Saturday Night Freak Show
Film & TV News
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!
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Location:
Rockford, IL
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@satfreakshow
Language:
English
Episodes
Sunshine (2007)
3/16/2024
Holly stares into the sun at close range and gets space madness in Sunshine (2007), Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's follow up to 28 Days Later and The Beach, which fires a crew of scientists toward the dying sun in hopes of rekindling it with a nuclear device. Listen as we find dozens of new space travel related anxieties, reduce humans to dust, worship the almighty sun god and more on this week's exciting episode!
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Duration:01:21:25
Scanners (1981)
3/9/2024
Sean's head explodes fighting the good fight against the evil telepaths of Scanners (1981), David Cronenberg's first real hit about a mind reader sent on a covert mission to infiltrate a group of other ESPers and kill their leader. Listen as we link our nervous systems, polish our holes, eat Hot Pogo Dogs, apologize for our "O" faces, and more on this week's exciting episode!
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Duration:01:22:28
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
3/2/2024
Colin studies up on the occult to do battle with the Goat of Mendes in The Devil Rides Out (1968), in which Christopher Lee and friends discover Satanism is being practiced by a wealthy cabal of astronomy geeks and their best pal is in danger of losing his soul! Listen as we attend summonings, conjurings, woodland revels, step into protective circles and ward off the Angel of Death himself on this week's exciting episode.
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Duration:01:18:51
Splice (2009)
2/24/2024
Michaela warns that if you create a sexy feminine creature in your lab you should not have sex with it with Splice (2009), a movie that stars Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley as scientists in Cronenbergland who do exactly that. Listen as we talk about tongue flowers, sex in the proximity of children, mommy issues, and science run amok on this week's exciting episode!
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Duration:01:23:46
Strike Commando (1987)
2/17/2024
Holly chucks grenades and ten-thousand bullets at Reb Brown but nothing can touch him cuz he's a Strike Commando (1987), a Rambo clone from the Italian Ed Wood, Bruno Mattei. Former TV Captain America Brown sets out to avenge his teammates on the corrupt general who abandoned them. Listen as we talk childhood electrocution, violent innocence, and the magic of Disneyland on this week's exciting episode!
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Duration:01:18:04
My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
2/10/2024
Sean gets his heart broken with a pickaxe with My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009). Ten years after an initial killing spree, a demented miner returns to pick up where he left off. The bloodbath coincides with the return of the town pariah (Supernatural's Jensen Ackles), who's come back to sell the mine and rekindle a romance with his former sweetheart, now the sheriff's wife. Listen as we applaud the return of horror legend Tom Atkins and talk about naked chase scenes, bloody love triangles, and buried psychological trauma on this week's episode!
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Duration:01:25:45
The City of the Dead (1960)
2/3/2024
Colin's got to get to the Witches Sabbath in City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel, 1960), in which an intrepid college student goes to a spooky coastal village where a witch was burned in the 17th Century, and discovers witchcraft may still be afoot in the 20th. Listen as we discuss 60s shapewear, accidental summonings, and possessed digital devices on this week's exciting episode!
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Duration:01:22:07
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
1/27/2024
And the most requested movie of Listener Choice month is: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), in which an alien lifeform threatens to replace humanity by birthing clones from giant seed pods. Listen as we discuss wearing "backhand gloves", how to ruin a hypnotist's charades, and wonder 'if you kill a pod person can they grow another one?', on this week's exciting show!
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Duration:01:18:01
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
1/27/2024
And the most requested movie of Listener Choice month is: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), in which an alien lifeform threatens to replace humanity by birthing clones from giant seed pods. Listen as we discuss wearing "backhand gloves", how to ruin a hypnotist's charades, and wonder 'if you kill a pod person can they grow another one?', on this week's exciting show!
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Duration:01:18:01
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
1/20/2024
You voted for it, so we watched Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991), a Hong Kong adaptation of a Japanese Manga that might be one of the goriest movies ever made. A super-strong man is sent to a maximum security prison and discovers its a cover for a heroin operation, and punches, kicks, pulverizes and dismembers a couple of dozen bad guys. Listen as we marvel as other people's jaws hit the floor, confront The Gang of Four, and pop Red Hots to prevent from hulking out on this week's exciting episode!
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Duration:01:18:48
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
1/13/2024
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!
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Duration:01:29:40
Witchery (1988)
1/6/2024
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!
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Duration:01:18:07
Best and Worst Movies of 2023
12/30/2023
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.
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Duration:03:05:16
30 Days of Night (2007)
12/23/2023
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!
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Duration:01:19:42
Saint (2010)
12/16/2023
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!
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Duration:01:13:36
Deadly Friend (1986)
12/9/2023
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!
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Duration:01:23:52
The Prowler (1981)
12/2/2023
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!
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Duration:01:20:04
Split Second (1992)
11/25/2023
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!
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Duration:01:20:31
Bunraku (2010)
11/18/2023
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!
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Duration:01:25:11
It Follows (2014)
11/11/2023
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!
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Duration:01:19:54