Saturday Night Freak Show

Each Saturday, the Internet Radio Superstars (Colin, Sean, Holly and Michaela) assemble for some movie watchin' and analysis, with the accent on geek cinema, horror, sci-fi, and action films - chosen round-robin style by the Saturday Night Freak Show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Outland (1981)

November 22, 2025 • 77 mins

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!

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The Good Son (1993)

November 15, 2025 • 81 mins

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!

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Champagne and Bullets (1993)

November 8, 2025 • 86 mins

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 our minds while witnessing multiple ...

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

November 1, 2025 • 91 mins

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 not to lose the plot on this week's...

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Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

October 25, 2025 • 75 mins

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!

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Stay Alive (2006)

October 18, 2025 • 73 mins

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!

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Angel Heart (1987)

October 11, 2025 • 77 mins

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!

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Dangerous Animals (2025)

October 4, 2025 • 67 mins

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!

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C.H.U.D. (1984)

September 27, 2025 • 81 mins

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!

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The Mutilator (1984)

September 20, 2025 • 78 mins

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 of all evils on this week's excitin...

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Deathstalker II (1987)

September 13, 2025 • 74 mins

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 this week's exciting episode!

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Heretic (2024)

September 6, 2025 • 91 mins

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!

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The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

August 30, 2025 • 76 mins

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 plant people, and explosions galore ...

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Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

August 23, 2025 • 77 mins

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 week's exciting episode!

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The Devil's Advocate (1997)

August 16, 2025 • 76 mins

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 episode?

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R.O.T.O.R. (1987)

August 9, 2025 • 74 mins

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 exciting episode!

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White Lightning (1973)

August 2, 2025 • 76 mins

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 episode!

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Hancock (2008)

July 26, 2025 • 78 mins

Michaela befriends a drunken, depressed superhero and tries to help him find his true calling with Hancock (2008), Will Smith's attempt to create an original superhero franchise just as the Marvel machine was getting started. Jason Bateman is a PR guy trying to rehab the hero's soiled image, and Charlize Theron is his wife, who harbors a big secret. Listen as we talk Hancock v Homelander, abrupt tonal shifts, and wonder if super be...

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Dead & Buried (1981)

July 19, 2025 • 85 mins

Holly pulls the dirt over her grave herself to make sure she's Dead & Buried (1981) after a visit to the seaside town of Potter's Bluff, where recently dead folks seem to have a strange habit of sticking around, stymying the investigations of a well intentioned but in-over-his-head small town sheriff. Listen as we debate black magic rituals, laud the outstanding fx work of Stan Winston, and mourn the dearth of gas station atten...

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Night of the Comet (1984)

July 12, 2025 • 79 mins

Sean survives the Night of the Comet (1984) with a pair of machine gun packing badass Valley Girls after the aforementioned celestial phenomena wipes out all life on earth, save for a few flesh hungry zombies. Listen as we debate the film's cult classic status, the necessity of a shopping montage in a zombie film, and willingly hire ourselves out as script doctors for explosion sequences in this week's exciting episode!

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Saturday Night Freak Show

Episodes

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.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}The Good Son (1993)

Champagne and Bullets (1993)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

Stay Alive (2006)

Angel Heart (1987)

Dangerous Animals (2025)

C.H.U.D. (1984)

The Mutilator (1984)

Deathstalker II (1987)

Heretic (2024)

The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

R.O.T.O.R. (1987)

White Lightning (1973)

Hancock (2008)

Dead & Buried (1981)

Night of the Comet (1984)

Popular Podcasts

Outland (1981)

The Good Son (1993)