Saturday Night Freak Show

This week, Colin takes us on the psycho-sexual Christmastime odyssey which is Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). After Dr. Harford's (Tom Cruise) wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, he becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter to even the score. Listen as we deconstruct masked orgies, the Illuminati, and Freudian symbolism in this wee...

This week we review Gary's pick: State of Grace (1990), in which an Irish guy (Sean Penn) has to determine where his loyalties lie when he returns home to New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, and immediately falls in with hellraiser Gary Oldman and his mob family. Listen as the Irish members of the podcast come out in force and wreak havoc in booze and cigarettes in this exciting episode! Hoste...

This week, Travis has the power of Greyskull as we watch his pick of Masters of the Universe (1987), an adaptation of the Mattel toy line which stars Dolph Lundren (rockin' an awesome 80's mullet) as He-Man, a muscular warrior who comes to Earth to battle the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella). Listen as we uncover the history of MOTU toys, fiction, and relish in Langella's performance on this week's...

This week, we take a look back at Colin's pick, House of Wax (1953), the movie that kicked off Hollywood's longstanding love-hate relationship with 3-D. After his wax museum burns down, a sculptor (horror icon Vincent Price) returns with a thirst for revenge, prowling the gaslit streets of New York to hunt victims for his new, "life-like" wax museum exhibit. Listen as we explore the evolution of 3...

This week, Gary has come to kick ass and chew bubblegum with his pick of John Carpenter's They Live (1988), in which a drifter uncovers a secret alien conspiracy with the help of special sunglasses. Listen as we revel in the delights of 6 minute fight scenes, conspiracy theories, and discover Gary's all out of bubblegum on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

100th episode! This week, Travis takes us to watch human vs. alien boxing in Arena (1989), in which a short-order cook becomes the first human in 50 years to fight in an intergalactic boxing ring against a menagerie of monstrous prize fighters. Enter the Saturday Night Freak Show grudge match as we slug our way through this rubber-creature outer space shlockfest! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

This week, we watch Colin's pick of the restored, director's cut of Clive Barker's much-maligned 1990 monster epic Nightbreed. A troubled canuck survives his own death and searches out the hidden city of Midian, an underground city where monsters live, as his girlfriend, a psychopathic psychiatrist, and a mob of rednecks, close in. Listen to our thesis-worthy analysis of Clive Barker's fiction, fi...

This week, Brent brings Freddy Krueger to our Halloween weekend podcast with his pick of 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. This entry in the long-running horror series finds Freddy (Robert Englund) haunting the dreams of a group of teens in a mental hospital, and facing off against his chief antagonist from the first Nightmare, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp). Join us, and special gue...

This week, Gary discovers that fear is a place in Brad Anderson's Session 9 (2001), in which chronicles the exploits of a hazmat crew tasked with cleaning up the old Danvers Lunatic Asylum. As psychological stress triggers cracks in all the men, a more sinister force may also have been awakened by their presence. Listen as we diagnose the case for your listening edification and enjoyment on this w...

This week, Travis dumps his Girlfriend from Hell (1989) on us! In the movie, the inventor of the condom (Twin Peaks' Dana Ashbrook), now God's bounty hunter, tracks down the Devil who has taken possession of a high-school wallflower to feed on human souls via sex. Sound crazy? It is! Listen as we dissect this morsel of late-80's direct-to-video mayhem on this week's podcast! Hosted on Acast. See a...

This week, we bid farewell to Sean with his final Freak Show pick of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - Producer's Cut (1995), an alternate version of the 6th entry in the long-running slasher movie franchise. This outing reveals that the origins behind the un-killable Michael Myers lie in druid mysticism as The Shape returns to Haddonfield to slaughter yet another distant family relation (an...

This week, Colin asks "what are you afraid of? It's only rock n' roll!" with his pick of the 1986 heavy metal horror movie, Trick or Treat, which finds an outcast high school metal-head summoning his rocker idol from the dead to get payback on his tormentors. The film features cameo appearances by metal icons Gene Simmon (KISS) and Ozzy Osbourne. Join us as we fire up the turntable and raise the d...

This week, Brent returns us to the glory days of the 1990's independent cinema movement with Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 (1998), a film in which Gallo (who wrote and directed) plays a troubled ex-con who abducts Christina Ricci and forces her to play his wife in a bid to win his parents affection. Come with us, won't you, into our navel-gazing exploration of deep thoughts, Jungian symbolism, and b...

