Saturday Night Freak Show

Sean wants to swallow your soul after being possessed by Evil Dead (2013), a gory remake of Sam Raimi's no-budget classic. Five friends go to a cabin in the woods and unwittingly set loose demons that possess and kill them one by one, but those expecting a straight retread of the original are in for a surprise. Listen as we make it rain blood, summon evil spirits, hack off our own limbs, and generally get groovy on this week's episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin tracks the slasher movie genre back to Blood and Black Lace (1964), an Italian giallo from the maestro, Mario Bava, in which a (literally) faceless, black gloved killer stalks models at a haute couture fashion house. Listen as we reveal telltale ways to spot the murderer in any mystery movie, unravel convoluted whodunnit plotwork, and ooh and awe over the use of multi-colored lighting on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela begins to think a rocket launcher might be the only way to take out a haunted elevator in Down (aka The Shaft, 2001), a movie that features a pre-stardom Naomi Watts, about a maintenance company employee (Twin Peaks' James Marshall) who finds himself pitted against a homicidal piece of machinery that's lopping off heads at a NYC high rise. Listen as we propose Down 2: The Second Floor with Dutch angles, flying baby births, love in an elevator and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Surprise! The Freak Show makes a sudden detour to the Big Apple with Scream VI (2023), as the famed slasher saga relocates to NYC and asks "Who gives a #$%! about movies?" So much stabbing ensues. Listen as we power up on serial killer DNA, get haunted by ghosts and Ghostfaces, and find out if #JusticeForKirby is finally served on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean vacations at the house by the pond (not to be confused with the cabin by the lake) and shouts, There's Nothing Out There (1991), only to discover there IS actually something out there: a horny, reptilian extra-terrestrial menace determined to kill everyone in sight! Listen as we discuss VHS-themed funerary rituals, the high school phenomenon of "super seniors" as we swing from boom mics while dodging laser eyes on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin wants to believe the truth is out there by reopening The X-Files (1998), the first big-screen version of the hit 90's sci-fi phenomenon that hopes to explain the first five years of the show's alien mythology, placing FBI Agents Mulder and Scully on a globetrotting adventure against a government conspiracy. Listen as we fight the future, turn people in to Jello, run up an incredible taxpayer-funded expense account, and uncover the secret government agency behind it all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela digs into Esther's daddy bible and uncovers Orphan: First Kill (2022), a 13-years-later prequel to the cult horror flick about a homicidal girl with daddy issues, only this one takes a bugnuts turn into crazytown. Listen as we talk Otherlands, accurate 2000's technological representation, and stab cutting boards with sharp knives on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly finds out what love's got to do with it with Significant Other (2022), a movie that stars Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy as a couple who go backpacking in a scenic forest where a meteor crash landed to Earth the night before. Listen as we become unsure of who's who, go slapping our tentacles around with abandon, and get to the bottom of why a man is named Plop, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean finds nothing puts a smile on his face like medical-themed murder alongside Dr. Giggles (1992), a tongue-in-cheek slasher movie about a maniacal doctor with a nervous laugh who slaughters teenagers in his old hometown. Listen as we come to grips folding parents' undergarments, are shocked at surgical simulator video games, and recast movies as we watch them, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin loves saying the word Torso (1973), the American title for an Italian giallo originally called "The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence", about a masked maniac murdering art students in Rome with a foulard, which we come to learn is more commonly known as a scarf. Listen as we discuss doll orgies, hippie orgies, the horrors of running barefoot in brackish water, and Sean starts another writer's feud on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We conclude Listener Choice month with Halloween Ends (2022) because you demanded it! Corey Cunningham was a bad babysitter, who accidentally killed a kid. Cast out by the town of Haddonfield, he learns how to power up and self actualize after a gaining a psychic link to one of the town's most famous sewer dwellers. Listen as we relive the trauma of watching this movie and seek out unlicensed Hollywood professionals to help us deal with our trauma, all on this week's exciting, overlong and overstuffed episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back from the grave and ready to party with The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Dan O'Bannon's sly, punk rock zombie movie that throws all the conventions of George Romero out the window in favor of brain-eating, quick thinking, ambulatory reanimated corpses who cannot be killed after being exposed to a secret government chemical. Listen as we rave to the grave in the necropolis while Trash dances naked on tombstones on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You demanded it, so we're here to find out if Barbarian (2022) is the best film of 2022. A woman rents an AirBnB, discovers a man in the house when she arrives. It's raining; he invites her inside. Eventually, she goes down into the basement. Listen as we chat about movie surprises, good casting, milk bottles, and the phenomenon of comedians becoming horror directors on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We kick off Listener Choice month by scrambling our molecules with The Fly (1986), director David Cronenberg's remake in which a science experiment fuses a scientist (Jeff Goldblum) with a common housefly, ruining a potentially beautiful new romance. Listen at our revulsion at bodily fluids, list our favorite horror movie remakes, and work our way through the potential horrors of teleportation on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen as we rank the five best and one worst movie we saw this year as we wrap up 2022 with the annual Best and Worst Movies of 2022 episode! Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela would kill to get a part in Curtains (1983), in which several actresses are brought to a snowy Canadian mansion to audition for a tyrannical movie director for a role in his new movie. But, a masked slasher begins knocking them off, one by one! Listen as we talk about ice skating killers, scatological puppet jokes, and consider warning aspiring actors away from the movie business on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly regales us with a Yuletide yelp yarn with To All a Good Night (1980), a killer Santa movie directed by Last House on the Left bad guy David Hess. Sorority sisters sitting out Christmas vacation import a plane full of boys for sexy swingin' times but don't count on a slay-happy St. Nick crashing the party. Listen as we document the only horror movie that uses a draft as a jump scare, express dumbwaiter love, and sexy teeth and gum fondling, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela gets hot and sweaty with the Wild Things (1998) of Florida, a movie famous for putting Denise Richards, Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon in a hotel room together with a bottle of champagne. Also, there are twists! Turns! And more twists! And turns! Listen as we get hot under the collar with the 90's era of steamy erotic thrillers, Hollywood's hills and valleys, Bacon dong, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin tries to see past the pointing finger to the heavenly glory of Enter the Dragon (1973), a monument to O.G. martial arts wunderkind Bruce Lee, who plays a Shaolin Temple student who infiltrates the island fortress of a James Bond villain to participate in a deadly tournament and get revenge. Listen as we marvel at the athletic prowess of its star, hail the presence of Bolo Yeung, and invent a new martial arts discipline called "Slap the Snake" on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela rethinks adopting Russian girls with a penchant for murder after dealing with Orphan (2009), in which a close-knit family brings said tot into the fold and then the evil imp promptly exploits fault lines in the happy relationship. Listen as we delve into the real-life case that inspired the movie, bird murder, multiple instances of coitus interruptus, the Warner Bros horror factory, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.