Podcasts by Saturday Night Freak Show
Each Saturday, the Internet Radio Superstars (Colin, Sean, Holly and Michaela) assemble for some movie watchin' and analysis, with the accent on geek cinema, horror, sci-fi, and action films - chosen round-robin style by the Saturday Night Freak Show!
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Deadly Friend (1986) from 2023-12-09T06:00:07
Sean finds out the hard way that bringing a loved one back from the dead via Frankensteinian science can create a Deadly Friend (1986). A genius highschooler does just that after h...
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The Prowler (1981) from 2023-12-02T06:00:50
Colin tries to piece together clues that will identify The Prowler (1981), a film that delivers rivers of blood courtesy of makeup wizard Tom Savini. College students are stalked b...
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Split Second (1992) from 2023-11-25T06:00:43
Michaela hunts the Devil in a futuristic flooded London alongside Rutger Hauer in Split Second (1992), although, in a twist, the Devil pretty much looks like Venom (or the Alien). ...
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Bunraku (2010) from 2023-11-18T06:00:07
Holly trades guns for swords to settle her scores the old fashioned way in Bunraku (2010), a virtual world-set mashup of Kung Fu and Spaghetti Western genres, sending two warriors,...
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It Follows (2014) from 2023-11-11T06:00:04
Sean tries to evade a horny demon in It Follows (2014), the horror flick whose villain is an ambulatory STD. Maika Monroe figures this out quick after becoming targeted by an sh...
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) from 2023-11-04T05:00:31
Colin revisits the childhood terrors of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981), in which mob justice claims the life of an innocent, mentally challenged man and then the killers die on...
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Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994) from 2023-10-28T05:00:57
Michaela looks for Halloween vibes (and blood wings) in Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994), the direct-to-video sequel that finds the Demon of Vengeance summoned to life by thri...
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Mausoleum (1983) from 2023-10-21T05:00:32
Holly finds herself beset by monsters and demons after visiting the Mausoleum (1983). Playboy Bunny Bobbi Breese falls victim to a family curse and gets possessed by a succubus tha...
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Hack-O-Lantern (1988) from 2023-10-14T05:00:03
Sean finds himself as the anointed one of a cabal of Satanists with Hack-O-Lantern (1988), in which a devil-worshipping uncle tries to arrange a ceremony to reveal his nephew's unh...
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House of 1000 Corpses (2003) from 2023-10-07T05:00:12
Colin demands fried chicken and gasoline from Rob Zombie's debut feature of extreme kaleidoscopic horror, House of 1000 Corpses (2003). Four travelers, documenting weird roadside a...
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eXistenZ (1999) from 2023-09-30T05:00:15
Michaela interfaces with David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999) in the most awkward way the human body possibly can, to examine the director's take on video games, warped reality, and ...
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The Watcher (2000) from 2023-09-23T05:00:05
Holly watches The Watcher (2000), about a charming serial killer, played by Keanu Reeves, who tries to convince that the cop chasing him (James Spader) that they were made for each...
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Demonwarp (1988) from 2023-09-16T05:00:48
Sean goes hunting for the Bigfoot that fell from the sky 100 years ago in Demonwarp (1988), an all-over-the-map schlockfest that features George Kennedy and 80s scream queen Michel...
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Killer Fish (1979) from 2023-09-09T05:00:12
Colin vows to protect the family jewels from Killer Fish (1979), an Italian-made combo of the disaster and "when animals attack" genres of the 70s that finds a crew of diamond thie...
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Disturbing Behavior (1998) from 2023-09-02T05:00:41
Michaela witnesses some Disturbing Behavior (1998) among high school teens and employs some Stepford Wives-level remedies! New kids move to a new school and notice some...
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Dead Calm (1989) from 2023-08-26T05:00:59
Holly draws up the anchor and sets sail with Dead Calm (1989), a Hitchcockian suspense thriller from Australia which sees a ride-or-die couple's self-therapy cruise interrupted by ...
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Street Fighter (1994) from 2023-08-19T05:00:10
Sean powers up his special attack skill to take on Street Fighter (1994), a live-action adaptation of the Capcom video game that pits the freedom fighters of the Allied Nations, he...
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Leif Jonker's Darkness (1993) from 2023-08-12T05:00:32
Colin learns that when vampires rule the earth, even the dead will scream in Leif Jonker's Darkness (1993), a micro-budget splatter flick filmed in the wilds of Kansas. A lone surv...
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Insomnia (2002) from 2023-08-05T14:00:27
Michaela finds that guilt gives her a case of Insomnia (2002), a thriller about a police detective (Al Pacino) assigned to catch a killer in a remote Alaskan town where the sun nev...
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Upgrade (2018) from 2023-07-29T05:00:58
Sean undergoes an unauthorized surgical procedure to receive an Upgrade (2018) that give an experimental artificial intelligence control over his body and turns him into a karate c...
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Vanishing Point (1971) from 2023-07-22T05:00:08
As the last free soul on the planet Earth, Colin puts pedal to the metal and hits the Vanishing Point (1971), a movie that follows the exploits of an enigmatic driver named Kowalsk...
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) from 2023-07-15T05:00:57
Michaela heads to the Bahamas for a slaycation getaway with I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). One year after her friends were killed by a hook-wielding fisherman, colle...
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DeepStar Six (1989) from 2023-07-08T05:00:25
Holly discovers that not all aliens come from space in DeepStar Six (1989), one of several competing terror-from-the-deep flicks that hit multiplexes the same year. This one's dire...
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Jaws 2 (1978) from 2023-07-01T05:00:09
Just when Sean thought it was safe to go back in the water, Jaws 2 (1978) swam up and took a bite! The original blockbuster gets a sequel that pits Amity Police Chief Brody against...
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Manhunter (1986) from 2023-06-24T05:00:18
Colin thinks like a sociopathic serial killer in order to catch one in Manhunter (1986), the very 80s adaptation of Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon," pitting empathetic FBI agent Will G...
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Fantasy Island (2020) from 2023-06-17T14:10:36
Michaela wants to discover the secret of the ooze that makes dreams come true on Fantasy Island (2020), Blumhouse's horror-ish remake of the beloved TV show, that finds several vac...
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Hard to Kill (1990) from 2023-06-10T05:00:12
Holly opens up a can of whoop ass by bringing Steven Seagal to the Freak Show with Hard to Kill (1990), in which the human shaped automaton plays a cop who awakens from a 7 year...
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) from 2023-06-03T13:33:32
Sean leads us into the haunted woods of Burkitsville, Maryland with Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000), a meta-sequel to The Blair Witch Project that seems to suggest madness an...
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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) from 2023-05-27T05:00:53
Colin wants to discover The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971), along with a lot of other men — one of whom might be a black gloved razor wielding maniac! Giallo queen Edwige Fenech...
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The Ruins (2008) from 2023-05-20T05:00:27
Michaela takes the weed whacker along on her nightmare vacation atop The Ruins (2008), which deposits tourists upon an ancient Mayan temple that holds a deadly secret. Listen as we...
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Hard Target (1993) from 2023-05-13T05:00:51
Holly plays The Most Dangerous Game and finds Jean-Claude Van Damme very hard to kill in Hard Target (1993), the first American movie by Hong Kong action pioneer John Woo. When a m...
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Fallen (1998) from 2023-05-06T05:00:43
Sean says time is on his side, and that's why we spent 2 hours and 4 minutes watching Denzel Washington pursue a body-hopping demon in Fallen (1998). Bizarro murders committed afte...
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) from 2023-04-29T05:00:37
Colin continues serving Giallo Shots with What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) a hybrid Italian-German co-production that fuses the German "krimi" (crime) films with the Italian g...
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Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) from 2023-04-22T05:00:36
Michaela wants to time warp back to an 80's era mall but finds it's haunted by the Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)! A horribly burned lover survives the fire that nearly...
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Cellar Dweller (1987) from 2023-04-15T05:00:48
Holly finds that the pen is mightier than the sword in summoning a demonic Cellar Dweller (1987) from the netherworld! Students at a remote 'artist colony' (read: cabin in the wood...
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Evil Dead (2013) from 2023-04-08T05:00:54
Sean wants to swallow your soul after being possessed by Evil Dead (2013), a gory remake of Sam Raimi's no-budget classic. Five friends go to a cabin in the woods and unwittingly s...
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Blood and Black Lace (1964) from 2023-04-01T05:00:02
Colin tracks the slasher movie genre back to Blood and Black Lace (1964), an Italian giallo from the maestro, Mario Bava, in which a (literally) faceless, black gloved killer stalk...
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Down (aka The Shaft, 2001) from 2023-03-25T05:00:42
Michaela begins to think a rocket launcher might be the only way to take out a haunted elevator in Down (aka The Shaft, 2001), a movie that features a pre-stardom Naomi Watts, abou...
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Scream VI (2023) from 2023-03-18T14:04:15
Surprise! The Freak Show makes a sudden detour to the Big Apple with Scream VI (2023), as the famed slasher saga relocates to NYC and asks "Who gives a #$%! about movies?" So much ...
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There's Nothing Out There (1991) from 2023-03-11T06:00:14
Sean vacations at the house by the pond (not to be confused with the cabin by the lake) and shouts, There's Nothing Out There (1991), only to discover there IS actually something o...
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The X-Files (1998) from 2023-03-04T06:00:56
Colin wants to believe the truth is out there by reopening The X-Files (1998), the first big-screen version of the hit 90's sci-fi phenomenon that hopes to explain the first five y...
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Orphan: First Kill (2022) from 2023-02-25T06:00:11
Michaela digs into Esther's daddy bible and uncovers Orphan: First Kill (2022), a 13-years-later prequel to the cult horror flick about a homicidal girl with daddy issues, only thi...
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Significant Other (2022) from 2023-02-18T06:00:19
Holly finds out what love's got to do with it with Significant Other (2022), a movie that stars Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy as a couple who go backpacking in a scenic forest where a...
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Dr. Giggles (1992) from 2023-02-11T06:00:15
Sean finds nothing puts a smile on his face like medical-themed murder alongside Dr. Giggles (1992), a tongue-in-cheek slasher movie about a maniacal doctor with a nervous laugh wh...
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Torso (1973) from 2023-02-04T06:00:10
Colin loves saying the word Torso (1973), the American title for an Italian giallo originally called "The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence", about a masked maniac murdering ar...
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Halloween Ends (2022) from 2023-01-28T06:00:37
We conclude Listener Choice month with Halloween Ends (2022) because you demanded it! Corey Cunningham was a bad babysitter, who accidentally killed a kid. Cast out by the town of ...
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) from 2023-01-21T06:00:25
We're back from the grave and ready to party with The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Dan O'Bannon's sly, punk rock zombie movie that throws all the conventions of George Rome...
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Barbarian (2022) from 2023-01-14T06:00:31
You demanded it, so we're here to find out if Barbarian (2022) is the best film of 2022. A woman rents an AirBnB, discovers a man in the house when she arrives. It's raining; he in...
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The Fly (1986) from 2023-01-07T06:00:29
We kick off Listener Choice month by scrambling our molecules with The Fly (1986), director David Cronenberg's remake in which a science experiment fuses a scientist (Jeff Goldblum...
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Best and Worst Movies of 2022 from 2022-12-31T06:00:31
Listen as we rank the five best and one worst movie we saw this year as we wrap up 2022 with the annual Best and Worst Movies of 2022 episode! Will your favorite make the cut? Than...
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Curtains (1983) from 2022-12-24T06:00:27
Michaela would kill to get a part in Curtains (1983), in which several actresses are brought to a snowy Canadian mansion to audition for a tyrannical movie director f...
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To All a Good Night (1980) from 2022-12-17T06:00:02
Holly regales us with a Yuletide yelp yarn with To All a Good Night (1980), a killer Santa movie directed by Last House on the Left bad guy David Hess. Sorority sisters si...
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Wild Things (1998) from 2022-12-10T06:01:36
Michaela gets hot and sweaty with the Wild Things (1998) of Florida, a movie famous for putting Denise Richards, Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon in a hotel room together with a bottl...
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Enter the Dragon (1973) from 2022-12-03T06:00:38
Colin tries to see past the pointing finger to the heavenly glory of Enter the Dragon (1973), a monument to O.G. martial arts wunderkind Bruce Lee, who plays a Shaolin Temple stude...
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Orphan (2009) from 2022-11-26T06:00:04
Michaela rethinks adopting Russian girls with a penchant for murder after dealing with Orphan (2009), in which a close-knit family brings said tot into the fold and then the evil i...
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The Mortuary Collection (2019) from 2022-11-19T06:00:54
Holly discovers that every corpse has a story to tell in The Mortuary Collection (2019), with Clancy Brown as a grim Mortician who relates four tales of terror to a new applicant w...
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Action USA (1989) from 2022-11-12T13:44:05
Sean speeds across the country pursued by cowboy hitmen in Action USA (1989), a movie made by a stuntman and employing lots of his movie brethren as they execute car chases, helico...
