Saturday Night Freak Show

Colin stops the movie to guess who the werewolf is in The Beast Must Die (1974), in which a wealthy hunter invites a group of suspects (including Peter Cushing and Michael Gambon) to his estate with the goal of adding a werewolf trophy to his collection. Listen as we talk a little history of England's Amicus Productions, casting German Shepherds as werewolves, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly puts on a ten gallon hat and takes on an amorphous puddle of alien goo in Phantoms (1998), a movie in which Ben Affleck, Rose McGowan and Peter O'Toole confront an ancient menace living beneath a quiet Colorado town. Listen as we talk about bad 90's horror movie posters, Liev Schreiber going off the reservation, talking computers, giant moths and squid men, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela goes yachting with the Russian nesting doll of killer cats with Uninvited (1987), a movie in which the aforementioned killer feline sneaks aboard a slimy rich guy's boat and starts killing the vacationing spring breakers aboard. Listen as we discover a movie - starring Oscar-winner George Kennedy - in which cats come out of the mouths of other cats to feast on the nubile flesh of bikini clad babes in the most relentlessly sexy horror movie of 1987. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean heads back to Texarkana to track down the Phantom Killer who terrorizes The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976). Based on the real-life Moonlight Murders of 1946, a sleepy town finds itself under siege from a hooded killer while local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers set in to solve the crimes. Listen as we talk about independent drive-in moviemaking, prototypical slasher movies, and the use of a trombone as a murder weapon on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin bonds with the T-Virus to fight the Nemesis and tries to take down the Umbrella Corporation with Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), the second installment in the six-film series that loosely adapts the popular video game. This time, heroine Alice must escape the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City before the government nukes it, but a hulking, genetically-engineered bioweapon stands in her way. Listen as we deep dive into the history of one of the most influential video game series in history on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela becomes judge, jury and executioner of Mega-City One with Dredd (2012), the more-comic-accurate rendering of the classic 2000 A.D. character, in which Karl Urban plays the angry chin with a fistful of guns who must fight his way up 1,000 levels of an apartment block controlled by a sadistic drug kingpin called Ma-Ma. Listen as we get facial cramps from trying to frown like Judge Dredd and then proclaim "I am the law!" in many variations on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly puts her killin' days behind her but finds its all she's really good at in the wasteland of Steel Dawn (1987), a forgotten Patrick Swazye vehicle that's a cross between Mad Max and Shane. A retired swordslinger befriends a frontier woman and her son and finds himself pushed back into a life of murderin' when an evil baddie sets his sights on their land. Listen as we discover one of the most hilarious hairdos in cinema history among the walrusmen of the post-apocalyptic futureworld on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean learns that people who live in ornate glass houses shouldn't throw stones at the Thirteen Ghosts (2001) housed within! Twelve of the creatures are trapped inside with Tony Shaloub and family, who must figure out how to stop an infernal machine, which is the clockwork house itself, from opening the dreaded Eye of Hell. Listen as we discuss the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright(!), bisected lawyers, AVID farts, and the surprise participation of James Gunn on this week's exciting episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin upchucks in his Upchuck Cup™ while watching the splatter classic City of the Living Dead (1980) from Italy's Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci. A priest hangs himself in a graveyard, thus opening the Gates of Hell, and only a clarivoyant medium, a dogged journalist, and a small town psychiatrist have any chance of stopping it. Listen as we describe vomit disemboweling, brain scooping, maggot storms, and cranial drilling in lovingly disgusting detail on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela implodes along with Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan with the sci-fi box office dud After Earth (2013). A gruff military dad and his son (Jaden Smith) are marooned on a hostile planet and have only each other to rely on as an extraterrestrial menace - which hunts by sensing their fear - stalks them. Listen as we plot the trajectory of Shyamalan's fall from grace, expose the subtext of Scientology, and bathe in the sin of cinematic nepotism, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly goes on an adventure safari with an amorous, talking gorilla in Congo (1995). Based on the Michael Crichton novel, the movie finds 3 separate groups of people with 3 separate motives venturing into the jungles of Zaire and running afoul of rhinos, snakes, heat seeking missiles, and, ultimately, killer gorillas. Listen as we tackle implied bestiality, the criminal under-utilization of Bruce Campbell, and frickin' lasers, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean learns the hard way that when man tampers with nature, he makes monsters in Bug (1975), the final film from legendary producer William Castle. A California earthquake releases prehistoric, firestarter cockroaches, and that's not bad enough - a mad scientist experiments with them to create an apocalyptic species of devil bug! Listen as we talk about burning down the Brady Bunch house, cat murder, jellied chicken and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin finds the third time's the charm in bringing the Freak Show over to team Chuck with Invasion USA (1985). Chuck Norris is a one-man-army, a mythical being that rises from the Florida Everglades to open up a can of whoop ass on foreign terrorists who've invaded his territory: America. Listen as we reveal the secret origin of Chuck Norris Facts, get into the history of the man himself, and hit you with so many right's you'll be begging for a left on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela was cool with the big-screen version of DC Comics classic anti-hero Jonah Hex (2010) until he started talking to dead people and rode off into steampunk territory! Hex is a bounty hunter seeking revenge on the evil Confederate colonel who burned down his life, and Megan Fox is the feisty prostitute that he must save before the end of the movie. Listen as we talk supernatural steampunk Westerns, rock out to Mastodon, and mention Wild Wild West more than once on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly finds out flesh is weak but metal is forever when she becomes a robot cyborg after watching Virus (1999), a haunted ship/Alien clone, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland as sailors who make the unwise move of investigating a derelict Russian science vessel with a killer alien robot on board! Listen to tales of yelling 'yar!' at cats, ommetaphobia, find out which mainframe is THE mainframe and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean couldn't get enough of Spookies (1986) the first time we covered it on our show, so he warps time and space so we can do it again (a Freak Show first)! It's true we watched Spookies before...on December 19th, 2015, to be exact...but Holly and Michaela weren't on the show then and missed out on this cinematic landmark. Listen as we talk farting muckmen, spider women, a menagerie of monsters and the terrible twisted history of Spookies on this week's exciting episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin geeks out over Hammer Films' single wolfman movie The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), which finds future superstar and tabloid hellraiser Oliver Reed making baptismal fonts boil and howlin' at the moon as a young lad cursed with lycanthropy from birth. Listen as we do a super nerd deep dive on Britain's Hammer Films, fire stunts gone awry, monster makeup and more, all on this week's exciting episode!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela beings to question everything about the world she's living in after watching Serenity (2019). You might wonder how this alleged "sexy noir" thriller qualifies as a Freak Show candidate but we can only tell you it does, a bizarre trainwreck of a movie with an A-list cast that runs right off the rails of both sanity and good taste before it's over. Listen as we ponder the metaphysical sciences, and concepts of free will, in our attempt to sort it all out on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly discovers aliens have turned a small seaside town into a fast food human buffet in Peter Jackson's Bad Taste (1987), a virtuoso splatstick comedy from the director/writer/cinematographer/editor/makeup effects/star. Listen as we get recall experiences with DIY filmmaking, nearly barf thinking about aliens drinking barf, and get closer to mastering the technical hurdles of social distancing, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean ventures into the rainforest and comes back as a big, scaly monster in The Relic (1997). Said creature gets shipped back to Chicago's Field Museum where it decapitates 25 people and is hunted down by the bulk of the metropolitan police force while scientists try to decode its genome, ad nauseum. Listen as we question the wisdom of shooting an entire movie without lighting, wonder about the nutritional value of the hypothalamus, and find out about the St. Lawrence Seaway, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.