriest movie ever made". Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson shovels on the blood and guts by the bucketload with a side helping of comedy in this splatstick classic. Listen as we blame Jackson for the de-evolution of practical effects magic to computer animation, and eulogize the splatter movie genre, on this week's exciting episode!

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Maniac Cop (1988)

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Sean refuses his right to remain silent after choosing to watch Maniac Cop (1988)! As brutal murders shake New York City, a jaded detective (Tom Atkins) begins to suspect a uniformed cop is the suspect, while another officer (Bruce Campbell) unwittingly finds himself the number one suspect. Can these two team up to stop the Maniac Cop?? Listen as we marvel at the historic team-up of two of modern horror's biggest icons, discuss the political ramifications of remaking Maniac Cop, and invent rules for Tom Atkins Bingo on this week's exciting episode!

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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Colin squirts 3-D hallucinogenic acid in the eyes of his Freak Show family with Charles Band's Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)! On a remote planet, a ranger named Dogen (Jeffrey Byron) teams up with a plucky blonde (Kelly Preston) and a washed up soldier (Tim Thomerson) to hunt down an evil magician (Mike Preston) who is leading the indigenous cyclops population (lead by Night Court's Richard Moll) into an uprising, all while dodging laser blasts, tree branches, lightning golems, and Graboids, all in mind-blowing 3-D! Join us as we wonder if the journey is worth the trouble on this week's exciting episode!

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Cobra (1986)

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Michaela goes for a ride along with the cure for crime himself: Cobra (1986)! When the mysterious Night Slasher begins terrorizing Los Angeles, the only man who can get things done is an officer from the L.A.P.D.'s "Zombie Squad", Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone). Here, he's charged with protecting the only witness (Stallone's wife-at-the-time, Danish model Brigitte Nielsen) who can identify the killer. Listen as we try to quote (or sing, in Sean's case) every single one of Stallone's one-liners; come to learn how Cobra's origins tie in to Beverly Hills Cop; and debate the civility of cutting a slice of pizza with a pair of scissors; all this and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Waterworld (1995)

Sat, 22 Jul 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Holly turns to the life aquatic with this week's pick of Waterworld (1995), the notoriously expensive Kevin Costner spectacle. Here, he plays a half-man/half-fish mutant loner who lives on a flooded, futuristic Earth, pursued by evil Smokers (literally - they smoke at least a pack and a half a day) while ferrying his charges - a woman and the mysterious child she cares for - in search of a mythical place called Dryland. Listen as we contemplate the egos involved in the creation of the movie, fashions in a world without leather, ecology-minded message movies, and Sean gets lost down a hole in this week's exciting episode!

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Predator 2 (1990)

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Sean says it's open season on Predator 2 (1990) as Danny Glover subs for Arnold Schwarzenegger, fighting a technologically advanced killer from another world through the concrete jungle of L.A. This time, the cops - already fighting Mexican and Jamaican gangs - find themselves being chased by an alien trophy hunter who's in town with a few days to kill. Listen as we imagine the pre-safari Predator gearing up at the alien Gander Mountain, postulate that cocaine fueled the making of the movie, and Sean makes a bet that could cost him his luxurious beard... all that and more on this week's exciting show!

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The Lost Boys (1987)

Sat, 08 Jul 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Colin wishes he was as cool as The Lost Boys (1987), a vampire classic that finds brothers Sam and Michael relocating to the beachfront community of Santa Carla with their mother, only to discover that its the hunting ground for a pack of ultra-chic teenage vampires; only with the help of the vampire-hunting Frog Brothers does humanity stand a chance. Listen as we celebrate the film's 30th anniversary by charting the history of the cinematic vampire, revel in the cinematic team up of the two Coreys (Haim and Feldman), ponder the film's connection to the Curse of Sergio, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Bloodsport (1988)

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 05:01:36 GMT

Michaela hopes many kicks to the head will cure her hunger for Bloodsport (1988), the movie that unleashed Jean-Claude Van Damme upon the world. Here, JCVD portrays a martial artist who sneaks into a forbidden, underground tournament known as the Kumite to compete to become the World Heavy Weight Full Contact Kumite Champion! There, he must fight the formidable Bolo (Enter the Dragon) Yeung! Listen as we horribly mispronounce Asian names, imagine a better version of Bloodsport, discuss the art of acting blind, and wonder how JCVD managed not to tear open his scrotum while doing the splits, on this week's exciting episode!

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Arachnophobia (1990)

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 05:01:29 GMT

Holly hopes exposure to spider-men will help cure her Arachnophobia (1990). When the residents of a friendly small town start dropping dead, the newly arrived doctor with an acute fear of spiders (Jeff Daniels) suspects the worst - that they are victims of a never-before-seen, super-poisonous species of arachnid. Listen as we discuss childhood enthusiasm for entomology, the importance of spider love, how to coax an Oscar-worthy performance from an insect, and more, on this week's exiting episode!

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The Mummy (1932)

Sat, 17 Jun 2017 05:01:43 GMT

Colin unwraps 85 years of Universal horror with The Mummy (1932). Members of an expedition to Egypt accidentally bring to life a 3,700-year-old priest named Imhotep (Boris Karloff), who immediately sets to work on resurrecting his forbidden love. We'll have you shouting "Show me the mummy!" as we guide you through Universal Studios' Dark Universe (old and new) and address at least a dozen mummy movies from over the years, from Hammer Films Gothic chillers with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, to the action spectacles of Brendan Fraser and Tom Cruise on this week's exciting episode!

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Breakin' (1984)

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Michaela continues to celebrate the Summer of Cannon Films with her choice of Breakin' (1984), a movie about a formally trained dancer (Ninja III: The Domination's Lucinda Dickey) who befriends a crew of street trained break dancers (Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers) and teams with them to compete in a dance competition. Listen as we choose our own street names and discuss 80's break dancing movies, witness Jean-Claude Van Damme's hardcore affection for dance-offs, discover Ice-T's first screen performance, and try to determine how to distinguish "good" break dancing from "bad" break dancing, on this week's exciting show!

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Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Holly keeps repeating "my head is like a shark's fin" after becoming trapped in the Deep Blue Sea (1999), an aquatic tale of terror which finds a group of scientists trapped inside an underwater research station with super-intelligent, genetically modified mako sharks. Listen as we wonder what happened to former blockbuster director Renny Harlin, and name-drop every killer shark movie ever made, wrestle with movie logic, tell tales of meeting LL Cool J and both "jump the shark" and "grow the beard" on this week's exciting episode!

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Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Sat, 27 May 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Sean sits ringside for the epic Busta Rhymes vs. Michael Audrey Myers kung fu smackdown called Halloween: Resurrection (2002). This final entry in the long running horror franchise (it was followed in 2009 by Rob Zombie's series reset) not only brings to a close Jamie Lee Curtis' involvement in the storyline, but also introduces Mr. Rhymes as the unstoppable, unkillable proprietor of an Internet webcam horror show who discovers his true inner power as The Shape's ultimate foe. Listen as we extol the virtues of the most misunderstood entry in the Halloween movie series, including its topical treatment of the sociological pitfalls of "reality" TV, and discuss potential sequel possibilities, all on this week's exciting show!

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Night of the Creeps (1986)

Sat, 20 May 2017 05:05:00 GMT

Colin's brain is invaded by alien slugs when we watch Night of the Creeps (1986), a comedy-horror film from writer/director Fred Dekker (House, The Monster Squad, Robocop 3), which finds two college guys, their dream girl, and a hard-boiled cop teaming up to protect sorority girls from brain burrowing alien parasites which turn fraternity bros into zombies. Listen as Brandon from Sock Monkey Sound joins Colin, Holly and Michaela as we talk about what defines a fun horror movie; the career of B movie screen legend Tom Atkins; and reminisce about the horrors of college dorm life on this week's exciting episode!

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Over the Top (1987)

Sat, 13 May 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Michaela promises an entire summer dedicated to the output of cheese-factory Cannon Films, which starts with Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top (1987), a movie that finds our hero cast as a truck driver trying to win back his estranged son's heart, on a road trip. Along the way, said son discovers dad is a semi-pro, semi-famous arm wrestler who's gotta get to Vegas to win the International Arm Wrestling Championship! Listen as we debate the merits of Cannon, Stallone, and movies about arm wrestling. And, yes - we arm wrestle each other, live on the air - in what could possibly be the most spectacular Saturday Night Freak Show ever recorded.

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My Boyfriend's Back (1993)

Sat, 06 May 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Holly advocates against zombie prejudice by taking a cadaver to the prom in My Boyfriend's Back (1993). All Johnny Dingle wants to do is win the heart of his longtime crush, Missy McCloud, but his plan goes awry and he ends up a inexplicably re-animated corpse! Will his high school sweetheart still want to go with him to the dance? Listen as we: examine this rom-zom-com from the creative team behind Jason Goes To Hell; tell tales of ordering Edward Herrmann a scotch; and find out why Colin doesn't like comedies, all on this week's exciting show!

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Escape from L.A. (1996)

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Sean hangs ten with Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996). Having successfully rescued the President from the New York City Maximum Security Penitentiary, the United States' most notorious outlaw is captured and forced once again to go on a mission into hostile territory, this time the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Island of Los Angeles, cut off from the mainland by an earthquake. Listen as we do much jaw jabbing about both of Carpenter's Snake Plissken adventures and discover tasty Rap Snacks, all on this weeks exciting show!

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Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Colin disturbs the hallowed resting place of the bloodthirsty Templar knights in Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Vacationers Bette, Virginia and Roger do the same, waking the cloaked, moldy ghosts, who search out their victims by sound (being blind, after all - their eyes pecked out by crows) to feast upon blood, in order to prolong their un-dead existence. Listen as we throw some facts your way about Spain's contributions to 70's Euro Horror cinema, discuss the architectural merits of a mannequin-filled murder hallway, and confront the era's unflinching attitudes toward cinematic rape on this week's show!

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Cursed (2005)

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Michaela chases werewolves back to the aughts with the 2005 time capsule called Cursed, from director Wes Craven. After being attacked by a werewolf on Mulholland Drive, a brother and sister start to realize not only that they've acquired strange powers, but that the creature continues to stalk them and their friends all over Hollywood and Los Angeles. Listen as we re-evaluate this pairing of the writer and director of the Scream movie series while we test Holly's encyclopedic knowledge of the pop culture of the decade, probe Sean's aversion to movie werewolves, and tell tales of meeting Milo Ventimiglia and Shannon Elizabet on this week's exciting show!

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Night of the Demons (1988)

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Holly invites moody Goth-girl Angela to our party and all hell breaks loose in Night of the Demons (1988)! When a group of high-schoolers meet at an abandoned funeral home for a Halloween party (never a good idea), they unwittingly unleash a demonic entity that takes possession of them one by one. Listen as we revisit this 80's cult classic and talk scream queens, demon possession, and bizarro interpretive dance, while Holly works out her childhood trauma - caused by this movie - all on this week's exciting show!

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Darkman (1990)

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Sean swings into action with the face-swapping superhero Darkman (1990)! Before Marvel would turn him loose on Spider-Man, director Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi came up with his own cinematic superhero story, that of brilliant scientist Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson), who is transformed into a vengeful, bandage-wrapped creature after a band of thugs torches his lab. Listen as we connect dots between the superhero movies of the pre-Marvel Cinematic Era, examine the parallel careers of both Rami and Tim Burton, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Colin hears a whisper in his ghost and thinks he might be being brainjacked by a viewing of 1995's sci-fi anime Ghost in the Shell, about a female cyborg supersoldier who comes to question her life, the universe, and everything when she's tasked with hunting down an international cybercriminal known as The Puppetmaster. Join us for a very loose episode - recorded after our original show is eaten by audio gremlins - in which we try to explore the film's narrative concepts, anime culture and the ScarJo remake, through a haze of alcohol and beer nuts.

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Rubber (2010)

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Michaela grows tired of mainstream movies and treads carefully into Rubber (2010) a flick about a killer tire that wakes up in the desert one day and subsequently rolls around, murdering everyone that crosses its path using it's psychokinetic mind powers - with the exception of a pretty French girl who's on vacation. Listen as we dive deep into the subgenre of movie surrealism, go over the fine print of the contract between filmmaker and audience, and bemoan the lack of inspired product placement on this week's exciting show!

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Demolition Man (1993)

Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Holly wants to know how the three seashells work when Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in Demolition Man (1993)! When cryogenically frozen super criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) escapes into the Utopian San Angeles of 2032, the hapless authorities thaw out framed cop John Spartan (Stallone) to hunt him down in this satiric sci-fi actioner from producer Joel ("I never met a building I didn't want to blow up") Silver. Listen as we answer the mystery of the three seashells and lose our minds when Wesley Snipes likes our Instagram post on this week's exciting episode!

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Leprechaun (1993)

Sat, 04 Mar 2017 12:00:00 GMT

The luck of the Irish runs out on Sean when he encounters a Leprechaun (1993)! Jennifer Aniston makes her movie debut as a spoiled city girl who moves to a country house with a captive leprechaun (Warwick Davis) in the basement. The tiny terror soon escapes and begins killing everyone who stands between him and his stolen gold. Listen as we contemplate the existence of seven(!) entries in the Leprechaun movie series, discuss the diminishing effects of 90's nostalgia, and come up with our own scenarios for a Leprechaun remake, all on this week's exciting episode!!