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The Wolfman (2010) from 2022-11-05T05:00
Colin rampages through the streets of Victorian London with The Wolfman (2010) an expensive remake of the Universal Monsters classic, with Benico Del Toro as the titular character,...
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From A Whisper to a Scream (1987) from 2022-10-29T05:00:28
Michaela digs up dirt on Oldfield, Tennessee in the anthology From A Whisper to a Scream (1987), which showcases four stories all transmitted from spooky librarian Vincent Price to...
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The Hole (2001) from 2022-10-22T05:00:38
Holly invites us to party in The Hole (2001), a WWII bunker in which rich prep schoolers spend a weekend to dodge parents and authorities, but then find themselves tragically trapp...
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Trick 'r Treat (2007) from 2022-10-15T05:00:58
Sean reminds us to obey the time-honored traditions of Halloween with Trick 'r Treat (2007), or we may find ourselves punished by a pint sized demon! Four interconnected tales are ...
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Trick or Treat (1986, re-review) from 2022-10-08T05:00:34
Colin tunes his ax to electrify and rocks out with Rock's Chosen Warrior to rule the apocalypse with Trick or Treat (1986). Sure we've done it before, but what does the latest crop...
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Berserker (1987) from 2022-10-01T05:00:57
Michaela dreams of transforming into a Viking warrior to wrestle with Bart the Bear in Berserker: The Nordic Curse (1987), a weirdo slasher-wannabe about a group of teens who head ...
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Dark City (1998) from 2022-09-24T05:00:58
Holly forgets who she is and begins to question reality with Dark City (1998), in which a man with no memory awakens in a neo-noir city to find himself accused of murder and creepy...
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Death Race 2000 (1975) from 2022-09-17T05:00:18
Sean tries to rack up as many points as he can mowing down pedestrians in the Death Race 2000 (1975), a satiric, dystopian futuristic racing movie produced by Roger Corman and dire...
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Monster Dog (1985) from 2022-09-10T05:00:35
Colin goes to Spain with his horror-rock idol Alice Cooper to fight a Monster Dog (1985)! The shock rocker plays a singer visiting his cursed ancestral home with the intention of f...
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Cutting Class (1989) from 2022-09-03T12:26:23
Michaela spends a lot of time lurking around a high school targeted by a slasher in Cutting Class (1989), starring Brad Pitt in his first major role. Jill Schoelen (The Stepfat...
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Slaughterhouse Rock (1988) from 2022-08-27T05:00:18
Holly fights Civil War cannibal vampire ghosts on Alcatraz Island in Slaughterhouse Rock (1988), a movie we thought would have more of a music theme since it stars Toni Basil ("Hey...
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The Initiation (1984) from 2022-08-20T05:00:04
Sean discovers getting into college can be murder after undertaking The Initiation (1984), in which a troubled college student, plagued by nightmares, finds murder and mayhem in st...
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) from 2022-08-13T05:00:08
Colin revs his engines with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth watching Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), a neo-Western starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as the t...
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Vampire's Kiss (1988) from 2022-08-06T05:00:10
Michaela runs down the street screaming "I'm a vampire! I'm a vampire!" after getting a Vampire's Kiss (1988). Prepare for undiluted Nicholas Cage as a NYC literary agent who begin...
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Johnny Mnemonic (1995) from 2022-07-30T05:00:14
Holly jams too much data into her wet-wired cranial hard drive with Johnny Mnemonic (1995), which finds our hero, played by Keanu Reeves, in the same life-threatening predicament. ...
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Death Spa (1989) from 2022-07-23T05:00:41
Sean sweats blood at the Death Spa (1989), one of the most 80's movies ever to grace screens, about a health club owner, haunted by the death of his wife, who finds the jealous mis...
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The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976) from 2022-07-16T05:00:25
Colin girds his loins against the emasculating razor attack of The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976), about a woman who experienced sexual abuse as a child who castrates the men s...
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Hellbound (1994) from 2022-07-09T13:02:09
Michaela finds there's hell to pay with the final film that Cannon ever released, Hellbound (1994), starring Chuck Norris, the only man to play Russian Roulette with a fully loaded...
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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) from 2022-07-02T05:01:13
Sean files charges of lactose abuse against Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning, 1981), starring cult movie icon Susan Tyrell in a histrionic performance as a woman ...
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Frailty (2001) from 2022-06-25T05:00:37
Holly finds some of that Old Time Religion hunting down the God's Hand Killer in Frailty (2001), the directorial debut from actor Bill Paxton, a Southern Gothic horror-thriller abo...
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Highlander (1986) from 2022-06-18T05:00:39
Colin tries not to lose his head as he vows to claim The Prize with Highlander (1986). Immortal Christopher Lambert, born in the Scottish highlands, learns the ways of The Quickeni...
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Cyborg (1989) from 2022-06-11T05:00:16
Michaela rings the death knell for the Cannon Films empire with Cyborg (1989), a cheaply made Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi martial arts action flick cobbled together from the remna...
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Raiders of Atlantis (1983) from 2022-06-04T05:01:06
Holly tries to survive an onslaught from the Raiders of Atlantis (1983) after the discovery of a sunken nuclear submarine somehow causes the mythical society to rise from the ocean...
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The Nest (1988) from 2022-05-28T13:23
Sean arms himself with a giant can of Raid and plunges deep into The Nest (1988), a movie about a seaside community that discovers it has been an unwitting chemical testing site th...
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Stone Cold (1991) from 2022-05-21T05:00
Colin fires up his hog and prospects for The Brotherhood with Stone Cold (1991), a starring vehicle for former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth, casting him as an underco...
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The Apple (1980) from 2022-05-14T05:00:34
Michaela sheds common decency and takes a bite of The Apple (1980), a sci-fi disco glam rock musical directed by maverick Cannon Films co-founder Menahem Golan. In the future, a sa...
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End of Days (1999) from 2022-05-07T05:00:49
A thousand years has ended, so Holly must bear witness to the End of Days (1999), a movie that smashes together a grim religious horror movie with a gigantic Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
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Virtuosity (1995) from 2022-04-30T05:00:13
Sean wants to play your screams as a symphony with Virtuosity (1995), a futuristic thriller that pits former cop Denzel Washington against a psychopathic A.I. given corporeal form ...
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Opera (1987) from 2022-04-23T12:46:37
Colin experiences ocular trauma at the Opera (1987), conducted by Italian maestro Dario Argento. An ingenue is suddenly thrust into the lead role in a production of MacBeth and fin...
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Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) from 2022-04-16T05:00:55
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...
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The Cell (2000) from 2022-04-09T05:00:12
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...
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May (2002) from 2022-04-02T05:00:12
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 ...
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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) from 2022-03-26T05:00:51
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 crea...
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Looper (2012) from 2022-03-19T05:01:39
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 t...
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Without Warning (1980) from 2022-03-12T14:44:05
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-th...
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New York Ninja (2021) from 2022-03-05T13:40:24
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 20...
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Horror Express (1972) from 2022-02-26T06:03:25
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 L...
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Doom Asylum (1996) from 2022-02-19T06:00:43
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 d...
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Space Truckers (1996) from 2022-02-12T06:00:03
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 ov...
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) from 2022-02-05T06:01:29
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, t...
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Brain Damage (1988) from 2022-01-29T06:00:46
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 ...
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Color Out of Space (2019) from 2022-01-22T14:16:33
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...
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Prince of Darkness (1987) from 2022-01-15T14:00:17
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...
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Phantasm II (1988) from 2022-01-08T06:00:06
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 re...
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Best and Worst Movies of 2021 from 2022-01-01T06:00:37
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 dow...
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Night Train to Terror (1985) from 2021-12-25T06:01:21
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 o...
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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) from 2021-12-18T06:00:19
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....
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Terror Train (1980) from 2021-12-11T06:00:58
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 Hall...
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Society (1989) from 2021-12-04T06:01:04
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 th...
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Habit (1995) from 2021-11-27T06:00:26
Colin tries to understand his Habit (1995) for watching weirdo independent horror films in the 90's. Director Larry Fessenden also writes and stars as a NYC alcoholic who finds him...
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High Tension (2003) from 2021-11-20T06:00:55
Michaela finds High Tension (2003) in the French Extreme wave of 00's horror films. Two girls decamp to a remote country home which is immediately attacked by a brutish killer in A...
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The Skeleton Key (2005) from 2021-11-13T06:00:45
Holly unlocks the difference between voodoo and its darker cousin, hoodoo, with The Skeleton Key (2005). A hospice worker moves out to the Louisiana bayou to care for an aging man,...
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Shocker (1989) from 2021-11-06T05:01:04
Sean prays to the TV demon, gets juiced by the electric chair and becomes a Shocker (1989) with Wes Craven's electrifying tale of serial killer Horace Pinker, who becomes a channel...
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Two Evil Eyes (1990) from 2021-10-30T05:00:32
Colin thinks having Two Evil Eyes (1990) are better than one as two Masters of Horror, George Romero and Dario Argento, adapt a pair of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Adrienne Barbeau oo...
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Halloween Kills (2021) from 2021-10-23T05:00:54
We think Halloween Kills (2021) should bear the subtitle "Haddonfield's Revenge" as director David Gordon Green turns our beloved slasher series into a muddled message movie about ...
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Ginger Snaps (2000) from 2021-10-16T05:00:54
Michaela thinks its hard enough being a teenaged girl, much less coping with becoming a werewolf, with Ginger Snaps (2000). One of two misfit sisters is horrified after the other i...
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Drag Me To Hell (2009) from 2021-10-09T05:00:43
Sean learns the hard way it can be fatal to offend curse-spewing gypsies in Drag Me To Hell (2009), Evil Dead director Sam Raimi's return to the horror genre after a long ...
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Malignant (2021) from 2021-10-02T05:00:19
Holly buries childhood trauma deep in the back of her head with Malignant (2021), James Wan's off-the-rails supernatural shocker about a woman who comes to believe her one-time ima...
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Ringu (1998) from 2021-09-25T05:00:29
Colin's only got 7 days to live after watching a cursed Japanese videotape in Ringu (aka Ring, 1998), a movie that created a worldwide interest in J-horror, inspired a wave of imit...
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Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) from 2021-09-18T13:01:56
Michaela sets up cameras all over the house and digs out the VHS tapes to document Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), the entry in the long-running horror series that attempts to explai...
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Guns Akimbo (2020) from 2021-09-11T13:07:55
Holly wakes up with guns stapled to her hands and has to kill Harry Potter before he kills her, and wades in Guns Akimbo (2020). Daniel Radcliffe plays an Internet troll who is unw...
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Eight Legged Freaks (2002) from 2021-09-04T05:00:49
Sean says a bigger spider doesn't necessarily mean a scarier spider with Eight Legged Freaks (2002), a comedic throwback giant monster movie which sees David Arquette and Kari Wurh...
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Dressed to Kill (1980) from 2021-08-28T05:01:44
Colin takes in a showing of the latest fashion in murder with Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980). Angie Dickinson stars as a bored, sexually frustrated housewife; Michael Cain...
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) from 2021-08-21T12:49:02
Michaela's got a strange idea of entertainment and digs up Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), a pre-Scream postmodern, self-aware entry in the long running slasher series...
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Godzilla (1998) from 2021-08-14T05:01:08
Holly says size does matter when you're talking about the first American version of Godzilla (1998), director Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich's big-budget distortion of Japan's ...
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House of Wax (2005) from 2021-08-07T14:00:57
Sean makes the case for the touchstone movie of 00's horror being House of Wax (2005), aka the movie where you will See Paris Die. An in-name-only remake of the 1953 Vincent Price ...
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Grizzly (1976) from 2021-07-31T05:00:34
Colin loses limbs in pursuit of a rampaging 18-foot maneater terrorizing a national park in Grizzly (1976), the first out-of-the gate "animal attacks" films to capitalize on the su...
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Cowboys and Aliens (2011) from 2021-07-24T05:01:55
Michaela saddles up and rides West with a laser wrist gauntlet for a mashup of Cowboys and Aliens (2011), a surprisingly serious take on the subject that pairs a James Bond (Danie...
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Moonraker (1979) from 2021-07-17T05:01:43
Holly brings her license to kill to bear upon what as widely considered the goofiest James Bond entry, Moonraker (1979), the long-running series' (financially successful) attempt t...
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Species (1995) from 2021-07-10T05:01
Sean puts a team together to track down a sexy alien nymphomaniac with Species (1995). Nasty aliens give humankind their DNA; foolish humans combine it with ours to create Sil, a g...
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Conan the Barbarian (1982) from 2021-07-03T05:00:33
Colin brings Conan the Barbarian (1982) to the Freak Show, sees them become the most listened to show in the universe, and hears the lamentation of other podcasters! Come with us a...
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Cool as Ice (1991) from 2021-06-26T12:21:40
Michaela ditches the zero to get with the hero with Cool as Ice (1991), a starring vehicle for rapper Vanilla Ice, who plays an alien who falls to Earth and tries to mate with an t...
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I, Madman (1989) from 2021-06-19T05:00:49
Holly finds that terror doesn't stop at the page in I, Madman (1989), a movie in which a pretty bookworm finds herself stalked by the deranged antagonist of a pulp horror novel in ...
