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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

All Episodes

1:21:16

Body Parts (1991)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/09/28

Sean goes on a limb-from-limb ripping rampage to get back the Body Parts (1991) that were stolen from him in an unethical medical experiment! Jeff Fahey is the unlucky recipient of one appendage after losing an arm in a horrifying car wreck; he soon begins experiencing the dreams and nightmares of a serial killer. Listen as try to determine the physical location of evil, talk about haunted arms, and survive and improbable car chases on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See

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1:26:01

Salem's Lot (1979)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/09/21

Colin returns from the dead to tap at your window, begging to be let in with Salem's Lot (1979), Tobe Hooper's classic adaptation of Stephen King's small-town vampire story as a writer who returns home and finds the arrival of two mysterious antique dealers presaging a bloodsucker apocalypse. Listen as we talk picket fence drama, childhood traumas, and a love for practical fog on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:23:17

Bats (1999)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/09/14

Sean goes batty for Bats (1999), a late 90s eco-horror flick that turns a cloud of genetically engineered killer bats loose on an unsuspecting town, and it's up to sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and bat scientist Dina Meyer to stop them. Listen as we fawn over puppet bats, discuss the best potato bats in cinema history, and react in horror as we find ourselves up to our chests in bat guano on this week's exciting episodes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:23:20

Eyes of Fire (1983)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/09/07

Holly uses fairy magic to battle an evil bog witch in Eyes of Fire (1983), in which American settlers follow an adulterous preacher away from civilization and into a haunted woodland where they are bedeviled by evil spirits. Listen as we learn about dirt you can eat, get chased by naked mud covered ghosts, get our souls sucked into trees and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:19:08

Sssssss (1973)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/08/31

Sean conducts unethical medical experiments and tries to turn Holly into a snake with Sssssss (1973), in which crazy herpetologist Strother Martin tries to do just that to his unwitting lab assistant. Freak Show wall-of-famer Reb Brown co-stars as a football meathead who ends up confronting a Black Mamba in the shower. Listen as we relate tales of our real-life snake encounters and imagine better solutions to a global energy crisis than turning people into King Cobras on this week's exciting

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1:19:12

The Crow: City of Angels (1996)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/08/24

Colin opens the atrocity exhibition that is The Crow: City of Angels (1996), a cynical cash grab that followed the original monument to Goth/Industrial subculture. This time, a mechanic is resurrected to get revenge on the goons who killed him and his son. Listen as we talk about the lost art of "crowfitti," detail uncomfortable moments in a peep show booth, and light our initials on fire in the street on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:27:16

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/08/17

Michaela claims she cried three times witnessing Godzilla Minus One (2023), Japan's latest but Oscar-winning entry in the 70 year old monster series. It's really about a cowardly kamikaze pilot who finds a reason to complete his mission after the Big G threatens those he loves. Listen as we contemplate Godzilla's cat-like appearance, question black-and-white re-releases, and contemplate erectile dysfunction for giant lizards on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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1:17:59

Best of the Best (1989)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/08/10

Holly wants to see if she's got what it takes to be Best of the Best (1989), by representing Team USA in a Korean martial arts tournament. James Earl Jones is the coach, and the team of karate superdudes consists of Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn. Send prayers! Listen as we explore the dubious methods of winning gold in the high-stakes world of Tae Kwon Do championships on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:23:51

Old (2021)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/08/03

Sean takes us to the beach so we can grow Old (2021) together, since vacationers who visits said beach never leave. Instead, they age rapidly, children grow to adulthood, psychological and biological medical conditions bloom, and Abbey Lee wears a swimsuit. Listen as we put Benjamin Button on the island, overexplain the plot until we're blue in the face, and consider M. Night Shyamalan a Secret Genius in this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:22:13

Wicked, Wicked (1973)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/07/27

Colin sees psycho killers in double double after watching Wicked, Wicked (1973), the world's first movie presented in Duo-Vision (that's "split screen" to you). A murderer is preying upon statuesque blondes at a seaside resort and it's up to the hotel detective to stop him before he targets the hotel's new lounge singer. Listen as we split our attention between two screens, find people living in the walls, learn of Michaela's distrust of blondes, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on

