Saturday Night Freak Show

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

October 10, 2026 • 72 mins
Sean traps us in a flooded Florida nightmare with Crawl (2019), as a competitive swimmer goes to check on her estranged father during a Category 5 hurricane, only to find the basement filling with water and hungry alligators! Listen as we talk about: realistic pain response, sand sharks, visiting Florida and living in terror, and suspension of disbelief, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Colin spent his whole life avoiding Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) because he believed what they told him - that it was one of the worst movies ever made. Linda Blair returns as Regan MacNeil, recovering just fine from her exorcism until a whackadoodle shrink (Louise Fletcher) gets the idea to poke around in her dreams via a telepathy machine, while screen legend Richard Burton stars as a Catholic priest who takes a side trip to E...

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September 26, 2026 • 76 mins
Michaela likes her European travelogue with a side of slaughter and finds Amsterdamned (1988), a movie which finds a grizzled police detective hunting for the slasher-in-a-wet-suit who prowls Amsterdam's canals for victims, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Listen as we complete our hat trick of films from gonzo director Dick Maas, marvel at the cultural enthusiasm on display, and have thoughts about mysteries that don't play ...

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September 19, 2026 • 77 mins
Holly sets the temperature to sizzling with Body Heat (1981), a sweaty throwback to 40s-era film noir made with 80s-era permissive on-screen sexuality with Kathleen Turner (in her film debut) starring as a smoldering femme fatale ensnaring sleazy lawyer William Hurt in a plot to murder her husband. Listen as we find out what sexual activity is illegal in Florida, learn about female terror at male anatomy, and mourn the lack of mode...

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September 12, 2026 • 74 mins
Sean spends spends a Nightmare Weekend (1986) making sense of a flick that combines hot coeds and a killer computer and ends in blood and guts! A telekinetic computer system makes drooling zombies out of visitors who've been invited to a scientist's home for a softcore sex romp. Pet Sematary's Dale Midkiff, NYPD Blue/Babylon 5's Andrea Thompson, and a hand puppet named George, star. Listen as we put in considerable brainwork to unt...

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September 5, 2026 • 73 mins
Colin gets zapped back to the Old West on a motocross bike in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan (1982), a movie co-concocted, produced, and scored by original Monkee Michael Nesmith. Fred Ward stars as our hero, who wanders into a time travel experiment while racing the Baja 1000, and finds himself fending off gunslinging cowboys when he's transported back to 1875. Listen as we critique pistol grip techniques, puzzle over the e...

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August 29, 2026 • 75 mins
Michaela resurrects a memory-holed Halle Berry-Bruce Willis erotic thriller called Perfect Stranger (2007), about a disgraced reporter seeking to get close to a philandering murder suspect, a powerful NYC advertising executive, while her friend-zoned cyberhacker buddy snoops around for evidence. Listen as we uncover chatroom melodrama, unravel twisted plot machinations, and try to determine if Bruce Willis wears a hairpiece on this...

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August 22, 2026 • 83 mins
Holly goes to war with Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime as Commando (1985), the quippiest, explodiest, gunniest of all the 80s "one man army" actioners, with Big Arnie punching bad guys through plate glass windows, dropping them off cliffsides, scalping them with circular saw blades, and impaling them with steam pipes as he hunts down the men who abducted his daughter. Listen as we learn who Wings Hauser was initially set to play...

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August 15, 2026 • 85 mins

Sean screams, you scream, we all scream for the Ice Cream Man (1995), with Clint Howard playing the adult version of a boy who witnessed the mob execution of his favorite ice cream man; after escaping(?) from an asylum, he assumes the duties but adds his own extra special ingredients for naughty boys and girls. Listen as we try to suss out what was the original intention of a porn filmmaker's attempt to go legit, and how he attract...

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August 8, 2026 • 78 mins
Colin spends the night is a creepy Irish hotel despite warnings of a witch locked in the honemoon suite, calling it Hokum (2026). The latest film from scare-master Damian McCarthy casts Adam Scott as a boorish novelist who begins investigating the strange goings on after a mysterious disappearance. Listen as we discuss frightmares, jackasses, children's programming, goat's milk and psychedelic mushrooms all on this week's exciting ...

