Saturday Night Freak Show

We'll be friends 'til the end after revisiting Child's Play (1988), the definitive killer doll movie from Fright Night director Tom Holland, the movie that gave us the first introduction to Chucky and launched one of the longest running movie series in the history of horror. Listen as we talk about 7th Heaven, Cabbage Patch Kid chaos, sequels, shows, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We look back on a year in film with our massive Best and Worst of 2024 episode, with each of us spotlighting the five best and one worst movies that we've seen this year. Grab a bucket of popcorn and settle in for the wildest ride yet that includes honorable mentions and silliest fun time at the theater we've had all year long! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly does her first giallo shot with the Italian whodunnit The Fifth Cord (1971), starring Django's Franco Nero as an alcoholic reporter who finds himself a prime suspect in a series of slayings committed by a gloved madman. Listen as we puzzle over red herrings galore, fawn over Italian fashionistas, and get slap happy with suspects on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean watches a hiss-terical WWE throwdown between an alien cat and a junkyard mastiff in The Cat (1992), a film from the director of the equally bizarro Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. The cat is part of a trio of intergalactic visitors are just looking for a way home, but in the meantime they have to deal with a shapeshifting alien menace that threatens mankind. Listen as we discuss body melting, grappling hooks, de-tailing, shoe foley, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin digs up corpses in snowy Wisconsin and invites them to the dinner table because he's Deranged (1974)! Bob (Black Christmas) Clark produced this unofficial Ed Gein biopic, which features a memorable performance by Roberts (Home Alone) Blossom and gore effects by a young Tom Savini. Listen as we talk grimy 70s horror movies, Ryan Murphy's serial killer obsession, and horrible ways to die on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela finds a cybercult of killers on the dark web who murder anonymous women and call them Kristy (2014). Star Haley Bennett is left alone at college over the Thanksgiving weekend and has to escape and survive a quartet of maniacs led by Ashley Greene. Listen as we identify the hallmarks of the nihilistic survival horror genre, call b.s. on college security and maintenance practices, and get triggered by FAFSA forms on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly discovers that mixing laced marijuana and tainted turkey can turn anyone into a Blood Freak (1972), a no-budget anti-drug monster movie about a guy who imbibes the aforementioned cocktail and wakes up with a giant turkey head. The only thing that can sate his monstrous hunger: the drug blood of addicts! Listen as we struggle to interpret the signs and portents and learn key life lessons on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean's "got to dig" because a ghost commands it with Stir of Echoes (1999), a working class ghost story set in Chicago, in which Kevin Bacon's doors of perception are blown open after he volunteers to be hypnotized and a specter from beyond the grave attempts to make contact. Listen as we discuss unfair comparisons to The Sixth Sense, creepy kids, horror legend Richard Matheson, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin scrambles to escape from the fish people who worship Dagon (2001), director Stuart Gordon's long gestating adaptation of HP Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." A shipwrecked couple end up running from their lives after seeking help in a rainy, Spanish seaside town that holds a terrible secret. Listen as we chant "Ia! Ia! C'thulhu Fh'tagan," squirm from tentacled monsters, and are lucky to escape with our skins on this week's episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela trains to become a cyberhacker on a night when all crime is legal with The Purge: Anarchy (2014), a sequel that takes the action out onto the mean streets of Los Angeles during the annual dystopian holiday. Listen as try to survive the night with action star Frank Grillo providing defense, all the while dreaming up scenarios for future Purge movies and TV shows, like Seinfeld Purge, Pirate Purge, Day After the Purge, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly wanders into an underworld just as real as ours, but not as brightly lit with Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). The spiritual third Creepshow movie boasts stories by George Romero, Stephen King, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and includes mummies, cats from hell, and lovetorn gargoyles. Listen as we tally off screen cat deaths, eat the rich, and get our brains pulled out through our noses on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean tries not to lose his head while visiting the haunted hamlet of Sleepy Hollow (1999), which recasts schoolteacher Ichabod Crane as a police inspector investigating murders committed by a headless horseman. Listen as we delve into the big screen version of America's first ghost story, witness Christopher Walken's first on-screen kiss, and visit a bog witch on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin dances with the body-and-wife-swappin' Devil in The Mephisto Waltz (1971), in which Alan Alda plays a pianist who's body is taken over by a dying Satanist and his wife doesn't care who's in that body - she just wants more! Listen as we talk horny housewives, suburban black magic, Shakespearean dog acting, aging backwards, and blue goo on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela says 'Do your thing, cuz!' and cheers on her cannibal cousin Leatherface with Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's horror classic which finds statuesque Alexandria Daddario inheriting a plantation manor with a chainsaw-wielding psychopath hidden in the basement. Listen as we imagine Clint Eastwood beaming with pride at son Scott's first major role, and learn we can't get around the Good Book on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly thinks we all go a little mad sometimes with Psycho II (1983), a belated sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic shocker that brings Anthony Perkins back to the Bates Motel, supposedly cured... but is he? Listen as we talk the path from Psycho to Halloween to Psycho II, honoring a horror classic, and overbearing mothers on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean goes on a limb-from-limb ripping rampage to get back the Body Parts (1991) that were stolen from him in an unethical medical experiment! Jeff Fahey is the unlucky recipient of one appendage after losing an arm in a horrifying car wreck; he soon begins experiencing the dreams and nightmares of a serial killer. Listen as try to determine the physical location of evil, talk about haunted arms, and survive and improbable car chases on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin returns from the dead to tap at your window, begging to be let in with Salem's Lot (1979), Tobe Hooper's classic adaptation of Stephen King's small-town vampire story as a writer who returns home and finds the arrival of two mysterious antique dealers presaging a bloodsucker apocalypse. Listen as we talk picket fence drama, childhood traumas, and a love for practical fog on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean goes batty for Bats (1999), a late 90s eco-horror flick that turns a cloud of genetically engineered killer bats loose on an unsuspecting town, and it's up to sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and bat scientist Dina Meyer to stop them. Listen as we fawn over puppet bats, discuss the best potato bats in cinema history, and react in horror as we find ourselves up to our chests in bat guano on this week's exciting episodes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly uses fairy magic to battle an evil bog witch in Eyes of Fire (1983), in which American settlers follow an adulterous preacher away from civilization and into a haunted woodland where they are bedeviled by evil spirits. Listen as we learn about dirt you can eat, get chased by naked mud covered ghosts, get our souls sucked into trees and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean conducts unethical medical experiments and tries to turn Holly into a snake with Sssssss (1973), in which crazy herpetologist Strother Martin tries to do just that to his unwitting lab assistant. Freak Show wall-of-famer Reb Brown co-stars as a football meathead who ends up confronting a Black Mamba in the shower. Listen as we relate tales of our real-life snake encounters and imagine better solutions to a global energy crisis than turning people into King Cobras on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.