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 ...
Apr 27, 2019•1 hr 32 min
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 th...
Apr 20, 2019•1 hr 27 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 13, 2019•1 hr 47 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Apr 06, 2019•1 hr 25 min
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, a...
Mar 30, 2019•1 hr 28 min
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...
Mar 23, 2019•1 hr 28 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 16, 2019•1 hr 21 min
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 dange...
Mar 09, 2019•1 hr 20 min
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 ...
Mar 02, 2019•1 hr 15 min
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 exci...
Feb 23, 2019•1 hr 23 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 16, 2019•1 hr 15 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 09, 2019•1 hr 32 min
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 o...
Feb 02, 2019•1 hr 26 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 26, 2019•1 hr 16 min
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 ...
Jan 19, 2019•1 hr 23 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 12, 2019•1 hr 12 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 05, 2019•3 hr 5 min
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 w...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 24 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 22, 2018•1 hr 21 min
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 ...
Dec 15, 2018•1 hr 12 min
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 o...
Dec 08, 2018•1 hr 29 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 34 min
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! Hosted on Acas...
Nov 24, 2018•1 hr 26 min
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'...
Nov 17, 2018•1 hr 25 min
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 (a...
Nov 10, 2018•1 hr 27 min
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 Le...
Nov 03, 2018•1 hr 20 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
Oct 27, 2018•2 hr 5 min
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! ...
Oct 20, 2018•1 hr 32 min
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 ...
Oct 13, 2018•1 hr 23 min
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 -- al...
Oct 06, 2018•1 hr 21 min