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Dune (1984)

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Colin comes to believe he's the Kwisatz Haderach as we take on David Lynch's much-maligned science fiction epic Dune (1984). Two feudal houses war over the production of a spice, mined from only one planet in the galaxy - the desert world Arrakis - where 400 foot sandworms roam the landscape and where the prophecy of a coming messiah promises freedom from a corrupt empire. Listen as we try to untangle Hollywood's ongoing attempts to bring Herbert's novel to the screen, through versions by Alexandro Jodorosky, David Lynch, John Harrison and Denis Villeneuve on this weeks exciting episode!

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Monkey Shines (1988)

Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Michaela falls in love with a cute killer monkey in George A. Romero's Monkey Shines (1988). After an accident leaves him crippled from the neck down, Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is recruited by his mad scientist best pal (John Pankow) to try out a super-smart helper monkey who caters to his every wish, and begins helping a bit too much whenever Allan gets mad at someone. Listen as we continue to document the best animal performers in Hollywood, speculate as to what parts of the story might have been left on the cutting room floor, and discuss Romero's varied film career on this week's exciting episode!

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My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Holly loses her heart to the holiday slasher My Bloody Valentine (1981). The town of Valentine Bluffs hasn't celebrated Valentine's Day in 20 years, not since miner Harry Warden killed all those people after the cave-in. Now, the residents of this coal-mining town just want to cut loose...but a masked killer appears and starts taking out hearts one by one. Listen as we examine a curious couple of years in film history that spawned dozens of stalk-and-slash masked killer movies, show our love for film-themed end credit ballads, and try out our best Canadian accents on this week's exciting episode!

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The Arrival (1996)

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Sean detects signals from deep space, which leads to The Arrival (1996). Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez) stars as a radio telescope operator who uncovers an alien conspiracy while trying to uncover the source of a series of intergalactic signals he's detected, one of which seems to be originating on Earth, in South America. Ron Silver also stars in this first feature film from writer/director David Twohy, who later created Pitch Black and A Perfect Getaway. Listen as we spend an hour wondering how Charlie Sheen became a movie star, relive the 90's fascination with alien abduction stories, and trace the lineage of Jonesy the Movie Star Scorpion, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987)

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Colin loads up the van and rides into a world of heavy metal gods and monsters with Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987), as legendary (but mostly unheard of) rock showman Jon-Mikl Thor (of the 70's band Thor) takes his band, their horny girlfriends, and assorted groupies to a Canadian farmhouse to record a new album, unaware that the place is overrun by tiny, one-eyed demon puppets. Listen as we marvel at the demon-fighting power of 80's heavy metal, marvel at the storied career of Jon Mikl Thor, and determine the best way to survive a bad movie, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Terror Tract (2000)

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

We move into a house on Terror Tract (2000), a horror anthology about a highly-motivated realtor (the late John Ritter) who spins three tales to his clients as they look at a trio of houses with sordid histories. Listen as we marvel at the scenario which pits Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston against an evil Capuchin monkey; reminisce about staying up all night to catch movies on the USA Network; and the untold family stories of Hollywood's best animal performers on this week's exciting show!

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Rawhead Rex (1986)

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Holly worships at the feet of Clive Barker's resurrected, pagan god-monster Rawhead Rex (1986)! When a farmer digs up a pre-Christian era pillar in his field he unleashes the titular beast, which goes on a murderous rampage across the Irish countryside, while a visiting American author finds himself caught up in the violent shenanigans. Listen as we talk about the effectiveness of estrogen lasers against hyper-masculine monster deities, the horrors of being peed on by a 8ft tall pagan god, and the early filmic career of Clive Barker on this week's exciting episode!

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Dead Heat (1988)

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Sean brings Dead Heat (1988) back from the dead so he can kill it again! While tracking a gang of undead robbers, Detective Roger Mortiss (Treat Williams) winds up one of the living dead himself! With only 12 hours left to "live" before he decomposes, the zombie cop helps his loud-mouthed partner Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) try to solve his murder, in this zany buddy-cop/sci-fi hybrid. Listen as we talk about things like zombie ducks, exploding zombies, and a late career appearance by horror legend Vincent Price, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Best and Worst Movies of 2016

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

We close out the year with a show devoted to the new movies we saw in 2016, and each of us undertake the arduous task of choosing only 5 champions to be considered the Best of the Year. And then, for good measure, we single out The Worst Movie We've Seen This Year, in our late-night, after show, Saturday Night Side Show episode! We hope you enjoy!

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Krampus (2015)

Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin abuses the traditions of Christmas and gets a visit from Krampus (2015). A dysfunctional family receives punishment for their lack of Christmas spirit in the form of a supernatural siege of demonic toys, dark elves, sinister snowmen, and the appearance of the anti-Claus himself. Director Michael Dougherty stakes out territory for another holiday horror movie, following his debut feature, Trick r' Treat. Listen as we dive into the origins of Krampus, his sudden popularity, and Christmas horror movies in general on this week's exciting episode!

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Santa's Slay (2005)

Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Holly is startled to discover that Santa Claus is actually the son of Satan in Santa's Slay (2005), a horror-comedy starring WWE's Bill Goldberg as rampaging demon, recently released from 1000 years of jolly servitude, on account of losing a bet with an angel. Unleashed upon the small town of Hell, MI, St. Nick murders everyone on his naughty list while a pair of love-struck teens and an old man try to stop him. Listen as we talk about the true origins of Santa and his evolution from gift-giving cherub to cinematic slasher on this week's exciting episode!

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Jack Frost (1997)

Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean wants to build a snowman, but is horrified when it becomes a serial killer named Jack Frost (1997)! When the aforementioned (human) bad guy gets bathed in "genetic chemicals" in an auto accident, he dissolves into the snow and rises again as a homicidal, ambulatory snowman, who vows revenge on the sheriff of Snomonton, CO, who put him away. Listen as we suffer through this cheap (but earnest) direct-to-video Christmas horror fantasy, so you don't have to, on this week's exciting episode!

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Cool World (1992)

Sat, 03 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis wonders what it would be like to live in Cool World (1992), renegade animator Ralph Bakshi's trippy live-action/animation answer to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Voluptuous doodle Holli Would (Kim Basinger) wants to get out of her animated, 2D world and escape to the "real" world; to do so, she seduces comic book artist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne), while cop Brad Pitt worries the sex between "doodles" and "noids" will destroy the entire universe! Listen to our surprisingly informative episode about men who draw sexy women and want to boink them, all on this week's show!

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Cat People (1982)

Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin explores forbidden love among the Cat People (1982), which stars Nastassja Kinski as a woman who begins to fear that her burgeoning sexuality, once unleashed, may literally turn her into an animal. John Hurt becomes obsessed with her mysterious femininity, while Malcolm McDowell plays her skeevy brother, who proposes an unwholesome solution to her predicament. Listen as we discuss the career of director Paul Schrader, the disappearance of the erotic thriller from mainstream entertainment, and the musical contributions of David Bowie on this week's supersexy episode!

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The Stepford Wives (1975)

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Holly thinks The Stepford Wives (1975) are acting strangely, and is afraid she might become one herself! Based on Ira (Rosemary's Baby) Levin's novel, a New York City housewife moves to an idyllic bedroom community where all of the women are "perfect" homemakers; she begins to suspect that an insidious mind control conspiracy is afoot and that sooner or later, she will be forced to become one of them. Listen as we discuss gender roles, the war of the sexes, and the horrors of marriage on this week's episode!

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean revs up his chainsaw and develops a taste for Southern barbecue with Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (aka The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, (1994). A virtual remake of the original 1974 classic, Next Generation finds future star Renee Zellweger and a gang of high schoolers ducking out on their prom, going off into the boonies, and running afoul of another future star, Matthew McCounaghey, and his family of inbred, chainsaw-wielding, conspiracy-lovin', cannibal freaks...including the monstrous Leatherface. Listen as we give this much maligned sequel its day in court on this week's exciting episode!

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From Beyond the Grave (1973)

Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis brings us back From Beyond the Grave (1973), an anthology of horror short stories from England's Amicus Productions. Peter Cushing stars as the proprietor of a antiques shop that sells haunted items; David Warner, Donald Pleasance, Ian Ogilvy and others come to possess the items and subsequently feature in stories about haunted mirrors, stolen valor, demonic possession, and phantom rooms. Listen as we talk omnibus horror films, the pitfalls dating of British women who look like their fathers, casual seances, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Dracula (1979)

Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin summons the king of vampires with a viewing of Dracula (1979), Universal Pictures' big budget remake of the Bela Lugosi classic, this time with Frank Langella reprising his Broadway role as the vampire count. Moving from Transylvania to England, the suave bloodsucker integrates himself into high society and begins seducing the womenfolk and corrupting them into wanton creatures of the night! Pull up a chair and listen as we discuss the origin of this production, from stage to screen; the enduring appeal of Dracula and vampires in general; and find out Colin's Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time on this exciting episode!

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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Holly dares us to unlock the mysteries of The Cabin in the Woods (2012), a Joss Whedon-written, Drew Goddard-directed, meta-movie dissertation on the inner-workings of horror films. Five college students head to the titular vacation spot and become the targets of a zombie redneck torture family; what they don't know is that all the death and mayhem is choreographed from a secret underground government facility. Listen as we dive deep and peel back the layers of this post-modern horror-comedy on this week's show!

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Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993)

Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean likes his women sexy, cold, pierced and punctured, as evidenced by his choice of Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993), which adds amore to the zombie saga. Star-crossed lovers Curt and Julie become entangled in a secret government project after she dies and he resurrects her as a zombie; she begins piercing her body with sharp instruments in order to feel human as her appetites for human brains begins to grow. Will the power of love keep these two lovebirds from snacking on one another? Is Sean an accidental racist? Find out - along with his Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies - on this week's exciting show!

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The Bad Seed (1956)

Sat, 08 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis encounters The Bad Seed (1956) and contends that some people are just born evil. Plus: we discover his Top 10 favorite horror movies in our special Halloween segment! Affluent Christine Penmark enters a parental nightmare as evidence stacks up that suggests her pretty, perfect 8-year-old daughter Rhoda may, in fact, be a serial killer. Listen as we analyze one of cinema's first stabs at examining psychopathy and go after the roots of all human evil, deus ex machina endings, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Westworld (1973)

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT

On the eve of the premiere of a new HBO series, Colin takes us on a vacation to the original Westworld (1973) and we end up on the run from killer robots! Wealthy vacationers visit a Western-themed amusement park when an unexplained malfunction causes the previously benign humanoid robots, who populate the park, to go on a homicidal rampage. Listen as we dig deep into the the perils of virtual reality; sex and murder as recreation; witness the birth of both The Terminator and Michael Myers in Westworld's gunslinger; and uncover more on this week's exciting show!

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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Holly wants to see What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and spies on the nocturnal habits of a group of New Zealand vampires who share a house together, thanks to a documentary camera crew who is allowed to follow the flatmates around as they prepare for an annual vampire party, called the Unholy Masquerade. Listen in as we talk about vampire movies, movie character arcs done right, the appeal of mockumentaries, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Street Trash (1987)

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean picks up some Street Trash (1987) and discovers it's not what he thought it was! Described as a movie about NYC winos who melt after drinking toxic booze, the Internet Radio Superstars inadvertently sit through a Troma-esque riff on hobo culture, which includes homicidal Vietnam veterans, hipster hobos, necrophiliac junkyard managers, sexual deviancy, and a game of Keep-A-Way involving a severed penis. Can we accurately describe the wonders of Street Trash? Find out on this week's exciting episode!

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Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)

Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis wanted to join a fraternity, but ended up in a Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)! In this psychedelic slasher parody (the title of which is part of the joke: there is no Dude Bro Party Massacre 1 or 2), a masked killer known as Motherface preys on the jocks, dudes and bros of the Delta Bi Theta fraternity, while the twin brother of a former victim tries to infiltrate the order to get revenge for his sibling's murder. Listen as we spot celebrity cameos while trying to pin down a breed of patience-testing, interminable sketch comedy on this week's exciting show!

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The Monster Squad (1987)

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin wants to be part of The Monster Squad (1987), a group of monster-lovin' kids who become the only hope for civilization after Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Wolf Man, The Mummy and The Gill Man all arrive in town, in search of a powerful talisman that can alter the balance of good and evil. Listen in as we find out about ruptured wolfman nards, indulge our love of movie monsters and read a lot of listener mail, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Castle Freak (1995)

Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean discovers what lurks in the basement dungeon with Castle Freak (1995). The Re-Animator/From Beyond team of director Stuart Gordon, producer Charles Band, and stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton bring us yet another loose adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story, as an American family inherits an Italian castle (producer Band's real house!) with a dark secret - in the form of a misshapen, sex-crazed, boob-eating freak - trapped in the basement. Come with us now, if you dare, as we uncover the ghoulish delights of Castle Freak on this week's exciting episode!

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House (1986)

Sat, 20 Aug 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis opens the door to House (1986) and finds monsters inside! In this cult horror-comedy, a writer moves into a big Victorian house following the disappearance of his son, and begins to experience strange hallucinations and phenomena, including slimy monsters that burst out of closets and medicine cabinets! Come back with us to a time when horror movies were fun, as we revist this oft-overlooked 80's classic from the creative team who brought you the original Friday the 13th!