This week, Travis bathes us in the glory of the cult classic The Toxic Avenger (1984), in which a 90 lb weakling is transformed, by a canister of toxic waste, into a hulking superhero who mops up the trash-filled streets of Tromaville, USA. Camp classic or tasteless crap? Let the Internet Radio Superstars of the Saturday Night Freak Show be your guide through the cinematic sewer on this week's exc...

This week, we revel in the euro-horror delights of Colin's pick, 1971's Daughters of Darkness, in which John Karlen (Dark Shadows) and his new bride, vacationing abroad, find themselves holed-up in an opulent, off-season hotel with a lesbian vampire (who may or may not be the infamous blood countess, Elisabeth Bathory) and her seductive assistant. Is this one of the great, forgotten vampire-movie...

This week, Brent chooses Terrence Malick's 1973 road drama Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young lovers who embark on a spree-killing trip through the rural Southwest. The movie, loosely based on the real-life murders of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, was adopted into the National Film Registry in 1993. Join us at the bar as we talk James Dean, counterculture, the i...

This week, Travis investigates Robert Englund's directorial debut, 976-EVIL (1988), in which an alienated teen is granted the power to get even after dialing a satanic phone number. Listen in as we slather ourselves in 80's horror cheese dive into a world of overbearing parents, awkward dates, bathroom bullies, supernatural shenanigans, and flying fish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

This week, Colin takes us back to the groovy '70's with the Blaxsploitation classic Foxy Brown (1974). Foxy (Pam Grier), a "whole lot of woman" - as described by one character, goes on a revenge rampage after her undercover cop-boyfriend is gunned down by thugs from a heroin syndicate. This was Grier's follow up to her breakout role in Coffy the year prior, and was initially titled "Burn, Coffy, B...

This week, Brent tries to class up the joint with his pick of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Multiple timelines converge in this funny story about the legendary concierge (Ralph Finnes) at a famous European hotel and his friendship with a lobby boy, who becomes his most trusted friend, in a story about the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, an idiosyncratic wealthy family, a...

The Saturday Night Freak Show podcast returns! After a brief hiatus, we're back with Sean's pick of The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's 1996 tongue-in-cheek ghost comedy which stars Michael J Fox as a paranormal investigator who teams up with a trio of colorful ghosts to stop an evil wraith from killing folks in a small town. Listen as we gather around the bar and dole out wise insights and spirited...

This week, Travis takes us into the Forbidden Zone (1980), a tripped-out musical fantasy from Richard Elfman, brother of Danny (who appears as the Devil during a musical number), based on the cabaret show of the group Oingo Boingo. In it, a family discovers that a secret door in the basement of their house leads to the Sixth Dimension, a world governed by Herve Villechaize, of Fantasy Island fame,...

This week, the Summer of Swayze continues as we watch Colin's pick of Road House (1989), a ridiculously fun time at the movies full of throat-ripping, monster truck stomping, barroom brawling, kick-punching action as Dalton (Patrick Swayze), the Best Bouncer in the Business, comes to town to clean up a rough saloon and save the townsfolk from the clutches of an evil land baron. Listen as we defend...

This week, Tom makes his final Freak Show selection with the Bruce Willis vanity project Hudson Hawk (1991), in which Bruno plays a singing jewel thief recruited by the mob, the C.I.A. and pair of eccentric rich weirdos to steal a device Leonardo Da Vinci invented to turn lead into gold. Listen as something that should have been a good time goes horribly wrong in this week's exciting episode! Host...

This week, Brent ushers in the Summer of Swayze with Point Break (1991), the Katheryn (Hurt Locker) Bigelow directed, James Cameron-produced action thriller starring Keanu Reeves as a FBI agent tasked with taking down a group of sufers, led by the Svengali-like Patrick Swayze, who rob banks to finance their endless summer. Lori Petty and Gary Busey also star. Join us as we talk summer action movie...

This week, Sean returns the Freak Show to drive-in territory by showing us Night of the Lepus (1972), a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it horror movie about a bunch of giant, flesh-eating rabbits(!) that attack a small Arizona ranching community. Janet Leigh (Psycho), DeForrest Kelley (Star Trek), and Rory Calhoun (Motel Hell) join Stuart Whitman in battling the fluffy varmints. Join us as we ponde...