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August 1, 2026 • 75 mins
Michaela is out of gas and stranded at the Last Stop in Yuma County (2023), taking refuge in a twisty, Tarantino-esque character thriller about a group of people (and two on-the-lam bank robbers) waiting uncomfortably at a roadside diner for a refueling truck to appear. Listen as we recast Richard Brake as a romantic lead, reverse-engineer first time director Francis Gallupi's No Country for Old Men inspiration, and moral compromis...

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July 25, 2026 • 73 mins
Holly takes a film school detour to examine Gus Van Sant's experimental "remake" of Psycho (1998), a shot-for-shot, line-for-line remake of Alfred Hitchcock's horror masterpiece. Is it the ultimate work of homage or wholesale cinematic theft? Listen as we debate the wisdom of peephole masturbation, how to improve on perfection, the folly of unchecked hubris, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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July 18, 2026 • 75 mins

Sean comes up with a plan to save virginal high school students from a virgin-killing slasher in Cherry Falls (2000), a bizarre slasher-comedy that stars Brittany Murphy as a student at a school where the sexually inexperienced teens are falling victim to a rampaging killer. Listen as we try to make twisted sense of absurdist deadpan comedy, unhealthy father-daughter relationships, cross-dressing killers, and mass orgies on this we...

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July 11, 2026 • 68 mins
Colin wants to see if he has a death wish at 120 decibels with Stunt Rock (1978), in which Aussie stuntman Grant Page stars as himself, crossing the ocean to Hollywood and teaming up with the magic-themed hard rockers Sorcery to enliven their pyrotechnic show and romancing a pretty journalist who's along for the ride. Listen as we throw up the horns and rock out while trying to sus out what motivates movie daredevils on this week's...

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July 4, 2026 • 79 mins
Michaela packs her bags and heads off on A Perfect Getaway (2009) to Hawaii's paradise island of Kaua'i while there's a newlywed killer on the loose and meets up with an American Jedi who's really hard to kill. Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn are the hapless vacationing travelers, while Timothy Olyphant and Kylee Sanchez are the weirdo free spirits they meet up with who may be a pair of spree killers. Listen as our microphones go on ...

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June 27, 2026 • 76 mins
Holly hits the high seas with a Navy SEAL-turned cook who is all that stands between us and nuclear armageddon in Under Siege (1992), a starring vehicle for Steven Seagal which surrounds him with an A+ supporting cast and the biggest budget of his career. Listen as realize that Erika Elaniak's big moment is only 4 seconds long, witness multiple iterations of slaphand stabby-stabby, and watch Tommy Lee Jones chew scenery with abando...

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June 20, 2026 • 78 mins
Sean blasts us into pure '80s cheese with Megaforce (1982)! Barry Bostwick stars as Ace Hunter, leader of the high-tech, elite strike team with tricked-out motorcycles, flying vehicles, and enough one-liners to level a small country. When a ruthless dictator threatens peace, these mercenaries ride in with explosions, mullets, and maximum patriotic absurdity. Listen as we sound off on rocket bikes, 80s AF theme songs, and the career...

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June 13, 2026 • 77 mins
Colin pits a wolf man against a vampire woman in Night of the Werewolf (1981), the ninth of thirteen films starring "the Spanish Lon Chaney," Paul Naschy, as the lycanthropy-cursed Polish nobleman, Waldemar Daninsky. This time, an evil witch resurrects his ancient nemesis, the vampire Countess Elizabeth Bathory, leading to a fang-vs-claw showdown. Listen as we dig into naked bloodletting, introduce Stunt Rooms™, and avoid brigands,...

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June 6, 2026 • 78 mins
Michaela celebrates our 700th episode with warring ninjas and becomes the Ninja Terminator (1985)! Three parts of a magical golden ninja statue are stolen by a trio of ninja warriors. One becomes a mob boss and tries to steal back the other two, resulting in kick-punching mayhem that punches holes in screenplay logic. Cut and paste master Godfrey Ho directs. Listen as we defy the odds to decipher the story, answer Garfield phones, ...

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Holly hopes to wrestle the power of Grayskull from Skeletor in Masters of the Universe (1987, re-watch), with Dolph Lundgren as the live action version of Mattel's He-Man action figure, teaming up with Courtney Cox to save the Earth from Frank Langella's deliciously hammy villain in this Cannon Films classic. Listen as we get nostalgic for after-school cartoons, toy collecting, mullets, magic and mayhem on this week's exciting epi...

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