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The Resurrected (1992)

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin digs up Dan O'Bannon's H.P. Lovecraft adaptation The Resurrected (1992 - aka Shatterbrain aka The Ancestor), based on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". A beautiful woman hires a private investigator (24's John Terry) to find out what's gone wrong with her scientist husband (Chris Sarandon), stumbling onto a centuries-old conspiracy involving a 1770's warlock and black magic. Listen as we talk about the literary influence of Lovecraft's fiction on the horror genre, name drop both The Call of Cthulhu and The Haunted Palace (a 1963 version of the same story) and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Legend (1985)

Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Holly loves unicorns...and Tom Cruise, and Legend (1985), director Ridley Scott's visually arresting fairy tale-fantasy epic, in which a young forest lad (Cruise) must rescue a princess (Mia Sara) and a unicorn from the clutches of the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry in an awesome Rob Bottin makeup design). Listen in as we detail the differences between the U.S. theatrical version and the international Director's Cut, pontificate about fairies, Gumps, Screwballs, Brown Toms, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Ghostbusters II (1989)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean says bustin' makes him feel good with his pick of Ghostbusters II (1989). Five years after the 1984 classic, the out-of-work Ghostbusters are forced back into action to deal with an epidemic of psychoactive slime flooding the sewers of NYC, an evil painting possessed by an ancient sorcerer, and, most horrifying of all, Venkman's old flame now has a baby. Join us as we tunnel through the nostalgia-fortified shrine of Ghostbusters II, and work in our thoughts about The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, Ghostbusters: The Video Game and the 2016 Ghostbusters remake, all on this week's exciting show!

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Superman III (1983)

Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis goes to bat for Superman III (1983), in which someone thought it would be a good idea to put Richard Pryor and Superman together for the Man of Steel's third big screen showdown. In this sequel, Superman faces off against a gifted computer hacker, an evil tycoon, and - wouldn't you know it - a Super Computer that may be able to destroy the Son of Krypton once and for all! Listen as we talk creepy cyborg transformations, that day that Superman became a jerk, and more on on this week's exciting episode!

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Jaws 3-D (1983)

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin dares to go back in the water for Jaws 3-D (1983), and finds that the third dimension is terror! Florida's SeaWorld is about to open an new underwater attraction when a giant, 35-foot great white shark swims in through an open sea gate and terrorizes the visitors on opening day. Dennis Quaid, as the son of Amity police Chief Brody, runs around trying to save the guests and his relationship with perky whale expert Bess Armstrong. Listen as we relive the brief 80's 3D movie craze, compare the Jaws shark to Friday the 13th's Jason, and get our eyeballs gouged out by amazing 3D in this week's exciting episode!

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Ghoulies II (1988)

Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean summons Ghoulies II (1988) and they nearly get him in the end...again! This sequel adventure finds the diminutive Gremlins/Critters ripoffs (from Charles Band's Empire Pictures) hiding out in a travelling carnival's spook house, where they wreak all sorts of havoc, mischief and murder until a plucky carny, his drunken uncle, a leggy harem dancer, and a profit-conscious businessman, get wise and try to send them back to Hell with ancient carny magic. Listen in as we gab about the entire Ghoulies series (so you don't have to!) on this week's exciting episode!

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Guvyer: Dark Hero (1994)

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis once again transforms into a Japanese superhero character in Guyver: Dark Hero (1994). Having defeated the evil monster Zoanoids, our hero Sean Barker (Metal Gear Solid's David Hayter) takes his psychic space armor and travels to a cave in Utah, where an archaeological dig may unearth answers about the Guyver Unit's mysterious origins. Will he find love? Will he uncover another insidious Zoanoid plot? Will he fight like a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger? You can find out to listening to this week's exciting episode!

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Sorceress (1982)

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin conjures up the 1982 fantasy film Sorceress, a campy flick from the post-Conan, 80's fantasy movie craze. An evil sorcerer searches for his twin girls (Playboy's Leigh and Lynnette Harris), warrior women who were raised as boys, and who now team up with a barbarian, a satyr, and a dwarf, to stop him from conjuring an evil deity to enslave the world. Listen as we name drop as many 80's fantasy films as we can while pointing out the bad acting, bad dubbing, and altogether hysterical awfulness of a movie that has to be seen to be believed, on this week's exciting episode!

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The Last Dragon (1985)

Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Holly tries to find "The Glow" of Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985), Motown's first (and only) motion picture production. A kung-fu movie by way of MTV music videos, this blacksploitation flick centers on a martial arts student, Bruce Leroy (Taimak), who seeks to become master of his discipline, which can only be achieved by defeating both the Sho'Nuff - the Shogun of Harlem - and a slimy corporate type who threatens a pretty TV VJ (Vanity). Nothing could have prepared us for the explosive, laser-enhanced final battle!

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Watchers (1988)

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean takes a look back at a movie that terrified him as a sensitive 15-year-old: the Corey Haim vehicle Watchers (1988). Based on a novel by Dean R. Koontz, Watchers is the story of a super-intelligent, genetically engineered dog who has a psychic link with another, more beastly creature. When both of them escape from a government research facility, they somehow end up putting 80's teen heartthrob Corey Haim and his family in danger. Listen as we give props to the genius of Michael Ironside, have a lengthy aside about the merits of the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, and figure out how you can make a monster movie without having a monster in your movie.

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Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis takes us back to the height of ninja popularity in American pop-culture with Ninja III: The Domination (1984), in which an aerobics instructor (Lucinda Dickey) - who moonlights as a telephone repairman - becomes possessed by the spirit of an evil ninja and starts hunting down the cops who killed him. Join us for full-on ninja-skills dissection of an absolutely insane 80's gem, plus we try to determine where movie nudity has disappeared to when we answer listener mail!

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Pieces (1982)

Sat, 28 May 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin proves you don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre with Pieces (1982), a camp-classic splatter opus. A child hacks his mother to death after she catches him assembling a naughty jigsaw puzzle; forty years later, a black-gloved serial killer starts carving up coeds at a Boston university with a chainsaw. Could they be related? Is the killer trying to assemble a human jigsaw puzzle? You'll howl with delight at both the movie and our episode as we try to recreate classic Pieces line-readings, marvel at completely random kung-fu, and behold the majesty of Pieces - it's exactly what you think it is!

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Sorority House Massacre II (1982)

Sat, 21 May 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean takes us ringside for the cleavage vs cleavers experience that is Sorority House Massacre II (1990), not to be confused with Slumber Party Massacre II, although this is a sequel to Slumber Party Massacre. Got that? Nubile sorority girls buy a former murder house - in the hope of transforming it into their new sorority house - and then inexplicably summon the killer's spirit with a Ouija board, and are murdered one by one. Come back with us to the age of the boobs and blood slasher formula as we try to sort out Sorority House Massacre II on this week's show!

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Basket Case (1982)

Sat, 14 May 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis takes a trip back to the filmic heyday of New York's 42nd Street with his pick of Basket Case (1982), in which a man and his murderous, deformed Siamese twin stalk and kill the doctors responsible for separating them. Listen as we revisit the infamous days of grindhouse theaters, reminisce about renting horror movies on VHS tape, read viewer mail, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Sat, 07 May 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin tries to find the science behind the spooks in Quatermass and the Pit (1967). In this Hammer Films production, work on a London tube extension uncovers a 5 million year old object which may not be of this earth. Intrepid scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to investigate once ghosts and hobgoblins start being seen by nearby residents. Do aliens, the origin of man, and an apocalyptic battle for London eventually figure into the plot? You betcha! Find out more on this week's exciting episode!

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Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis wants to be Pinhead's right hand man in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992), the third of nine (nine!) movies (currently) in the series following Clive Barker's groundbreaking 1987 original. Here, a TV news reporter is tasked with sending Pinhead, newly released upon the earth, back to hell. Listen to what we're going to end up referring to as The Hellraiser Episode, as we discuss the entire series of movies, the story on which they're based, and touch a bit on Barker's latest novel, The Scarlet Gospels, which retires the character of Pinhead. All of this and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Tenebre (1982)

Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin dons his black gloves and indulges his obsession with Italian gialli and Dario Argento's Tenebre (1982). An American writer in Italy begins receiving threatening messages from a serial killer who murders his victims according to methods described in the author's books. Listen as we deep dive into the stylish horror subgenre of "giallo" films, looking back at their beginnings in lurid paperbacks, to the production boom of the 1970's, and through Argento's career defining works. Plus, we play the "Is it Fake or is it Giallo" title guessing game!

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Candyman (1992)

Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean looks in a mirror and summons the Candyman (1992), director Bernard Rose's adaptation of Clive Barker's "The Forbidden". Relocating the action from an London slum to Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, the movie tells the story of a graduate student, researching urban myths, who finds more than she bargained for when she conjures a specter known as the Candyman. Listen as we talk about the psychological horror movies of the 90's, consider if Candyman is actually Pinhead (Hellraiser), and disagree on the meaning of the movie's ending. That's all this week on the exciting Saturday Night Freak Show podcast!

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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis finds himself lost In the Mouth of Madness (1994), John Carpenter's apocalyptic homage to H.P. Lovecraft. Insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neil) is hired to find missing horror author Sutter Cane (Jurgen Prochnow) but finds his grip on reality slipping as the twisted reality of Cane's works begin to threaten reality as we know it. Listen as we lose our minds discussing the stories of Lovecraft, Carpenter's "Apocalypse trilogy", religion, the responsibility that comes with being a horror story teller, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin takes us into dark fairy-tale territory with the cult film Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973). Also known as Lemora: Lady Dracula and The Legendary Curse of Lemora, the film follows virginal, Prohibition-era choir girl, Lila Lee (Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith), into the grim world of a lecherous lady vampire who has designs on initiating her into the world of the undead. Listen as we break down the film: it's themes, it's literary influences, and it's budgetary shortfalls on this week's exciting show!

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Scream 2 (1997)

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scream by watching... Scream 2 (1997). In what should be known as Scream: The College Years, poor Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) takes the entire small town of Woodsboro with her to university, where a Ghostface-masked copycat killer tries to outdo the murderers of the first film. Listen as we celebrate the legacy of director Wes Craven, examine the Scream franchise and subsequent MTV series, and well as the impact of the franchise on horror films and the slasher genre, on this week's exciting episode!

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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis takes us back to high school with Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987), an in-name-only sequel to the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher, in which the ghost of vengeful, murdered prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to Hamilton High to for bloody revenge. Listen as we look back at this colorful mashup between Carrie and A Nightmare on Elm Street, reminisce about USA's Up All Night TV show, and decide not only to show it, but Freak Show it, on this week's exciting episode.

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The Legend of Hell House (1973)

Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin takes us on a paranormal investigation into The Legend of Hell House (1973), in which a group of psychics and scientists (featuring Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin) venture into the "Mount Everest of Haunted Houses" in hopes of proving, conclusively, whether or not there is life after death. Of course, they get more than they bargained for when the restless spirits of the house begin to stir. Listen as we invite an actual paranormal investigator to join us and talk about ghostly phenomena, great haunted house movies, British horror and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Captain America (1990)

Sat, 05 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean dons the red, white and blue with Captain America (1990), the first attempt to bring Marvel's comic book character to the big screen. Imbued with super powers in a secret WWII experiment, Steve Rogers (Matt Salinger) teams up with the daughter of his one-time love to track down the villainous Red Skull (Scott Paulin), and stop a villainous plan to take over the United States. Listen as we talk about the career of director Albert (Mean Guns) Pyun, the downfall of Cannon Films, and inevitably compare this incarnation of the character to it's big budget brother, Captain America: The First Avenger.

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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis takes us on a spiritual journey with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984), a Japanese fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic future. A princess has to stop an aggressive neighboring kingdom from using a powerful weapon to eradicate a toxic jungle of giant insects. Listen as our good intentions snowball into absolute confusion, chaos and incoherence as we try to decipher this acclaimed film, directed by acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki, on this week's exciting episode!

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Triangle (2009)

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Jenny gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle with her pick of Triangle (2009), which finds Melissa (Alias, 30 Days of Night) George experiencing what we refer to as the "Groundhog Day effect" (only with much bloodier consequences) while aboard an adrift ocean liner. This podcast is marked S for SPOILERS as we dive deep into the temporal mechanics of writer/director Christopher Smith's ocean-set mind bender.

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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin uses his black belt to combat black magic as he summons The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) on this week's show. Genre stalwart Peter Cushing travels to China to aid villagers under siege from the titular undead plague; he's assisted by 7 kung fu-wielding brothers (and their 1 sister) in this bizarre co-production between Britain's Hammer Films and the Chinese Shaw Brothers studios. Does Count Dracula show up? You betcha (the movie was released as 7 Brothers Meet Dracula in the U.S.) Listen in as we spend a lot of time talking about the career of Christopher Lee (who does not appear in this movie!) on this week's exciting program!

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The Beach (2000)

Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Brent swims us out to The Beach (2000), as Leonardo DiCaprio discovers a paradise on a tropical island off the coast of Thailand, then discovers that the only threat to perfection is man himself. Listen as we talk entitled youth, shark attacks, hippie communes, mercy killings, forbidden romance, and bear witness to Travis' tirade against "liberals" on this week's exciting show!

