Saturday Night Freak Show

We're spending January 2020 watching movies you voted for, kicking off the celebration with #4: Jaws: The Revenge (1987). Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) discovers this time it's personal as a Great White shark sets out to kill every member of her family, presumably in retaliation for its brethren destroyed in the first set of movies, and even follows her from Long Island to the Bahamas to get even. Listen as we talk grandma's romance-filled tropical vacation, obviously mechanical sharks, improbable endings and voodoo, on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's that time of year again, as we gather 'round the bar to make our picks of the Best and Worst Movies we saw in 2019! Will your favorite make the cut? As always, thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy it!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly burns rubber with John Carpenter's Christine (1983), based on Stephen King's novel. High school nerd Arnie becomes obsessed with restoring an old '58 Plymouth Fury, and gradually, as Christine comes back to life, Arnie gains a new self confidence. But who is killing off the high school bullies who tormented him? Listen as we discuss creepy car salesmen, teenage rebellion, automotive snuff films, and demon cars from hell in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean finds out that what goes on in the baby's room isn't for kids in The Baby (1973)! A new social worker forms and unhealthy obsession with her latest client, a grown man with the maturity of a baby, who's kept in a giant playpen my his peculiar mother and sisters. Listen as we collectively cringe at all the diaper changing, breast feeding, cattle prod-wielding weirdness on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin proclaims that "Satan was an acid head" and proceeds to freak out with I Drink Your Blood (1970), a notorious gorefest in which a vengeful tot poisons meat pies with rabies and feeds them to a group of satanic hippies, who then go on a blood-soaked rampage. Listen as amplified lip-smacking sends Sean and Michaela into a paroxysm of disgust, while we learn about Walt Disney's sex education cartoons and the glory days of exploitation cinema on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela thinks dressing up as Santa Claus might prove hazardous to her health in Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984), in which a psycho slasher prowls the streets of London, killing Father Christmas wherever he finds him! Two lovebirds and a Scotland Yard detective try to run down the Santa killer before he slays again. Listen as we mine the shallow subgenre of British slasher movies, Kensington gore, the castration of Santa Claus and more, all on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly winds up a reanimated ghoul after aliens enact Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959). Infamously described as "the worst movie ever made", director Ed Wood's sci-fi opus brings aliens to Earth to bring the dead back to life in an effort to conquer the planet. Listen as we expound on the career of Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi's posthumous guest starring role, and generally get a bunch of trivia wrong in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean mounts the head of Sylvester Stallone atop the Saturday Night Freak Show Wall of Fame with Eye See You (2002), the closest the Italian Stallion will ever get to being in a horror movie (outside of Cobra). Stallone is a despondent FBI agent who gets shipped off to a cavernous detox center in the wintry wilds of Wyoming and discovers one of the patients there is a killer. But which one? Listen as we talk cigarette censorship, Stallone's killer mitts, and how a flamethrower makes everything better, in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin emphatically declares "It's not cranberry sauce!" while surveying the crimson carnage of the holiday slasher Blood Rage (1987). Terry and Todd are identical twins. One of them is a psychopathic killer. After escaping from a mental hospital on Thanksgiving, he of them heads back home to bring a nightmare to the tenants of the Shadow Woods apartment complex. Listen as we talk about condom salesmen, Oedipal complexes, pumpkin pie mutilation, and bloody mayhem on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela finds she can't uninstall the grim reaper in the smartphone horror flick Countdown (2019). A young nurse finds herself stalked by death after downloading a killer app which ticks off the minutes until her predicted death, and must enlist the help of a sardonic wireless salesman and a rap-loving priest to save herself. Listen as we talk technological terrors, #MeToo in the workplace, and user agreements from Hell, on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly finds that all the boys, the girls, and the demons are obsessed with possessing Jennifer's Body (2009). Sex symbol Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried star in a tale of two childhood BFFs whose friendship begins to fracture when one of them becomes possessed by a demon and starts eating people. Listen as we discuss satanic rock bands, female power fantasies, the career longevity of Adam Brody, and the made-up slang of writer Diablo Cody, all on this week's exciting episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean gets us to watch his preferred version of Halloween II (1981, aka "the censored, alternate universe TV cut"). Listen as we reminisce about watching R-rated movies get sterilized for television, marvel at the editorial free-reign afforded Universal's broadcast wing in the 1980's, and bash Halloween (2018) again, all on this week's supernerd episode. WARNING: Intimate knowledge of every editorial decision made for the theatrical version of Halloween II may be required for full enjoyment of this podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin runs for his life from a hideously deformed carny after witnessing the strange goings-on inside The Funhouse (1981). Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper's first studio feature follows a quartet of teens into a traveling carnival which may be hiding a monster within. Listen as we talk about county fairs, turkey legs, freak tents, fortune tellers and monkeys-riding dogs, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela finds herself on the receiving end of head-drilling, brain-sucking silver spheres of death with Phantasm (1979)! Brothers Mike and Jody, along with hippie ice-cream man Reggie, investigate creepy goings-on at the local mortuary and run afoul of the sinister Tall Man. Listen as we chat about nightmares, drive-ins, impromptu jam sessions, and worship at the altar of the '71 Hemi 'Cuda, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly offers the Internet Radio Superstars $1 million a piece to spend the night in the House on Haunted Hill (1999). Five strangers find themselves trapped in a former art deco insane asylum along with ghosts, creeps, ghouls and a rich married couple (Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen) who amuse themselves by plotting to kill each other. Listen as we remember horror's PT Barnum, William Castle; late 90's haunted house movies; and try to get a sponsorship from Cameo.com; all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean takes a whack at the Big Apple with Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989). Getting tired of chopping up teens at a woodsy summer camp, Jason hops aboard a cruise ship bound for NYC where he finds himself welcomed by a city in which he fits right in. Listen as we rank all the Friday the 13th movies, pay tribute to Kane Hodder's contribution to the series, and marvel at improbable teleportation and ghostly visions in this week's exciting episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We go on a return Freak Show Field Trip to the clown-haunted sewers of Derry, Maine for a final confrontation with It: Chapter Two (2019). Twenty-seven years have past since 7 kids thought they beat a child-eating monster that lives beneath their hometown; now, they're summoned back once it's discovered to have survived. Listen as we talk about killer clowns from outer space, changes between Stephen King's novel and the screen adaptations, and all sorts of other It-related nonsense on this week's exciting episode!Get caught up by listening to our It (2017) review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin lives through the holy terror of communion with a freaky Catholic slasher with Alice, Sweet Alice (1976). Little Brooke Shields, in her first film role, is murdered in church and suspicion falls on her troubled sister, Alice. Is she the masked killer in the yellow rain slicker? Listen as we talk about religious fanaticism, pedophile landlords, schizoid tweens, and soap opera dynamics on this week's exciting show!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly finds that fraternity hazing rituals aren't complete without a deranged murderer on the loose on Hell Night (1981). A quartet of pledges locked up in a spooky old mansion who discover that tales of a psychotic killer loose in the house may be true. Listen as we fathom the post-Exorcist sex appeal of Linda Blair, the bizarre bedroom rituals of college surfers, face grabbing as a power move, and more strange behavior on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela swears off going on vacation after watching Vacancy (2007). Quarreling marital duo Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsdale, en route to getting a divorce, stop off at an out-of-the-way motel and end up tormented by three masked men who are intent on adding them to their snuff film enterprise. Listen as we talk about the zeitgeist of horror films in the 2000's, motel-set horror movies, and tips to surviving the worst night of your life on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.