Saturday Night Freak Show

Michaela plunges sight-unseen into the addictive virtual reality terrors of Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), which finds genre vet Lance Henriksen luring a group of teens, including a young Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, to a party based on their favorite video game: Hellraiser. Is that meta enough for you? Listen as we express shock and dismay at the lack of video game representation in a movie that promises just that, as we set our expectations low for the 8th direct-to-video entry in the famous horror saga. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly takes a peek inside the phantasmagoric fantasy landscape of a serial killer's mind in The Cell (2000), which finds psychologist Jennifer Lopez tunneling into the dreamworld of comatose psycho Vincent D'Onofrio to find his latest victim before it's too late. Listen as we discover strange body modification rituals, discover 'dead' bodies in the woods, and learn about a dentist who's the world's biggest Dennis Quaid fan on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean learns "If you can't find a friend, make one" with May (2002), about an awkward young woman and her pursuit of love. Except, after a series of painful rejections, she becomes more in love with a person's body parts than the whole. Listen as we detail cringe-worthy human dating rituals, doll dismemberment, and find the proper way to unwrap a gift on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin gets to know life by becoming a gallblader enthusiast in Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, 1973), which finds a fascist Dr. Frankenstein seeking to create a superior race of humanoids but things go wrong when he chooses the wrong subject for his experiments. Listen as we get gross with weird sex and splattery gore as body parts are flung out of the screen in three dimensions on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela hunts down a future version of herself with Looper (2012), a lo-fi sci-fi epic that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Bruce Willis and Bruce Willis as himself. When he fails to assassinate himself, JGL is a man-on-the run, trying to track down his future variant, whose on a mission to stop a future personal apocalypse. Listen as we get all timey-wimey with time travel, time loops, time pieces, and timelines on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly encounters a trophy hunter from another planet in Without Warning (1980), a pre-Predator sci-fi/horror yarn about a small town visited by a murderous, bulb-headed, frisbee-throwing alien monster. Jack Palance is a gas station attendant and Martin Landau a crazy Vietnam vet who each find themselves pitted against the creature. Listen as we take cover from toothy flesh frisbees, play hide-and-seek with an alien beast, and get plenty of advance warning on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For cult movie aficionados who think they've seen it all, Sean says there's always New York Ninja (2021), a movie filmed in 1984 but never finished until it was reconstructed in 2021. After his wife is killed, a martial arts master becomes a ninja superhero to clean up the mean streets of NYC, but finds an arch-nemesis in the human trafficking and highly radioactive Plutonium Killer. Listen as we watch Bad Lip Reading: The Movie, discover the film's bizarre path to the screen, and extol the virtues of Ninja Magazine once again on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin books passage alongside genre heavyweights to fight a thawed-out, fossilized ape-man run amok aboard the Horror Express (1972). This non-Hammer Films team up of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing careens from mystery, to horror, to sci-fi before throwing Tele Savalas, as a ruthless Russian officer, into the mix. Listen as experience panic on the Transiberian Express, uncover the Missing Link, and mourn the loss of fancy dining aboard a speeding train on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela figures the best place to take her friends sunbathing is outside the Doom Asylum (1996), an abandoned hospital stalked by an alimony lawyer-turned-monster who slices and dices his way to the Frankenhooker herself, Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen. Listen as we propose a summer of David Hasselhoff movies, recoil from the vocal stylings of a "screamo" punk band, receive a Wade Boggs history lesson, and determine what constitutes "dead" or "mostly dead" on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly takes a job hauling square pigs across the galaxy in Space Truckers (1996), director Stuart Gordon's colorful sci-fi flick with Dennis Hopper as a truck driver who gets in over his head with space pirates and a cargo full of killer robots. Listen as we sing the praises of Debi Mazar in Beethoven's 2nd, think Charles Dance is having the time of his life as a cyborg pirate captain, and proclaim George Wendt a "certified genius" on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean buys us a Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987), and we strap in with a bevy of beautiful babes chucking bullets and bombs in every direction to stop drug smugglers in paradise. And, there's a giant "contaminated" killer snake on the loose! Listen as we sing the praises of low-budget action auteur Andy Sidaris and the theme song, play with razor blade frisbees, and shoot sex dolls out of the sky with rocket launchers on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We wrap up Listener's Choice month by completing a Frank Henenlotter trifecta with Brain Damage (1988), a movie about a New Yorker and his strange relationship with a parasite who lives on his back and injects him with psychedelic happy juice in exchange for consuming human brains! Listen as we smell colors, taste sounds, experience the DTs and sing Cole Porter tunes on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Number Two on our Listener's Choice Month requests is Color Out of Space (2019), Hardware director Richard Stanley's return to the horror genre, adapting an H.P. Lovecraft story and starring Nicholas Cage! After a meteorite falls to earth, an alpaca farmer and his family begin to experience strange, psychedelic alien phenomena. Listen as we experience Cage Rage, space madness, alpaca blobs, and search for the Holy Grail on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The third most voted for title of Listener's Choice month is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987), which finds a group of grad students trying to stop the rebirth of the Anti-God from a tube of swirling green goop, which has been hidden in the basement of a Los Angeles church. Listen as we ruminate on the coming cosmic apocalypse, track the concept back to the British Quatermass movies, and admire some sweet mullets on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Coming in at No. 4 on this year's Listener Choice month is Phantasm II (1988), a studio backed, big(er) budget sequel to one of the oddest horror movies ever made, featuring the return of the sinister undertaker from another dimension, The Tall Man, and his army of silver spheres. Listen as we talk baldheaded rodeo sex, Hemi 'Cudas and cult movie cars, the Brad Pitt movie that never was, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We sum up the best and worst movies and television we saw in 2021 with our annual Best and Worst episode. Listen as we go around the table and attempt to distill a year in film down to our choices for the 5 best movies and the 1 we think was the worst. Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin belts out "everybody's got something to do, everybody but you!" after boarding the Night Train to Terror (1985), a horror anthology made up of parts cannibalized from three other feature films, framed by a train ride taken by God and the Devil as they argue over souls. Listen as our brains explode from slo-mo breakdancing, Claymation devil monsters, Tazmanian Winged Beetles, Nazi nightmares and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela seeks revenge by subjecting Sean to The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), a made-for-TV variety show so embarrassing that George Lucas sought to banish it from the planet. Han Solo has to get Chewbacca home in time for Life Day, but the Empire gets there first. Listen as we talk virtual reality Wookie erotica, psychedelic holograms, Star Wars cooking shows, and further abominations on this weeks exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly boards a New Year's Eve party Terror Train (1980) and finds out there's a killer on board! One of the 5 horror movies that Jamie Lee Curtis made following the success of Halloween that cemented her as the genre's preeminent Scream Queen finds her and a graduating college class stalked by a slasher killer onboard a locomotive. Listen as we talk about the sinister magnetism of David Copperfield, find the limit of our knowledge of New Years masquerade customs, and hazing rituals gone awry, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean uncovers a secret Society (1989) of body transmogrifying deviants hiding out among the wealthy elite of Beverly Hills, conducting strange elastic flesh orgies and consuming the bodies of unsuspecting mortals! Will he join in annual Shunt or won't he? Listen as we applaud the makeup fx of the legendary Screaming Mad George, gobble up leftover shunt shavings, pull people inside out and turn into literal buttheads, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.