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Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Sean was having a good day until every machine on the planet went into Maximum Overdrive (1986), horror author Stephen King's first (and only) directorial effort. Earth passes through the tail of a rogue comet which imbues all machines with sentient life. Their first order of business: exterminate mankind! A bunch of murderous semi trucks converge on the Dixie Boy truck stop and only Emilio Estevez and a band of dim-witted rednecks stand between us and oblivion! Listen as we try to name-drop as many Stephen King related titles as we can on this week's exciting episode!

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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Travis becomes the night with a look at Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), a big screen edition of the Batman: The Animated Series TV show, which finds Batman (Kevin Conroy) dealing with the appearance of a new costumed vigilante in Gotham, and battling conflicting emotions stirred up by the re-appearance of the girl who got away, Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delaney). Listen as we track the evolution of the Dark Knight character through comics, TV and movies all the way to his latest incarnation in Batman v Superman on this week's exciting episode!

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The Princess Bride (1987)

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Jenny celebrates her birthday with a re-visitation of the childhood staple The Princess Bride (1987), a sweet-natured spoof of fairy tales directed by Rob (Misery, A Few Good Men) Reiner. Is one of the most beloved movies of all time beloved by the Internet Radio Superstars of the Saturday Night Freak Show? You'll have to listen to find out!

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Only God Forgives (2013)

Sat, 09 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Colin tries to make sense of Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives (2013), in which Ryan Gosling stars as a psychologically damaged drug smuggler, living in Bangkok, who plows a path of revenge after his brother is killed. Things get complicated with the arrival of his monster of a mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) and a seemingly supernatural policeman. Listen as we analyze the meaning of symbolism and metaphor in the film, and discuss cinema as art on this week's exciting episode!

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Celebrity (1998)

Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Brent explores the neurotic world of Woody Allen with Celebrity (1998), in which Kenneth Branagh does an spot on Allen impersonation as a celebrity journalist going through a divorce, and the gamut of sexual encounters he stumbles into while searching for meaning in life, while his wife (Judy Davis) suffers a a series of meltdowns in search of the same. Join us as we talk infidelity, celebrity, writing and relationship drama on this week's exciting episode!

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Black Christmas (1974)

Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Sean celebrates Santa's arrival with the holiday classic Black Christmas (1974) - one of the first "slasher" movies - a Canadian import which arrived 4 years before Halloween (1978). A group of girls get murdered one-by-one, by a demented psycho named "Billy" who makes obscene phone calls to their sorority house on Christmas Eve. Director Bob Clark is also responsible for the Yuletide favorite, A Christmas Story (1983). Listen as we toss back some holiday cheer and sit under the tree to discover Black Christmas' place in the horror history!

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Spookies (1986)

Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Travis digs up the forgotten horror flick Spookies (1986), which finds a group of 30-something teenagers choosing an old mansion in which to party, and ultimately end up summoning a bunch of monsters who kill them off one-by-one. Listen as we discover the thrills of farting muck-men, shriveled sorcerers, spider-women, Gremlin-like demons, zombies and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Home Alone (1990)

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Jenny relives her childhood fascination with Macaulay Culkin's screaming fits and proclivities towards violent mayhem in Home Alone (1990). In the film, the pint-sized terror scalds, stabs, shatters, and mangles a couple of bumbling, ne'er-do-well burglars who mistakenly target his home for their Christmastime plundering. Listen as we try to sort through the rich, multi-layered meanings of this oft overlooked, feel-good holiday classic.

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Videodrome (1983)

Sat, 05 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Colin says "long live the new flesh!" and unleashes David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) signal upon unsuspecting minds in this week's episode. James Woods stars as a fringe-TV programmer whose reality begins to unravel after he becomes obsessed with pirate transmissions of a torture reality show. Pull up a chair and listen as we talk prophetic visions, insidious political agendas, and discuss the best course of action when you grow (and then feed videotapes to) a lower abdominal slit. All on this week's exciting episode!

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Back to the Future Part III (1988)

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Brent concludes a year celebrating Back to the Future and time-travel movies with Back to the Future Part III (1990), which sees Marty and Doc transported to 1885, where they run afoul of 'Mad Dog' Tannen, a disabled DeLorean, and an unexpected love affair, in this sweet-natured conclusion to the classic fantasy trilogy. Gather 'round as we discover why Brent loves this movie (and why Travis hates it) on this week's exciting episode!

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Critters 2 (1988)

Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Sean comes back for a second course of furry extraterrestrial troublemakers with Critters 2 (1988), which finds more of the small creatures hatching and causing havoc in a small town, while series holdovers Scott Grimes and town-drunk-turned-alien-bountyhunter Charlie (Don Opper) try to stop them. Listen in as we talk about monster movies, the perils of sequels, the career of director Mick Garris, and the soothing effect of giant boobies, on this week's exciting episode!

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American Pop (1982)

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis takes us on a magical mystery tour of American Pop (1982), an animated feature from Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, The Lord of the Rings and Cool World. The film is an ambitious, multi-generational saga; an immigrant story that traces its lineage through the world of 20th century music and the lives of four men. Listen as we talk a bit about Bakshi's career, the controversial animation technique called 'rotoscoping', and revel of the world of American animation for adults on this week's exciting episode!

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Would You Rather (2012)

Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:00:00 GMT

This week, Jenny gets her freak on with Would You Rather (2012), in which Re-Animator's Jeffrey Combs stars as the sadistic host of a dinner party, who puts his desperate guests through a deadly game, with the promise that the winner will take home a tidy sum of money. Listen as we challenge each other to drinking games, celebrate the acting career of Combs, belittle the talent-free porn star-turned-mainstream actress Sasha Grey, and evaluate the current state of torture-based horror movies on this week's exciting episode!

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The Lords of Salem (2013)

Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:00:00 GMT

This week, we celebrate Halloween with Colin's seasonal pick of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (2013) in which a cursed record album conjures up a centuries old witches' curse to haunt a modern day rock DJ (Sherri Moon Zombie). Listen as we talk cinematic witchcraft through the ages, demon babies, demon lovers, the film career of Robert Wolfgang Zombie, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Sean officially returns to the Freak Show with a look back at cult item Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983), an anomaly in the Halloween movie series that does not feature boogeyman Michael Myers. Instead, we get a plot to sacrifice millions of children, conducted by a novelty mask manufacturer, aided by technology gleaned from the druids. Does Halloween III deserve its current day renaissance? Tune in to this week's episode and find out the verdict of the Internet Radio Superstars!

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Puppetmaster (1989)

Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week Travis pulls the strings of cult favorite Puppetmaster (1989), the first in a series of low budget horror films about a group of living dolls, brought to life by an ancient Egyptian spell, who are used by a psychic to kill his former colleagues. Listen as we talk the rise and fall of Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment, the lost experience of surfing cover art at video stores, and our favorite killer doll movies on this week's exciting episode!

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Hook (1991)

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week we fly to Neverland with Peter Pan in Jenny's pick of Hook (1991), Steven Spielberg's sequel-of-sorts, which finds a middle-aged Peter (Robin Williams) being forced to re-discover his magical potential when his children are kidnapped by Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Gather 'round, children, as we try to untangle what happened to Neverland in this week's exciting roundtable throwdown!

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Zombie (1979)

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin exposes us to the gorefest delights of Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979 - also known as Zombi 2 and Zombie Flesh Eaters), which sees eyeball-poking, shark wrestling ghouls resurrected by voodoo on a Caribbean island. Listen as we dive head first into the living dead - finally - on this week's exciting episode!

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Robot Jox (1989)

Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, O.G. Tom returns to the Freak Show to behold the giant mech battle movie, Robot Jox (1989). In a post apocalyptic world, wars are fought in a gladiatorial arena by giant robots driven by each faction's best pilot. Who will win out? Good Achilles or evil Alexander? Join us as we analyze director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's movie and talk all things battle mech, including unavoidable comparisons to Pacific Rim, Mech Warrior, BattleTech and more on this week's exciting sci-fi episode!

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Con Air (1997)

Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Jenny enters the so-bad-it's-good sweepstakes with her pick of the Nicholas Cage-starrer, Con Air (1997). Loveable criminal cage is put on a high-security plane with a bunch of hardened criminals, rapists and serial killers, (including John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, and Ving Rhames) and wouldn't you know it - they hijack the plane with him on board! What's an unfairly incarcerated guy to do? Play Die Hard on a Plane, that's what! Meanwhile, befuddled Federal agent John Cusack loses his mind on the ground. Listen to find out what the Internet Radio Superstars thought of Con Air on this week's exciting episode!

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Starcrash (1978)

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin subjects us to the camp sci-fi classic Starcrash (1978), an Italian Star Wars rip-off that finds the buxom Stella Star (Captain Kronos' beauty Caroline Munro), along with a menagerie of robots and aliens, setting out to thwart the galaxy conquering plans of the evil Count Zarth-Arn (Joe Spinell). And, oh yeah, Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff co-star. Join us for a lively discussion of one of cinemas greatest guilty pleasures on this week's exciting episode!

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The Fly II (1989)

Sat, 05 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week Travis indulges his love for monster movies with his pick of The Fly II (1989), a follow-up to David Cronenberg's 1986 re-vamp of the classic '50's chiller. Picking up where the previous film left off, The Fly II finds Eric Stoltz as the offspring of Jeff Goldblum's doomed scientist, in the custody of a sinister corporation who is waiting for his latent creature genes to manifest themselves. Daphne Zungia (Spaceballs) is his hapless love interest. Tune in as we analyze vomi-drop, rubber monsters, makeup men-turned-directors, and more in this week's exciting episode!

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Clue (1985)

Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week we discover it was Jenny who did it, in the basement, with the movie Clue (1985), a slapstick adaptation of the classic board game. It's a dark and stormy night as Tim Curry, as a hapless butler, who assists a colorful cast of characters (including Christopher Lloyd, Leslie Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, and more) as they try to determine who killed the blackmailer, Mr. Boddy.

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Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week we sell our souls for rock n' roll with Colin's pick of Brian de Palma's horror/comedy/musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974). When an up and coming songwriter is disfigured and his music is stolen by a shady record producer (70's songwriting impresario Paul Williams), he dons a cloak and mask and haunts the producer's trendy venue, The Paradise, in order to secure the talents of talented ingenue Phoenix (Suspiria's Jessica Harper) in this mix of Phantom of the Opera, Faust, and the Picture of Dorian Gray. Tune in to this week's exciting episode!

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Groundhog Day (1993)

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week Brent tries to determine if Groundhog Day (1993) can be classified as a time-travel movie. Self-centered weatherman Bill Murray gets stuck in Punxsutawney, PA in more ways than one, finding himself reliving the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over again. Is it cosmic punishment for the misdeeds of his life? Or is some other force at work? Listen as we try to figure it out on this week's exciting episode!

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Return to Oz (1985)

Sat, 08 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week Jenny takes us to the the nightmare fantasy world of Return to Oz (1985), a supposed sequel to the much beloved classic film that, in the hands of the maniacs at Disney, becomes a full-fledged freak show. Dorothy gets committed to a mental institution and finds her way back to a ruined Oz, which is now under the command of a shrieking, head swapping witch and an amorphous Gnome King. Join us as we try to unravel just who thought this was a good idea for children's entertainment on this week's exciting episode!

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Re-Animator (1985)

Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week Colin ventures into H.P. Lovecraft territory with a 30th anniversary review of Re-Animator (1985). Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a medical student who conducts bizarre experiments on dead tissue, which eventually draws both his roomate (Bruce Abbott) and his roomate's girlfriend (Barbara Crampton) into some of the most gonzo moments in ever seen in horror cinema. Listen as we talk about the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, film adaptations of his work, the career of director Stuart Gordon and more, on this week's exciting episode!

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week Brent steps into the ring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the time-travel epic Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)! Come with us if you want to live, as we evaluate one of sci-fi's enduring action movie franchises, and attempt to wrap our heads around James Cameron's twisted timeline in this week's exciting episode!

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The Exorcist III (1990)

Sat, 18 Jul 2015 12:00:00 GMT

The pesky electronic gremlins have struck again and have devoured our intended review of The Babadook, so this week the power of Christ compels us to watch William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (1990). Screen titan George C. Scott battles Satan in this pseudo-sequel to the 1973 original, this time dealing with body-snatching Brad Dourif and homicidal old folks as well as Old Scratch himself. Tune in as we discover what heaven would be like with a big band orchestra and Patrick Ewing as the Angel of Death on this week's short but sweet episode!

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Forbidden Planet (1956)

Sat, 11 Jul 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin takes us to the Forbidden Planet (1956) where we encounter Robby the Robot, the voluptuous Anne Francis, monsters from the Id, and a very young Leslie Nielsen, who stars as the commander of a starship sent to investigate why Earth has lost contact with a distant colony. Listen as we explore one of sci-fi's most borrowed from classics on this week's exciting episode!

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Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:00:00 GMT

The 2015 Year of Time Travel Movies continues with Brent's selection of Twelve Monkeys (1995), which sees Bruce Willis sent from a post-apocalyptic future back to the modern day to find a pathogen, responsible for wiping out the human race, in its pure form. Along the way he encounters a sympathetic psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) and a charismatic schizophrenic (Brad Pitt) in Terry Gilliam's trippy tale.

