Saturday Night Freak Show

Colin explores the sleazeorama of NYC's grindhouses while hunting down The New York Ripper (1982), from the Italian Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci, an experience in gorenography and bad taste. A psycho who talks like Donald Duck is murdering prostitutes in the Big Apple while the cops close in. Listen as we watch in revulsion as things done with broken bottles, big toes, and delicate eyeballs on t...

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

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 horrif...

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 grotes...

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...

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' may...

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 ex...

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

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 o...

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! Hosted on Aca...

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...

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...

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...

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 endi...

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! H...

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

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

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 sho...

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 exc...

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

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 artwor...

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

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

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 o...

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...