Saturday Night Freak Show

Sean confronts the terror of going insane trying to rid his home of a giant rat in Of Unknown Origin (1983), which stars Peter Weller as a fellow in the same predicament. On the cusp of having it all, a trust fund manager finds his home under siege by a creature hellbent on destroying everything he's built for himself. Listen as we explore obsession, cat-killing rats, the career of Shannon Tweed, and find some of our membership is more pro-rat than pro-human on this week's exciting episode!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin overstimulates his pineal gland for the ability to see creatures From Beyond (1986), director Stuart Gordon's follow-up to Re-Animator, which reteams him with Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton for another gonzo, over-the-top slime, sex and splatter extravaganza. Listen as we talk about dangling brain stalks emerging from glistening, pulsating orifices and other gory delights on this week's revolting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela learns to be careful what she wishes for after tangling with the Wishmaster (1997), a movie featuring a who's who of horror movie all-stars in the story of an evil genie who wanders around modern day L.A., twisting people's desires into gory, FX-driven deaths. Listen as we talk of djinn, 90's horror, the long shadow of Freddy Krueger, those Wes Craven Presents movies, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly celebrates Halloween with the Yuletide set Night Killer (1990), an Italian-made flick, from the director of Troll 2, that was advertised there as the 3rd Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, despite having no relation. A woman suffers a psychological trauma at the hands of a mask-wearing nutjob, suffers amnesia, and undergoes even more derangement while cops try to catch the killer. Listen as we wonder what the hell was going through the minds of the makers of this movie as we howl with uncontrollable laughter on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean finds vampires in the Wild West in Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), a drive-in classic that was shot in 8 days and features John Carradine, reprising his interpretation of the vampire count, this time trying to steal Billy the Kid's girlfriend. Listen as we talk vampire Westerns, bats with top hats, questionable Wolfsbane, and watch one of the West's famous outlaws save America from a bloodsucking menace on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin opens his copy of the Necronomicon to summon the Great Old Ones alongside Vincent Price in The Haunted Palace (1963), one of the big screen's earliest adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and possibly the first time the name C'thulhu is uttered aloud in a movie. The movie was sold as an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, but we know better, don't we? Listen as we talk smoking jackets, possessed portraits, and Bill Hader's Vincent Price impression, all on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michaela gets into the Halloween spirit with the backwoods-folktale-monster movie Pumpkinhead (1988), in which a grieving father summons the demon of vengeance to hunt and kill the big city interlopers responsible for a family tragedy. Listen as we worship at the majesty of effects creator-turned-director Stan Winston, swamp witches, thick atmosphere, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly tries to adapt to Ye Olde English and other rules of The Village (2004), the movie that effectively ended the promise of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, who predicates the entire enterprise on a revelation that brought scorn, dismay, and much head wringing from audiences everywhere. Listen as we go on a deep dive into a spoiler-filled analysis of the truth behind The Village on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean wanders into the bog of cheap-o 80's slasher films and finds Offerings (1989), a movie that rips off so much of Halloween that royalties might be necessary. You know the story: kids push a mentally challenged kid down a well; 10 years later he escapes from a sanitarium, disfigured but supernaturally empowered to seek out and murder each of them. But, have you seen it done in Oklahoma? Listen as we go varmint hunting "ground squirrels," eat pizza with Questionable Sausage, and decry the sad state of crappy streaming apps on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin can't believe there's a vampire dog movie called Zoltan: Hound of Dracula (aka Dracula's Dog, 1978), a drive-in cheapie in which the titular vampire mutt travels to America in search of Dracula's last living descendant: a guy named Mike Dracula. You may think we're kidding, but we're not! Listen as we talk vampire puppies, Dracula Motors, flashbacks from the point of view of a dog, and more on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen as we celebrate our 400th episode with Michaela's nostalgia pick of Ghost (1990), yes, the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore/Whoopi Goldberg romantic-comedy-fantasy-thriller which put a premium on at-home pottery kits and landed the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" on the Billboard Top 100. Listen as we tunnel through eight years of Freak Show history and lore and get appropriately high on our own supply on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Holly doesn't know what's worse: that we've lost the nuclear weapon, or that it happens so often they call it a Broken Arrow (1996). John Travolta plays a crazy Air Force pilot who steals two of them; Christian Slater is the good guy who has to get them back. Current SAG-AFTRA president Samantha Mathis is a park ranger who helps him out. Ain't it cool? You know it is. Listen as we go all in on John Woo and the Golden Age of the American Action Movie on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean discovers that "sometimes, the original is better" after a return trip to Pet Sematary 2 (1992). The sequel finds a sullen Edward Furlong with mommy issues discovering the sinister power of a cursed Indian burial ground, while Clancy Brown stops around as a clownish undead sheriff. Listen as we talk dead kittens, zombie rape, dog-headed sex, pug taxidermy and more on this week's episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.