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week we evaluate Jenny's selection of 1998's The Big Lebowski by subjecting ourselves to a barrage of trivia questions about the Dude (Jeff Bridges), Walter (John Goodman), Maude (Julliane Moore) and the other assorted odball characters of Joel and Ethan Cohen's slacker ode to film-noir detective mysteries. So get the White Russian mix handy and play along with our Big Lebowski drinking game on this week's exciting episode!

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Kung Fury (2015)

Sat, 13 Jun 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we take a trip back through 80's nostalgia via Colin's pick of Kung Fury (2015), a Kickstarter-funded short film that sees a Miami cop become a martial arts master, thanks to a simultaneous cobra bite and lightning strike, who travels back in time to defeat Adolph Hitler. Listen as we talk about crowdfunded Internet short films, the logistics of using a Nintendo Power Glove as a time machine, laser raptors, machine gun wielding barbarians, and learn not to hassle the Hoff on this week's exciting (and short) show!

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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent continues the 2015: Year of Time Travel series with the 2010 comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine. John Cusack leads a cadre of his pals back to 1986 via a magical hot tub, where they are afforded the opportunity to right the wrongs of their youth. Shenanigans ensue. Listen as we talk 80's nostalgia, movies that aren't really movies, and generally clown around on this week's exciting episode!

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Super (2010)

Sat, 30 May 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis plumbs the dark recesses behind superhero fantasies with James Gunn's Super (2010). Rainn Wilson stars as a short order cook who becomes a costumed crimefighter in order to rescue his wife (Liv Tyler) from a smarmy drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). Listen as we deconstruct the modern superhero myth on this week's exciting podcast!

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Primer (2004)

Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin answers Brent's 'year of time-travel movies' challenge with Shane Carruth's Primer (2004), a low-budget mindbender about two engineers who accidentally invent a time machine in their garage, and the complications that ensue once they begin to use it. Find out how little we know about actual science as we talk causality paradoxes, space, time and perception on this week's epic episode!

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Sat, 09 May 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent takes us on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), in which two lovable losers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) embark on a quest to abduct famous figures from history (courtesy of a time machine) in order to pass their high school history exam. Join us at the bar as we continue the Summer of Time-Travel with one of the 80's best known comedy duos on this week's exciting episode!

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Black Rat (2010)

Sat, 02 May 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week marks the Freak Show's first foray into J-horror with Travis' pick of Black Rat (2010). Set in a high school, a killer in a rat mask begins murdering her classmates for revenge for a tragic death which they were all a part of. Join as as we talk J-horror tropes, karate fights, sullen teenagers, breaking-and-entering, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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I Come in Peace (1990)

Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we yap about Colin's pick, I Come In Peace (aka Dark Angel, 1990). Muscleman Dolph Lundgren stars as a rule-breaking cop investigating a series of murders committed by an extraterrestrial drug-dealer. Join us as we talk about the practicality of using compact discs as a murder weapon, handguns that shoots fireballs, the drug empire run by a group of suited up corporate executives, and the futility of putting Dolph Lundgren in a buddy cop movie on this week's exciting episode!

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The Time Machine (1960)

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent takes us on a voyage through time to the 1960's to watch The Time Machine, in which an inventor and scientist George Wells (Rod Taylor) travels to a distant future where humanity is divided into two groups - the apathetic Eloi and the mutant Morlocks. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Listen as we talk time travel, 1960's era special effects and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Guyver (1991)

Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis hopes to transform into The Guyver (1991), a suit of bio-boosted space armor from this adaptation of a popular Japanese manga. A kickboxer (Jack Armstrong) discovers an alien artifact (aka "The Unit") which attaches itself to him in the form of a wearable superhero suit, allowing him to fight against the insectoid creatures (led by Michael Berryman of The Hills Have Eyes and David Gale of Re-Animator) who are determined to get it back. Top-billed Mark Hamill co-stars as a rumpled CIA agent.

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WolfCop (2014)

Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we howl at Colin's pick of WolfCop (2014), a tongue-in-cheek monster/comedy that finds an alcoholic policeman finding new ways to battle crime once he's transformed into the world's first werewolf cop! Pull up a seat at the bar and listen in as we talk the modern trend of insta-cult movies and discover whether or not this wolfman's got nards on this week's exciting episode!

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Time Bandits (1981)

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent steals about 2 hours from the Saturday Night Freak Show irregulars with his pick of Time Bandits (1981), a whimsical British fantasy directed by one-time Monty Python regular, Terry Gilliam. A cadre of dwarf time-travelers abscond with a young boy on an adventure throughout a variety of historical scenarios, putting them in the midst of an ongoing battle between Evil (David Warner) and the Supreme Being. Strap yourselves in for what could be the most exciting Freak Show yet!

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The Phantom (1996)

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis asks us to slam evil along with his movie pick, The Phantom (1996). Set in the 1930's, Billy Zane plays a costumed (and possibly immortal) crimefighter who defends a south Asian jungle from a greedy industrialist (Treat Williams) seeking a supernatural doomsday device. One time movie Buffy, Kristy Swanson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones co-star. Join us as we talk about the character's comic book origins and enduring appeal on this week's exciting episode!

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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)

Sat, 07 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin fulfills the prophecy of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985), a rarely-seen cartoon space opera from the 80's era of 3-D movies which finds a teenager named Orin who must find a magical sword in order to free the galaxy from an tyrannical overlord named Zygon. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of deep space adventure, dashing space rouges, buxom fembots, fey computer sidekicks, intergalactic prophecies and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Timecop (1994)

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent summons Jean-Claude Van Damme from the future in Timecop (1994), which finds the action star bouncing back and forth in time to thwart an evil politician (Ron Silver) from altering the future. Listen in as we talk about the shaky mechanics of time travel, revel in the heydays of sweet mullets, and contemplate doing the splits on a kitchen sink on this week's exciting show!

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Class of Nuke Em High (1986)

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis welcomes you to Tromaville, home of the Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986), in which toxic waste transforms honor students into splatterpunks. Listen as we talk mutant babies, radioactive pre-marital sex, futuristic fashions, and the enduring legacy of Troma movies on this week's exciting show!

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Zardoz (1974)

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin takes us on a trip into the bizarre land of Zardoz (1974), a futuristic science fiction tale. A ridiculously-outfitted Sean Connery stars as a barbaric executioner who travels - via a giant floating stone head - into an enclave of psychic hippies who wish to examine his primitive DNA. Listen as we explore the mysteries of the universe (and this movie in particular) on this week's exciting episode!

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Strange Brew (1983)

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Let's play a drinking game! Whenever you hear one of us say "eh?" or "hoser" or "take off" on this week's Strange Brew (1983) episode (courtesy: Brent), you take a drink! We promise you'll be flat wasted within the hour as we entertain you with stories and anecdotes while drinking and watching Bob and Doug MacKenzie stumble through a plot (borrowed from Shakespeare!) in their quest to stop an evil beer-maker (Max Von Sydow) from destroying the world through mind control.

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Play It Again, Sam (1972)

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT

It's comedy-arthouse week as Travis brings us Play It Again Sam (1972), starring Woody Allen (who also wrote the screenplay and Broadway play upon which it is based) as a nebbish with relationship troubles who dreams of being cool like his screen idol, Humphrey Bogart. Listen is as we gather round the bar for a scintillating dissection of one of Hollywood's hardest working filmmakers on this week's show!

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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin brings the Freak back to the Freak Show with Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988), a goofy post-apocalyptic sci-fi fable in which the last virile man on earth, Sam Hell ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper), must venture into a forbidden wasteland ruled by mutant frogmen to impregnate six fertile women and save the human race. Pull up a seat at the bar and join us as we wax rhapsodic about explosive chastity belts, animatronic frog heads, and the dreaded Dance of the Three Snakes in this week's exciting episode!

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Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent celebrates 2015 with a look back at Back to the Future Part II (1989), in which 1985 era Marty and Doc travel to 2015 (and an alternate 1985, and 1955 - again!) and we get a glimpse of what the future looked like from the lens of 1989 (when the movie was made). Where are the flying cars? Join us as we plow through motion picture sci-fi history with our breakdown of Back to the Future Part II on this week's exciting episode!

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Moon 44 (1990)

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Gary bids us adieu with his exit pick of Moon 44 (1990), a sci-fi thriller from Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich, which stars Michael (Streets of Fire) Pare as an internal affairs officer sent to investigate corruption on a deep-space mining colony. Join us as we talk about copycat filmmakers, under-emoting actors (Pare), over-emoting actors (Malcolm McDowell), Blackhawks in space, and more on this week's exciting space-based episode!

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Save the Green Planet (2003)

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis takes us to South Korea with his pick of Save the Green Planet (2003), about a man who, believing that aliens from the planet Andromeda are plotting to invade the Earth, kidnaps a pharmaceutical executive (whom he believes to be an alien) and tortures him in his subterranean lair. Meanwhile, a rumpled detective closes in. Listen as we talk about a movie that mixes comedy, horror, and sci-fi in this week's bizarre motion picture stew.

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin takes us on the psycho-sexual Christmastime odyssey which is Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). After Dr. Harford's (Tom Cruise) wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, he becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter to even the score. Listen as we deconstruct masked orgies, the Illuminati, and Freudian symbolism in this week's exciting episode!

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State of Grace (1990)

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week we review Gary's pick: State of Grace (1990), in which an Irish guy (Sean Penn) has to determine where his loyalties lie when he returns home to New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, and immediately falls in with hellraiser Gary Oldman and his mob family. Listen as the Irish members of the podcast come out in force and wreak havoc in booze and cigarettes in this exciting episode!

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Masters of the Universe (1987)

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis has the power of Greyskull as we watch his pick of Masters of the Universe (1987), an adaptation of the Mattel toy line which stars Dolph Lundren (rockin' an awesome 80's mullet) as He-Man, a muscular warrior who comes to Earth to battle the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella). Listen as we uncover the history of MOTU toys, fiction, and relish in Langella's performance on this week's exciting episode!

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House of Wax (1953)

Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we take a look back at Colin's pick, House of Wax (1953), the movie that kicked off Hollywood's longstanding love-hate relationship with 3-D. After his wax museum burns down, a sculptor (horror icon Vincent Price) returns with a thirst for revenge, prowling the gaslit streets of New York to hunt victims for his new, "life-like" wax museum exhibit. Listen as we explore the evolution of 3-D technology and the horror film in this week's exciting episode!

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John Carpenter's They Live (1988)

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Gary has come to kick ass and chew bubblegum with his pick of John Carpenter's They Live (1988), in which a drifter uncovers a secret alien conspiracy with the help of special sunglasses. Listen as we revel in the delights of 6 minute fight scenes, conspiracy theories, and discover Gary's all out of bubblegum on this week's exciting episode!

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Arena (1989)

Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT

100th episode! This week, Travis takes us to watch human vs. alien boxing in Arena (1989), in which a short-order cook becomes the first human in 50 years to fight in an intergalactic boxing ring against a menagerie of monstrous prize fighters. Enter the Saturday Night Freak Show grudge match as we slug our way through this rubber-creature outer space shlockfest!

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Nightbreed (1990)

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we watch Colin's pick of the restored, director's cut of Clive Barker's much-maligned 1990 monster epic Nightbreed. A troubled canuck survives his own death and searches out the hidden city of Midian, an underground city where monsters live, as his girlfriend, a psychopathic psychiatrist, and a mob of rednecks, close in. Listen to our thesis-worthy analysis of Clive Barker's fiction, film work, and reoccurring themes in this episode!

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent brings Freddy Krueger to our Halloween weekend podcast with his pick of 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. This entry in the long-running horror series finds Freddy (Robert Englund) haunting the dreams of a group of teens in a mental hospital, and facing off against his chief antagonist from the first Nightmare, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp). Join us, and special guest Dave the BBQ man, as we break down the enduring appeal of one of horror's touchstone characters.

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Session 9 (2001)

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Gary discovers that fear is a place in Brad Anderson's Session 9 (2001), in which chronicles the exploits of a hazmat crew tasked with cleaning up the old Danvers Lunatic Asylum. As psychological stress triggers cracks in all the men, a more sinister force may also have been awakened by their presence. Listen as we diagnose the case for your listening edification and enjoyment on this week's exciting episode! And, Tom is back! (This podcast contains SPOILERS!)

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Girlfriend from Hell (1989)

Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis dumps his Girlfriend from Hell (1989) on us! In the movie, the inventor of the condom (Twin Peaks' Dana Ashbrook), now God's bounty hunter, tracks down the Devil who has taken possession of a high-school wallflower to feed on human souls via sex. Sound crazy? It is! Listen as we dissect this morsel of late-80's direct-to-video mayhem on this week's podcast!

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers Producers Cut (1995)

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:01:00 GMT

This week, we bid farewell to Sean with his final Freak Show pick of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - Producer's Cut (1995), an alternate version of the 6th entry in the long-running slasher movie franchise. This outing reveals that the origins behind the un-killable Michael Myers lie in druid mysticism as The Shape returns to Haddonfield to slaughter yet another distant family relation (and anyone else who tickles his fancy.) Come help us bid farewell to Sean along with his brothers and the rest of the Freak Show gang on this family affair episode!

