Saturday Night Freak Show

This week, Brent steals about 2 hours from the Saturday Night Freak Show irregulars with his pick of Time Bandits (1981), a whimsical British fantasy directed by one-time Monty Python regular, Terry Gilliam. A cadre of dwarf time-travelers abscond with a young boy on an adventure throughout a variety of historical scenarios, putting them in the midst of an ongoing battle between Evil (David Warner) and the Supreme Being. Strap yourselves in for what could be the most exciting Freak Show yet! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis asks us to slam evil along with his movie pick, The Phantom (1996). Set in the 1930's, Billy Zane plays a costumed (and possibly immortal) crimefighter who defends a south Asian jungle from a greedy industrialist (Treat Williams) seeking a supernatural doomsday device. One time movie Buffy, Kristy Swanson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones co-star. Join us as we talk about the character's comic book origins and enduring appeal on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin fulfills the prophecy of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985), a rarely-seen cartoon space opera from the 80's era of 3-D movies which finds a teenager named Orin who must find a magical sword in order to free the galaxy from an tyrannical overlord named Zygon. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of deep space adventure, dashing space rouges, buxom fembots, fey computer sidekicks, intergalactic prophecies and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent summons Jean-Claude Van Damme from the future in Timecop (1994), which finds the action star bouncing back and forth in time to thwart an evil politician (Ron Silver) from altering the future. Listen in as we talk about the shaky mechanics of time travel, revel in the heydays of sweet mullets, and contemplate doing the splits on a kitchen sink on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis welcomes you to Tromaville, home of the Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986), in which toxic waste transforms honor students into splatterpunks. Listen as we talk mutant babies, radioactive pre-marital sex, futuristic fashions, and the enduring legacy of Troma movies on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin takes us on a trip into the bizarre land of Zardoz (1974), a futuristic science fiction tale. A ridiculously-outfitted Sean Connery stars as a barbaric executioner who travels - via a giant floating stone head - into an enclave of psychic hippies who wish to examine his primitive DNA. Listen as we explore the mysteries of the universe (and this movie in particular) on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Let's play a drinking game! Whenever you hear one of us say "eh?" or "hoser" or "take off" on this week's Strange Brew (1983) episode (courtesy: Brent), you take a drink! We promise you'll be flat wasted within the hour as we entertain you with stories and anecdotes while drinking and watching Bob and Doug MacKenzie stumble through a plot (borrowed from Shakespeare!) in their quest to stop an evil beer-maker (Max Von Sydow) from destroying the world through mind control. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's comedy-arthouse week as Travis brings us Play It Again Sam (1972), starring Woody Allen (who also wrote the screenplay and Broadway play upon which it is based) as a nebbish with relationship troubles who dreams of being cool like his screen idol, Humphrey Bogart. Listen is as we gather round the bar for a scintillating dissection of one of Hollywood's hardest working filmmakers on this week's show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin brings the Freak back to the Freak Show with Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988), a goofy post-apocalyptic sci-fi fable in which the last virile man on earth, Sam Hell ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper), must venture into a forbidden wasteland ruled by mutant frogmen to impregnate six fertile women and save the human race. Pull up a seat at the bar and join us as we wax rhapsodic about explosive chastity belts, animatronic frog heads, and the dreaded Dance of the Three Snakes in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent celebrates 2015 with a look back at Back to the Future Part II (1989), in which 1985 era Marty and Doc travel to 2015 (and an alternate 1985, and 1955 - again!) and we get a glimpse of what the future looked like from the lens of 1989 (when the movie was made). Where are the flying cars? Join us as we plow through motion picture sci-fi history with our breakdown of Back to the Future Part II on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Gary bids us adieu with his exit pick of Moon 44 (1990), a sci-fi thriller from Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich, which stars Michael (Streets of Fire) Pare as an internal affairs officer sent to investigate corruption on a deep-space mining colony. Join us as we talk about copycat filmmakers, under-emoting actors (Pare), over-emoting actors (Malcolm McDowell), Blackhawks in space, and more on this week's exciting space-based episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis takes us to South Korea with his pick of Save the Green Planet (2003), about a man who, believing that aliens from the planet Andromeda are plotting to invade the Earth, kidnaps a pharmaceutical executive (whom he believes to be an alien) and tortures him in his subterranean lair. Meanwhile, a rumpled detective closes in. Listen as we talk about a movie that mixes comedy, horror, and sci-fi in this week's bizarre motion picture stew. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin takes us on the psycho-sexual Christmastime odyssey which is Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). After Dr. Harford's (Tom Cruise) wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, he becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter to even the score. Listen as we deconstruct masked orgies, the Illuminati, and Freudian symbolism in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we review Gary's pick: State of Grace (1990), in which an Irish guy (Sean Penn) has to determine where his loyalties lie when he returns home to New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, and immediately falls in with hellraiser Gary Oldman and his mob family. Listen as the Irish members of the podcast come out in force and wreak havoc in booze and cigarettes in this exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis has the power of Greyskull as we watch his pick of Masters of the Universe (1987), an adaptation of the Mattel toy line which stars Dolph Lundren (rockin' an awesome 80's mullet) as He-Man, a muscular warrior who comes to Earth to battle the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella). Listen as we uncover the history of MOTU toys, fiction, and relish in Langella's performance on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we take a look back at Colin's pick, House of Wax (1953), the movie that kicked off Hollywood's longstanding love-hate relationship with 3-D. After his wax museum burns down, a sculptor (horror icon Vincent Price) returns with a thirst for revenge, prowling the gaslit streets of New York to hunt victims for his new, "life-like" wax museum exhibit. Listen as we explore the evolution of 3-D technology and the horror film in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Gary has come to kick ass and chew bubblegum with his pick of John Carpenter's They Live (1988), in which a drifter uncovers a secret alien conspiracy with the help of special sunglasses. Listen as we revel in the delights of 6 minute fight scenes, conspiracy theories, and discover Gary's all out of bubblegum on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

100th episode! This week, Travis takes us to watch human vs. alien boxing in Arena (1989), in which a short-order cook becomes the first human in 50 years to fight in an intergalactic boxing ring against a menagerie of monstrous prize fighters. Enter the Saturday Night Freak Show grudge match as we slug our way through this rubber-creature outer space shlockfest! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we watch Colin's pick of the restored, director's cut of Clive Barker's much-maligned 1990 monster epic Nightbreed. A troubled canuck survives his own death and searches out the hidden city of Midian, an underground city where monsters live, as his girlfriend, a psychopathic psychiatrist, and a mob of rednecks, close in. Listen to our thesis-worthy analysis of Clive Barker's fiction, film work, and reoccurring themes in this episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent brings Freddy Krueger to our Halloween weekend podcast with his pick of 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. This entry in the long-running horror series finds Freddy (Robert Englund) haunting the dreams of a group of teens in a mental hospital, and facing off against his chief antagonist from the first Nightmare, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp). Join us, and special guest Dave the BBQ man, as we break down the enduring appeal of one of horror's touchstone characters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.