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1:38:41

Maxxxine (2024)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/07/20

Michaela won't let anything stop her from being a Hollywood star, following in the footsteps of Ti West's antihero, Maxxxine (2024). Porn star Maxxine Minx tries to go legit with a role in a low-budget horror film but events from her past and the Night Stalker's murder spree threaten to derail her career. Listen as we talk scrotum skewering, cocaine geese, neon slime, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:30:21

Blow Up (1966)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/07/13

Holly's not sure if she she may have photographed a murder with Blow Up (1966), a movie set in "mod," Swinging London, about an easily distracted photographer trying to find something to stimulate him out of his boredom. Listen as we give legit film criticism the old college try as we surround ourselves with a gaggle of "far out" and "groovy" models and work to figure out if a murder was committed and why, or if it matters at all, on week's arthouse edition of our show! Hosted on Acast. See

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1:25:47

Tango & Cash (1989)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/07/06

Sean celebrates our 600th episode with a rewatch of Tango & Cash (1989), the adult action cartoon that partners Sylvester Stallone with Kurt Russell's hair, about two wrongly accused rivals who have to take down the syndicate that set them up. Listen as we break out our measuring sticks in the prison shower, send rats through a desktop maze, and visit the Q branch of the LA police department on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:27:27

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/06/29

Colin thinks just by wearing a hockey mask he can call himself Jason, since it was so easy for a guy named Roy to do it in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985). Listen as we yell "He hurt me, ma!" while riding our motorcycles in circles, serenading each other with renditions of "Ooh Baby" and cursing "those damn enchiladas" as we trot to the outhouse on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:26:49

Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/06/22

Michaela cuts the cake while surrounded by corpses of her friends, and finds herself singing Happy Birthday to Me (1981)! Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Sue Anderson is a prep school student plagued by repressed memories and blackouts as members of her rich-kid clique are murdered by a black gloved killer. Listen as our brains explode from over-processing a overly complicated plot on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:24:55

Backdraft (1991)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/06/15

Holly becomes a fire whisperer with Backdraft (1991), Hollywood's ode to firefighters, with Highlander/The Prophecy scribe Gregory Widen pitting two adversarial Irish brothers against each other and a serial arsonist who's been terrorizing Chicago. Listen as we turn to a Hannibal Lecter stand-in to gain psychological insight on the anthropomorphic monster on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:26:48

In A Violent Nature(2024)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/06/08

This week, we took a Freak Show Field Trip to see In A Violent Nature (2024), a indie Friday the 13th-style slasher shot almost entirely from a 3rd person perspective of it's Jason-like monster. Listen as we go stomping through the woods turning campers into curly-Qs in an effort to determine if the movie is having a go at us as a deadpan comedy sendup of F13 flicks on this weeks' exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:23:08

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/06/01

God created Sean, but science turned him into a god after getting programmed by The Lawnmower Man (1992), the best remembered 90s cautionary tale about the horrors of virtual reality. Simple-minded Jobe becomes a tyrannical terror after he's given VR brain chemistry enhancements by unscrupulous scientist Pierce Brosnan. Listen as we discuss how well VR is going in the present day, trip out to the most rudimentary computer animation ever rendered, and side with Stephen King on this week's exciting

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1:19:34

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/05/25

Colin kneels at the throne of Stirba, the werewolf queen of Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985), following Freak Show man of action, Reb Brown, into battle alongside werewolf hunter Christopher Lee into deepest, darkest Transylvania to infiltrate an orgy of punk lycanthropes. Listen as we discuss full moon sex rituals, monkey wolves, and threaten to hang the editor on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:27:18

X-Men (2000)

Saturday Night Freak Show ·

2024/05/18

Michaela wishes to explode over the local ruffians as a gelatinous mutant after watching X-Men (2000), the movie often credited with kick-starting the Marvel movie takeover. Listen as we reminisce about a simpler time when wire-stunts and small scale disasters were the order of the day, have nightmare flashbacks of cramming for the high school exam, and go out as swamp goblins on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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