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Trick or Treat (1986)

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 00:01:00 GMT

This week, Colin asks "what are you afraid of? It's only rock n' roll!" with his pick of the 1986 heavy metal horror movie, Trick or Treat, which finds an outcast high school metal-head summoning his rocker idol from the dead to get payback on his tormentors. The film features cameo appearances by metal icons Gene Simmon (KISS) and Ozzy Osbourne. Join us as we fire up the turntable and raise the dead on this week's exciting episode and prove that rock's chosen warriors will rule the apocalypse!

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Buffalo 66 (1998)

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:01:00 GMT

This week, Brent returns us to the glory days of the 1990's independent cinema movement with Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 (1998), a film in which Gallo (who wrote and directed) plays a troubled ex-con who abducts Christina Ricci and forces her to play his wife in a bid to win his parents affection. Come with us, won't you, into our navel-gazing exploration of deep thoughts, Jungian symbolism, and belly laughs in this week's exciting show!

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The Toxic Avenger (1984)

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis bathes us in the glory of the cult classic The Toxic Avenger (1984), in which a 90 lb weakling is transformed, by a canister of toxic waste, into a hulking superhero who mops up the trash-filled streets of Tromaville, USA. Camp classic or tasteless crap? Let the Internet Radio Superstars of the Saturday Night Freak Show be your guide through the cinematic sewer on this week's exciting episode!

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Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, we revel in the euro-horror delights of Colin's pick, 1971's Daughters of Darkness, in which John Karlen (Dark Shadows) and his new bride, vacationing abroad, find themselves holed-up in an opulent, off-season hotel with a lesbian vampire (who may or may not be the infamous blood countess, Elisabeth Bathory) and her seductive assistant. Is this one of the great, forgotten vampire-movie masterpieces? Or a forgettable piece of grindhouse-meets-arthouse trash? Find out on this week's exciting show!

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Badlands (1973)

Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Brent chooses Terrence Malick's 1973 road drama Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young lovers who embark on a spree-killing trip through the rural Southwest. The movie, loosely based on the real-life murders of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, was adopted into the National Film Registry in 1993. Join us at the bar as we talk James Dean, counterculture, the influence of the film on Quentin Tarantino, and more on this week's scholarly episode of film talk!

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976-EVIL (1988)

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Travis investigates Robert Englund's directorial debut, 976-EVIL (1988), in which an alienated teen is granted the power to get even after dialing a satanic phone number. Listen in as we slather ourselves in 80's horror cheese dive into a world of overbearing parents, awkward dates, bathroom bullies, supernatural shenanigans, and flying fish.

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Foxy Brown (1974)

Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:00:00 GMT

This week, Colin takes us back to the groovy '70's with the Blaxsploitation classic Foxy Brown (1974). Foxy (Pam Grier), a "whole lot of woman" - as described by one character, goes on a revenge rampage after her undercover cop-boyfriend is gunned down by thugs from a heroin syndicate. This was Grier's follow up to her breakout role in Coffy the year prior, and was initially titled "Burn, Coffy, Burn". Hear how it all went down when Foxy Brown came to town on this week's episode. Can you dig it?

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent tries to class up the joint with his pick of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Multiple timelines converge in this funny story about the legendary concierge (Ralph Finnes) at a famous European hotel and his friendship with a lobby boy, who becomes his most trusted friend, in a story about the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, an idiosyncratic wealthy family, and a changing political season. Join us as we gather round the campfire to discuss the cinematic career of filmmaker Wes Anderson and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Frighteners (1996)

Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:00:50 GMT

The Saturday Night Freak Show podcast returns! After a brief hiatus, we're back with Sean's pick of The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's 1996 tongue-in-cheek ghost comedy which stars Michael J Fox as a paranormal investigator who teams up with a trio of colorful ghosts to stop an evil wraith from killing folks in a small town. Listen as we gather around the bar and dole out wise insights and spirited analysis (get it?) on this week's episode.

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Forbidden Zone (1980)

Sat, 05 Jul 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis takes us into the Forbidden Zone (1980), a tripped-out musical fantasy from Richard Elfman, brother of Danny (who appears as the Devil during a musical number), based on the cabaret show of the group Oingo Boingo. In it, a family discovers that a secret door in the basement of their house leads to the Sixth Dimension, a world governed by Herve Villechaize, of Fantasy Island fame, and other assorted weirdos. Join us for lively conversation about midnight movies, cult classics and more in this week's episode!

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Road House (1989)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, the Summer of Swayze continues as we watch Colin's pick of Road House (1989), a ridiculously fun time at the movies full of throat-ripping, monster truck stomping, barroom brawling, kick-punching action as Dalton (Patrick Swayze), the Best Bouncer in the Business, comes to town to clean up a rough saloon and save the townsfolk from the clutches of an evil land baron. Listen as we defend the virtues of this cult classic on this week's episode!

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Hudson Hawk (1991)

Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom makes his final Freak Show selection with the Bruce Willis vanity project Hudson Hawk (1991), in which Bruno plays a singing jewel thief recruited by the mob, the C.I.A. and pair of eccentric rich weirdos to steal a device Leonardo Da Vinci invented to turn lead into gold. Listen as something that should have been a good time goes horribly wrong in this week's exciting episode!

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Point Break (1991)

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent ushers in the Summer of Swayze with Point Break (1991), the Katheryn (Hurt Locker) Bigelow directed, James Cameron-produced action thriller starring Keanu Reeves as a FBI agent tasked with taking down a group of sufers, led by the Svengali-like Patrick Swayze, who rob banks to finance their endless summer. Lori Petty and Gary Busey also star. Join us as we talk summer action movies, the Bodhisatva, zen, surfing, and more on this week's episode!

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Night of the Lepus (1972)

Sat, 31 May 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Sean returns the Freak Show to drive-in territory by showing us Night of the Lepus (1972), a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it horror movie about a bunch of giant, flesh-eating rabbits(!) that attack a small Arizona ranching community. Janet Leigh (Psycho), DeForrest Kelley (Star Trek), and Rory Calhoun (Motel Hell) join Stuart Whitman in battling the fluffy varmints. Join us as we ponder the mysteries of the cinematic universe on this week's show!

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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Sat, 24 May 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis tries to class up the joint with his choice of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994), which sees John Cusack as an idealistic 1920's New York playwright comically struggling to save the integrity of his work from mobsters, their dames, and the ego of his performers (including Best Actress Oscar winner Dianne Wiest). Join us for some lively post-movie conversation on this week's exciting podcast!

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Attack the Block (2011)

Sat, 17 May 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin chooses the contemporary inner-city vs. outer-space alien invasion adventure Attack the Block (2011), which sees an East London tower block overrun by rampaging creatures, and only a gang of 15 year old punks stands between civilization and extraterrestrial anarchy in the UK. Pull up a chair and join us at the bar for scintillating post-viewing conversation that explores the characterization, the special effects, and whether or not this film is post-modern Goonies!

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Streets of Fire (1984)

Sat, 10 May 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom blind-buys his way into Walter Hill's Streets of Fire (1984), a "rock n' roll fable" that mashes up 1950's tough guy attitudes with 1980's music and neon streets. Soldier boy Tom Cody (Michael Pare) is recruited to rescue his girlfriend, rock singer Ellen Aim (superfoxy Diane Lane) when she is abducted by a bunch of greaser bikers led by Willem Dafoe. Sit back and enjoy our post-movie post-mortem as we talk Western movie tropes, Meatloaf, and bad attitudes on this week's exciting show!

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Death Becomes Her (1992)

Sat, 03 May 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent once again worships at the feet of his idol, Robert Zemeckis, with this week's pick of Death Becomes Her (1992) which finds the director in Tales From the Crypt territory in a story of two vain women (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) who find themselves in a battle for the affections of plastic surgeon Bruce Willis. Join us as we talk all things Zemeckis, black humor, and more with special guest, Grillmaster Dave on this week's episode!

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Friday the 13th Part 3 3D (1982)

Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Sean takes us down the trail of classic horror with Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982), the 3D entry in the long running slasher series. Listen as we build our own true-color 3D Frankencut of the movie just to experience the film as it was originally seen in theaters, and lose our popcorn as killer implements come flying off the screen. So join us on an appreciation of all things Jason Voorhees, slasher movies, on this exciting episode!

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The Last Unicorn (1982)

Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis takes us on a hunt for The Last Unicorn (1982), an animated fantasy film about a unicorn who, upon discovering that she is the last of her kind, goes on a quest, along with a plucky would-be sorcerer, to find out what happened to the others of her kind. Starring the voices of Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges and Christopher Lee. Listen in as we talk folklore, fantasy, animation, riddles and more on this week's epic show!

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Body Double (1984)

Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, we go all Hitchcockian with Colin's pick of Brian De Palma's 1984 erotic thriller Body Double, in which a struggling actor (Craig Wasson) spies on a sexy neighbor (Deborah Shelton) and gets more than he bargained for when she is brutally murdered. Melanie Griffith also stars. Join us at the bar as we talk the influence of Alfred Hitchcock, twists and turns, plagarism vs homage, naked ladies, while bemoaning the fact that they don't make 'em like they used to on this week's episode!

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The Running Man (1987)

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent takes us to the future with The Running Man (1987), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle that takes place in a totalitarian future in which criminals are forced to participate in a "Most Dangerous Game"-style TV show, hosted by the slimy Richard Dawson (then the real-life host of TV's Family Feud). Journey back (or forward) in time with us as we relive the glory days of muscle action cinema on this week's episode!

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The Rocketeer (1991)

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Sean takes to the skies with The Rocketeer (1991), in which a down-on-his-luck biplane pilot (Billy Campbell) comes into possession of a wearable rocket pack that's wanted by the F.B.I., the mob, and Hollywood action star Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton). Join us as we join the Jennifer Connelly appreciation society, talk golden-age superheroes, celebrate the career of Joe Johnston, and discover much Tom loves Nazi movies in this exciting episode!

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Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)

Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis brings us Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), a sequel to the cheapo cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) which a world still recovering from the Great Tomato War has outlawed tomatoes, while evil scientist John Astin (TV's The Addams Family) discovers a way to create human-looking tomatoes for use in his bid to conquer humanity. The film is also notable for starring re-Rosanne, pre-E.R. George Clooney in his first movie role. Pull up a chair and join us at the bar as we talk spoof movies, the Zucker and Wayans brothers movies, and more on this lively episode!

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The Protector (2005)

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin claims that the heir to Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li in the history of cinema's greatest martial artists is Tony Jaa and we watch his 2005 film The Protector (aka Tom Young Goon, aka The Warrior King.) Jaa stars as the descendant of a tribe of royal war elephant guards who must travel from Thailand to Australia, kicking all kinds of ass along the way, after his prize elephant is stolen by a ring of Chinese criminals. Join us as we dream of doing split kicks in our living rooms in this week's exciting installment!

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Flash Gordon (1980)

Sat, 08 Mar 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom takes us to the farthest reaches of space along with Flash Gordon (1980), a colorful adaptation of the classic comic strip hero. Flash (Sam Jones), quarterback for the New York Jets, gets swept into intergalactic space along with Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) after Earth is attacked by Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow). Pull up a chair and join us as the bar for more movie talk on this week's episode of the Saturday Night Freak Show!

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Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Sat, 01 Mar 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent takes us back to a kinder, a gentler time with the 80's fantasy flick Flight of the Navigator, in which a Walt Disney kid gets whisked away in a fancy silver spaceship co-piloted by Pee Wee Herman. Listen as we diagnose just where this glorious slice of nostalgia goes horribly off the rails, while some of us nearly pass out from laughter on this weeks exciting episode!

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Urotsukidoji Legend of the Overfiend (1989)

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis defiles our eyeballs with the legendary Japanese hentai animated classic Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989), in which demons, half-demons and man (demons?) all converge in an orgy of fireworks and tentacle rape. Somewhere in there, a Chosen One is...chosen. Pull up a chair and hang with us at the bar a while as we bravely try to determine what the hell it all means on this week's exciting episode.

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Suspiria (1977)

Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin unleashes the candy-colored horrors of Dario Argento's classic Suspiria (1977), in which a new student (Jessica Harper) at a ballet school in the Black Forest of Germany discovers that it's actually cover for a coven of witches. Join us as we revel in Techincolor delights of supernatural bloodletting on this Italian Horror episode of the Saturday Night Freak Show!

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Sharknado (2013)

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom gets by with a technicality and shows us the 2013 made-for-SyFy shlockpic Sharknado (it had a brief theatrical run thanks to Fathom Events), in which a storm sucks up a bunch of sharks from the ocean and flings them at unfortunate folks on land. Tara Reid, Ian Zierling and John Heard star. Is Sharknado bad-good or just plain bad? Find out on this exciting episode!

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Dolemite (1975)

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:00:50 GMT

This week, the whitest people you ever met take a viewing of Brent's movie choice: the blaxsploitation classic Dolemite (1975). Stand up comedian Rudy Ray Moore stars as a flamboyant pimp who's given a few days out of jail to catch the guys who set him up and clear his name. Listen as we explore the origins of blaxsploitation movies and the full spread of afro-centric action heroes of the 1970's!