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The Beastmaster (1982) from 2021-06-12T05:00:33
Sean talks to birds, tigers, bears and ferrets and calls himself The Beastmaster (1982), Phantasm director Don Coscarelli's insanely popular sword and sorcery epic about a warrior ...
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Death Wish 3 (1985) from 2021-06-05T05:00:43
Colin watches as a movie loses its grip on reality and become an over the top Cannon Films extravaganza, Death Wish 3 (1985) in which architect-turned-vigilante Paul Kersey returns...
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Shoot 'Em Up (2007) from 2021-05-29T05:00:31
Michaela unloads 10,000 bullets in defense of Shoot 'Em Up (2007), a movie with a title that promises exactly what you get, as a robotic Clive Owen plays a purveyor of hot lead ...
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The Others (2001) from 2021-05-22T05:01:26
Holly says we can't live on junkfood alone and serves up the classic ghost story The Others (2001), which finds Nicole Kidman and her two children, who suffer from sunlight photose...
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) from 2021-05-15T05:00:56
Sean ponders the effect of horror movies on both their fans and their creators in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) a meta-movie in which Freddy Krueger is set free from the Nightm...
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Shivers (1975) from 2021-05-08T05:00:41
Colin fears that scientists will develop a parasite as a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will turn the world into an endless orgy of Shivers (aka They Came Fro...
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Nomads (1985) from 2021-05-01T05:01:57
Michaela discovers that roaming bands of L.A. punks are actually Nomads (1985), immortal supernatural entities that have existed since time immemorial, living unnoticed on the frin...
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Dracula 2000 (2000) from 2021-04-24T05:00:38
Holly brings an immortal bloodsucker roaring back to life in the new millennium with Dracula 2000 (2000), which finds the suave fiend traveling to Louisiana to hunt down a girl wit...
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Howard the Duck (1986) from 2021-04-17T05:00:20
Sean finds himself trapped on Earth with a space mallard named Howard the Duck (1986), producer George Lucas' big-budget take on the odd Marvel Comics character. Rocker Lea Thompso...
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Swamp Thing (1982) from 2021-04-10T05:00:17
Colin sits ringside for the colossal battle of the swamp monsters alongside Swamp Thing (1982), Wes Craven's adaptation of DC Comic's iconic plant man. When a laboratory incident t...
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The Stepford Wives (2004) from 2021-04-03T05:00:54
Michaela takes to task Frank Oz' comedic reworking of The Stepford Wives (2004), a big budget all-star misfire which turns a chilling 1970's feminist paranoia thriller into a tooth...
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Serial Mom (1994) from 2021-03-27T05:00:49
Holly finds life might be perfect by murdering those who disrupt domestic tranquility along with Serial Mom (1994), director John Waters satirical take on American suburbia and the...
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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) from 2021-03-20T05:00:16
Sean loves slasher sequels just like Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), a killer-on-the-loose-at-a-college-campus vintage that finds a group of co-ed film students stalked by a demen...
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Slugs (1988) from 2021-03-13T06:00:44
Colin thinks weaponized salt battle trucks should be a no brainer in the fight against Slugs (1988), a gory eco-horror flick from the director of Pieces. When mutant, man-...
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Iced (1988) from 2021-03-06T06:00
Michaela thinks there should be more ski resort-set slasher movies like Iced (1988), which transplants the tried-and-true formula to a snowy mountain cabin where several couples ar...
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Nightbeast (1982) from 2021-02-27T06:00:47
Holly joins the hunt for an ugly (but sharply-dressed) alien spree killer in Nightbeast (1982). After crash landing on Earth, the titular creature begins alternately vaporizing and...
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Nothing But Trouble (1991) from 2021-02-20T06:00:01
Sean commits the cardinal sin of bringing Nothing But Trouble (1991) to the Freak Show, a movie reviled for being too gross, too weird to exist. But here it is. Writer/director/sta...
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Never Too Young to Die (1986) from 2021-02-13T06:00:19
Colin finds that when you're the son of a secret agent, you're Never Too Young to Die (1986). John Stamos plays an unlikely action hero, a college student pressed into service agai...
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Rad (1986) from 2021-02-06T06:00:28
Michaela gets behind the handlebars of a BMX bike and finds it's Rad (1986). Stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham guides a small town group of bike enthusiasts as they compete agai...
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Killer Workout (aka Aerobicide, 1987) from 2021-01-30T06:00:44
You demanded it, so we're watching Killer Workout (aka Aerobicide, 1987), the last of our Listener's Choice picks for 2021! Someone's murdering the customers of Rhonda's Workout wi...
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) from 2021-01-23T06:00:35
You asked for it, so we're blasting Lectroids from Planet 10 along with The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), a totally bizarro cult item that stars Pe...
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The Hidden (1987) from 2021-01-16T06:00:15
You demanded it, so we're chasing down body-hopping alien thrill-killers in The Hidden (1987), a genre-bending sci-fi buddy cop movie that pairs Flashdance's Michael Nour...
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986) from 2021-01-09T06:01:38
We shake the pillars of Heaven and burrow deep into the mystical Chinese underworld of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986), the first of our Listener's Ch...
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Best and Worst of 2020 from 2021-01-02T06:01:56
It's that time of year again where we compile our lists of the Best and Worst Movies of 2020, except this year there was a dearth of new movies so we went a little broader for...
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Night Claws (2012) from 2020-12-26T06:00:30
Holly goes hunting a Sasquatch who maims his victims with his Night Claws (2012), a sub-low budget horror flick from prolific C-grade action movie helmer David A. Prior, ...
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Bloodbeat (1983) from 2020-12-19T06:00:43
Sean tries to break reality itself (and the brains of the Freak Show crew) with Bloodbeat (1983), a rightfully forgotten Christmas horror pic, shot in rural Wisconsin, wh...
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The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) from 2020-12-12T06:00:01
Colin think's Peter Cushing's doctor is the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Hammer Films full-color, blood and guts version of the classic tale, which made a...
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Fire in the Sky (1993) from 2020-12-05T06:00:22
Michaela wants to believe the truth is out there about the Fire in the Sky (1993), a dramatization of the supposedly true story of Travis Walton, a forester who was alleg...
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John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993) from 2020-11-28T06:00:05
Holly discovers every body tells a story in the morgue of John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993), a made-for-TV anthology film which was intended to be Showtime's answer to HB...
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2020 Thanksgiving Special - Blood Rage from 2020-11-26T23:00:49
We felt bad that Holly missed out when we discovered the greatest Thanksgiving slasher movie ever made, Blood Rage (1987), last year, so we threw our pumpkin pie at the wall, decla...
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Of Unknown Origin (1983) from 2020-11-21T06:00:21
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....
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From Beyond (1986) from 2020-11-14T06:00:43
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 Jeffr...
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Wishmaster (1997) from 2020-11-07T06:00:50
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 ev...
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Night Killer (1990) from 2020-10-31T05:00:14
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 Chai...
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) from 2020-10-24T05:00:39
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 interpr...
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The Haunted Palace (1963) from 2020-10-17T05:00:19
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 o...
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Pumpkinhead (1988) from 2020-10-10T05:00:28
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...
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The Village (2004) from 2020-10-03T05:00:30
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 pre...
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Offerings (1989) from 2020-09-26T05:00:26
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...
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Zoltan: Hound of Dracula (1978) from 2020-09-19T05:00:47
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...
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Ghost (1990) from 2020-09-12T05:00:14
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-thrill...
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Broken Arrow (1996) from 2020-09-05T05:00:02
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...
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Pet Sematary 2 (1992) from 2020-08-29T05:00
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 discoveri...
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The Beast Must Die (1974) from 2020-08-22T05:01:20
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 Michae...
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Phantoms (1998) from 2020-08-15T05:00:08
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 me...
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Uninvited (1987) from 2020-08-08T05:00:56
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 boa...
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) from 2020-08-01T05:00:19
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 sle...
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) from 2020-07-25T05:00:37
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...
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Dredd (2012) from 2020-07-18T05:00:11
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, ...
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Steel Dawn (1987) from 2020-07-11T05:00:55
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 bet...
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Thirteen Ghosts (2001) from 2020-07-04T05:01:02
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 wit...
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City of the Living Dead (1980) from 2020-06-27T05:00:08
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 ...
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After Earth (2013) from 2020-06-20T05:00:44
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 h...
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Congo (1995) from 2020-06-13T05:01:20
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...
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Bug (1975) from 2020-06-06T05:01:25
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 earthquak...
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Invasion USA (1985) from 2020-05-30T05:01:10
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...
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Jonah Hex (2010) from 2020-05-23T05:01:37
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 territor...
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Virus (1999) from 2020-05-16T05:01:03
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 Sut...
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Spookies (Rewatch, 1986) from 2020-05-09T05:01:19
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 ...
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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) from 2020-05-02T05:01:03
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...
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Serenity (2019) from 2020-04-25T05:01:23
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...
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Bad Taste (1987) from 2020-04-18T05:01:41
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/...
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The Relic (1997) from 2020-04-11T05:01:41
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 decapitat...
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Tourist Trap (1979) from 2020-04-04T05:01:41
Colin forgets one of life's most valuable lessons: never stop at a backwoods Tourist Trap (1979)! Friendly proprietor Chuck Connors shows off a wax effigy of his wife to ...
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Final Destination 3 (2006) from 2020-03-28T05:01:43
Michaela has a premonition of bad things to come after watching Final Destination 3 (2006), aka the one with the rollercoaster. Mary Elizabeth Winstead suffers survivors ...
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Alone in the Dark (1982) from 2020-03-21T05:01:21
Holly is lured in by the promise of watching Donald Pleasance, Jack Palance and Martin Landau together in a slasher movie with Alone in the Dark (1982). During a citywide...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) from 2020-03-14T05:01:23
Sean wonders if 10 years may have softened the pain of witnessing 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Once upon a time, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes set about to rem...
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Popcorn (1991) from 2020-03-07T06:01:22
Colin says you'll "buy a bag, go home in a box" of Popcorn (1991), a slasher film set in a movie theater where lovingly-crafted throwbacks to William Castle-style 50's "g...
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Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) from 2020-02-29T06:01:07
Michaela couldn't wait for Sean to get around to showing us his brand new Blu-ray of Tammy and the T-Rex: The Gore Cut (1994), a new version of a video store staple which...
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The Boy (2016) from 2020-02-22T06:01:34
Holly says she'd take a job babysitting a haunted doll after watching The Boy (2016). Lauren Cohan, from TV's The Walking Dead, stars as an American nanny w...
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Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995) from 2020-02-15T06:01:50
Greetings, boils and ghouls! Sean tries to resist temptation, survive the night and save the world with Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995)! The popular 90...
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Deep Red (1975) from 2020-02-08T06:01:44
Colin supposes Dario Argento is the godfather of the slasher film after watching Deep Red (aka Profundo Rosso aka The Hatchet Murders, 1975). An English pianist in Rome w...
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The Fanatic (2019) from 2020-02-01T06:01:54
Michaela supposes that every celebrity's worst nightmare is The Fanatic (2019), in which a movie star-obsessed fan named "Moose" (John Travolta) suffers a series of hu...
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Creepshow (1982) from 2020-01-25T06:01:49
We wrap up Listener's Choice month with our most requested title: Creepshow (1982), as George Romero and Stephen King team up to pay homage to EC's horror comics of the 1...
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Sleepaway Camp (1983) from 2020-01-18T06:01:21
Listener's Choice month continues as we move on to our 2nd most requested movie, Sleepaway Camp (1983). Honestly, it's strange we haven't already covered this (although w...
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John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) from 2020-01-11T06:01:30
We're watching movies you voted for this month, and coming in at #3 is John Carpenter's The Fog (1980). The seaside hamlet of Antonio Bay is haunted by a 100 year old cur...
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987) from 2020-01-04T06:01:49
We're spending January 2020 watching movies you voted for, kicking off the celebration with #4: Jaws: The Revenge (1987). Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) discovers this time ...
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Best and Worst Movies of 2019 from 2019-12-28T06:01
It's that time of year again, as we gather 'round the bar to make our picks of the Best and Worst Movies we saw in 2019! Will your favorite make the cut? As always, thank...
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John Carpenter's Christine (1983) from 2019-12-21T06:01:36
Holly burns rubber with John Carpenter's Christine (1983), based on Stephen King's novel. High school nerd Arnie becomes obsessed with restoring an old '58 Plymouth Fury,...
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The Baby (1973) from 2019-12-14T06:01:16
Sean finds out that what goes on in the baby's room isn't for kids in The Baby (1973)! A new social worker forms and unhealthy obsession with her latest client, a grown m...
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I Drink Your Blood (1970) from 2019-12-07T06:01:35
Colin proclaims that "Satan was an acid head" and proceeds to freak out with I Drink Your Blood (1970), a notorious gorefest in which a vengeful tot poisons meat pies wit...
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Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984) from 2019-11-30T06:01:24
Michaela thinks dressing up as Santa Claus might prove hazardous to her health in Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984), in which a psycho slasher prowls the streets of London...
