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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 23, 2019•1 hr 16 min
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 be...
Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 31 min
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! Hos...
Nov 09, 2019•1 hr 22 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
Nov 02, 2019•1 hr 23 min
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. Hosted on Acast. See ...
Oct 26, 2019•1 hr 19 min
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 t...
Oct 19, 2019•1 hr 20 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 12, 2019•1 hr 23 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 05, 2019•1 hr 35 min
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 excitin...
Sep 28, 2019•1 hr 28 min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
Sep 21, 2019•1 hr 33 min
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'...
Sep 14, 2019•1 hr 32 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 07, 2019•1 hr 21 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Aug 31, 2019•1 hr 31 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Aug 24, 2019•1 hr 20 min
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 o...
Aug 17, 2019•1 hr 24 min
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...
Aug 10, 2019•1 hr 31 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 03, 2019•1 hr 26 min
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! Hosted on Acast. ...
Jul 27, 2019•1 hr 22 min
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 buddi...
Jul 20, 2019•1 hr 22 min
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...
Jul 13, 2019•1 hr 19 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
Jul 06, 2019•1 hr 28 min
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 wee...
Jun 29, 2019•1 hr 19 min
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 m...
Jun 22, 2019•1 hr 25 min
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 pr...
Jun 15, 2019•1 hr 26 min
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...
Jun 08, 2019•1 hr 27 min
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! Hosted on ...
Jun 01, 2019•1 hr 21 min
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! Hosted on Acast. See acast...
May 25, 2019•1 hr 22 min
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 hospi...
May 18, 2019•1 hr 22 min
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 p...
May 11, 2019•1 hr 17 min
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 ...
May 04, 2019•1 hr 31 min
