Saturday Night Freak Show

Sean files charges of lactose abuse against Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning, 1981), starring cult movie icon Susan Tyrell in a histrionic performance as a woman with an incestuous interest in her 17-year-old nephew, who may resort to murder to keep him close to home. Listen as we reel in shock and horror from multiple weaponized milk products, homophobic cops, logging truck decapitations, and plenty of psycho mama skeeviness on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly finds some of that Old Time Religion hunting down the God's Hand Killer in Frailty (2001), the directorial debut from actor Bill Paxton, a Southern Gothic horror-thriller about a single dad who receives a visit from an angel and trains his sons to slay demons on Earth. Listen as we talk religious fervor, killer children, supernatural visions, and an axe named 'Otis' on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin tries not to lose his head as he vows to claim The Prize with Highlander (1986). Immortal Christopher Lambert, born in the Scottish highlands, learns the ways of The Quickening from Sean Connery and struggles to reach the time of The Gathering in NYC when all these immortals will try to behead each other, because in the end There Can Be Only One. Listen as practice our swordplay, unravel the movie's filmic and TV legacy, and learn what a highlander is on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela rings the death knell for the Cannon Films empire with Cyborg (1989), a cheaply made Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi martial arts action flick cobbled together from the remnants of the unrealized Spider-Man and Masters of the Universe 2, casting Van Damme as a post-apocalyptic warrior trying to rescue a cyborg woman from the evil bandits who murdered his True Love. Listen as we chart the rise of Van Damme, the fall of Cannon, the marvels of Baywatch Knights and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly tries to survive an onslaught from the Raiders of Atlantis (1983) after the discovery of a sunken nuclear submarine somehow causes the mythical society to rise from the ocean depths, and its marauding citizens lay waste to the inhabitants of surrounding islands. From the director of Cannibal Holocaust. Listen as we marvel at gonzo Italian stunt work, work hard to untangle the plot, and propose a future episode dubbed by the film's English voiceover cast on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean arms himself with a giant can of Raid and plunges deep into The Nest (1988), a movie about a seaside community that discovers it has been an unwitting chemical testing site that has given rise to killer cockroaches. Listen as we talk about roach-food recipes, strange human-cockroach love rituals, and witness humans puppeteered by cockroaches, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin fires up his hog and prospects for The Brotherhood with Stone Cold (1991), a starring vehicle for former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth, casting him as an undercover cop infiltrating a rough biker gang led by Lance Henriksen. Listen as we praise real movie stunt teams, kill a helicopter with a motorcycle, and learn even more weird breakfast blender recipes on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela sheds common decency and takes a bite of The Apple (1980), a sci-fi disco glam rock musical directed by maverick Cannon Films co-founder Menahem Golan. In the future, a satanic music producer rules the world and attempts to lure and corrupt a young singing duo into his decadent world of sin. Listen as we dip ourselves in glitter, rigorously observe BiM hour, and meet the spectral Cadillac-driving God on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A thousand years has ended, so Holly must bear witness to the End of Days (1999), a movie that smashes together a grim religious horror movie with a gigantic Arnold Schwarzenegger action film, pitting Arnie and all his weaponry against The Devil, who comes to New York in search of a wife. Listen as we wonder about the monthly meeting habits of Satan worshippers, detail strange hangover cure recipes, and improbable body melting couplings on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean wants to play your screams as a symphony with Virtuosity (1995), a futuristic thriller that pits former cop Denzel Washington against a psychopathic A.I. given corporeal form (Russell Crowe), who contains the "genetic profiles" of 183 serial killers. Listen as we discuss "nano-death," personality cubes, glowing tube science, and drive semis through gaping plotholes on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin experiences ocular trauma at the Opera (1987), conducted by Italian maestro Dario Argento. An ingenue is suddenly thrust into the lead role in a production of MacBeth and finds herself the unwilling audience for a serial killer who tapes needles to her eyes and forces her to witness murder. Listen as we experience cursed plays, retail flashbacks, dizzying camerawork, flies on a string, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela plunges sight-unseen into the addictive virtual reality terrors of Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), which finds genre vet Lance Henriksen luring a group of teens, including a young Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, to a party based on their favorite video game: Hellraiser. Is that meta enough for you? Listen as we express shock and dismay at the lack of video game representation in a movie that promises just that, as we set our expectations low for the 8th direct-to-video entry in the famous horror saga. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly takes a peek inside the phantasmagoric fantasy landscape of a serial killer's mind in The Cell (2000), which finds psychologist Jennifer Lopez tunneling into the dreamworld of comatose psycho Vincent D'Onofrio to find his latest victim before it's too late. Listen as we discover strange body modification rituals, discover 'dead' bodies in the woods, and learn about a dentist who's the world's biggest Dennis Quaid fan on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean learns "If you can't find a friend, make one" with May (2002), about an awkward young woman and her pursuit of love. Except, after a series of painful rejections, she becomes more in love with a person's body parts than the whole. Listen as we detail cringe-worthy human dating rituals, doll dismemberment, and find the proper way to unwrap a gift on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin gets to know life by becoming a gallblader enthusiast in Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, 1973), which finds a fascist Dr. Frankenstein seeking to create a superior race of humanoids but things go wrong when he chooses the wrong subject for his experiments. Listen as we get gross with weird sex and splattery gore as body parts are flung out of the screen in three dimensions on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela hunts down a future version of herself with Looper (2012), a lo-fi sci-fi epic that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Bruce Willis and Bruce Willis as himself. When he fails to assassinate himself, JGL is a man-on-the run, trying to track down his future variant, whose on a mission to stop a future personal apocalypse. Listen as we get all timey-wimey with time travel, time loops, time pieces, and timelines on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly encounters a trophy hunter from another planet in Without Warning (1980), a pre-Predator sci-fi/horror yarn about a small town visited by a murderous, bulb-headed, frisbee-throwing alien monster. Jack Palance is a gas station attendant and Martin Landau a crazy Vietnam vet who each find themselves pitted against the creature. Listen as we take cover from toothy flesh frisbees, play hide-and-seek with an alien beast, and get plenty of advance warning on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For cult movie aficionados who think they've seen it all, Sean says there's always New York Ninja (2021), a movie filmed in 1984 but never finished until it was reconstructed in 2021. After his wife is killed, a martial arts master becomes a ninja superhero to clean up the mean streets of NYC, but finds an arch-nemesis in the human trafficking and highly radioactive Plutonium Killer. Listen as we watch Bad Lip Reading: The Movie, discover the film's bizarre path to the screen, and extol the virtues of Ninja Magazine once again on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin books passage alongside genre heavyweights to fight a thawed-out, fossilized ape-man run amok aboard the Horror Express (1972). This non-Hammer Films team up of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing careens from mystery, to horror, to sci-fi before throwing Tele Savalas, as a ruthless Russian officer, into the mix. Listen as experience panic on the Transiberian Express, uncover the Missing Link, and mourn the loss of fancy dining aboard a speeding train on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela figures the best place to take her friends sunbathing is outside the Doom Asylum (1996), an abandoned hospital stalked by an alimony lawyer-turned-monster who slices and dices his way to the Frankenhooker herself, Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen. Listen as we propose a summer of David Hasselhoff movies, recoil from the vocal stylings of a "screamo" punk band, receive a Wade Boggs history lesson, and determine what constitutes "dead" or "mostly dead" on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.