Saturday Night Freak Show

This week Travis pulls the strings of cult favorite Puppetmaster (1989), the first in a series of low budget horror films about a group of living dolls, brought to life by an ancient Egyptian spell, who are used by a psychic to kill his former colleagues. Listen as we talk the rise and fall of Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment, the lost experience of surfing cover art at video stores, and our favorite killer doll movies on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we fly to Neverland with Peter Pan in Jenny's pick of Hook (1991), Steven Spielberg's sequel-of-sorts, which finds a middle-aged Peter (Robin Williams) being forced to re-discover his magical potential when his children are kidnapped by Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Gather 'round, children, as we try to untangle what happened to Neverland in this week's exciting roundtable throwdown! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin exposes us to the gorefest delights of Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979 - also known as Zombi 2 and Zombie Flesh Eaters), which sees eyeball-poking, shark wrestling ghouls resurrected by voodoo on a Caribbean island. Listen as we dive head first into the living dead - finally - on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, O.G. Tom returns to the Freak Show to behold the giant mech battle movie, Robot Jox (1989). In a post apocalyptic world, wars are fought in a gladiatorial arena by giant robots driven by each faction's best pilot. Who will win out? Good Achilles or evil Alexander? Join us as we analyze director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's movie and talk all things battle mech, including unavoidable comparisons to Pacific Rim, Mech Warrior, BattleTech and more on this week's exciting sci-fi episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Jenny enters the so-bad-it's-good sweepstakes with her pick of the Nicholas Cage-starrer, Con Air (1997). Loveable criminal cage is put on a high-security plane with a bunch of hardened criminals, rapists and serial killers, (including John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, and Ving Rhames) and wouldn't you know it - they hijack the plane with him on board! What's an unfairly incarcerated guy to do? Play Die Hard on a Plane, that's what! Meanwhile, befuddled Federal agent John Cusack loses his mind on the ground. Listen to find out what the Internet Radio Superstars thought of Con Air on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin subjects us to the camp sci-fi classic Starcrash (1978), an Italian Star Wars rip-off that finds the buxom Stella Star (Captain Kronos' beauty Caroline Munro), along with a menagerie of robots and aliens, setting out to thwart the galaxy conquering plans of the evil Count Zarth-Arn (Joe Spinell). And, oh yeah, Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff co-star. Join us for a lively discussion of one of cinemas greatest guilty pleasures on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Travis indulges his love for monster movies with his pick of The Fly II (1989), a follow-up to David Cronenberg's 1986 re-vamp of the classic '50's chiller. Picking up where the previous film left off, The Fly II finds Eric Stoltz as the offspring of Jeff Goldblum's doomed scientist, in the custody of a sinister corporation who is waiting for his latent creature genes to manifest themselves. Daphne Zungia (Spaceballs) is his hapless love interest. Tune in as we analyze vomi-drop, rubber monsters, makeup men-turned-directors, and more in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we discover it was Jenny who did it, in the basement, with the movie Clue (1985), a slapstick adaptation of the classic board game. It's a dark and stormy night as Tim Curry, as a hapless butler, who assists a colorful cast of characters (including Christopher Lloyd, Leslie Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, and more) as they try to determine who killed the blackmailer, Mr. Boddy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we sell our souls for rock n' roll with Colin's pick of Brian de Palma's horror/comedy/musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974). When an up and coming songwriter is disfigured and his music is stolen by a shady record producer (70's songwriting impresario Paul Williams), he dons a cloak and mask and haunts the producer's trendy venue, The Paradise, in order to secure the talents of talented ingenue Phoenix (Suspiria's Jessica Harper) in this mix of Phantom of the Opera, Faust, and the Picture of Dorian Gray. Tune in to this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Brent tries to determine if Groundhog Day (1993) can be classified as a time-travel movie. Self-centered weatherman Bill Murray gets stuck in Punxsutawney, PA in more ways than one, finding himself reliving the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over again. Is it cosmic punishment for the misdeeds of his life? Or is some other force at work? Listen as we try to figure it out on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Jenny takes us to the the nightmare fantasy world of Return to Oz (1985), a supposed sequel to the much beloved classic film that, in the hands of the maniacs at Disney, becomes a full-fledged freak show. Dorothy gets committed to a mental institution and finds her way back to a ruined Oz, which is now under the command of a shrieking, head swapping witch and an amorphous Gnome King. Join us as we try to unravel just who thought this was a good idea for children's entertainment on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Colin ventures into H.P. Lovecraft territory with a 30th anniversary review of Re-Animator (1985). Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a medical student who conducts bizarre experiments on dead tissue, which eventually draws both his roomate (Bruce Abbott) and his roomate's girlfriend (Barbara Crampton) into some of the most gonzo moments in ever seen in horror cinema. Listen as we talk about the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, film adaptations of his work, the career of director Stuart Gordon and more, on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Brent steps into the ring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the time-travel epic Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)! Come with us if you want to live, as we evaluate one of sci-fi's enduring action movie franchises, and attempt to wrap our heads around James Cameron's twisted timeline in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The pesky electronic gremlins have struck again and have devoured our intended review of The Babadook, so this week the power of Christ compels us to watch William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (1990). Screen titan George C. Scott battles Satan in this pseudo-sequel to the 1973 original, this time dealing with body-snatching Brad Dourif and homicidal old folks as well as Old Scratch himself. Tune in as we discover what heaven would be like with a big band orchestra and Patrick Ewing as the Angel of Death on this week's short but sweet episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin takes us to the Forbidden Planet (1956) where we encounter Robby the Robot, the voluptuous Anne Francis, monsters from the Id, and a very young Leslie Nielsen, who stars as the commander of a starship sent to investigate why Earth has lost contact with a distant colony. Listen as we explore one of sci-fi's most borrowed from classics on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 2015 Year of Time Travel Movies continues with Brent's selection of Twelve Monkeys (1995), which sees Bruce Willis sent from a post-apocalyptic future back to the modern day to find a pathogen, responsible for wiping out the human race, in its pure form. Along the way he encounters a sympathetic psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) and a charismatic schizophrenic (Brad Pitt) in Terry Gilliam's trippy tale. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we evaluate Jenny's selection of 1998's The Big Lebowski by subjecting ourselves to a barrage of trivia questions about the Dude (Jeff Bridges), Walter (John Goodman), Maude (Julliane Moore) and the other assorted odball characters of Joel and Ethan Cohen's slacker ode to film-noir detective mysteries. So get the White Russian mix handy and play along with our Big Lebowski drinking game on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we take a trip back through 80's nostalgia via Colin's pick of Kung Fury (2015), a Kickstarter-funded short film that sees a Miami cop become a martial arts master, thanks to a simultaneous cobra bite and lightning strike, who travels back in time to defeat Adolph Hitler. Listen as we talk about crowdfunded Internet short films, the logistics of using a Nintendo Power Glove as a time machine, laser raptors, machine gun wielding barbarians, and learn not to hassle the Hoff on this week's exciting (and short) show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent continues the 2015: Year of Time Travel series with the 2010 comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine. John Cusack leads a cadre of his pals back to 1986 via a magical hot tub, where they are afforded the opportunity to right the wrongs of their youth. Shenanigans ensue. Listen as we talk 80's nostalgia, movies that aren't really movies, and generally clown around on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis plumbs the dark recesses behind superhero fantasies with James Gunn's Super (2010). Rainn Wilson stars as a short order cook who becomes a costumed crimefighter in order to rescue his wife (Liv Tyler) from a smarmy drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). Listen as we deconstruct the modern superhero myth on this week's exciting podcast! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.