Saturday Night Freak Show

This week, Travis tries to class up the joint with his choice of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994), which sees John Cusack as an idealistic 1920's New York playwright comically struggling to save the integrity of his work from mobsters, their dames, and the ego of his performers (including Best Actress Oscar winner Dianne Wiest). Join us for some lively post-movie conversation on this wee...

This week, Colin chooses the contemporary inner-city vs. outer-space alien invasion adventure Attack the Block (2011), which sees an East London tower block overrun by rampaging creatures, and only a gang of 15 year old punks stands between civilization and extraterrestrial anarchy in the UK. Pull up a chair and join us at the bar for scintillating post-viewing conversation that explores the chara...

This week, Tom blind-buys his way into Walter Hill's Streets of Fire (1984), a "rock n' roll fable" that mashes up 1950's tough guy attitudes with 1980's music and neon streets. Soldier boy Tom Cody (Michael Pare) is recruited to rescue his girlfriend, rock singer Ellen Aim (superfoxy Diane Lane) when she is abducted by a bunch of greaser bikers led by Willem Dafoe. Sit back and enjoy our post-mov...

This week, Brent once again worships at the feet of his idol, Robert Zemeckis, with this week's pick of Death Becomes Her (1992) which finds the director in Tales From the Crypt territory in a story of two vain women (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) who find themselves in a battle for the affections of plastic surgeon Bruce Willis. Join us as we talk all things Zemeckis, black humor, and more with s...

This week, Sean takes us down the trail of classic horror with Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982), the 3D entry in the long running slasher series. Listen as we build our own true-color 3D Frankencut of the movie just to experience the film as it was originally seen in theaters, and lose our popcorn as killer implements come flying off the screen. So join us on an appreciation of all things Jason Voorh...

This week, Travis takes us on a hunt for The Last Unicorn (1982), an animated fantasy film about a unicorn who, upon discovering that she is the last of her kind, goes on a quest, along with a plucky would-be sorcerer, to find out what happened to the others of her kind. Starring the voices of Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges and Christopher Lee. Listen in as we talk folklore, fantasy, animati...

This week, we go all Hitchcockian with Colin's pick of Brian De Palma's 1984 erotic thriller Body Double, in which a struggling actor (Craig Wasson) spies on a sexy neighbor (Deborah Shelton) and gets more than he bargained for when she is brutally murdered. Melanie Griffith also stars. Join us at the bar as we talk the influence of Alfred Hitchcock, twists and turns, plagarism vs homage, naked la...

This week, Brent takes us to the future with The Running Man (1987), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle that takes place in a totalitarian future in which criminals are forced to participate in a "Most Dangerous Game"-style TV show, hosted by the slimy Richard Dawson (then the real-life host of TV's Family Feud). Journey back (or forward) in time with us as we relive the glory days of muscle...

This week, Sean takes to the skies with The Rocketeer (1991), in which a down-on-his-luck biplane pilot (Billy Campbell) comes into possession of a wearable rocket pack that's wanted by the F.B.I., the mob, and Hollywood action star Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton). Join us as we join the Jennifer Connelly appreciation society, talk golden-age superheroes, celebrate the career of Joe Johnston, an...

This week, Travis brings us Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), a sequel to the cheapo cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) which a world still recovering from the Great Tomato War has outlawed tomatoes, while evil scientist John Astin (TV's The Addams Family) discovers a way to create human-looking tomatoes for use in his bid to conquer humanity. The film is also notable for starri...

This week, Colin claims that the heir to Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li in the history of cinema's greatest martial artists is Tony Jaa and we watch his 2005 film The Protector (aka Tom Young Goon, aka The Warrior King.) Jaa stars as the descendant of a tribe of royal war elephant guards who must travel from Thailand to Australia, kicking all kinds of ass along the way, after his prize elephan...

This week, Tom takes us to the farthest reaches of space along with Flash Gordon (1980), a colorful adaptation of the classic comic strip hero. Flash (Sam Jones), quarterback for the New York Jets, gets swept into intergalactic space along with Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) after Earth is attacked by Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow). Pull up a chair and join...

This week, Brent takes us back to a kinder, a gentler time with the 80's fantasy flick Flight of the Navigator, in which a Walt Disney kid gets whisked away in a fancy silver spaceship co-piloted by Pee Wee Herman. Listen as we diagnose just where this glorious slice of nostalgia goes horribly off the rails, while some of us nearly pass out from laughter on this weeks exciting episode! Hosted on A...

