Saturday Night Freak Show

We're back live and in person as Listener Choice month continues with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006), a mockumentary that provides self-analysis of the slasher film. In a world where Jason, Freddy, and Michael exist, a camera crew follows an up and coming serial killer as he chooses his 'survivor girl' and prepares for a homecoming massacre. Listen as we discuss moral grey areas of journalism, yonic imagery, flip phones and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The listeners have spoken! The first of four listener choices we're watching this month is Witchery (1988), also known as La Casa 4 in Italy, a team up of David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair as visitors to a Massachusetts island resort that's haunted by a witch and a centuries old curse. Listen as we take jets of blood to the face, witness selfless defenestration, visit chicken wire Hell, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's that time of year again where we venture out of the dank, dark basement for our annual love and hate fest as we rank the Best and Worst Movies of 2023. We say "movies", but pleas for decency fell on Sean's deaf ears and he went and picked a Netflix stand up comedy special. The rest of us stuck to the mission at hand and each deliver our favorite and most hated feature films of the Year of our Lord 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela tries to survive 30 Days of Night (2007) in an Alaskan town where the sun doesn't rise for a month and vampires show up. Josh Hartnett is the small town sheriff trying to keep people alive in an attic without food, or pee or poop buckets, while vampires send their Renfield to collect all the cell phones and cut the power. Listen as we take a jump back to the indie comic scene of the 00's and watch the first vampire movie from the director of Twilight: Eclipse on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly spends Christmas in the Netherlands to find out the horrifying origins of St. Nicholas with Saint (aka Sint aka Saint Nick, 2010), as Dutch madman Dick Maas envisions Father Christmas as a murderous zombie who visits Amsterdam every 32 years as part of an evil curse. Listen as we uncover the legend of Black Peter, strange college mating rituals, blowtorch wielding policemen, and a massive government conspiracy on this week's show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean finds out the hard way that bringing a loved one back from the dead via Frankensteinian science can create a Deadly Friend (1986). A genius highschooler does just that after his pretty neighbor is killed by an abusive parent, creating a rampaging killing machine. Listen as we smash heads with basketballs, wake up screaming from Wes Craven nightmares, and master the automaton walk on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin tries to piece together clues that will identify The Prowler (1981), a film that delivers rivers of blood courtesy of makeup wizard Tom Savini. College students are stalked by a killer after reinstituting a graduation dance that had ceased after a WWII-era murder. Listen as we revel in graphic impalements, slicings, piercings, and maimings and try to unravel exactly what the heck is going on with this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela hunts the Devil in a futuristic flooded London alongside Rutger Hauer in Split Second (1992), although, in a twist, the Devil pretty much looks like Venom (or the Alien). A tough, over the edge cop is partnered with a buttoned up dweeb to follow clues that suggest an occult serial killer is at large in a dystopian futureworld. Listen as we celebrate bromance, big guns, bigger guns, heart chompin' bad guys, and getting laid every night on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly trades guns for swords to settle her scores the old fashioned way in Bunraku (2010), a virtual world-set mashup of Kung Fu and Spaghetti Western genres, sending two warriors, a cowboy drifter and a samurai, into battle against a despotic warlord and his army disposable henchmen. Listen as we witness fights on trapezes, trampolines, four-level side scroller video game levels, and overstimulation of color as we plow toward the eventual boss fight on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean tries to evade a horny demon in It Follows (2014), the horror flick whose villain is an ambulatory STD. Maika Monroe figures this out quick after becoming targeted by an shapeshifting, lumbering menace while her friends coalesce to brainstorm a way to break the curse. Listen as we brainstorm our own safety radius, attempt to discern how the entity works, and raise questions, questions, and more questions on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin revisits the childhood terrors of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981), in which mob justice claims the life of an innocent, mentally challenged man and then the killers die one by one, seemingly pursued by a supernatural scarecrow. Listen as we talk about 1970s TV horror movies, killer scarecrow movies, authoritarian postmen, kindertrauma, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela looks for Halloween vibes (and blood wings) in Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994), the direct-to-video sequel that finds the Demon of Vengeance summoned to life by thrill-seeking teens and seeking revenge for the killing of a feral boy in the 1950's. We don't see how those two things connect either. Listen as we witness elder abuse, feral child abuse, demon lovers, demon spawn, and find sympathy for the devil on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly finds herself beset by monsters and demons after visiting the Mausoleum (1983). Playboy Bunny Bobbi Breese falls victim to a family curse and gets possessed by a succubus that intends to kill all the menfolk in town; her stalwart hubby (former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner) tries to save her soul. Listen heads explode, chests rip open, gardners have entire montages, and titty demons devour the righteous on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean finds himself as the anointed one of a cabal of Satanists with Hack-O-Lantern (1988), in which a devil-worshipping uncle tries to arrange a ceremony to reveal his nephew's unholy power. Meanwhile, a devil-masked slasher makes mincemeat of the supporting cast. Listen as we pay tribute to Freak Show fav Gregory Scott Cummins while surviving pirate video legal entanglements, and stop the movie dead for 80s heavy metal and stand up comedians on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin demands fried chicken and gasoline from Rob Zombie's debut feature of extreme kaleidoscopic horror, House of 1000 Corpses (2003). Four travelers, documenting weird roadside attractions, fall prey a family of killer weirdoes including Captain Spaulding, Baby, and Otis. Listen as we explore the entire cinematic ouevre of the hellbilly rocker, the film's troubled production, and the origins of 2000's torture movies and horror remakes, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela interfaces with David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999) in the most awkward way the human body possibly can, to examine the director's take on video games, warped reality, and religious fanaticism as a video game designer is hunted through virtual reality by assassins determined to destroy her and her latest creation. Listen as we jack into our flesh pods by way of umbilical cords, answer our pink phones, and reveal the terrifying psychology of The Sims on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly watches The Watcher (2000), about a charming serial killer, played by Keanu Reeves, who tries to convince that the cop chasing him (James Spader) that they were made for each other by giving him something to do. Listen as we learn the fine art of forging signatures, jam out to Rob Zombie, and realize the smartphone is the Great Equalizer on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean goes hunting for the Bigfoot that fell from the sky 100 years ago in Demonwarp (1988), an all-over-the-map schlockfest that features George Kennedy and 80s scream queen Michelle Bauer, zombies, aliens, satanic rituals, neck snapping, pole skewering, head-ripping, and boobs. Listen as we reveal bear trap anxieties, man-in-the-wall anxieties, and refuse to take attic expeditions on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin vows to protect the family jewels from Killer Fish (1979), an Italian-made combo of the disaster and "when animals attack" genres of the 70s that finds a crew of diamond thieves trying to recover their stolen goods from a piranha-filled lake at a Brazilian resort. Listen as we find Jon Voight's inspiration for his Anaconda performance, find out if you can swim in $1 million in bills, and talk about the wisdom of using action figures in your model scenes on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela witnesses some Disturbing Behavior (1998) among high school teens and employs some Stepford Wives-level remedies! New kids move to a new school and notice something off with the in-crowd: aside from them being snobby boors, they may also be hormonal homicidal maniacs! Listen as we relive our high school nightmares, decipher bizarre made-up teen lingo, and bear witness to horrific auto destruction on this week's exciting episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.