Saturday Night Freak Show

Michaela wages a scorched earth campaign to protect the hive with The Beekeeper (2024), a Jason Statham action vehicle that finds him playing a retired special operations agent who opens a can of whoopass after his kindly benefactor falls prey to a phishing scam. Listen as we learn myriad facts about bees and beekeeping, unstoppable government agents, the shadow of John Wick, and kickpunch our way to the Queen Bee on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly tries to identify who among us may be the Werewolves Within (2021), an adaptation of a VR video game from Heart Eyes director Josh Rubin. The townsfolk of a snowy mountain community are trapped in a resort and come to suspect one of their number hides a savage secret. Listen as we come to grips with satisfying internet videos, discover Sean is an algorithm terrorist, and discover everyone's a suspect on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean says "once is not enough!" and takes us back in time to revisit TimeCop (1994) in an attempt to obliterate our original 2015 review! Jean Claude Van Damme is a police officer assigned to patrol the timeline after time travel is invented and stop the nefarious politician who intends to use the technology for his own gain. Oh, and save his wife from a tragic death. Listen as we bend our brains around one of the daffiest time-travel plots ever concocted on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin suggests we form a secret society to tell a Ghost Story (1981), an adaptation of Peter Straub's novel about a 50 year old secret that binds together a group of elderly men in a snowy small town in New England, played by some of Hollywood's legendary stars, including Fred Astaire and John Houseman. Listen as we pay tribute to makeup artist Dick Smith, talk about sexy ghosts, and tell each other ghost stories on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela enters into the Shat-tastic world of Impulse (1974), which finds cinema treasure William Shatner playing a homicidal con man fleecing rich women in Florida. Listen as we witness hot dog abuse, childish finger pointing, a deadly game of hangman, a slow motion chase through a car wash, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We try not to get cleaved in half by troglodytes wielding a Bone Tomahawk (2015), the final pick of the 2025 Listener Choice Month! Four unlikely allies ride out from a small frontier town after one of their wives is abducted in this horror-Western. Listen as we talk throat whistles, pull-a-part humans, and our odds of our surviving in the Old West on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If Frank Henenlotter had directed Death Becomes Her it might approximate The Substance (2024). Demi Moore gives a career defining performance as a fading star who takes an experimental substance that promises to create a younger, better version of herself. Listen as we applaud the decade's loopiest, nakedest, goriest body horror splatter opus from the new wave of French Extremism on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're getting gory with killer clowns and watching Terrifier 2 (2022) because you demanded it! Art the Clown continues his blood soaked rampage, aided and abetted by a supernatural Pale Little Girl, and the only person who stands in his way is a teen Valkyrie! Listen as we explore the appeal of Damien Leone's splatter saga on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We'll be friends 'til the end after revisiting Child's Play (1988), the definitive killer doll movie from Fright Night director Tom Holland, the movie that gave us the first introduction to Chucky and launched one of the longest running movie series in the history of horror. Listen as we talk about 7th Heaven, Cabbage Patch Kid chaos, sequels, shows, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We look back on a year in film with our massive Best and Worst of 2024 episode, with each of us spotlighting the five best and one worst movies that we've seen this year. Grab a bucket of popcorn and settle in for the wildest ride yet that includes honorable mentions and silliest fun time at the theater we've had all year long! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly does her first giallo shot with the Italian whodunnit The Fifth Cord (1971), starring Django's Franco Nero as an alcoholic reporter who finds himself a prime suspect in a series of slayings committed by a gloved madman. Listen as we puzzle over red herrings galore, fawn over Italian fashionistas, and get slap happy with suspects on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean watches a hiss-terical WWE throwdown between an alien cat and a junkyard mastiff in The Cat (1992), a film from the director of the equally bizarro Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. The cat is part of a trio of intergalactic visitors are just looking for a way home, but in the meantime they have to deal with a shapeshifting alien menace that threatens mankind. Listen as we discuss body melting, grappling hooks, de-tailing, shoe foley, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin digs up corpses in snowy Wisconsin and invites them to the dinner table because he's Deranged (1974)! Bob (Black Christmas) Clark produced this unofficial Ed Gein biopic, which features a memorable performance by Roberts (Home Alone) Blossom and gore effects by a young Tom Savini. Listen as we talk grimy 70s horror movies, Ryan Murphy's serial killer obsession, and horrible ways to die on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela finds a cybercult of killers on the dark web who murder anonymous women and call them Kristy (2014). Star Haley Bennett is left alone at college over the Thanksgiving weekend and has to escape and survive a quartet of maniacs led by Ashley Greene. Listen as we identify the hallmarks of the nihilistic survival horror genre, call b.s. on college security and maintenance practices, and get triggered by FAFSA forms on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly discovers that mixing laced marijuana and tainted turkey can turn anyone into a Blood Freak (1972), a no-budget anti-drug monster movie about a guy who imbibes the aforementioned cocktail and wakes up with a giant turkey head. The only thing that can sate his monstrous hunger: the drug blood of addicts! Listen as we struggle to interpret the signs and portents and learn key life lessons on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean's "got to dig" because a ghost commands it with Stir of Echoes (1999), a working class ghost story set in Chicago, in which Kevin Bacon's doors of perception are blown open after he volunteers to be hypnotized and a specter from beyond the grave attempts to make contact. Listen as we discuss unfair comparisons to The Sixth Sense, creepy kids, horror legend Richard Matheson, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin scrambles to escape from the fish people who worship Dagon (2001), director Stuart Gordon's long gestating adaptation of HP Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." A shipwrecked couple end up running from their lives after seeking help in a rainy, Spanish seaside town that holds a terrible secret. Listen as we chant "Ia! Ia! C'thulhu Fh'tagan," squirm from tentacled monsters, and are lucky to escape with our skins on this week's episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela trains to become a cyberhacker on a night when all crime is legal with The Purge: Anarchy (2014), a sequel that takes the action out onto the mean streets of Los Angeles during the annual dystopian holiday. Listen as try to survive the night with action star Frank Grillo providing defense, all the while dreaming up scenarios for future Purge movies and TV shows, like Seinfeld Purge, Pirate Purge, Day After the Purge, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly wanders into an underworld just as real as ours, but not as brightly lit with Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). The spiritual third Creepshow movie boasts stories by George Romero, Stephen King, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and includes mummies, cats from hell, and lovetorn gargoyles. Listen as we tally off screen cat deaths, eat the rich, and get our brains pulled out through our noses on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean tries not to lose his head while visiting the haunted hamlet of Sleepy Hollow (1999), which recasts schoolteacher Ichabod Crane as a police inspector investigating murders committed by a headless horseman. Listen as we delve into the big screen version of America's first ghost story, witness Christopher Walken's first on-screen kiss, and visit a bog witch on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.