This week, Travis defiles our eyeballs with the legendary Japanese hentai animated classic Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989), in which demons, half-demons and man (demons?) all converge in an orgy of fireworks and tentacle rape. Somewhere in there, a Chosen One is...chosen. Pull up a chair and hang with us at the bar a while as we bravely try to determine what the hell it all means on t...

This week, Colin unleashes the candy-colored horrors of Dario Argento's classic Suspiria (1977), in which a new student (Jessica Harper) at a ballet school in the Black Forest of Germany discovers that it's actually cover for a coven of witches. Join us as we revel in Techincolor delights of supernatural bloodletting on this Italian Horror episode of the Saturday Night Freak Show! Hosted on Acast....

This week, Tom gets by with a technicality and shows us the 2013 made-for-SyFy shlockpic Sharknado (it had a brief theatrical run thanks to Fathom Events), in which a storm sucks up a bunch of sharks from the ocean and flings them at unfortunate folks on land. Tara Reid, Ian Zierling and John Heard star. Is Sharknado bad-good or just plain bad? Find out on this exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. S...

This week, the whitest people you ever met take a viewing of Brent's movie choice: the blaxsploitation classic Dolemite (1975). Stand up comedian Rudy Ray Moore stars as a flamboyant pimp who's given a few days out of jail to catch the guys who set him up and clear his name. Listen as we explore the origins of blaxsploitation movies and the full spread of afro-centric action heroes of the 1970's!...

This week Sean looks to outer space and rains down Critters (1986) upon us, in which the family farm comes under attack from adorable but mean alien creatures (think Gizmo, but with teeth). The 'crites' are, in turn, pursued by two shape-shifting, alien bounty hunters who contribute nothing to the story but mayhem and destruction. Join us as we make this discovery about our bounty-hunting friends,...

This week we watch Travis' pick of Lamberto Bava's 1985 gore opus, Demons. A disparate group of people are given free tickets to see a sneak preview of a new horror movie, but terror erupts in the theater as, one-by-one, the patrons turn into bloodthirsty demons. Join us as we pontificate about the logistics of lopping off demon heads with a samurai sword while riding your motorcycle down a theate...

This week, Colin condemns us to watch Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974), a true grindhouse exploitation classic. Busty Dyanne Thorne stars as the commandant Nazi prison camp who conducts harrowing "scientific" experiments on the camp's female population while forcing the male subjects to fulfill her voracious sexual appetite. Join us as we revisit one of cinema's roughest cult classics on this week'...

This week, Tom introduces us to the cinematic atrocity known as Mean Guns (1997), in which prolific schlockmeister Albert Pyun (Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg) traps bleach-blonde Christopher Lambert (Highlander, Mortal Kombat) and Ice-T (Tank Girl, Johnny Mneumonic) in a soon-to-be-opened prison, along with 100 other hitmen and killers, in a game of kill-or-be-killed. Join us as we try to deciphe...

Every Saturday, all year long, the guys of the Saturday Night Freak Show watch each other's movie picks. But, we see as many new movies as we can as well! Gather 'round and celebrate the arrival of 2014 with a look back at the past year in film, as Brent, Tom, Colin, Travis and Sean unveil their favorite releases of 2013. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled Freak Show this weekend! Hosted o...

This week, Brent concludes our holiday excursion with a look at the third of director Robert Zemeckis' motion capture films, Disney's A Christmas Carol, which stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. The conversation includes talk of motion capture technology, digital animation, and an appreciation of holiday movies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

This week, Sean looks back upon the film that ruined Christmases for the Moral Majority in 1984 - the notorious Silent Night, Deadly Night. A traumatized lad suffers the loss of his parents at the hands of a Santa Claus-suit wearing criminal; years later, when asked to don a Santa suit for the toy store he works at, he snaps and goes on a slasher killing spree. The movie outgrossed A Nightmare on...

This week, Travis gets us in the Christmas spirit with Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996), the first and only feature film featuring the Canadian sketch-comedy troupe, in which a pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, although it has unfortunate side effects. What does that have to do with Christmas, you ask? You'll have to tune in to find out i...