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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 5, 2025 71 mins
Colin shotguns 100 giant rats who fed on H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods (1976). From the 70s cycle of ecological horror movies comes this entry from veteran monstersploitation producer Bert I. Gordon, pitting former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner against giant rats, roosters, wasps, and maggots. Listen as we mourn the rodent actors who were sacrificed for our entertainment on this week's exciting episode!

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June 28, 2025 88 mins
Michaela wonders how long it would take a man to have sex with his domestic housebot if it looked like Megan Fox in Subservience (2024). During his wife's extended hospital stay, awaiting a heart transplant, a blue collar dad buys a seductive fembot to "help out around the house", if you know what we mean. Listen as we wriggle under technological anxiety, wield dubious erasure commands, and hope for a Terminator ending on this week...

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June 21, 2025 83 mins
Holly returns to an age undreamed of, of loincloths, bare bosoms, swords and sorcery with Deathstalker (1983), a Roger Corman produced Conan the Barbarian ripoff with a musclebound hero out to save a princess and reclaim three magical objects from an evil sorcerer. Listen as we discuss barbarian mating rituals, sock puppet monsters, escort side quests, and literal pig-headed antagonists on this week's exciting episode!

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