Saturday Night Freak Show

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...

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-...

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...

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,...

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 lesso...

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 proclai...

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...

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 episod...

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 se...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 thi...

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 Copperfiel...

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 int...

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 b...

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! Hosted on Acast. Se...

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! Hosted on Acast. See aca...

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'...

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, p...

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...

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...

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 sce...

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 excitin...