Saturday Night Freak Show

Michaela trashes an all-girls' school with her psychic powers in Aenigma (1987), a late career entry from Lucio ("Zombie") Fulci that features a comatose student getting revenge on her jerk-o classmates via astral projection and Renaissance art. Listen as we discuss frozen-in-place horror, death by a billion snails, Fulci vs. Argento rivalry, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly splits into multiple personalities while Raising Cain (1992), director Brian De Palma's return to the thriller genre after several bruising failures, reuniting with John Lithgow, who stars as a child psychologist with a more than a couple deadly family secrets. Listen as we dread fear from sharp sundials, infidelity, smoking around children, and satirical psychobabble on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take a return trip to hell with Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), the most requested movie of Listener Choice month, following first film survivor Kirsty as she rushes headfirst into the evil labyrinth in search of her dearly departed dad. Little does she know her wicked stepmother has been resurrected by an occultist brain surgeon. Listen as we witness sights of on screen splatter and find out if our suffering becomes legendary, even in hell! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your listener picks month payoff hits the #2 most requested flick When Evil Lurks (2023), in which an Argentine apocalypse finds brothers botching a demon dump and spreading "rotten" rot that ravages rules, livestock, and loved ones with unflinching brutality and zero mercy. Listen as we try to understand the rules of demonic possession, animal child eating, and popcorn brain munching on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood (1971), often credited as a crucial pathway to the American slasher movie, begins as a wealthy countess is murdered and it isn't long before bodies begin to pile up at an abandoned bayside resort. Listen as we try to unravel a complicated plot, have octopi nightmares, worship the gore effect by Carlo Rambaldi, and lose our minds at one of the most out-of-left-field endings in cinema history on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddy Krueger gets the John Waters treatment just in time for his cinematic comeuppance in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay brings an offbeat, surrealist take to the origin story of the screen's most famous dream demon. Listen as we find ourselves playing with power ups, Q-tip nightmares, and go out in a big 3-D finale on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen as we get all misty eyed as we look back over the Best & Worst of 2025 on our epic year end recommendations, combing over the highest highs and the lowest lows of a year of cinematic (and in the case of Sean, televised) entertainment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean unleashes Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) inside a New York skyscraper and fills the corporate corridors with braniacs and bat winged beasts in Joe Dante's deliriously deranged sequel. Listen as we multiply the madness over mutant designs, meta musical numbers, and sequel superiority debates on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin clowns around in crimson with Terrifier 3 (2024), the highest grossing unrated film ever made, featuring Art the Clown making a Christmas comeback to hack through the holiday with record-breaking brutality in director Damien Leone's gore-soaked opus. Listen as we discuss lore upgrades, state-of-the-art practical splatter, and whether we really are too old for this on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela finds herself trapped with a psycho inside a subterranean parking garage on Christmas Eve with P2 (2007), from the French Extreme folks who made High Tension. An NYC career girl plays cat and mouse with a sinister security guard in a multi-level maze of malice. Listen as we rev through relentless chases, gory garage gadgets, and Wes Bentley's basement-level creep factor on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly initiates a Christmastime countdown curse by unwrapping The Advent Calendar (2021), in which an antique box of 24 doors promises holiday miracles for a wheelchair bound dancer. Open at your own peril as we talk folklore frights, festive fallout, wish wrecking wraiths and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At long last, Sean follows the clues that lead to Dario Argento's maiden effort, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), the film that single-handedly kicked off a cottage industry of stylish giallo thrillers in Italy. An American writer witnesses a brutal attack, and then tries to solve the case while the killer zeroes in on him. Listen as we talk cat dinner delicacies, what happens when artwork attacks, and captive audiences to murder on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin finds himself standing alone in defense of Outland (1981), a sci-fi riff on High Noon that stars Sean Connery as a marshal at a mining outpost on one of Jupiter's moons, fighting drugs and corruption on sets that feel borrowed from Alien. Listen as we talk space madness, exploding heads, slow children, and autoerotic asphyxiation on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela plays favorites with The Good Son (1993), where a bereaved boy (Elijah Wood) crashes at his relative's snowy retreat, only to clash with golden-child Henry (Macaulay Culkin), a psychopath in the making. Listen as we dissect sibling sabotage, creepy kid classics, and discover that we need to talk about Kevin McCallister, all on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly does the Shimmy Slide with lawyer-actor-singer-director hyphenate John De Wirt's magnum opus, Champagne and Bullets (1993, aka Road to Revenge aka GetEven). De Hart recruits unhinged veterans Wings Hauser and William Smith along with Playboy Playmate Pamela Bryant for a tale of two LAPD cops-turned-limo drivers who tangle with a crooked cop/devil worshipper. Listen as we collectively loose our minds while witnessing multiple slow motion sex scenes set to De Wirt's drawling vocals, infanticide, stage hand prop maneuvers, and more on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean sequesters us for a seaside therapy session with I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), a dreaded 'requel' to the 1997 original which finds the small hamlet of Southport once again terrorized by hook-handed havoc, with o.g. stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr reeled in for another go-round. Listen as we carve through questionable moral quandaries, dangling plot threads, and try not to lose the plot on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin summons a demonic doozy for Halloween, Amityville II: The Possession (1982), a prequel that amps up the original's haunted house chills into a full-on incest-fueled exorcism frenzy. Listen as we exorcise family feuds, practical FX monsters, and why it's the prequel punch the series needed, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela boots up Stay Alive (2006), cursing a crew of console commandoes with a haunted unreleased beta, a video game that operates on the edict of "If you die in the game, you die for real." Listen as we mash buttons on glitchy ghosts, the tortured history of Elizabeth Bathory, and give last rights at the LAN party on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly sells her soul for our 666th episode, investigating Angel Heart (1987), as a rumpled NYC P.I. hunts a missing singer, only to tangle with shadowy clients, ritualistic riddles, and identity crises that cut deeper than a switchblade. Listen as we eat Deviled eggs, attend voodoo rituals, and discover chicken paranoia on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean hooks us into Dangerous Animals (2025), where a surfer's Australian dream wave crashes into a serial killer's boat party, with sharks as invited guests. Listen as we dissect chum-filled chases, human predators worse than Jaws, and find the role Jai Courtney was born to play. Reel in the chaos on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.