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) from 2019-11-23T06:01:50
Holly winds up a reanimated ghoul after aliens enact Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959). Infamously described as "the worst movie ever made", director Ed Wood's sci-fi opus b...
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Eye See You (D-Tox, 2002) from 2019-11-16T06:01:11
Sean mounts the head of Sylvester Stallone atop the Saturday Night Freak Show Wall of Fame with Eye See You (2002), the closest the Italian Stallion will ever get to bein...
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Blood Rage (1987) from 2019-11-09T06:01:04
Colin emphatically declares "It's not cranberry sauce!" while surveying the crimson carnage of the holiday slasher Blood Rage (1987). Terry and Todd are identical twins. ...
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Countdown (2019) from 2019-11-02T05:01:23
Michaela finds she can't uninstall the grim reaper in the smartphone horror flick Countdown (2019). A young nurse finds herself stalked by death after downloading a kille...
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Jennifer's Body (2009) from 2019-10-26T05:01:54
Holly finds that all the boys, the girls, and the demons are obsessed with possessing Jennifer's Body (2009). Sex symbol Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried star in a tale of t...
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Halloween II (1981) from 2019-10-19T05:01:05
Sean gets us to watch his preferred version of Halloween II (1981, aka "the censored, alternate universe TV cut"). Listen as we reminisce about watching R-ra...
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The Funhouse (1981) from 2019-10-12T05:01:15
Colin runs for his life from a hideously deformed carny after witnessing the strange goings-on inside The Funhouse (1981). Texas Chain Saw Massacre dir...
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Phantasm (1979) from 2019-10-05T05:01:21
Michaela finds herself on the receiving end of head-drilling, brain-sucking silver spheres of death with Phantasm (1979)! Brothers Mike and Jody, along with hippie ice-cr...
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House on Haunted Hill (1999) from 2019-09-28T05:01:05
Holly offers the Internet Radio Superstars $1 million a piece to spend the night in the House on Haunted Hill (1999). Five strangers find themselves trapped in a former a...
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) from 2019-09-21T05:01:13
Sean takes a whack at the Big Apple with Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989). Getting tired of chopping up teens at a woodsy summer camp, Jason hop...
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It: Chapter Two (2019) from 2019-09-14T05:01:57
We go on a return Freak Show Field Trip to the clown-haunted sewers of Derry, Maine for a final confrontation with It: Chapter Two (2019). Twenty-seven years have past...
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Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) from 2019-09-07T05:01:11
Colin lives through the holy terror of communion with a freaky Catholic slasher with Alice, Sweet Alice (1976). Little Brooke Shields, in her first film role, is murdered...
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Hell Night (1981) from 2019-08-31T05:01:25
Holly finds that fraternity hazing rituals aren't complete without a deranged murderer on the loose on Hell Night (1981). A quartet of pledges locked up in a spooky old m...
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Vacancy (2007) from 2019-08-24T05:01:27
Michaela swears off going on vacation after watching Vacancy (2007). Quarreling marital duo Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsdale, en route to getting a divorce, stop off at a...
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Roar (1981) from 2019-08-17T05:01:29
Sean makes a bet that he'll never be killed by lions, a claim that can't be made by the makers of Roar (1981). Called "the most dangerous movie ever made," a madman takes...
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The Sentinel (1977) from 2019-08-10T05:01:49
Colin finds himself forever standing guard over the Gates of Hell as The Sentinel (1977), in a star-studded Satanic supernatural shocker from Death Wish&nbs...
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Strays (1991) from 2019-08-03T05:01:52
Michaela finds herself surrounded by killer felines in Strays (1991), in which a family moves into a country home only to find it's cellar is the lair of one super-pissed off, territorial cat and a...
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Idle Hands (1999) from 2019-07-27T05:01:34
Holly gets baked with the stoner horror comedy Idle Hands (1999), in which forgotten teen heartthrob Devon Sawa discovers his right hand is possessed by Evil, his stoner ...
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Carnosaur (1993) from 2019-07-20T05:01:31
Sean imagines ending the world with a plague of dinosaurs courtesy of this week's flick, Carnosaur (1993), an ultra low budget Roger Corman-produced quickie designed to r...
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American Ninja (1985) from 2019-07-13T05:01:57
Colin geeks out to flame-throwing, laser-blasting, smoke pellet-chucking ninja action in American Ninja (1985). Michael Dudikoff was chosen by Cannon Films to step in whe...
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Orca (1977) from 2019-07-06T05:01:42
Michaela finds herself pursued by a killer whale with a death wish in Orca (1977)! After a fisherman (Richard Harris) kills his mate and her baby, a killer whale single-m...
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Motel Hell (1980) from 2019-06-29T14:01:42
Holly finds that it takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters, and worries about the fate of Igor the mailman as we watch Motel Hell (1980). A kindly ...
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Circle of Iron (1978) from 2019-06-22T05:01:42
Sean heads off to a magical land of barbarian kickboxers in search of enlightenment with Circle of Iron (1978, aka The Silent Flute). Allegedly Bruce Lee's personal dream...
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Forbidden World (1982) from 2019-06-15T05:01:15
Colin celebrates Alien's 40th anniversary by watching the sleazy, low-budget Roger Corman version: Forbidden World (1982, aka Mutant)! An intergalactic "tro...
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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) from 2019-06-08T05:01:31
Michaela spins us a full-on spider apocalypse as we watch William Shatner versus the Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), a movie that finds The Shat (in a lull between Star Tr...
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Copycat (1995) from 2019-06-01T05:01:40
Holly explores the 90's movies' fascination with serial killers with the Serial Killer Greatest Hits movie Copycat (1995), wherein Sigourney Weaver plays agoraphobic ...
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) from 2019-05-25T05:01:58
Sean sneaks a made-for-video movie into the dark bowels of the Saturday Night Freak Show screening room with his pick of Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996), the promised final...
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The Manitou (1978) from 2019-05-18T05:01:55
Colin thinks The Manitou (1978) is the greatest movie ever made about a woman with a reincarnated 400-year-old Indian medicine man growing on her neck! In one of the 70's...
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Man's Best Friend (1993) from 2019-05-11T05:01:04
Michaela thinks Jaws would have been better with paws, and to prove it she offers up Man's Best Friend (1993)! Intrepid reporter Ally Sheedy frees Max,...
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Lake Placid (1999) from 2019-05-04T05:01:17
Holly takes us back to a simpler time, when a giant crocodile ate a small Maine town called Lake Placid (1999). National treasure Betty White feeds cows to the beast, whi...
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RoboCop 2 (1990) from 2019-04-27T05:01:04
Sean gets under the hood of Robocop 2 (1990), which sees our favorite cyborg police officer go up against both a corrupt corporation and the minions of a cult leader/drug...
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Waxwork (1988) from 2019-04-20T05:01:05
Colin brings on the monster apocalypse by opening the doors to Waxwork (1988). Six friends spend the night at a ghoulish wax museum where each fall through portals into scenes from...
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Pet Sematary (2019) from 2019-04-13T05:01:19
Michaela comes to find out there's truth in the phrase "sometimes, dead is better" as we watch the remake of Pet Sematary (2019). Stephen King's classic novel gets resurr...
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The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) from 2019-04-06T05:01:01
Sean wonders if The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) is the most '90's movie that ever '90'd. A sort-of-sequel to Stephen King's troubled teenager story, The Rage features an angsty...
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No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) from 2019-03-30T05:01:02
Holly squares off against the Red menace with her dope karate skills with No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) which finds perennial Freak Show favorite Jean-Claude Van Damme as the vil...
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The Burning (1981) from 2019-03-23T05:01:02
Colin stirs the wrath of a horribly scarred, killer summer camp caretaker with The Burning (1981), a splatter flick from the genre's Golden Age that features gore and gru...
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The Descent (2005) from 2019-03-16T05:01:16
Michaela dives deep into the bowels of the Earth on a caving expedition that uncovers mutant monster people in The Descent (2005), the second film from Dog Soldiers direc...
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Frankenhooker (1990) from 2019-03-09T06:01:05
Holly wades through exploding hookers, severed limbs, and mad science with Frankenhooker (1990)! When his girlfriend is killed in a freak remote-controlled lawmower accid...
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Blacula (1972) from 2019-03-02T06:01:05
Colin dusts off the crucifix and holy water to deal with Dracula's soul brother, Blacula (1972). African prince Mamuwalde visits Dracula's castle and is cursed with vampi...
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Mac and Me (1987) from 2019-02-23T06:01
Michaela thinks Spielberg could have a strong legal case against Mac and Me (1988), which follows an adorable, wart covered, pucker-faced creature from another world...
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Malone (1987) from 2019-02-16T06:01
Holly charts the fall of a Hollywood icon with Malone (1987), which finds fading superstar Burt Reynolds playing a modern day Shane, here an ex-CIA hitman, who winds up i...
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Valentine (2001) from 2019-02-09T06:01:10
Sean wants you to be his Valenine (2001), even if that means he has to dress up like Cupid and kill you to death! A masked murderer stalks a group of five girls who each ...
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Train to Busan (2016) from 2019-02-02T06:01:12
We try to outrun the zombie apocalypse aboard the Train to Busan (2016), the last of our listener choice picks for the year. As a zombie outbreak threatens South Korea, a...
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Magic (1978) from 2019-01-26T06:01:52
Abracadabra! We experience all sorts of split personalities when we watch Magic (1978), the creepy ventriloquist dummy movie starring Anthony Hopkins as a stage magician ...
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Super Mario Bros (1993) from 2019-01-19T06:01:07
Where's Wario? We may have plugged up the toilet and are in need of a coupla plumbers after watching Super Mario Bros (1993), the big-budget adaptation of the popular Nin...
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Detention (2011) from 2019-01-12T06:01:30
Can a movie drive its viewers insane? That's the warning label we're putting on Detention (2011), the first listener pick of the month! A slasher, UFO's, time travelin...
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Best and Worst of 2018 from 2019-01-05T06:01:15
Gather 'round as we sum up the best and worst movies we saw in 2018 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 c...
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New Year's Evil (1980) from 2018-12-31T05:44:28
Colin celebrates the New Year with a murder in each of America's four time zones with New Year's Evil (1980)! An L.A. radio personality receives threatening phone calls d...
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Bad Moon (1996) from 2018-12-22T06:01:02
Michalea chains herself to a tree to avoid going on a Bad Moon (1996) rampage! Thor is a German Shepherd who becomes agitated when werewolf Uncle Ted (Michael Pare) moves...
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Sidekicks (1992) from 2018-12-15T06:01:14
Holly suggests that if you spend as much time daydreaming of Chuck Norris as Jonathan Brandis does in Sidekicks (1992), you may have a mental health problem! The Chuckste...
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Chopping Mall (1986) from 2018-12-08T06:01:24
Sean tries to find the killswitch for the Killbots of the 80's cult classic Chopping Mall (1986). A group of mall workers stay after-hours to have sex in a furniture stor...
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Angel (1984) from 2018-12-01T06:01:51
Colin takes a trip back to the rain-slicked, neon streets of Hollywood Boulevard in the 1980's with Angel (1984), about a high school honor student by day who moonlights ...
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No Holds Barred (1989) from 2018-11-24T06:01:53
Michalea asks "Whatcha gonna do when the Hulkster runs wild on you?" and gets in the ring with Hulk Hogan in No Holds Barred (1989). Hogan, fittingly, plays a wrestler na...
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Miami Connection (1987) from 2018-11-17T06:01:53
Holly takes on cocaine-fueled, motorcycle-riding ninja warriors with the power of rock n' roll with Miami Connection (1987), purported to be one of the best worst movies ...
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My Soul to Take (2010) from 2018-11-10T06:01:48
Sean takes his love of ornithology to new heights as he soars like a California Condor over Wes Craven's My Soul to Take (2010), which finds bird-loving teenager Bug (Max...
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Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) from 2018-11-03T05:01:44
Colin swears an oath to join the Count Dracula Society and summons the prince of darkness with Dracula A.D. 1972, a late-cycle entry into Hammer Films' Dracula series. The sin...
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Halloween (2018) from 2018-10-27T05:01:50
The Internet Radio Superstars take a Freak Show Field Trip to go see the newest Michael Myers' stab-a-thon, Halloween (2018), which brings back 5-time series regular Jami...
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Intruder (1989) from 2018-10-20T05:01:52
Michaela proposes 'The Night Stocker' might be a better title for Intruder (1989), a slasher movie set within the confines of a grocery store. Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, and B...
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The People Under the Stairs (1991) from 2018-10-13T05:01:38
Holly hopes she doesn't get thrown in with The People Under the Stairs (1991), Wes Craven's social comment on class warfare between a ghetto-born kid named Fool and a cou...
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Slaughter High (1986) from 2018-10-06T05:01:05
Sean discovers what is perhaps the only 80's British slasher movie, Slaughter High (1986). It's set in the USA but filmed in England, with British actors faking their way...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1973) from 2018-09-29T05:01:21
Colin hits the road with the Shogun's executioner and his son in Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1973), the fourth in a series of cult Japanese samurai movies that...
