Saturday Night Freak Show

Colin wants to discover The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971), along with a lot of other men — one of whom might be a black gloved razor wielding maniac! Giallo queen Edwige Fenech is the titular socialite, whose extramarital proclivities place her life in jeopardy. Listen as we studiously avoid becoming targets of vengeful screenwriters, enjoy wistful sadomasochistic reminiscences, and encounter the deadly love rhombus once again on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela takes the weed whacker along on her nightmare vacation atop The Ruins (2008), which deposits tourists upon an ancient Mayan temple that holds a deadly secret. Listen as we talk about risky vacation behavior, hot rock leg amputation, creeping vines and internal organs, flesh invasion, carnivorous vegetation, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly plays The Most Dangerous Game and finds Jean-Claude Van Damme very hard to kill in Hard Target (1993), the first American movie by Hong Kong action pioneer John Woo. When a merchant seaman with some very special skills helps a young woman track down her missing father in New Orleans, they become the targets of human safari. Listen as we marvel at snake-punching, motorcycle surfing, double fisted bulletstorm insanity in this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean says time is on his side, and that's why we spent 2 hours and 4 minutes watching Denzel Washington pursue a body-hopping demon in Fallen (1998). Bizarro murders committed after a serial killer is put to death puzzle Philadelphia police, and one dogged detective finds himself the target of the Satanic trickster. Listen as we talk demon entrapment, chomp on turkey legs, and stage impossible murder scenes, on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin continues serving Giallo Shots with What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) a hybrid Italian-German co-production that fuses the German "krimi" (crime) films with the Italian giallo genre they inspired. Girls at a Catholic prep school are murdered by a sadistic sex killer and a gym teacher finds himself a prime suspect after having an affair with one of his students. Listen as we talk about the cinematic legacy of writer Edgar Wallace, what Solange Knowles did in that elevator, Eurosleaze, and try to untangle a labyrinthine plot on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela wants to time warp back to an 80's era mall but finds it's haunted by the Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)! A horribly burned lover survives the fire that nearly killed him and wreaks havoc on the greedy developers who build a mall on the spot of his family home, while trying to woo back his sweetheart. Listen as we talk about assassin snakes, killer workouts, and the cinematic legacy of action dude Gregory Scott Cummings on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly finds that the pen is mightier than the sword in summoning a demonic Cellar Dweller (1987) from the netherworld! Students at a remote 'artist colony' (read: cabin in the woods) fall prey to a hairy creature conjured by a cloistered cartoonist in a film directed by makeup fx man John Carl Buechler. Listen as we pile hate on performance artists, tortured artists, pretentious artists, and art schools in general on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.