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Saturday Night Freak Show

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Each Saturday, the Internet Radio Superstars (Colin, Sean, Holly and Michaela) assemble for some movie watchin' and analysis, with the accent on geek cinema, horror, sci-fi, and action films - chosen round-robin style by the Saturday Night Freak Show!

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Episodes

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 16, 20251 hr 16 min

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

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 09, 20251 hr 15 min

White Lightning (1973)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 02, 20251 hr 16 min

Hancock (2008)

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! Hosted on A...

Jul 26, 20251 hr 19 min

Dead & Buried (1981)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Jul 19, 20251 hr 26 min

Night of the Comet (1984)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 12, 20251 hr 20 min

The Food of the Gods (1976)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 05, 20251 hr 12 min

Subservience (2024)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Jun 28, 20251 hr 28 min

Deathstalker (1983)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 21, 20251 hr 24 min

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 14, 20251 hr 26 min

Twisted Pair (2018)

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! Hosted on Acast....

Jun 07, 20251 hr 17 min

Stagefright (1987)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 31, 20251 hr 29 min

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

May 24, 20251 hr 17 min

Devil (2010)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 17, 20251 hr 19 min

Nothing Underneath (1985)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 10, 20251 hr 20 min

The Color of Night (1994)

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! ...

May 03, 20251 hr 28 min

The Fury (1978)

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 26, 20251 hr 22 min

Mosquito (1994)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Apr 19, 20251 hr 13 min

Vice Squad (1982)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 12, 20251 hr 23 min

Looker (1981)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...

Apr 05, 20251 hr 12 min

Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

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! Hosted on Acast. ...

Mar 29, 20251 hr 19 min

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 22, 20251 hr 17 min

Silent Hill (2006)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 15, 20251 hr 22 min

The Beekeeper (2024)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Mar 08, 20251 hr 27 min

Werewolves Within (2021)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Mar 01, 20251 hr 19 min

TimeCop (1994, rewatch)

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! Hosted ...

Feb 22, 20251 hr 26 min

Ghost Story (1981)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Feb 15, 20251 hr 31 min

Impulse (1974)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 08, 20251 hr 19 min

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Feb 01, 20251 hr 18 min

The Substance (2024)

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jan 25, 20251 hr 21 min
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