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Catwoman (2004) from 2018-09-22T05:01:15
Michaela thinks Catwoman (2004) is the purrrfect way to prove that no matter how bad you think comic book movies can get, they can always get worse. Oscar winner Halle Be...
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Cliffhanger (1993) from 2018-09-15T05:01:14
Holly scales to the height of adventure with Sylvester Stallone's Cliffhanger (1993), which finds the action star as a rescue climber crawling over mountains at the comma...
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John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1993) from 2018-09-08T05:01:53
Sean suffers a parental nightmare when kids start reading minds and killing people with their thoughts in John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1993). After an unexplai...
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10 to Midnight (1983) from 2018-09-01T05:01:36
Colin tries to rescue the Summer of Cannon with the Charles Bronson-starring slasher hybrid 10 to Midnight (1983). The flick finds cop Bronson squaring off against a coed...
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The Thing (2011) from 2018-08-25T05:01:04
Sean would prefer not to spend the winter tied to a couch with The Thing (2011), a remake of John Carpenter's seminal 1982 sci-fi/horror classic that's disguised itself a...
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The Meg (2018) from 2018-08-18T05:01:39
Holly goes chumming for a giant prehistoric shark in the action-thriller The Meg (2018), a tale of a hungry megalodon, which has survived for thousands of years at the bo...
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The Boy Next Door (2015) from 2018-08-11T05:01:41
Michaela might like to live next to The Boy Next Door (2015), as long as he doesn't turn out to be a raving psychopath! Unfortunately for Jennifer Lopez, she doesn't have...
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) from 2018-08-04T05:01:05
Kolin kontends with Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)! In this pastiche of 1950's-era alien invasion flicks, clown-like creatures from space arrive in a small America...
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Hercules (1983) from 2018-07-28T05:01:08
Michaela parts the continents, brings down the wrath of the gods, and tosses bears into space alongside Hercules (1983), starring Lou ("The Incredible Hulk") Ferrigno as ...
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The Last Exorcism (2010) from 2018-07-21T05:01:49
Holly tries to cast out the Devil (and his junior partner Abalam) using The Last Exorcism (2010). A documentary film crew follows a charismatic preacher who has fallen fr...
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) from 2018-07-14T05:01:17
Sean uses the word "nostalgia" one time too many in his review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) as a quartet of Hollywood up-and-comers, including Jennifer Love ...
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Alligator (1980) from 2018-07-07T05:01:27
Colin discovers there really are giant alligators living in the sewers in the monster movie Alligator (1980), which finds cop Robert Forster hunting down the 25 foot long...
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Double Impact (1991) from 2018-06-30T05:01:33
Holly thinks the only actor good enough to star opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in Double Impact (1991), which finds the action star stretching hi...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) from 2018-06-23T05:01:48
Michaela's chases her Cannon Films fixation directly into a chainsaw duel against The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). It's 13 years later and the cannibalistic clan of ...
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Shocking Dark (1989) from 2018-06-16T05:01
Sean gives up on life and happiness by subjecting himself and to the Italian-made Aliens/Terminator ripoff Shocking Dark (1989). Borrowing so liberally...
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The Blob (1988) from 2018-06-09T05:01:54
Colin celebrates the 30th anniversary of the practical effects monster movie The Blob (1988). A meteor falls to earth carrying a sentient, gooey substance that grows larger by abso...
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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) from 2018-06-02T05:01:55
Michaela finds the soul for getting down to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) a Cannon-produced cash-grab sequel with one of the most memorable titles in all of filmdo...
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Samurai Cop (1991) from 2018-05-26T05:01:15
Holly is pretty sure the makers of Samurai Cop (1991) don't know anything about samurai, police procedure or the fundamentals of filmmaking. In a film that's become a cult classic ...
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The Faculty (1998) from 2018-05-19T05:01
Sean begins to think that tiny, ear-burrowing aliens are taking over the world in The Faculty (1998), as director Robert Rodriguez assembles a who's-who of 1990's screen ...
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Rambo III (1998) from 2018-05-12T05:01:02
Colin breaks his Bowie knife, explosive tipped arrowheads, and red bandanna out of mothballs in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Rambo III (1988). This time, Rambo has to go ...
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In Time (2011) from 2018-05-05T05:00
Michaela keeps one eye on the clock all through In Time (2011), a futuristic sci-fi yarn in which time has replaced money as the world's currency. Justin Timberlake finds...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) from 2018-04-28T05:01
Holly discovers where the wild things are when ventures into the jungle to watch The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), the legendary Hollywood debacle that featured the combus...
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Runaway (1984) from 2018-04-21T05:01
Sean sees a need for law enforcement to police renegade Roombas in Runaway (1984), a what-if futuristic scenario from writer/director Michael Crichton that finds domes...
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Humanoids From the Deep (1980) from 2018-04-14T14:05
Colin doubts interspecies fishsex is anything but gross after watching Humanoids from the Deep (1980), a Roger Corman-produced schlockfest in which mutant fishmen attack ...
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Fear (1997) from 2018-04-07T05:01
Michaela remembers what it was like to be a teen girl in the 90's when she catches Fear (1997). Cute-as-a-button Reese Witherspoon falls in love with unhinged sociopath M...
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Anaconda (1997) from 2018-03-31T05:01
Holly ventures deep into the Amazon and gets wrapped up in the giant snake movie Anaconda (1997)! Jennifer Lopez and company set sail down the river and pick up Great Sna...
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The Wraith (1986) from 2018-03-24T05:01
Sean is heaven-sent and hell on wheels after choosing to watch The Wraith (1986)! A murdered teen exacts revenge from beyond the grave on the street-racing gang who kille...
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The Delta Force (1986) from 2018-03-17T05:01
Colin introduces the Freak Show crew to their first proper Chuck Norris movie, The Delta Force (1986). Norris teams up with tough guy Lee Marvin in Cannon Films' "this is...
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Drive Angry (2011) from 2018-03-10T06:01
Michaela finds that spending time watching Nicholas Cage movies makes her want to Drive Angry (2011)! Cage stars as a dead man who breaks out of Hell to pursue the cul...
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Sphere (1998) from 2018-03-03T06:01
Holly discovers that terror can come in any shape after watching Sphere (1998), an attempt by Hollywood's A-list to imbue geometric shapes with unworldly menace. After di...
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Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983) from 2018-02-24T06:01
Colin discovers that in Yor's world, he's the man, as we grovel before Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983) in which we follow our musclebound hero (Reb Brown, TV's ori...
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The Babadook (2014) from 2018-02-17T06:01
Michaela discovers that neither by hook nor by crook can she get rid of The Babadook (2014). A troubled youngster and his widowed mother find themselves pushed to the bre...
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The Wicker Man (2006) from 2018-02-10T06:01
Holly suggests a better sacrifice to The Wicker Man (2006) might be the film itself, as the often-imitated-but-never-duplicated screen icon Nicholas Cage finds himself al...
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Cathy's Curse (1977) from 2018-02-03T06:01
Sean sends us all to the madhouse after watching Cathy's Curse (1977), a Canadian Exorcist-rip off about a little girl who becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead ...
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The Green Slime (1968) from 2018-01-27T07:28
Colin unwittingly brings back rubber-suited monsters from space after coming in contact with The Green Slime (1968)! After destroying an asteroid on a collision course wi...
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Buried (2010) from 2018-01-20T06:01
Michaela spends time trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds in the thriller Buried (2010). Reynolds plays an American contractor, taken hostage in Iraq, who awakens to find ...
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Mortal Kombat (1995) from 2018-01-13T06:01
Holly earns a Flawless Victory by accepting a challenge to appear in the Mortal Kombat (1995), a martial arts tournament held on a secret island, the outcome of which wil...
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Cemetery Man (1994) from 2018-01-06T06:01
Sean wonders why the dead won't stay dead in Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte, Dellamore, 1994), an existentialist Italian zombie movie from Dario Argento protege M...
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Best and Worst Movies of 2017 from 2017-12-30T06:01
We wrap up 2017 with our 2nd annual Best and Worst Movies of the year episode. Listen as we go around the table and attempt to distill a very good year in film down to our choices for the 5 best mo...
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Possession (1981) from 2017-12-23T06:01
Colin considers assault and battery charges against Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981), which chronicles the apocalyptic implosion of the marriage between Sam Neill and...
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I Know Who Killed Me (2007) from 2017-12-16T06:01
Michaela makes the case for Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me (2007), a 8-time Razzie award winning thriller in which Lohan plays dual roles - as a diligent student an...
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Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) from 2017-12-09T06:01
Holly learns the Way of the Samurai for a Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) which features a potentially epic team up between action superstar Dolph Lundgren and the late B...
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Sleepwalkers (1992) from 2017-12-02T06:01
Sean breeds an attack cat to take on the soul sucking menace of Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992). When his owner is killed by a duo of ancient, incestuous, shape-s...
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The Devil's Rain (1975) from 2017-11-25T06:01
Colin hopes to survive the melting Hell on Earth of The Devil's Rain (1975). William Shatner's family guards a Satanic book from the clutches of evil goat-headed cult lea...
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Scream 4 (2011) from 2017-11-18T06:01
Michaela has a bone to pick with the black sheep of the Scream movies, Scream 4 (2011). Wes Craven's final film reunites the surviving cast of the hit, self-aware seri...
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Slither (2006) from 2017-11-11T06:01
Holly develops a taste for raw meat and a hunger for world domination after being possessed by the aliens of Slither (2006), James Gunn's affectionate homage to 80's sci-...
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Urban Legend (1998) from 2017-11-04T05:05
Sean tells us a story that happened to someone who knows someone he knows, and an Urban Legend (1998) is born. Someone in a winter coat is murdering students at snooty Pe...
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Black Sabbath (1963) from 2017-10-28T05:05
Colin cranks the fog machine and creeps around the haunted world of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (aka I Tre Volti Della Paura - "The Three Faces of Fear," 1963), an anth...
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The Craft (1996) from 2017-10-21T05:00
Michaela joins a circle of teenage witches who practice The Craft (1996) and makes poor Fairuza Balk lose her mind! Balk plays a sullen, Goth misfit who lures Sarah, the ...
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) from 2017-10-14T05:00
Holly hopes to survive an apocalypse of running zombies as she outmaneuvers Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004), a remake of George Romero's classic. As before, a dispa...
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Fright Night Part 2 (1988) from 2017-10-07T05:01
Sean cozies up to the seductive vampire fantasy that is Fright Night Part 2 (1988), which finds Charley Brewster and the Fearless Vampire Killer, Peter Vincent, re-t...
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011) from 2017-09-30T05:00
Colin uses benign pharmacology and energy sculpting to trip out Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011), director Panos Cosmatos' nod to science-fiction and horror films of the 1...
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American Psycho 2 (2002) from 2017-09-23T05:00
Michaela wants to go serial killer-hunting with American Psycho 2 (2002), an in-name only cash grab sequel to the Christian Bale-starrer. This time, That 70's Show's Mila ...
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Pet Sematary (1989) from 2017-09-09T05:01
Holly doesn't want to be buried in a Pet Sematary (1989), especially not one that once belonged to Micmac Indians and has the power to bring the dead back to life! Louis ...
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Near Dark (1987) from 2017-09-02T05:01
Colin prays for daylight after hanging with the grimy vampires of Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), which follows a farmhand named Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) who is seduced ...
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Dog Soldiers (2002) from 2017-08-26T05:00
Michaela kits up, heads into the brush, and howls at the moon with Dog Soldiers (2002), which sees a squad of British squaddies (that's soldiers to you) who, during train...
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Dead Alive (1992) from 2017-08-19T05:01
Holly is bitten by a Sumatran Rat-Monkey and finds herself Dead Alive (aka Braindead, 1992)! After his overprotective mother is bitten by the aforementioned rat-monkey, h...
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Maniac Cop (1988) from 2017-08-12T05:01
Sean refuses his right to remain silent after choosing to watch Maniac Cop (1988)! As brutal murders shake New York City, a jaded detective (Tom Atkins) begins to suspect...
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) from 2017-08-05T05:01
Colin squirts 3-D hallucinogenic acid in the eyes of his Freak Show family with Charles Band's Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)! On a remote planet, a rang...
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Cobra (1986) from 2017-07-29T05:01
Michaela goes for a ride along with the cure for crime himself: Cobra (1986)! When the mysterious Night Slasher begins terrorizing Los Angeles, the only man who can get t...
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Waterworld (1995) from 2017-07-22T05:01
Holly turns to the life aquatic with this week's pick of Listen
Predator 2 (1990) from 2017-07-15T05:01
Sean says it's open season on Predator 2 (1990) as Danny Glover subs for Arnold Schwarzenegger, fighting a technologically advanced killer from another world through the concrete jungle of L...
