Saturday Night Freak Show

Sean says it's open season on Predator 2 (1990) as Danny Glover subs for Arnold Schwarzenegger, fighting a technologically advanced killer from another world through the concrete jungle of L.A. This time, the cops - already fighting Mexican and Jamaican gangs - find themselves being chased by an alien trophy hunter who's in town with a few days to kill. Listen as we imagine the pre-safari Predator gearing up at the alien Gander Mountain, postulate that cocaine fueled the making of the movie, and Sean makes a bet that could cost him his luxurious beard... all that and more on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin wishes he was as cool as The Lost Boys (1987), a vampire classic that finds brothers Sam and Michael relocating to the beachfront community of Santa Carla with their mother, only to discover that its the hunting ground for a pack of ultra-chic teenage vampires; only with the help of the vampire-hunting Frog Brothers does humanity stand a chance. Listen as we celebrate the film's 30th anniversary by charting the history of the cinematic vampire, revel in the cinematic team up of the two Coreys (Haim and Feldman), ponder the film's connection to the Curse of Sergio, and more on this week's exciting episode!   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela hopes many kicks to the head will cure her hunger for Bloodsport (1988), the movie that unleashed Jean-Claude Van Damme upon the world. Here, JCVD portrays a martial artist who sneaks into a forbidden, underground tournament known as the Kumite to compete to become the World Heavy Weight Full Contact Kumite Champion! There, he must fight the formidable Bolo (Enter the Dragon) Yeung! Listen as we horribly mispronounce Asian names, imagine a better version of Bloodsport, discuss the art of acting blind, and wonder how JCVD managed not to tear open his scrotum while doing the splits, on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly hopes exposure to spider-men will help cure her Arachnophobia (1990). When the residents of a friendly small town start dropping dead, the newly arrived doctor with an acute fear of spiders (Jeff Daniels) suspects the worst - that they are victims of a never-before-seen, super-poisonous species of arachnid. Listen as we discuss childhood enthusiasm for entomology, the importance of spider love, how to coax an Oscar-worthy performance from an insect, and more, on this week's exiting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin unwraps 85 years of Universal horror with The Mummy (1932). Members of an expedition to Egypt accidentally bring to life a 3,700-year-old priest named Imhotep (Boris Karloff), who immediately sets to work on resurrecting his forbidden love. We'll have you shouting "Show me the mummy!" as we guide you through Universal Studios' Dark Universe (old and new) and address at least a dozen mummy movies from over the years, from Hammer Films Gothic chillers with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, to the action spectacles of Brendan Fraser and Tom Cruise on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela continues to celebrate the Summer of Cannon Films with her choice of Breakin' (1984), a movie about a formally trained dancer (Ninja III: The Domination's Lucinda Dickey) who befriends a crew of street trained break dancers (Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers) and teams with them to compete in a dance competition. Listen as we choose our own street names and discuss 80's break dancing movies, witness Jean-Claude Van Damme's hardcore affection for dance-offs, discover Ice-T's first screen performance, and try to determine how to distinguish "good" break dancing from "bad" break dancing, on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly keeps repeating "my head is like a shark's fin" after becoming trapped in the Deep Blue Sea (1999), an aquatic tale of terror which finds a group of scientists trapped inside an underwater research station with super-intelligent, genetically modified mako sharks. Listen as we wonder what happened to former blockbuster director Renny Harlin, and name-drop every killer shark movie ever made, wrestle with movie logic, tell tales of meeting LL Cool J and both "jump the shark" and "grow the beard" on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean sits ringside for the epic Busta Rhymes vs. Michael Audrey Myers kung fu smackdown called Halloween: Resurrection (2002). This final entry in the long running horror franchise (it was followed in 2009 by Rob Zombie's series reset) not only brings to a close Jamie Lee Curtis' involvement in the storyline, but also introduces Mr. Rhymes as the unstoppable, unkillable proprietor of an Internet webcam horror show who discovers his true inner power as The Shape's ultimate foe. Listen as we extol the virtues of the most misunderstood entry in the Halloween movie series, including its topical treatment of the sociological pitfalls of "reality" TV, and discuss potential sequel possibilities, all on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin's brain is invaded by alien slugs when we watch Night of the Creeps (1986), a comedy-horror film from writer/director Fred Dekker (House, The Monster Squad, Robocop 3), which finds two college guys, their dream girl, and a hard-boiled cop teaming up to protect sorority girls from brain burrowing alien parasites which turn fraternity bros into zombies. Listen as Brandon from Sock Monkey Sound joins Colin, Holly and Michaela as we talk about what defines a fun horror movie; the career of B movie screen legend Tom Atkins; and reminisce about the horrors of college dorm life on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela promises an entire summer dedicated to the output of cheese-factory Cannon Films, which starts with Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top (1987), a movie that finds our hero cast as a truck driver trying to win back his estranged son's heart, on a road trip. Along the way, said son discovers dad is a semi-pro, semi-famous arm wrestler who's gotta get to Vegas to win the International Arm Wrestling Championship! Listen as we debate the merits of Cannon, Stallone, and movies about arm wrestling. And, yes - we arm wrestle each other, live on the air - in what could possibly be the most spectacular Saturday Night Freak Show ever recorded. