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Saturday Night Freak Show

Saturday Night Freak Show

Each Saturday, the Internet Radio Superstars (Colin, Sean, Holly and Michaela) assemble for some movie watchin" and analysis, with the accent on geek cinema, horror, sci-fi, and action films - chosen round-robin style by the Saturday Night Freak Show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

tv & film

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1:29:23

Stagefright (1987)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/05/31

Michaela gets trapped with both insufferable theater artistes and an owl-headed mental patient on the loose with Stagefright (1987), an Italian made attempt at an American-style slasher flick. Listen as we make sure the cat survives, grade the body count splatter effects, imagine a use for a prop 'bang flag' gun, make damn sure we "shoot him right between the eyes," and more on this weekend's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:17:06

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/05/24

Holly digs up the fossil of a pagan snake god and finds herself drawn to The Lair of the White Worm (1988), provocateur director Ken Russell's comic, psychedelic slice of English folk horror, based on a novel by Bram (Dracula) Stoker. Listen as we find Paddington pair Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi in their first on-screen teamup, cast suspicion on English food, find Kate McKinnon's on-screen twin, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:19:13

Devil (2010)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/05/17

Sean gets trapped in an elevator with the Devil (2010), a twisty supernatural thriller dreamed up by M. Night Shyamalan but directed by the guys who did The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Quarantine. Which one of the five people is the Devil in disguise? Will the dedicated cop be able to figure it out and rescue them on time? Listen as we talk about the touchtone television show The O.C. and debate theology on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:19:47

Nothing Underneath (1985)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/05/10

Colin tries to figure out who's killing Milan's hottest fashion models in Nothing Underneath (1985), where the Italian giallo meets 80s MTV glitz. A Yellowstone park ranger with a psychic connection to his model twin sister flies to Italy to solve her disappearance. Listen as eat sauceless spaghetti at an Italian Wendy's, play Russian roulette, and learn how to spot a killer on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:27:56

The Color of Night (1994)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/05/03

Although struck color blind by psychological trauma, Michaela gets all hot and bothered by The Color of Night (1994), our late entry into the 90s "erotic thriller" genre. A psychiatrist is murdered, and his psychologist buddy (Bruce Willis) tries to figure out which one of his group therapy patients did it, while becoming involved in a torrid affair with a mysterious femme fatale. Listen as we explore the origins of sexy movies and one that caused a heart attack on this week's exciting episode

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1:21:54

The Fury (1978)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/04/26

Holly unleashes The Fury (1978), director Brian De Palma's follow up to Carrie, which features two telekinetic teenagers for the price of one. Golden Age star Kirk Douglas is in a spy movie, trying to rescue his abducted psychic son, while Amy Irving is a girl with a psychic connection to him. Listen as we crack wise about throbbing veins, forgetting location of the Playboy Mansion in Chicago, and then we explode! Cut to credits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:12:49

Mosquito (1994)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/04/19

Sean finds that the worst giant blood-sucking bugs come from space with Mosquito (1994), in which oversized insects swarm a Michigan campground, forcing a scientist, a college couple, a park ranger, and a trio of bank robbers to team up to fight the deadly menace. Listen as we marvel at shoestring practical makeup and creature effects, watch eyeballs and butt cheeks get poked by proboscises, and shotgun a swarm of mutant bugs on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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1:22:41

Vice Squad (1982)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/04/12

Colin hits the skeevy underbelly of LA in pursuit of cinema's craziest, scariest, most sadistic psycho pimp with the Vice Squad (1982), with the late, great Wings Hauser at his demented best as Ramrod, who spends the night hunting down the call girl (Season Hubley) who set him up. Listen as we spend time learning about pimp sticks, sugar pimps, toe suckers, and profess a surprising love of sleazy movies on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:11:36

Looker (1981)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/04/05

Michaela can't determine if the products she dreams of owning are because she wants them or because they were subliminally implanted by the advertisements in Looker (1981), in which a plastic surgeon investigates the deaths of his beautiful models and uncovers a corporate conspiracy. Listen as we ask for answers to basic questions, witness the greatest fall onto a car roof in movie history, and lick our debit cards on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:19:27

Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/03/29

Holly screams "Oh man! Oh God! Oh man!" after a viewing of Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987), a bonkers, sleazy, drug and sex fueled neo-noir from novelist turned director Norman Mailer. The late, demented Wings Hauser co-stars alongside Ryan O'Neal, who plays an ex-con with two severed heads in his drug stash. Listen as we try to sort out the most convoluted mystery plot since The Maltese Falcon featuring grifters, witches, sadomasochists, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See

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1:17:11

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/03/22

Sean goes to the 90's high school dance with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), the original take on the iconic vampire-hunting heroine, long before she became a pop culture icon in the subsequent hit TV series. Listen as we talk about the horror of shared family answering machines, Pee-Wee Herman as a vampire, teen slang, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:22:11

Silent Hill (2006)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/03/15

Colin wakes up screaming 'Silent Hill!' (2006) and thus packs up the Freak Show on a field trip to the fog enshrouded town made famous by a creepy series of Japanese video games. Join us as we run into sexy nightmare nurses, run from a giant sword-wielding Pyramid Head, and discuss horror games and their movie adaptations on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:26:47

The Beekeeper (2024)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/03/08

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

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1:18:48

Werewolves Within (2021)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/03/01

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

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1:25:59

TimeCop (1994, rewatch)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/02/22

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

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1:31:16

Ghost Story (1981)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/02/15

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

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1:19:10

Impulse (1974)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/02/08

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.

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1:17:35

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/02/01

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.

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1:21:25

The Substance (2024)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/01/25

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.

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1:27:14

Terrifier 2 (2022)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2025/01/18

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.

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