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The Lost Boys (1987) from 2017-07-08T05:01
Colin wishes he was as cool as Listen
Bloodsport (1988) from 2017-07-01T05:01:36
Michaela hopes many kicks to the head will cure her hunger for Listen
Arachnophobia (1990) from 2017-06-24T05:01:29
Holly hopes exposure to spider-men will help cure her Listen
The Mummy (1932) from 2017-06-17T05:01:43
Colin unwraps 85 years of Universal horror with Listen
Breakin' (1984) from 2017-06-10T05:01
Michaela continues to celebrate the Summer of Cannon Films with her choice ofListen
Deep Blue Sea (1999) from 2017-06-03T05:00
Holly keeps repeating "my head is like a shark's fin" after becoming trapped in the Listen
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) from 2017-05-27T05:00
Sean sits ringside for the epic Busta Rhymes vs. Michael Audrey Myers kung fu smackdown called Listen
Night of the Creeps (1986) from 2017-05-20T05:05
Colin's brain is invaded by alien slugs when we watch Listen
Over the Top (1987) from 2017-05-13T05:01
Michaela promises an entire summer dedicated to the output of cheese-factory Cannon Films, which starts with Sylv...
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My Boyfriend's Back (1993) from 2017-05-06T12:00
Holly advocates against zombie prejudice by taking a cadaver to the prom in My Boyfriend's Back (1993). All Johnny Dingle wants to do is win the heart of his longtime crush, Missy McCloud, but his ...
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Escape from L.A. (1996) from 2017-04-29T12:00
Sean hangs ten with Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996). Having successfully rescued the President from the New York City Maximum Security Penitentiary, the United States' mo...
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Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) from 2017-04-22T12:00
Colin disturbs the hallowed resting place of the bloodthirsty Templar knights in Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Vacationers Bette, Virginia and Roger do the same, waking the cloaked, moldy ghosts,...
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Cursed (2005) from 2017-04-15T12:00
Michaela chases werewolves back to the aughts with the 2005 time capsule called Cursed, from director Wes Craven. After being attacked by a werewolf on Mulholland Drive, a brother and sister start ...
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Night of the Demons (1988) from 2017-04-08T12:00
Holly invites moody Goth-girl Angela to our party and all hell breaks loose in Night of the Demons (1988)! When a group of high-schoolers meet at an abandoned funeral home for a Halloween party (ne...
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Darkman (1990) from 2017-04-01T12:00
Sean swings into action with the face-swapping superhero Darkman (1990)! Before Marvel would turn him loose on Spider-Man, director Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi came up with his own cinematic superhero st...
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) from 2017-03-25T12:00
Colin hears a whisper in his ghost and thinks he might be being brainjacked by a viewing of 1995's sci-fi anime Ghost in the Shell, about a female cyborg supersoldier who comes to question her life...
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Rubber (2010) from 2017-03-18T12:00
Michaela grows tired of mainstream movies and treads carefully into Rubber (2010) a flick about a killer tire that wakes up in the desert one day and subsequently rolls around, murdering everyone t...
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Demolition Man (1993) from 2017-03-11T12:00
Holly wants to know how the three seashells work when Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in Demolition Man (1993)! When cryogenically frozen super criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) ...
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Leprechaun (1993) from 2017-03-04T12:00
The luck of the Irish runs out on Sean when he encounters a Leprechaun (1993)! Jennifer Aniston makes her movie debut as a spoiled city girl who moves to a country house with a captive leprechaun (...
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Dune (1984) from 2017-02-25T12:00
Colin comes to believe he's the Kwisatz Haderach as we take on David Lynch's much-maligned science fiction epic Dune (1984). Two feudal houses war over the production of a spice, mined from only on...
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Monkey Shines (1988) from 2017-02-18T12:00
Michaela falls in love with a cute killer monkey in George A. Romero's Monkey Shines (1988). After an accident leaves him crippled from the neck down, Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is recruited by his m...
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My Bloody Valentine (1981) from 2017-02-11T12:00
Holly loses her heart to the holiday slasher My Bloody Valentine (1981). The town of Valentine Bluffs hasn't celebrated Valentine's Day in 20 years, not since miner Harry Warden killed all those pe...
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The Arrival (1996) from 2017-02-04T12:00
Sean detects signals from deep space, which leads to The Arrival (1996). Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez) stars as a radio telescope operator who uncovers an alien conspiracy while trying to unco...
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Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) from 2017-01-28T12:00
Colin loads up the van and rides into a world of heavy metal gods and monsters with Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987), as legendary (but mostly unheard of) rock showman Jon-Mikl Thor (of the 70's band...
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Terror Tract (2000) from 2017-01-21T12:00
We move into a house on Terror Tract (2000), a horror anthology about a highly-motivated realtor (the late John Ritter) who spins three tales to his clients as they look at a trio of houses with so...
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Rawhead Rex (1986) from 2017-01-14T12:00
Holly worships at the feet of Clive Barker's resurrected, pagan god-monster Rawhead Rex (1986)! When a farmer digs up a pre-Christian era pillar in his field he unleashes the titular beast, which g...
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Dead Heat (1988) from 2017-01-07T12:00
Sean brings Dead Heat (1988) back from the dead so he can kill it again! While tracking a gang of undead robbers, Detective Roger Mortiss (Treat Williams) winds up one of the living dead himself! W...
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Best and Worst Movies of 2016 from 2016-12-31T12:00
We close out the year with a show devoted to the new movies we saw in 2016, and each of us undertake the arduous task of choosing only 5 champions to be considered the Best of the Year. And then, f...
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Krampus (2015) from 2016-12-24T12:00
Colin abuses the traditions of Christmas and gets a visit from Krampus (2015). A dysfunctional family receives punishment for their lack of Christmas spirit in the form of a supernatural siege of d...
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Santa's Slay (2005) from 2016-12-17T12:00
Holly is startled to discover that Santa Claus is actually the son of Satan in Santa's Slay (2005), a horror-comedy starring WWE's Bill Goldberg as rampaging demon, recently released from 1000 year...
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Jack Frost (1997) from 2016-12-10T12:00
Sean wants to build a snowman, but is horrified when it becomes a serial killer named Jack Frost (1997)! When the aforementioned (human) bad guy gets bathed in "genetic chemicals" in an auto accide...
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Cool World (1992) from 2016-12-03T12:00
Travis wonders what it would be like to live in Cool World (1992), renegade animator Ralph Bakshi's trippy live-action/animation answer to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Voluptuous doodle Holli Would (Ki...
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Cat People (1982) from 2016-11-26T12:00
Colin explores forbidden love among the Cat People (1982), which stars Nastassja Kinski as a woman who begins to fear that her burgeoning sexuality, once unleashed, may literally turn her into an a...
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The Stepford Wives (1975) from 2016-11-19T12:00
Holly thinks The Stepford Wives (1975) are acting strangely, and is afraid she might become one herself! Based on Ira (Rosemary's Baby) Levin's novel, a New York City housewife moves to an idyllic ...
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994) from 2016-11-12T12:00
Sean revs up his chainsaw and develops a taste for Southern barbecue with Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (aka The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, (1994). A virtual remake of th...
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From Beyond the Grave (1973) from 2016-11-05T12:00
Travis brings us back From Beyond the Grave (1973), an anthology of horror short stories from England's Amicus Productions. Peter Cushing stars as the proprietor of a antiques shop that sells haunt...
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Dracula (1979) from 2016-10-29T12:00
Colin summons the king of vampires with a viewing of Dracula (1979), Universal Pictures' big budget remake of the Bela Lugosi classic, this time with Frank Langella reprising his Broadway role as t...
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012) from 2016-10-22T12:00
Holly dares us to unlock the mysteries of The Cabin in the Woods (2012), a Joss Whedon-written, Drew Goddard-directed, meta-movie dissertation on the inner-workings of horror films. Five college st...
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Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993) from 2016-10-15T12:00
Sean likes his women sexy, cold, pierced and punctured, as evidenced by his choice of Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993), which adds amore to the zombie saga. Star-crossed lovers Curt and Julie bec...
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The Bad Seed (1956) from 2016-10-08T12:00
Travis encounters The Bad Seed (1956) and contends that some people are just born evil. Plus: we discover his Top 10 favorite horror movies in our special Halloween segment! Affluent Christine Penm...
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Westworld (1973) from 2016-10-01T12:00
On the eve of the premiere of a new HBO series, Colin takes us on a vacation to the original Westworld (1973) and we end up on the run from killer robots! Wealthy vacationers visit a Western-themed...
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What We Do in the Shadows (2014) from 2016-09-24T12:00
Holly wants to see What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and spies on the nocturnal habits of a group of New Zealand vampires who share a house together, thanks to a documentary camera crew who is allow...
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Street Trash (1987) from 2016-09-17T12:00
Sean picks up some Street Trash (1987) and discovers it's not what he thought it was! Described as a movie about NYC winos who melt after drinking toxic booze, the Internet Radio Superstars inadver...
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Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015) from 2016-09-10T12:00
Travis wanted to join a fraternity, but ended up in a Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)! In this psychedelic slasher parody (the title of which is part of the joke: there is no Dude Bro Party Mass...
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The Monster Squad (1987) from 2016-09-03T12:00
Colin wants to be part of The Monster Squad (1987), a group of monster-lovin' kids who become the only hope for civilization after Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Wolf Man, The Mummy and The G...
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Castle Freak (1995) from 2016-08-27T12:00
Sean discovers what lurks in the basement dungeon with Castle Freak (1995). The Re-Animator/From Beyond team of director Stuart Gordon, producer Charles Band, and stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Cr...
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House (1986) from 2016-08-20T12:00
Travis opens the door to House (1986) and finds monsters inside! In this cult horror-comedy, a writer moves into a big Victorian house following the disappearance of his son, and begins to experien...
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The Resurrected (1992) from 2016-08-13T12:00
Colin digs up Dan O'Bannon's H.P. Lovecraft adaptation The Resurrected (1992 - aka Shatterbrain aka The Ancestor), based on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". A beautiful woman hires a private inve...
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Legend (1985) from 2016-08-06T12:00
Holly loves unicorns...and Tom Cruise, and Legend (1985), director Ridley Scott's visually arresting fairy tale-fantasy epic, in which a young forest lad (Cruise) must rescue a princess (Mia Sara) ...
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Ghostbusters II (1989) from 2016-07-30T12:00
Sean says bustin' makes him feel good with his pick of Ghostbusters II (1989). Five years after the 1984 classic, the out-of-work Ghostbusters are forced back into action to deal with an epidemic o...
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Superman III (1983) from 2016-07-23T12:00
Travis goes to bat for Superman III (1983), in which someone thought it would be a good idea to put Richard Pryor and Superman together for the Man of Steel's third big screen showdown. In this seq...
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Jaws 3-D (1983) from 2016-07-16T12:00
Colin dares to go back in the water for Jaws 3-D (1983), and finds that the third dimension is terror! Florida's SeaWorld is about to open an new underwater attraction when a giant, 35-foot great w...
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Ghoulies II (1988) from 2016-07-09T12:00
Sean summons Ghoulies II (1988) and they nearly get him in the end...again! This sequel adventure finds the diminutive Gremlins/Critters ripoffs (from Charles Band's Empire Pictures) hiding out in ...
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Guvyer: Dark Hero (1994) from 2016-07-02T12:00
Travis once again transforms into a Japanese superhero character in Guyver: Dark Hero (1994). Having defeated the evil monster Zoanoids, our hero Sean Barker (Metal Gear Solid's David Hayter) takes...
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Sorceress (1982) from 2016-06-25T12:00
Colin conjures up the 1982 fantasy film Sorceress, a campy flick from the post-Conan, 80's fantasy movie craze. An evil sorcerer searches for his twin girls (Playboy's Leigh and Lynnette Harris), w...
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The Last Dragon (1985) from 2016-06-18T12:00
Holly tries to find "The Glow" of Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985), Motown's first (and only) motion picture production. A kung-fu movie by way of MTV music videos, this blacksploitation flick ...
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Watchers (1988) from 2016-06-11T12:00
Sean takes a look back at a movie that terrified him as a sensitive 15-year-old: the Corey Haim vehicle Watchers (1988). Based on a novel by Dean R. Koontz, Watchers is the story of a super-intelli...
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Ninja III: The Domination (1984) from 2016-06-04T12:00
Travis takes us back to the height of ninja popularity in American pop-culture with Ninja III: The Domination (1984), in which an aerobics instructor (Lucinda Dickey) - who moonlights as a telephon...
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Pieces (1982) from 2016-05-28T12:00
Colin proves you don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre with Pieces (1982), a camp-classic splatter opus. A child hacks his mother to death after she catches him assembling a naughty jig...
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Sorority House Massacre II (1982) from 2016-05-21T12:00
Sean takes us ringside for the cleavage vs cleavers experience that is Sorority House Massacre II (1990), not to be confused with Slumber Party Massacre II, although this is a sequel to Slumber Par...
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Basket Case (1982) from 2016-05-14T12:00
Travis takes a trip back to the filmic heyday of New York's 42nd Street with his pick of Basket Case (1982), in which a man and his murderous, deformed Siamese twin stalk and kill the doctors respo...
