Saturday Night Freak Show

Michaela continues to celebrate the Summer of Cannon Films with her choice of  Breakin'  (1984), a movie about a formally trained dancer ( Ninja III: The Domination' s Lucinda Dickey) who befriends a crew of street trained break dancers (Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers) and teams with them to compete in a dance competition. Listen as we choose our own...

Holly keeps repeating "my head is like a shark's fin" after becoming trapped in the  Deep Blue Sea  (1999), an aquatic tale of terror which finds a group of scientists trapped inside an underwater research station with super-intelligent, genetically modified mako sharks. Listen as we wonder what happened to former blockbuster director Renny Harlin, and name-drop every killer shark movie...

Sean sits ringside for the epic Busta Rhymes vs. Michael Audrey Myers kung fu smackdown called  Halloween: Resurrection  (2002). This final entry in the long running horror franchise (it was followed in 2009 by Rob Zombie's series reset) not only brings to a close Jamie Lee Curtis' involvement in the storyline, but also introduces Mr. Rhymes as the unstoppable, unkillable proprietor of a...

Colin's brain is invaded by alien slugs when we watch  Night of the Creeps  (1986), a comedy-horror film from writer/director Fred Dekker (House, The Monster Squad, Robocop 3), which finds two college guys, their dream girl, and a hard-boiled cop teaming up to protect sorority girls from brain burrowing alien parasites which turn fraternity bros into zombies. Listen as Brandon from ...

Michaela promises an entire summer dedicated to the output of cheese-factory Cannon Films, which starts with Sylvester Stallone's  Over the Top  (1987), a movie that finds our hero cast as a truck driver trying to win back his estranged son's heart, on a road trip. Along the way, said son discovers dad is a semi-pro, semi-famous arm wrestler who's gotta get to Vegas to win the Internatio...

Holly advocates against zombie prejudice by taking a cadaver to the prom in My Boyfriend's Back (1993). All Johnny Dingle wants to do is win the heart of his longtime crush, Missy McCloud, but his plan goes awry and he ends up a inexplicably re-animated corpse! Will his high school sweetheart still want to go with him to the dance? Listen as we: examine this rom-zom-com from the creative team behi...

Sean hangs ten with Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996). Having successfully rescued the President from the New York City Maximum Security Penitentiary, the United States' most notorious outlaw is captured and forced once again to go on a mission into hostile territory, this time the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Island of Los Angeles, cut off from the mainland by an ear...

Colin disturbs the hallowed resting place of the bloodthirsty Templar knights in Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Vacationers Bette, Virginia and Roger do the same, waking the cloaked, moldy ghosts, who search out their victims by sound (being blind, after all - their eyes pecked out by crows) to feast upon blood, in order to prolong their un-dead existence. Listen as we throw some facts your way a...

Michaela chases werewolves back to the aughts with the 2005 time capsule called Cursed, from director Wes Craven. After being attacked by a werewolf on Mulholland Drive, a brother and sister start to realize not only that they've acquired strange powers, but that the creature continues to stalk them and their friends all over Hollywood and Los Angeles. Listen as we re-evaluate this pairing of the...

Holly invites moody Goth-girl Angela to our party and all hell breaks loose in Night of the Demons (1988)! When a group of high-schoolers meet at an abandoned funeral home for a Halloween party (never a good idea), they unwittingly unleash a demonic entity that takes possession of them one by one. Listen as we revisit this 80's cult classic and talk scream queens, demon possession, and bizarro int...

Sean swings into action with the face-swapping superhero Darkman (1990)! Before Marvel would turn him loose on Spider-Man, director Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi came up with his own cinematic superhero story, that of brilliant scientist Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson), who is transformed into a vengeful, bandage-wrapped creature after a band of thugs torches his lab. Listen as we connect dots between the s...

Colin hears a whisper in his ghost and thinks he might be being brainjacked by a viewing of 1995's sci-fi anime Ghost in the Shell, about a female cyborg supersoldier who comes to question her life, the universe, and everything when she's tasked with hunting down an international cybercriminal known as The Puppetmaster. Join us for a very loose episode - recorded after our original show is eaten b...

