Saturday Night Freak Show

Brent explores the neurotic world of Woody Allen with Celebrity (1998), in which Kenneth Branagh does an spot on Allen impersonation as a celebrity journalist going through a divorce, and the gamut of sexual encounters he stumbles into while searching for meaning in life, while his wife (Judy Davis) suffers a a series of meltdowns in search of the same. Join us as we talk infidelity, celebrity, writing and relationship drama on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean celebrates Santa's arrival with the holiday classic Black Christmas (1974) - one of the first "slasher" movies - a Canadian import which arrived 4 years before Halloween (1978). A group of girls get murdered one-by-one, by a demented psycho named "Billy" who makes obscene phone calls to their sorority house on Christmas Eve. Director Bob Clark is also responsible for the Yuletide favorite, A Christmas Story (1983). Listen as we toss back some holiday cheer and sit under the tree to discover Black Christmas' place in the horror history! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Travis digs up the forgotten horror flick Spookies (1986), which finds a group of 30-something teenagers choosing an old mansion in which to party, and ultimately end up summoning a bunch of monsters who kill them off one-by-one. Listen as we discover the thrills of farting muck-men, shriveled sorcerers, spider-women, Gremlin-like demons, zombies and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenny relives her childhood fascination with Macaulay Culkin's screaming fits and proclivities towards violent mayhem in Home Alone (1990). In the film, the pint-sized terror scalds, stabs, shatters, and mangles a couple of bumbling, ne'er-do-well burglars who mistakenly target his home for their Christmastime plundering. Listen as we try to sort through the rich, multi-layered meanings of this oft overlooked, feel-good holiday classic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin says "long live the new flesh!" and unleashes David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) signal upon unsuspecting minds in this week's episode. James Woods stars as a fringe-TV programmer whose reality begins to unravel after he becomes obsessed with pirate transmissions of a torture reality show. Pull up a chair and listen as we talk prophetic visions, insidious political agendas, and discuss the best course of action when you grow (and then feed videotapes to) a lower abdominal slit. All on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brent concludes a year celebrating Back to the Future and time-travel movies with Back to the Future Part III (1990), which sees Marty and Doc transported to 1885, where they run afoul of 'Mad Dog' Tannen, a disabled DeLorean, and an unexpected love affair, in this sweet-natured conclusion to the classic fantasy trilogy. Gather 'round as we discover why Brent loves this movie (and why Travis hates it) on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean comes back for a second course of furry extraterrestrial troublemakers with Critters 2 (1988), which finds more of the small creatures hatching and causing havoc in a small town, while series holdovers Scott Grimes and town-drunk-turned-alien-bountyhunter Charlie (Don Opper) try to stop them. Listen in as we talk about monster movies, the perils of sequels, the career of director Mick Garris, and the soothing effect of giant boobies, on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis takes us on a magical mystery tour of American Pop (1982), an animated feature from Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, The Lord of the Rings and Cool World. The film is an ambitious, multi-generational saga; an immigrant story that traces its lineage through the world of 20th century music and the lives of four men. Listen as we talk a bit about Bakshi's career, the controversial animation technique called 'rotoscoping', and revel of the world of American animation for adults on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Jenny gets her freak on with Would You Rather (2012), in which Re-Animator's Jeffrey Combs stars as the sadistic host of a dinner party, who puts his desperate guests through a deadly game, with the promise that the winner will take home a tidy sum of money. Listen as we challenge each other to drinking games, celebrate the acting career of Combs, belittle the talent-free porn star-turned-mainstream actress Sasha Grey, and evaluate the current state of torture-based horror movies on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we celebrate Halloween with Colin's seasonal pick of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (2013) in which a cursed record album conjures up a centuries old witches' curse to haunt a modern day rock DJ (Sherri Moon Zombie). Listen as we talk cinematic witchcraft through the ages, demon babies, demon lovers, the film career of Robert Wolfgang Zombie, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Sean officially returns to the Freak Show with a look back at cult item Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983), an anomaly in the Halloween movie series that does not feature boogeyman Michael Myers. Instead, we get a plot to sacrifice millions of children, conducted by a novelty mask manufacturer, aided by technology gleaned from the druids. Does Halloween III deserve its current day renaissance? Tune in to this week's episode and find out the verdict of the Internet Radio Superstars! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Travis pulls the strings of cult favorite Puppetmaster (1989), the first in a series of low budget horror films about a group of living dolls, brought to life by an ancient Egyptian spell, who are used by a psychic to kill his former colleagues. Listen as we talk the rise and fall of Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment, the lost experience of surfing cover art at video stores, and our favorite killer doll movies on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we fly to Neverland with Peter Pan in Jenny's pick of Hook (1991), Steven Spielberg's sequel-of-sorts, which finds a middle-aged Peter (Robin Williams) being forced to re-discover his magical potential when his children are kidnapped by Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Gather 'round, children, as we try to untangle what happened to Neverland in this week's exciting roundtable throwdown! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin exposes us to the gorefest delights of Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979 - also known as Zombi 2 and Zombie Flesh Eaters), which sees eyeball-poking, shark wrestling ghouls resurrected by voodoo on a Caribbean island. Listen as we dive head first into the living dead - finally - on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, O.G. Tom returns to the Freak Show to behold the giant mech battle movie, Robot Jox (1989). In a post apocalyptic world, wars are fought in a gladiatorial arena by giant robots driven by each faction's best pilot. Who will win out? Good Achilles or evil Alexander? Join us as we analyze director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's movie and talk all things battle mech, including unavoidable comparisons to Pacific Rim, Mech Warrior, BattleTech and more on this week's exciting sci-fi episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Jenny enters the so-bad-it's-good sweepstakes with her pick of the Nicholas Cage-starrer, Con Air (1997). Loveable criminal cage is put on a high-security plane with a bunch of hardened criminals, rapists and serial killers, (including John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, and Ving Rhames) and wouldn't you know it - they hijack the plane with him on board! What's an unfairly incarcerated guy to do? Play Die Hard on a Plane, that's what! Meanwhile, befuddled Federal agent John Cusack loses his mind on the ground. Listen to find out what the Internet Radio Superstars thought of Con Air on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin subjects us to the camp sci-fi classic Starcrash (1978), an Italian Star Wars rip-off that finds the buxom Stella Star (Captain Kronos' beauty Caroline Munro), along with a menagerie of robots and aliens, setting out to thwart the galaxy conquering plans of the evil Count Zarth-Arn (Joe Spinell). And, oh yeah, Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff co-star. Join us for a lively discussion of one of cinemas greatest guilty pleasures on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Travis indulges his love for monster movies with his pick of The Fly II (1989), a follow-up to David Cronenberg's 1986 re-vamp of the classic '50's chiller. Picking up where the previous film left off, The Fly II finds Eric Stoltz as the offspring of Jeff Goldblum's doomed scientist, in the custody of a sinister corporation who is waiting for his latent creature genes to manifest themselves. Daphne Zungia (Spaceballs) is his hapless love interest. Tune in as we analyze vomi-drop, rubber monsters, makeup men-turned-directors, and more in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we discover it was Jenny who did it, in the basement, with the movie Clue (1985), a slapstick adaptation of the classic board game. It's a dark and stormy night as Tim Curry, as a hapless butler, who assists a colorful cast of characters (including Christopher Lloyd, Leslie Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, and more) as they try to determine who killed the blackmailer, Mr. Boddy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we sell our souls for rock n' roll with Colin's pick of Brian de Palma's horror/comedy/musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974). When an up and coming songwriter is disfigured and his music is stolen by a shady record producer (70's songwriting impresario Paul Williams), he dons a cloak and mask and haunts the producer's trendy venue, The Paradise, in order to secure the talents of talented ingenue Phoenix (Suspiria's Jessica Harper) in this mix of Phantom of the Opera, Faust, and the Picture of Dorian Gray. Tune in to this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.