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Quatermass and the Pit (1967) from 2016-05-07T12:00
Colin tries to find the science behind the spooks in Quatermass and the Pit (1967). In this Hammer Films production, work on a London tube extension uncovers a 5 million year old object which may n...
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Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) from 2016-04-30T12:00
Travis wants to be Pinhead's right hand man in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992), the third of nine (nine!) movies (currently) in the series following Clive Barker's groundbreaking 1987 original...
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Tenebre (1982) from 2016-04-23T12:00
Colin dons his black gloves and indulges his obsession with Italian gialli and Dario Argento's Tenebre (1982). An American writer in Italy begins receiving threatening messages from a serial killer...
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Candyman (1992) from 2016-04-16T12:00
Sean looks in a mirror and summons the Candyman (1992), director Bernard Rose's adaptation of Clive Barker's "The Forbidden". Relocating the action from an London slum to Chicago's Cabrini Green ho...
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994) from 2016-04-09T12:00
Travis finds himself lost In the Mouth of Madness (1994), John Carpenter's apocalyptic homage to H.P. Lovecraft. Insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neil) is hired to find missing horror author ...
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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973) from 2016-04-02T12:00
Colin takes us into dark fairy-tale territory with the cult film Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973). Also known as Lemora: Lady Dracula and The Legendary Curse of Lemora, the film fo...
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Scream 2 (1997) from 2016-03-26T12:00
Sean celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scream by watching... Scream 2 (1997). In what should be known as Scream: The College Years, poor Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) takes the entire small town...
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987) from 2016-03-19T12:00
Travis takes us back to high school with Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987), an in-name-only sequel to the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher, in which the ghost of vengeful, murdered prom queen Mary ...
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The Legend of Hell House (1973) from 2016-03-12T12:00
Colin takes us on a paranormal investigation into The Legend of Hell House (1973), in which a group of psychics and scientists (featuring Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin) venture into the "Mount...
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Captain America (1990) from 2016-03-05T12:00
Sean dons the red, white and blue with Captain America (1990), the first attempt to bring Marvel's comic book character to the big screen. Imbued with super powers in a secret WWII experiment, Stev...
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) from 2016-02-27T12:00
Travis takes us on a spiritual journey with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984), a Japanese fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic future. A princess has to stop an aggressive neighboring kingdom ...
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Triangle (2009) from 2016-02-20T12:00
Jenny gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle with her pick of Triangle (2009), which finds Melissa (Alias, 30 Days of Night) George experiencing what we refer to as the "Groundhog Day effect" (only with...
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) from 2016-02-13T12:00
Colin uses his black belt to combat black magic as he summons The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) on this week's show. Genre stalwart Peter Cushing travels to China to aid villagers under si...
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The Beach (2000) from 2016-02-06T12:00
Brent swims us out to The Beach (2000), as Leonardo DiCaprio discovers a paradise on a tropical island off the coast of Thailand, then discovers that the only threat to perfection is man himself. L...
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Maximum Overdrive (1986) from 2016-01-30T12:00
Sean was having a good day until every machine on the planet went into Maximum Overdrive (1986), horror author Stephen King's first (and only) directorial effort. Earth passes through the tail of a...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) from 2016-01-23T12:00
Travis becomes the night with a look at Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), a big screen edition of the Batman: The Animated Series TV show, which finds Batman (Kevin Conroy) dealing with the appe...
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The Princess Bride (1987) from 2016-01-16T12:00
Jenny celebrates her birthday with a re-visitation of the childhood staple The Princess Bride (1987), a sweet-natured spoof of fairy tales directed by Rob (Misery, A Few Good Men) Reiner. Is one of...
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Only God Forgives (2013) from 2016-01-09T12:00
Colin tries to make sense of Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives (2013), in which Ryan Gosling stars as a psychologically damaged drug smuggler, living in Bangkok, who plows a path of revenge ...
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Celebrity (1998) from 2016-01-02T12:00
Brent explores the neurotic world of Woody Allen with Celebrity (1998), in which Kenneth Branagh does an spot on Allen impersonation as a celebrity journalist going through a divorce, and the gamut...
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Black Christmas (1974) from 2015-12-26T12:00
Sean celebrates Santa's arrival with the holiday classic Black Christmas (1974) - one of the first "slasher" movies - a Canadian import which arrived 4 years before Halloween (1978). A group of gir...
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Spookies (1986) from 2015-12-19T12:00
Travis digs up the forgotten horror flick Spookies (1986), which finds a group of 30-something teenagers choosing an old mansion in which to party, and ultimately end up summoning a bunch of monste...
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Home Alone (1990) from 2015-12-12T12:00
Jenny relives her childhood fascination with Macaulay Culkin's screaming fits and proclivities towards violent mayhem in Home Alone (1990). In the film, the pint-sized terror scalds, stabs, shatter...
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Videodrome (1983) from 2015-12-05T12:00
Colin says "long live the new flesh!" and unleashes David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) signal upon unsuspecting minds in this week's episode. James Woods stars as a fringe-TV programmer whose rea...
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Back to the Future Part III (1988) from 2015-11-28T12:00
Brent concludes a year celebrating Back to the Future and time-travel movies with Back to the Future Part III (1990), which sees Marty and Doc transported to 1885, where they run afoul of 'Mad Dog'...
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Critters 2 (1988) from 2015-11-21T12:00
Sean comes back for a second course of furry extraterrestrial troublemakers with Critters 2 (1988), which finds more of the small creatures hatching and causing havoc in a small town, while series ...
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American Pop (1982) from 2015-11-14T12:00
This week, Travis takes us on a magical mystery tour of American Pop (1982), an animated feature from Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, The Lord of the Rings and Cool World. The film is an a...
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Would You Rather (2012) from 2015-11-07T16:00
This week, Jenny gets her freak on with Would You Rather (2012), in which Re-Animator's Jeffrey Combs stars as the sadistic host of a dinner party, who puts his desperate guests through a deadly ga...
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The Lords of Salem (2013) from 2015-10-31T16:00
This week, we celebrate Halloween with Colin's seasonal pick of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (2013) in which a cursed record album conjures up a centuries old witches' curse to haunt a modern da...
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) from 2015-10-24T12:00
This week, Sean officially returns to the Freak Show with a look back at cult item Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983), an anomaly in the Halloween movie series that does not feature boogeyma...
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Puppetmaster (1989) from 2015-10-17T12:00
This week Travis pulls the strings of cult favorite Puppetmaster (1989), the first in a series of low budget horror films about a group of living dolls, brought to life by an ancient Egyptian spell...
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Hook (1991) from 2015-10-10T12:00
This week we fly to Neverland with Peter Pan in Jenny's pick of Hook (1991), Steven Spielberg's sequel-of-sorts, which finds a middle-aged Peter (Robin Williams) being forced to re-discover his mag...
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Zombie (1979) from 2015-10-03T12:00
This week, Colin exposes us to the gorefest delights of Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979 - also known as Zombi 2 and Zombie Flesh Eaters), which sees eyeball-poking, shark wrestling ghouls resurrected by...
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Robot Jox (1989) from 2015-09-26T12:00
This week, O.G. Tom returns to the Freak Show to behold the giant mech battle movie, Robot Jox (1989). In a post apocalyptic world, wars are fought in a gladiatorial arena by giant robots driven by...
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Con Air (1997) from 2015-09-19T12:00
This week, Jenny enters the so-bad-it's-good sweepstakes with her pick of the Nicholas Cage-starrer, Con Air (1997). Loveable criminal cage is put on a high-security plane with a bunch of hardened ...
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Starcrash (1978) from 2015-09-12T12:00
This week, Colin subjects us to the camp sci-fi classic Starcrash (1978), an Italian Star Wars rip-off that finds the buxom Stella Star (Captain Kronos' beauty Caroline Munro), along with a menager...
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The Fly II (1989) from 2015-09-05T12:00
This week Travis indulges his love for monster movies with his pick of The Fly II (1989), a follow-up to David Cronenberg's 1986 re-vamp of the classic '50's chiller. Picking up where the previous ...
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Clue (1985) from 2015-08-29T12:00
This week we discover it was Jenny who did it, in the basement, with the movie Clue (1985), a slapstick adaptation of the classic board game. It's a dark and stormy night as Tim Curry, as a hapless...
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Phantom of the Paradise (1974) from 2015-08-22T12:00
This week we sell our souls for rock n' roll with Colin's pick of Brian de Palma's horror/comedy/musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974). When an up and coming songwriter is disfigured and his music...
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Groundhog Day (1993) from 2015-08-15T12:00
This week Brent tries to determine if Groundhog Day (1993) can be classified as a time-travel movie. Self-centered weatherman Bill Murray gets stuck in Punxsutawney, PA in more ways than one, findi...
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Return to Oz (1985) from 2015-08-08T12:00
This week Jenny takes us to the the nightmare fantasy world of Return to Oz (1985), a supposed sequel to the much beloved classic film that, in the hands of the maniacs at Disney, becomes a full-fl...
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Re-Animator (1985) from 2015-08-01T12:00
This week Colin ventures into H.P. Lovecraft territory with a 30th anniversary review of Re-Animator (1985). Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a medical student who conducts bizarre experiments on de...
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) from 2015-07-25T12:00
This week Brent steps into the ring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the time-travel epic Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)! Come with us if you want to live, as we evaluate one of sci-fi's enduring ...
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The Exorcist III (1990) from 2015-07-18T12:00
The pesky electronic gremlins have struck again and have devoured our intended review of The Babadook, so this week the power of Christ compels us to watch William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (...
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Forbidden Planet (1956) from 2015-07-11T12:00
This week, Colin takes us to the Forbidden Planet (1956) where we encounter Robby the Robot, the voluptuous Anne Francis, monsters from the Id, and a very young Leslie Nielsen, who stars as the com...
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Twelve Monkeys (1995) from 2015-06-27T12:00
The 2015 Year of Time Travel Movies continues with Brent's selection of Twelve Monkeys (1995), which sees Bruce Willis sent from a post-apocalyptic future back to the modern day to find a pathogen,...
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The Big Lebowski (1998) from 2015-06-20T12:00
This week we evaluate Jenny's selection of 1998's The Big Lebowski by subjecting ourselves to a barrage of trivia questions about the Dude (Jeff Bridges), Walter (John Goodman), Maude (Julliane Moo...
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Kung Fury (2015) from 2015-06-13T12:00
This week, we take a trip back through 80's nostalgia via Colin's pick of Kung Fury (2015), a Kickstarter-funded short film that sees a Miami cop become a martial arts master, thanks to a simultane...
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) from 2015-06-06T12:00
This week, Brent continues the 2015: Year of Time Travel series with the 2010 comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine. John Cusack leads a cadre of his pals back to 1986 via a magical hot tub, where they are...
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Super (2010) from 2015-05-30T12:00
This week, Travis plumbs the dark recesses behind superhero fantasies with James Gunn's Super (2010). Rainn Wilson stars as a short order cook who becomes a costumed crimefighter in order to rescu...
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Primer (2004) from 2015-05-16T12:00
This week, Colin answers Brent's 'year of time-travel movies' challenge with Shane Carruth's Primer (2004), a low-budget mindbender about two engineers who accidentally invent a time machine in the...
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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) from 2015-05-09T12:00
This week, Brent takes us on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), in which two lovable losers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) embark on a quest to abduct famous figures from history (courtesy ...
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Black Rat (2010) from 2015-05-02T12:00
This week marks the Freak Show's first foray into J-horror with Travis' pick of Black Rat (2010). Set in a high school, a killer in a rat mask begins murdering her classmates for revenge for a trag...
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I Come in Peace (1990) from 2015-04-25T12:00
This week, we yap about Colin's pick, I Come In Peace (aka Dark Angel, 1990). Muscleman Dolph Lundgren stars as a rule-breaking cop investigating a series of murders committed by an extraterrestria...
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The Time Machine (1960) from 2015-04-18T12:00
This week, Brent takes us on a voyage through time to the 1960's to watch The Time Machine, in which an inventor and scientist George Wells (Rod Taylor) travels to a distant future where humanity i...
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The Guyver (1991) from 2015-04-04T12:00
This week, Travis hopes to transform into The Guyver (1991), a suit of bio-boosted space armor from this adaptation of a popular Japanese manga. A kickboxer (Jack Armstrong) discovers an alien art...
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WolfCop (2014) from 2015-03-28T12:00
This week, we howl at Colin's pick of WolfCop (2014), a tongue-in-cheek monster/comedy that finds an alcoholic policeman finding new ways to battle crime once he's transformed into the world's firs...
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Time Bandits (1981) from 2015-03-21T12:00
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, Terr...
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The Phantom (1996) from 2015-03-14T12:00
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 j...
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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985) from 2015-03-07T12:00
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 ...
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Timecop (1994) from 2015-02-28T12:00
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...
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Class of Nuke Em High (1986) from 2015-02-21T12:00
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, radioac...
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Zardoz (1974) from 2015-02-14T12:00
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 - v...
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Strange Brew (1983) from 2015-02-07T12:00
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 ...
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Play It Again, Sam (1972) from 2015-01-31T12:00
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 ...