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Critters (1986)

Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week Sean looks to outer space and rains down Critters (1986) upon us, in which the family farm comes under attack from adorable but mean alien creatures (think Gizmo, but with teeth). The 'crites' are, in turn, pursued by two shape-shifting, alien bounty hunters who contribute nothing to the story but mayhem and destruction. Join us as we make this discovery about our bounty-hunting friends, and hear how Critters stacks up against Gremlins, Ghoulies and Munchies!

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Demons (1985)

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week we watch Travis' pick of Lamberto Bava's 1985 gore opus, Demons. A disparate group of people are given free tickets to see a sneak preview of a new horror movie, but terror erupts in the theater as, one-by-one, the patrons turn into bloodthirsty demons. Join us as we pontificate about the logistics of lopping off demon heads with a samurai sword while riding your motorcycle down a theater aisle and other amusements on this week's exciting podcast!

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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974)

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin condemns us to watch Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974), a true grindhouse exploitation classic. Busty Dyanne Thorne stars as the commandant Nazi prison camp who conducts harrowing "scientific" experiments on the camp's female population while forcing the male subjects to fulfill her voracious sexual appetite. Join us as we revisit one of cinema's roughest cult classics on this week's exciting episode!

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Mean Guns (1997)

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom introduces us to the cinematic atrocity known as Mean Guns (1997), in which prolific schlockmeister Albert Pyun (Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg) traps bleach-blonde Christopher Lambert (Highlander, Mortal Kombat) and Ice-T (Tank Girl, Johnny Mneumonic) in a soon-to-be-opened prison, along with 100 other hitmen and killers, in a game of kill-or-be-killed. Join us as we try to decipher the incomprehensible plot of this action movie that also stars Thom Matthews (Friday the 13th Part 6, Return of the Living Dead) and the bad guy from Karate Kid Part II, all grown up. Fun for the whole family!

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Our Favorite Movies of 2013

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:00:50 GMT

Every Saturday, all year long, the guys of the Saturday Night Freak Show watch each other's movie picks. But, we see as many new movies as we can as well! Gather 'round and celebrate the arrival of 2014 with a look back at the past year in film, as Brent, Tom, Colin, Travis and Sean unveil their favorite releases of 2013. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled Freak Show this weekend!

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Disneys A Christmas Carol (2009)

Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent concludes our holiday excursion with a look at the third of director Robert Zemeckis' motion capture films, Disney's A Christmas Carol, which stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. The conversation includes talk of motion capture technology, digital animation, and an appreciation of holiday movies.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Sean looks back upon the film that ruined Christmases for the Moral Majority in 1984 - the notorious Silent Night, Deadly Night. A traumatized lad suffers the loss of his parents at the hands of a Santa Claus-suit wearing criminal; years later, when asked to don a Santa suit for the toy store he works at, he snaps and goes on a slasher killing spree. The movie outgrossed A Nightmare on Elm Street (they were released on the same weekend), and we take a look back at it on this exciting episode!

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Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis gets us in the Christmas spirit with Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996), the first and only feature film featuring the Canadian sketch-comedy troupe, in which a pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, although it has unfortunate side effects. What does that have to do with Christmas, you ask? You'll have to tune in to find out in this week's exciting episode!

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Hardware (1990)

Sat, 07 Dec 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin celebrates Christmas with the holiday classic Hardware, which sees a post-apocalyptic artist (Stacey Travis) menaced in her apartment by a killer robot that re-assembles itself after her boyfriend (Dylan McDermott) brings it in from the wasteland. We talk sci-fi movies, killer robot movies, post-apocalyptic movies, and Christmas all in this week's exciting episode!

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Gremlins (1984)

Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom ushers in the Yuletide season with the holiday classic Gremlins (1984) that proves that Christmas consumerism can lead to madness, death and monsters. Joe Dante (The Howling, Piranha) directs this terror tale for the junior set in which an inventor brings home a strange new pet for his son which comes with three strict rules: don't expose them to light, don't get them wet, and don't ever let them eat after midnight. Listen to us relive the glory of the 80's on this exciting episode!

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Jurassic Park (1993)

Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:00:50 GMT

After our attempt to stream Beowulf in 3D via Netflix goes teats-up, Brent chooses the 3D remastered Jurassic Park (1993) as a consolation prize. Which is fitting, because Steven Spielberg's dinosaur epic turned 20 years old this year. Join us as we talk about the film and it's impact over the decades, and the post-Jurassic Park careers of the principal folks involved in this exciting episode!

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Man of Steel (2013)

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, the Freak Show overindulges in breaking down Travis' Holy Grail: the 2013 Superman re-do Man of Steel, in an epic 3-and-a-half hour discussion that leaves no stone unturned in analyzing Zack Snyder's comic book adaptation pretty much scene-by-scene. The podcast proves as contentious as the movie as Superman continues to weave a swath of destruction that in this case includes a couple of podcasters themselves!

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Amityville 3-D (1983)

Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin takes us into the third dimension with 1983's Amityville 3-D, the third theatrical installment of the classic Amityville Horror trilogy, which find's a skeptical magazine writer (Tony Roberts) moving into the infamous Long Island address despite warnings from pretty much everyone around him, and chronicles the supernatural shenanigans that ensue. A young Meg Ryan co-stars. Join us as we talk about the Amityville franchise, 3-D movies then and now, and about how movie posters create unrealistic expectations for some viewers.

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Hocus Pocus (1993)

Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:00:50 GMT

We wrap up our month of Halloween-themed movie picks with Tom's choice of Hocus Pocus, which stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson Sisters, a trio of witches from Salem, Massachusetts who are reawakened in the modern day (on Halloween, no less) to wreak havoc. Join us as we talk all things Halloween, Disney, witchcraft and Sarah Jessica Parker on this exciting episode of the Saturday Night Freak Show!

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Halloween Special 2013

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Listen to our Halloween Special, a trick-or-treat grab bag in which we take a look back at childhood Halloween TV standards including Walt Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and Garfield's Halloween Adventure! Which one did we like the best? Listen in and find out!

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Flatliners (1990)

Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:00:50 GMT

We continue to celebrate Halloween with Brent's pick: Flatliners (1990), in which five too-smart-for-their-own-good medical students attempt to prove life-after-death by killing and resurrecting themselves in an experiment; but soon they discover that they may not have returned from the other side alone... Join us as we talk about awesome production design, the career trajectories of the 90's Brat Pack, faith, religion, character arcs and all that good stuff on this exciting episode!

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Curse of Chucky (2013)

Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:00:50 GMT

Our Halloween celebration continues this week with Sean's pick, Curse of Chucky (2013), which sees the return of everyone's favorite killer doll. The new installment eschews the post-modern camp comedy of his last few screen outings in favor of a return to Gothic horror. A new family, including paraplegic Nika (Fiona Dourif), comes into possession of the infamous Chucky (Brad Dourif) and mayhem ensues. Join us as we revisite the entire Child's Play franchise and the legacy of this pint-sized slasher!

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Tales from the Crypt (1972)

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Halloween month continues with Travis' trip back to the past via the original screen adaptation of Tales from the Crypt (1972), an omnibus horror film from England's Amicus Productions which features 5 jolting tales of terror. Join us as we explore the history of Tales from the Crypt, from it's beginnings in E.C. comics, English film adaptations, successful HBO TV series, the Cryptkeeper, and beyond!

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Sat, 05 Oct 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, we usher in Halloween with Colin's pick of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), a famous monster-rally that has comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello running afoul of Dracula (Bela Lugosi), the Frankenstein Monster (Glenn Strange), and The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Join us as we talk about the impact and legacy of the Universal Studios Monsters, vaudevillian comedy acts, Hammer films, and more!

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Drive-In Theater Horrorthon

Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, the Saturday Night Freak Show fellows take a field trip to the local drive-in movie theater and catch a dusk till dawn horrorthon that includes Fright Night (1985), Death Race 2000 (1975), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), and Barn of the Naked Dead (1974 - aka Nightmare Circus, aka Terror Circus). Listen as we wax nostalgic about the drive-in experience on this special episode!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom champions Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), the live-action, feature film version of the popular comic book and cartoon series featuring a quartet of humanoid turtles, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello, who team up with human reporter, April O'Neil, and vigilante Casey Jones, to rid New York City of a growing teenage gang lead by the villainous Shredder. Listen to the only TMNT podcast you'll ever need to hear as we explore the length and depth of Turtles lore, from their comic book origins, to various television incarnations, to feature films, and an upcoming remake starring Megan Fox.

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Days of Thunder (1990)

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent claims we can't outrun the thunder as he subjects us to Days of Thunder (1990), which follows the career of a hot shot stock car racer (Tom Cruise) as he battles his way to the Daytona 500. Join us as we talk sports movies, the cinematic style of Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, and Movies For Dudes.

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Sleepaway Camp 2 (1988)

Sat, 07 Sep 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis forces us to watch Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988), a late addition to the slasher-movie cycle which features the return of transgendered psychopath Angela (now played by Bruce Springsteen's younger sister, Pamela) returning to camp as a camp counselor where she hacks, chops and slices her way through misbehaving teens. Join us as we talk about 80's slasher movies, puritan family values, the dawn of the direct-to-video movie marketplace, and what elements a movie must possess in order to be classified "good", all in this latest thrilling episode!

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Shogun Assassin (1980)

Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin subjects the guys to Shogun Assassin (1980), which chronicles the adventures of a renegade warrior and his infant son as they travel the length and breadth of feudal Japan, slashing and maiming their way through hundreds of ninja assassins who are bent on their destruction. Join the conversation as we talk about spraying blood geysers, the entertainment value of graphic on-screen maiming, the political correctness of choosing the correct ninja outfit, the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman and more!

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The Warriors (1979)

Sat, 24 Aug 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom calls out The Warriors (1979) in which a NYC gang finds themselves framed for the murder of a gang chieftain and must fight their way back home, 100 miles through enemy turf belonging to rival gangs. Join us as we talk about splatterpunks, gangs from the future, Greek history, the concrete jungle of pre-Guliani New York, Escape from New York and more!

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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent targets The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), in which Geena Davis stars as an amnesiac assassin who teams up with con-man/private eye Samuel Jackson to uncover her hidden identify. Listen in and hear about vodka shots that roll off the chin; when movies break our suspension of disbelief; female action heroes; nepotism, or "casting your wife against type in the lead role in a summer action movie"; and analyze the career trajectories of writer Shane Black and director Renny Harlin.

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Last Action Hero (1993)

Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Sean takes a look back at Last Action Hero (1993), in which a movie obsessed kid gets whisked into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action blockbuster by means of a magic movie ticket, and finds himself fighting bad guys along side his idol. Listen in as we revisit this post-modern deconstruction of action cinema tropes and cliches, amazing feats of strength, improbable henchmen, alternate universes, the magical powers of Harry Houdini, soundtrack tie-ins, and once again bring up Brent's hatred of the original Terminator.

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Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis introduces one of his favorite filmmakers to the group via Deconstructing Harry (1997). Woody Allen writes, directs, and stars as a neurotic writer, suffering from writers block, who becomes haunted by people and characters from his past as his short stories and real life begin to intermingle. Listen as we evaluate the merits of high-brow comedy, the career of Woody Allen, and generally become self-made film scholars overnight.

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Warlock (1989)

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin conjures up Warlock (1989), starring Julian Sands as a 17th century witch who escapes into the modern day to find the three parts of Satan's bible. He's pursued through time by witchhunter Richard E. Grant, who partners up with a modern day woman (Lori Singer) who's been afflicted by the warlock's curse. Join us as we talk magic, witchcraft, valley girls, flying potion, Riddick, Mennonites, and the Friday the 13th movie series.

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The Road Warrior (1981)

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom opens up the throttle and puts the pedal down for The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2) (1981), in which a haunted, burnt out former cop (Mel Gibson) roams the wasteland of the post-apocalypse in search of the scarce commodity of gas, battling costumed punks along the way, culminating in one of the greatest chase sequences ever filmed. Listen in and hear the bourbon shot that nearly kills Tom, we talk about great movie stunts, cinematic anti-heroes, Australian cinema, post-apocalyptic-set movies, and more!

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Brick (2006)

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Sean brings us director Rian (Looper) Johnson's Brick (2006), a neo-noir which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school student who infiltrates a seamy underworld in order to find out who murdered his ex-girlfriend. Join us as we don our metaphorical fedora hats and plunge into the world of gloomy shamuses, femme fatales, mysterious figures, shadowy dealings and glamorous dames. And, high school.

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Monster in the Closet (1986)

Sat, 06 Jul 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis digs up the Monster in the Closet (1986) from his childhood memories, in which closets worldwide become unsafe from sudden appearances by a hulking, man-eating monster. We talk about all things Troma and bad movies on this episode, until an evil technical fairy sneaks in and destroys all our fun (in which case we learn the importance of having reliable recording equipment).

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Event Horizon (1997)

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent challenges us with Event Horizon (1997), in which a rescue crew must board a starship that went missing on its maiden voyage and has now mysteriously reappeared, but has seemingly not returned alone. Topics of conversation include: alternate dimensions, homage vs theft, outerspace-set horror movies and video games, rate the Alien franchise from best to worst, and we wonder why all horror franchises eventually end up in space.