Michaela grows tired of mainstream movies and treads carefully into Rubber (2010) a flick about a killer tire that wakes up in the desert one day and subsequently rolls around, murdering everyone that crosses its path using it's psychokinetic mind powers - with the exception of a pretty French girl who's on vacation. Listen as we dive deep into the subgenre of movie surrealism, go over the fine pr...

Holly wants to know how the three seashells work when Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in Demolition Man (1993)! When cryogenically frozen super criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) escapes into the Utopian San Angeles of 2032, the hapless authorities thaw out framed cop John Spartan (Stallone) to hunt him down in this satiric sci-fi actioner from producer Joel ("I never met a build...

The luck of the Irish runs out on Sean when he encounters a Leprechaun (1993)! Jennifer Aniston makes her movie debut as a spoiled city girl who moves to a country house with a captive leprechaun (Warwick Davis) in the basement. The tiny terror soon escapes and begins killing everyone who stands between him and his stolen gold. Listen as we contemplate the existence of seven(!) entries in the Lepr...

Colin comes to believe he's the Kwisatz Haderach as we take on David Lynch's much-maligned science fiction epic Dune (1984). Two feudal houses war over the production of a spice, mined from only one planet in the galaxy - the desert world Arrakis - where 400 foot sandworms roam the landscape and where the prophecy of a coming messiah promises freedom from a corrupt empire. Listen as we try to unta...

Michaela falls in love with a cute killer monkey in George A. Romero's Monkey Shines (1988). After an accident leaves him crippled from the neck down, Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is recruited by his mad scientist best pal (John Pankow) to try out a super-smart helper monkey who caters to his every wish, and begins helping a bit too much whenever Allan gets mad at someone. Listen as we continue to doc...

Holly loses her heart to the holiday slasher My Bloody Valentine (1981). The town of Valentine Bluffs hasn't celebrated Valentine's Day in 20 years, not since miner Harry Warden killed all those people after the cave-in. Now, the residents of this coal-mining town just want to cut loose...but a masked killer appears and starts taking out hearts one by one. Listen as we examine a curious couple of...

Sean detects signals from deep space, which leads to The Arrival (1996). Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez) stars as a radio telescope operator who uncovers an alien conspiracy while trying to uncover the source of a series of intergalactic signals he's detected, one of which seems to be originating on Earth, in South America. Ron Silver also stars in this first feature film from writer/director D...

Colin loads up the van and rides into a world of heavy metal gods and monsters with Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987), as legendary (but mostly unheard of) rock showman Jon-Mikl Thor (of the 70's band Thor) takes his band, their horny girlfriends, and assorted groupies to a Canadian farmhouse to record a new album, unaware that the place is overrun by tiny, one-eyed demon puppets. Listen as we marvel...

We move into a house on Terror Tract (2000), a horror anthology about a highly-motivated realtor (the late John Ritter) who spins three tales to his clients as they look at a trio of houses with sordid histories. Listen as we marvel at the scenario which pits Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston against an evil Capuchin monkey; reminisce about staying up all night to catch movies on the USA Network; and...

Holly worships at the feet of Clive Barker's resurrected, pagan god-monster Rawhead Rex (1986)! When a farmer digs up a pre-Christian era pillar in his field he unleashes the titular beast, which goes on a murderous rampage across the Irish countryside, while a visiting American author finds himself caught up in the violent shenanigans. Listen as we talk about the effectiveness of estrogen lasers...

Sean brings Dead Heat (1988) back from the dead so he can kill it again! While tracking a gang of undead robbers, Detective Roger Mortiss (Treat Williams) winds up one of the living dead himself! With only 12 hours left to "live" before he decomposes, the zombie cop helps his loud-mouthed partner Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) try to solve his murder, in this zany buddy-cop/sci-fi hybrid. Listen as we...

We close out the year with a show devoted to the new movies we saw in 2016, and each of us undertake the arduous task of choosing only 5 champions to be considered the Best of the Year. And then, for good measure, we single out The Worst Movie We've Seen This Year, in our late-night, after show, Saturday Night Side Show episode! We hope you enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Colin abuses the traditions of Christmas and gets a visit from Krampus (2015). A dysfunctional family receives punishment for their lack of Christmas spirit in the form of a supernatural siege of demonic toys, dark elves, sinister snowmen, and the appearance of the anti-Claus himself. Director Michael Dougherty stakes out territory for another holiday horror movie, following his debut feature, Tri...