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly advocates against zombie prejudice by taking a cadaver to the prom in My Boyfriend's Back (1993). All Johnny Dingle wants to do is win the heart of his longtime crush, Missy McCloud, but his plan goes awry and he ends up a inexplicably re-animated corpse! Will his high school sweetheart still want to go with him to the dance? Listen as we: examine this rom-zom-com from the creative team behind Jason Goes To Hell; tell tales of ordering Edward Herrmann a scotch; and find out why Colin doesn't like comedies, all on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean hangs ten with Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996). Having successfully rescued the President from the New York City Maximum Security Penitentiary, the United States' most notorious outlaw is captured and forced once again to go on a mission into hostile territory, this time the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Island of Los Angeles, cut off from the mainland by an earthquake. Listen as we do much jaw jabbing about both of Carpenter's Snake Plissken adventures and discover tasty Rap Snacks, all on this weeks exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin disturbs the hallowed resting place of the bloodthirsty Templar knights in Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Vacationers Bette, Virginia and Roger do the same, waking the cloaked, moldy ghosts, who search out their victims by sound (being blind, after all - their eyes pecked out by crows) to feast upon blood, in order to prolong their un-dead existence. Listen as we throw some facts your way about Spain's contributions to 70's Euro Horror cinema, discuss the architectural merits of a mannequin-filled murder hallway, and confront the era's unflinching attitudes toward cinematic rape on this week's show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela chases werewolves back to the aughts with the 2005 time capsule called Cursed, from director Wes Craven. After being attacked by a werewolf on Mulholland Drive, a brother and sister start to realize not only that they've acquired strange powers, but that the creature continues to stalk them and their friends all over Hollywood and Los Angeles. Listen as we re-evaluate this pairing of the writer and director of the Scream movie series while we test Holly's encyclopedic knowledge of the pop culture of the decade, probe Sean's aversion to movie werewolves, and tell tales of meeting Milo Ventimiglia and Shannon Elizabet on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly invites moody Goth-girl Angela to our party and all hell breaks loose in Night of the Demons (1988)! When a group of high-schoolers meet at an abandoned funeral home for a Halloween party (never a good idea), they unwittingly unleash a demonic entity that takes possession of them one by one. Listen as we revisit this 80's cult classic and talk scream queens, demon possession, and bizarro interpretive dance, while Holly works out her childhood trauma - caused by this movie - all on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean swings into action with the face-swapping superhero Darkman (1990)! Before Marvel would turn him loose on Spider-Man, director Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi came up with his own cinematic superhero story, that of brilliant scientist Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson), who is transformed into a vengeful, bandage-wrapped creature after a band of thugs torches his lab. Listen as we connect dots between the superhero movies of the pre-Marvel Cinematic Era, examine the parallel careers of both Rami and Tim Burton, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin hears a whisper in his ghost and thinks he might be being brainjacked by a viewing of 1995's sci-fi anime Ghost in the Shell, about a female cyborg supersoldier who comes to question her life, the universe, and everything when she's tasked with hunting down an international cybercriminal known as The Puppetmaster. Join us for a very loose episode - recorded after our original show is eaten by audio gremlins - in which we try to explore the film's narrative concepts, anime culture and the ScarJo remake, through a haze of alcohol and beer nuts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela grows tired of mainstream movies and treads carefully into Rubber (2010) a flick about a killer tire that wakes up in the desert one day and subsequently rolls around, murdering everyone that crosses its path using it's psychokinetic mind powers - with the exception of a pretty French girl who's on vacation. Listen as we dive deep into the subgenre of movie surrealism, go over the fine print of the contract between filmmaker and audience, and bemoan the lack of inspired product placement on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly wants to know how the three seashells work when Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in Demolition Man (1993)! When cryogenically frozen super criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) escapes into the Utopian San Angeles of 2032, the hapless authorities thaw out framed cop John Spartan (Stallone) to hunt him down in this satiric sci-fi actioner from producer Joel ("I never met a building I didn't want to blow up") Silver. Listen as we answer the mystery of the three seashells and lose our minds when Wesley Snipes likes our Instagram post on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The luck of the Irish runs out on Sean when he encounters a Leprechaun (1993)! Jennifer Aniston makes her movie debut as a spoiled city girl who moves to a country house with a captive leprechaun (Warwick Davis) in the basement. The tiny terror soon escapes and begins killing everyone who stands between him and his stolen gold. Listen as we contemplate the existence of seven(!) entries in the Leprechaun movie series, discuss the diminishing effects of 90's nostalgia, and come up with our own scenarios for a Leprechaun remake, all on this week's exciting episode!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.