Saturday Night Freak Show

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...

Colin summons a demonic doozy for Halloween, Amityville II: The Possession (1982), a prequel that amps up the original's haunted house chills into a full-on incest-fueled exorcism frenzy. Listen as we exorcise family feuds, practical FX monsters, and why it's the prequel punch the series needed, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela boots up Stay Alive (2006), cursing a crew of console commandoes with a haunted unreleased beta, a video game that operates on the edict of "If you die in the game, you die for real." Listen as we mash buttons on glitchy ghosts, the tortured history of Elizabeth Bathory, and give last rights at the LAN party on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Holly sells her soul for our 666th episode, investigating Angel Heart (1987), as a rumpled NYC P.I. hunts a missing singer, only to tangle with shadowy clients, ritualistic riddles, and identity crises that cut deeper than a switchblade. Listen as we eat Deviled eggs, attend voodoo rituals, and discover chicken paranoia on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Sean hooks us into Dangerous Animals (2025), where a surfer's Australian dream wave crashes into a serial killer's boat party, with sharks as invited guests. Listen as we dissect chum-filled chases, human predators worse than Jaws, and find the role Jai Courtney was born to play. Reel in the chaos on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin determines NYC is the grimiest, dirtiest, ugliest city on Earth after watching C.H.U.D. (1984), a movie about subterranean homeless people become monsters after being exposed to toxic waste. Listen as we talk childhood family movie trauma, cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, and ending a movie without ending your movie, on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Michaela tries to survive fall break at a seaside condo while stalked by The Mutilator (1984), a slasher flick about a demented fisherman who gets drunk and sets about trying to kill his son for accidentally shooting mom as a child! Listen as we talk grossly over-the-line kills, hideously gory makeup effects, play games of Blind Man's Bluff in broad daylight, and determine Monopoly to be the root...

Holly will have her revenge! And Deathstalker II (1987)! Cornball Roger Corman apprentice Jim Wynorski takes the reigns of this lighthearted sword and sorcery sequel, teaming a brawny thief with a cheerful deposed princess on a quest to reclaim her throne. Listen as we reminisce about our time with Dungeons & Dragons, and encounter zombies, explosive arrows, swamp portals, and wrestling on thi...

Sean begins to wonder if he'll ever get out of the basement alive with Heretic (2024), in which two young Mormon missionaries find themselves a captive audience to a psychopathic, sermonizing atheist (Hugh Grant). The horror! Listen as we get theological with religious cults, iteration, mind control, miracles, the living dead, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Colin goes back to the bayou with The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), the campy sequel to the original 1982 flick, which swaps Wes Craven for Roger Corman protégé Jim Wynorski in the director's chair. Heather Locklear falls in love with a plant man; Louis Jourdan schemes for immortality; and DC Comic's muckman hero battles an assortment of slimy monsters. Listen as we applaud beaker science, horny p...

Michaela trades horror stories on the open range with Grim Prairie Tales (1990), a little-seen flick that stars Brad Dourif, as a city-slicker tenderfoot, and James Earl Jones, as a rough bounty hunter, who meet and tell each other horror stories around a campfire. Listen as we talk about reverse births, where in an anthology to place your best story, and wish to shave with straight razors on this...

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 epi...

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...

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 e...