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Lifeforce (1985)

Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin subjects us to Tobe Hooper's 1985 sci-fi horror opus Lifeforce, in which astronauts discover a spaceship in the tail of Halley's comet and subsequently bring back a trio of energy-sucking vampires to Earth, who then proceed to terrorize all of London. We talk Gothic vampires, space vampires, and alien invasions, all while we worship the naked presense of Lifeforce star Mathilda May.

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Reign of Fire (2002)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Tom subjects us to Reign of Fire (2002), which pits Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey against fire breathing dragons in a post-apocalyptic England. We learn about the Reign of Fire Scale, what constitutes high-brow comedy, and disingenuous movie posters.

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Tango and Cash (1989)

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent brings us Tango and Cash (1989), a buddy-cop movie that teams Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell in an action-packed romp that sees them framed, thrown in prison, and then setting out on an explosive odyssey to clear their names...and take down evil kingpin, Jack Palance. We talk about the glorious excesses of 80's action films, plus the importance of monster trucks, stunt men, bad English accents, and the trials and tribulations of mounting a Gatling gun on your conversion van.

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Robocop (1987)

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, Travis pits us against Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi classic, Robocop, in which a Detroit police officer is murdered and then resurrected by a soulless corporation as the "perfect" law enforcement cyborg. But his programming soon comes into conflict with his supposedly 'wiped clean' memories of his prior life. Join us, won't you, for an hour and a half of fun in which we answer the time honored question: is Robocop a A-team or B-team superhero?

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Tremors (1990)

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:00:50 GMT

Sean finally gets to pick Tremors (1990), an affectionate updating of 1950's giant monster movies that pits Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, as two handymen in the small town of Perfection, Nevada, against giant, killer worms! We talk about the movie, go off on wild tangents including: is Bryan Singer's Superman gay; does Johnny Depp only play one character; we discover Travis' war on love; and talk about movies with tentacle monsters!

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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Colin offers up for study Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974), a film from England's Hammer Films studios, in which an unflappable vampire hunter (Horst Janson) and his hunchbacked assistant track a new breed of vampire across the English countryside. The beautiful Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me, Starcrash) also stars. We talk about the legacy of Hammer films, including the Dracula and Frankenstein films of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and the deathless spell of vampire movies in general.

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Ghostbusters (1984)

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent insists asks "who you gonna call?" and we answer with a resounding: Ghostbusters (1984). As it nears it's 30th birthday, the Ghostbusters phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down, with a recent release of a video game, featuring the voices of all the lead actors, and the continued threat of a Ghostbusters 3. We go after Ghostbusters' cinematic lineage, featuring appearances by The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello and Mickey Mouse, Saturday morning cartoons, Star Wars and more that lead to the creation of the world's first multi-million-dollar-visual-effects-heavy-scare-comedy. Plus, it almost comes to blows as RoboCop's status as a B-team cinematic superhero comes up for debate, and Brent and Sean relate spellbinding stories about meeting Bill Murray.

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Willow (1988)

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, Tom rolls out a staple of fantasy cinema - the George Lucas-produced, Ron Howard-directed Willow (1988), about a young Hobbit-like fellow named Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) who undertakes a task to escort a baby of prophesied birth to her destiny and end the rule of a wicked queen. He's aided by the likes of roguish swordsman Mad Mardigan (Val Kilmer) and a host of fairies, sword-maidens, wizards and the like as Lucas and Co. combine elements from every myth and fable ever told alongside some pioneering visual effects. We get a bonus female perspective on this episode from guest star Elaine, which includes eye-opening discoveries about the dangers of Ron Howard Syndrome, we try to gain an understanding of overly-complicated fantasy fiction terms, and we try to coin a new phrase - the "honk-shake".

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The Last Starfighter (1984)

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Travis takes us on a trip down memory lane via The Last Starfighter (1984), and we relive a simpler time when video games were played at arcades and every boy wanted to be a space fighter. Alex Rogan (Halloween II's Lance Guest) lives at a Californian trailer park with his mom and brother; he's an ace at an arcade game called Starfighter, and one night he's recruited by alien Centauri (The Music Man's Robert Preston) to fight an actual space battle against a hostile alien force. The talk takes us on an exploration of Spielberg and Lucas' influence on 80's sci-fi, and Brent discovers that Back to the Future was not the first movie to use a flying DeLorean.

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Danger Diabolik (1968)

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, Colin takes us into the colorful world of a supercriminal named Diabolik who originated in Italian comic strips with Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik (1968). Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is a master thief in a black leather getup who robs from the mob or the government with equal enthusiasm, usually to impress his superfoxy girlfriend Eva (Marissa Mell). Join us as we try to start the Marisa Mell Appreciation Soceity, delve deep into the career of Italian horror maestro Bava, make parellels between Danger: Diabolik and Austin Powers, James Bond and the Mission: Impossible movies, and Tom sings a cover version of the memorable title song

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, Brent chooses the pioneering, live action/animation hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) for us to watch. The film takes place in an alternate reality 1940's Hollywood in which animated characters co-exist with human beings; when Roger Rabbit is framed for murder, a down-on-his-luck gumshoe (Bob Hoskins) finds himself reluctantly trying to clear his name. The film inspires discussion on the topics of: the career of Robert Zemeckis (and the influence of Steven Spielberg); Disney characters vs Warner Bros. characters; are graphic artists worthy of winning awards for Best Cinematography; and we hear about sexual fantasies starring cartoon characters. Plus, find out how you can win an unopened copy of Who Framed Roger Rabbit!

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Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, Tom takes us for a stroll down memory lane with his selection of Wreck-It Ralph (2012), in which an old school, 8-bit game character ventures outside of his own arcade game, in which he's condemned to eternally be the bad guy, to achieve hero status in a neighboring game. The Freak Show contributors remember trips to the old arcade, and we go on a trip through home video game consoles like Atari, Sega, ColecoVision, IntelliVision and more. Then, we watch a couple clips from Jaws 3-D (1983) and it blows everyone away. Tune in to hear how!

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The Evil Dead (1981)

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week Sean chooses to revisit Sam Raimi's 1981 classic, The Evil Dead. The film, made by college students, went on to become hailed as a classic of the horror genre, inspiring sequels (Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness), video games, action figures, comics, and a remake in 2013. The story is simple: a group of 20-somethings spend a weekend in a cabin in the woods, read incantations from an ancient book found in the cellar, and unleash evil spirits that possess them one by one. Only proto-movie God, Bruce Campbell, stands a chance. The Freak Show guys talk about the film's relevance 20-years on; we remember the first movie to be rated PG-13; discover how we feel about remaking classic horror films; and Travis loses a bet.

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Porco Rosso (1992)

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, we watch Travis' pick: Porco Rosso (1992), from Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle). The plot revolves around an WWI ex-fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates", who lives with an unusual curse which has transformed him to pig. We also go in depth into trends in Japanese anime and video games, and then we attack the movies that we've seen this week, including Timerider, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, 13 Assassins and Holy Motors.

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Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008)

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, Colin subjects the group to the Goth/sci-fi/horror/gore/punk rock musical, Repo: The Genetic Opera, which takes place in a futuristic world where organ transplants are commonplace, and repossessions occur all-too frequently. A crazy cast includes Buffy's Anthony Stewart Head, Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman and Ogre from Skinny Puppy. We talk opera (or, what we know of opera), musicals, Colin staves off a head cold, and Tom and Travis perform their reviews of the film in song.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D (1954)

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On a special, bonus podcast this week, Brent, Tom and Colin recount their adventures of watching the 1954 classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon, the way it was meant to be seen - in jaw dropping 3-D. The story's a familiar one - a scientific expedition to the Amazon discovers a primordial fish-man, and their efforts to capture it and bring it back to civilization; and the creature's attraction to the crew's only female (the fetching Julie Adams).

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Chasing Amy (1997)

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent places Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997) on the block. Pre-Good Will Hunting/Bennifer/Argo-director, Ben Affleck, stars as a comic book writer who falls in love with a cute lesbian comic book author (Joey Lauren Adams), and the hilarious hijinks that ensue in this unconventional love story. We argue about the cinematic oeuvre of former filmmaker-turned-podcast-impresario-and-stand-up-comedian, Smith; trace character links through the View-Askewniverse; learn about the hitherto unknown "90's Stank"; and crush Brent's dreams of sending this podcast to Kevin Smith himself. NOTE: due to a technical problem, this week's podcast's audio is overmodulated. We've done everything we can to make salvage it. We promise to do better next time!

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The Big Red One (1980)

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:00:50 GMT

This week, Brent sits the episode out while Tom brings us Sam Fuller's The Big Red One (1980), starring Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen), Mark Hamill (Sushi Girl), and Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds) as an Army squad during World War II. The film follows their exploits from the end of World War I through D-Day and beyond, and was based on writer/director Fuller's personal military experiences. Join us, won't you, as we compile a list of our favorite war movies, evalute the merits of Mark Hamill's acting ability, and challenge the revered status of legendary director Stanley Kubrick.

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Deathtrap (1982)

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:00:50 GMT

In this episode, Travis chooses to watch Deathtrap, a 1982 adaptation of Ira (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) Levin's Broadway thriller, which stars Michael Caine as a failing playwright who plots to murder his protege (Christopher Reeve) and steal his sure-hit play while his nervous wife (Dyan Cannon) looks on. Things get twisty and we recommend you seek out the movie on iTunes, Vudu, Amazon, etc before we spoil it for you. As a bonus, this is also our Oscars podcast, in which we make our picks for the 2013 Academy Awards!

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The Beyond (1981)

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this episode, resident horror buff Colin subjects the group to The Beyond (1981, aka The Seven Doors of Death) from "the Godfather of Italian Gore", Lucio Fulci. No eyeball is safe as a woman inherits a New Orleans hotel that's been built on one of the Seven Gateways to Hell. Plus, there's face-eating tarantulas, exploding heads, and a full on surprise zombie apocalypse! Special guest Sean joins us for a post-film discussion as we talk about Italian horror cinema, and we find out how The Beyond connects to Sam Rami's Spider-Man!

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The Island (1980)

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:00:50 GMT

On this week's episode, true-pirate afficionado Tom unleashes The Island (1980), which stars Michael Caine as a reporter who runs afoul of real-life pirates forgotten on an island in the Bermuda triangle for 300 years. Film was based on a novel by Peter Benchley (Jaws, The Deep, The Beast) and also stars David Warner. We talk about the long cinematic history of pirates, American ninjas, the long shadow of Bruce Lee, and then we take a detour into video games!

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True Romance (1993)

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:39:50 GMT

This week: Brent picks Tony Scott's True Romance (1993), a movie that often gets lumped into Quentin Tarantino's filmography (he did write the original screenplay), but clearly exhibits the late director's sleek, neon-lit, sun-kissed visual style. Our usual co-conspirator, Tom, sits this episode out, so we bring in pitch-hitter Sean to talk about True Romance and the people who made it, plus those ripoff movies that show up at RedBox and Walmart's $7 bin, and even Cabin in the Woods gets a mention.

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Idiots and Angels (2008)

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:39:50 GMT

This week, Travis chooses Idiots and Angels (2008), a film from animator Bill Plympton, known for his distinctive art style and early-year MTV interstitials. In Idiots and Angels, a curmudgeonly fellow awakens one day to find he's grown a pair of wings which prevent him from indulging himself in bad deeds. Plympton, an iconoclastic animator, undertakes the entire process of animating a feature film himself. Plus, find out how the Chexist Chainsaw Massacre ties in, and listen as we attempt to trace the lineage of adult animation, from Ralph Bakshi all the way through Adult Swim!

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The City of Lost Children (1995)

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:39:50 GMT

This week, Colin chooses Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children (1995), a visionary tale of a dystopian, steampunk-ish fantasy world filled with clever visual design reminiscent of the work of Terry Gilliam. We also talk about dark children's fairy tales, modern day cynicism in kids movies, and Tom commits a cardinal sin.

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Fight Club (1999)

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:39:50 GMT

This week, Tom chose David Fincher's Fight Club (1999). In our most professional podcast yet, we analyze the film's messages, and discuss whether the film would be able to be made today. Plus, we talk about author Chuck Palahniuk, discuss David Fincher's oeuvre and opine about a select group of actors who lose themselves in a part.

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The Burbs (1989)

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:39:50 GMT

On our first podcast of 2013 we revisit Joe Dante's dark version of suburban paranoia, The Burbs; Tom reveals why he hates the 1980's; and we discuss our favorite movies of 2012 and what we're looking forward to in 2013.

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Cannibal The Musical (1993)

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:39:50 GMT

New Year's is almost upon us as we take in Travis' pick of the Western horror comedy Cannibal! The Musical, with a pulled pork BBQ appetizer. This divisive title provokes a definitive discussion on what is funny and what is not. Eventually, as expected, this spills over into television and the merits of the career of Neil Patrick Harris.

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Django (1966)

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:39:50 GMT

The gang gathers to watch Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) and eat spaghetti. Plus, there's talk about Italian Westerns, anti-heroes, subtitles, and an examination of the High Frame Rate version of The Hobbit (2012).

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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:37:50 GMT

We watch Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, discuss the return of 3D, contrast U.S. and Japanese animation styles, and have a lengthy discussion about the Rankin/Bass Hobbit.

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Back to the Future (1985)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 04:37:50 GMT

Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future is analyzed for it's cultural significance; plus; there's impersonations and the attempt to define science fiction once and for all!

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