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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) from 2015-01-24T12:00
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 Pip...
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Back to the Future Part II (1989) from 2015-01-17T12:00
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 glimps...
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Moon 44 (1990) from 2015-01-10T12:00
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 offi...
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Save the Green Planet (2003) from 2015-01-03T12:00
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...
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) from 2014-12-27T12:00
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 h...
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State of Grace (1990) from 2014-12-20T12:00
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, an...
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Masters of the Universe (1987) from 2014-12-13T12:00
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) ...
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House of Wax (1953) from 2014-12-06T12:00
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...
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John Carpenter's They Live (1988) from 2014-11-22T12:00
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...
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Arena (1989) from 2014-11-15T12:00
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 ...
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Nightbreed (1990) from 2014-11-08T12:00
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 ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) from 2014-11-01T12:00
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 Fred...
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Session 9 (2001) from 2014-10-25T12:00
This week, Gary discovers that fear is a place in Brad Anderson's Session 9 (2001), in which chronicles the exploits of a hazmat crew tasked with cleaning up the old Danvers Lunatic Asylum. As psy...
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Girlfriend from Hell (1989) from 2014-10-18T12:00
This week, Travis dumps his Girlfriend from Hell (1989) on us! In the movie, the inventor of the condom (Twin Peaks' Dana Ashbrook), now God's bounty hunter, tracks down the Devil who has taken po...
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers Producers Cut (1995) from 2014-10-11T00:01
This week, we bid farewell to Sean with his final Freak Show pick of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - Producer's Cut (1995), an alternate version of the 6th entry in the long-running slasher...
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Trick or Treat (1986) from 2014-10-04T00:01
This week, Colin asks "what are you afraid of? It's only rock n' roll!" with his pick of the 1986 heavy metal horror movie, Trick or Treat, which finds an outcast high school metal-head summoning ...
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Buffalo 66 (1998) from 2014-09-20T00:01
This week, Brent returns us to the glory days of the 1990's independent cinema movement with Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 (1998), a film in which Gallo (who wrote and directed) plays a troubled ex-c...
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The Toxic Avenger (1984) from 2014-09-13T12:00
This week, Travis bathes us in the glory of the cult classic The Toxic Avenger (1984), in which a 90 lb weakling is transformed, by a canister of toxic waste, into a hulking superhero who mops up t...
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Daughters of Darkness (1971) from 2014-08-30T12:00
This week, we revel in the euro-horror delights of Colin's pick, 1971's Daughters of Darkness, in which John Karlen (Dark Shadows) and his new bride, vacationing abroad, find themselves holed-up in...
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Badlands (1973) from 2014-08-23T12:00
This week, Brent chooses Terrence Malick's 1973 road drama Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young lovers who embark on a spree-killing trip through the rural Southwest. The movi...
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976-EVIL (1988) from 2014-08-16T12:00
This week, Travis investigates Robert Englund's directorial debut, 976-EVIL (1988), in which an alienated teen is granted the power to get even after dialing a satanic phone number. Listen in as w...
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Foxy Brown (1974) from 2014-08-09T12:00
This week, Colin takes us back to the groovy '70's with the Blaxsploitation classic Foxy Brown (1974). Foxy (Pam Grier), a "whole lot of woman" - as described by one character, goes on a revenge r...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) from 2014-07-26T16:00:50
This week, Brent tries to class up the joint with his pick of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Multiple timelines converge in this funny story about the legendary concierge (Ralph Finnes) at a fam...
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The Frighteners (1996) from 2014-07-19T13:00:50
The Saturday Night Freak Show podcast returns! After a brief hiatus, we're back with Sean's pick of The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's 1996 tongue-in-cheek ghost comedy which stars Michael J Fox as ...
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Forbidden Zone (1980) from 2014-07-05T13:00:50
This week, Travis takes us into the Forbidden Zone (1980), a tripped-out musical fantasy from Richard Elfman, brother of Danny (who appears as the Devil during a musical number), based on the cabar...
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Road House (1989) from 2014-06-21T13:00:50
This week, the Summer of Swayze continues as we watch Colin's pick of Road House (1989), a ridiculously fun time at the movies full of throat-ripping, monster truck stomping, barroom brawling, kick...
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Hudson Hawk (1991) from 2014-06-14T13:00:50
This week, Tom makes his final Freak Show selection with the Bruce Willis vanity project Hudson Hawk (1991), in which Bruno plays a singing jewel thief recruited by the mob, the C.I.A. and pair of ...
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Point Break (1991) from 2014-06-07T13:00:50
This week, Brent ushers in the Summer of Swayze with Point Break (1991), the Katheryn (Hurt Locker) Bigelow directed, James Cameron-produced action thriller starring Keanu Reeves as a FBI agent tas...
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Night of the Lepus (1972) from 2014-05-31T13:00:50
This week, Sean returns the Freak Show to drive-in territory by showing us Night of the Lepus (1972), a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it horror movie about a bunch of giant, flesh-eating rabbits(!)...
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Bullets Over Broadway (1994) from 2014-05-24T13:00:50
This week, Travis tries to class up the joint with his choice of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994), which sees John Cusack as an idealistic 1920's New York playwright comically struggling ...
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Attack the Block (2011) from 2014-05-17T13:00:50
This week, Colin chooses the contemporary inner-city vs. outer-space alien invasion adventure Attack the Block (2011), which sees an East London tower block overrun by rampaging creatures, and only...
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Streets of Fire (1984) from 2014-05-10T13:00:50
This week, Tom blind-buys his way into Walter Hill's Streets of Fire (1984), a "rock n' roll fable" that mashes up 1950's tough guy attitudes with 1980's music and neon streets. Soldier boy Tom Co...
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Death Becomes Her (1992) from 2014-05-03T13:00:50
This week, Brent once again worships at the feet of his idol, Robert Zemeckis, with this week's pick of Death Becomes Her (1992) which finds the director in Tales From the Crypt territory in a stor...
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Friday the 13th Part 3 3D (1982) from 2014-04-26T13:00:50
This week, Sean takes us down the trail of classic horror with Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982), the 3D entry in the long running slasher series. Listen as we build our own true-color 3D Frankencut o...
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The Last Unicorn (1982) from 2014-04-19T13:00:50
This week, Travis takes us on a hunt for The Last Unicorn (1982), an animated fantasy film about a unicorn who, upon discovering that she is the last of her kind, goes on a quest, along with a pluc...
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Body Double (1984) from 2014-04-12T16:00:50
This week, we go all Hitchcockian with Colin's pick of Brian De Palma's 1984 erotic thriller Body Double, in which a struggling actor (Craig Wasson) spies on a sexy neighbor (Deborah Shelton) and g...
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The Running Man (1987) from 2014-04-05T16:00:50
This week, Brent takes us to the future with The Running Man (1987), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle that takes place in a totalitarian future in which criminals are forced to participate i...
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The Rocketeer (1991) from 2014-03-29T16:00:50
This week, Sean takes to the skies with The Rocketeer (1991), in which a down-on-his-luck biplane pilot (Billy Campbell) comes into possession of a wearable rocket pack that's wanted by the F.B.I.,...
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988) from 2014-03-22T16:00:50
This week, Travis brings us Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), a sequel to the cheapo cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) which a world still recovering from the Great Tomato War h...
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The Protector (2005) from 2014-03-15T16:00:50
This week, Colin claims that the heir to Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li in the history of cinema's greatest martial artists is Tony Jaa and we watch his 2005 film The Protector (aka Tom Young G...
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Flash Gordon (1980) from 2014-03-08T16:00:50
This week, Tom takes us to the farthest reaches of space along with Flash Gordon (1980), a colorful adaptation of the classic comic strip hero. Flash (Sam Jones), quarterback for the New York Jets...
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Flight of the Navigator (1986) from 2014-03-01T16:00:50
This week, Brent takes us back to a kinder, a gentler time with the 80's fantasy flick Flight of the Navigator, in which a Walt Disney kid gets whisked away in a fancy silver spaceship co-piloted b...
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Urotsukidoji Legend of the Overfiend (1989) from 2014-02-22T16:00:50
This week, Travis defiles our eyeballs with the legendary Japanese hentai animated classic Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989), in which demons, half-demons and man (demons?) all converge ...
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Suspiria (1977) from 2014-02-15T16:00:50
This week, Colin unleashes the candy-colored horrors of Dario Argento's classic Suspiria (1977), in which a new student (Jessica Harper) at a ballet school in the Black Forest of Germany discovers ...
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Sharknado (2013) from 2014-02-08T13:00:50
This week, Tom gets by with a technicality and shows us the 2013 made-for-SyFy shlockpic Sharknado (it had a brief theatrical run thanks to Fathom Events), in which a storm sucks up a bunch of shar...
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Dolemite (1975) from 2014-02-01T09:00:50
This week, the whitest people you ever met take a viewing of Brent's movie choice: the blaxsploitation classic Dolemite (1975). Stand up comedian Rudy Ray Moore stars as a flamboyant pimp who's giv...
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Critters (1986) from 2014-01-25T16:00:50
This week Sean looks to outer space and rains down Critters (1986) upon us, in which the family farm comes under attack from adorable but mean alien creatures (think Gizmo, but with teeth). The 'c...
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Demons (1985) from 2014-01-18T16:00:50
This week we watch Travis' pick of Lamberto Bava's 1985 gore opus, Demons. A disparate group of people are given free tickets to see a sneak preview of a new horror movie, but terror erupts in the...
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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974) from 2014-01-11T16:00:50
This week, Colin condemns us to watch Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974), a true grindhouse exploitation classic. Busty Dyanne Thorne stars as the commandant Nazi prison camp who conducts harrowing "s...
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Mean Guns (1997) from 2014-01-04T16:00:50
This week, Tom introduces us to the cinematic atrocity known as Mean Guns (1997), in which prolific schlockmeister Albert Pyun (Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg) traps bleach-blonde Christopher Lambe...
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Our Favorite Movies of 2013 from 2013-12-31T16:00:50
Every Saturday, all year long, the guys of the Saturday Night Freak Show watch each other's movie picks. But, we see as many new movies as we can as well! Gather 'round and celebrate the arrival ...
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Disneys A Christmas Carol (2009) from 2013-12-28T19:00:50
This week, Brent concludes our holiday excursion with a look at the third of director Robert Zemeckis' motion capture films, Disney's A Christmas Carol, which stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the Gh...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) from 2013-12-21T19:00:50
This week, Sean looks back upon the film that ruined Christmases for the Moral Majority in 1984 - the notorious Silent Night, Deadly Night. A traumatized lad suffers the loss of his parents at the...
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Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996) from 2013-12-14T19:00:50
This week, Travis gets us in the Christmas spirit with Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996), the first and only feature film featuring the Canadian sketch-comedy troupe, in which a pharmaceutical s...
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Hardware (1990) from 2013-12-07T19:00:50
This week, Colin celebrates Christmas with the holiday classic Hardware, which sees a post-apocalyptic artist (Stacey Travis) menaced in her apartment by a killer robot that re-assembles itself aft...
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Gremlins (1984) from 2013-11-30T19:00:50
This week, Tom ushers in the Yuletide season with the holiday classic Gremlins (1984) that proves that Christmas consumerism can lead to madness, death and monsters. Joe Dante (The Howling, Piranh...
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Jurassic Park (1993) from 2013-11-23T19:00:50
After our attempt to stream Beowulf in 3D via Netflix goes teats-up, Brent chooses the 3D remastered Jurassic Park (1993) as a consolation prize. Which is fitting, because Steven Spielberg's dinos...
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Man of Steel (2013) from 2013-11-16T19:00:50
This week, the Freak Show overindulges in breaking down Travis' Holy Grail: the 2013 Superman re-do Man of Steel, in an epic 3-and-a-half hour discussion that leaves no stone unturned in analyzing ...
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Amityville 3-D (1983) from 2013-11-09T19:00:50
This week, Colin takes us into the third dimension with 1983's Amityville 3-D, the third theatrical installment of the classic Amityville Horror trilogy, which find's a skeptical magazine writer (T...
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Hocus Pocus (1993) from 2013-11-02T19:00:50
We wrap up our month of Halloween-themed movie picks with Tom's choice of Hocus Pocus, which stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson Sisters, a trio of witches fr...
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Halloween Special 2013 from 2013-10-31T12:00
Listen to our Halloween Special, a trick-or-treat grab bag in which we take a look back at childhood Halloween TV standards including Walt Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Great Pumpkin Ch...
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Flatliners (1990) from 2013-10-26T19:00:50
We continue to celebrate Halloween with Brent's pick: Flatliners (1990), in which five too-smart-for-their-own-good medical students attempt to prove life-after-death by killing and resurrecting th...
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Curse of Chucky (2013) from 2013-10-19T19:00:50
Our Halloween celebration continues this week with Sean's pick, Curse of Chucky (2013), which sees the return of everyone's favorite killer doll. The new installment eschews the post-modern camp c...
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Tales from the Crypt (1972) from 2013-10-12T19:00:50
This week, Halloween month continues with Travis' trip back to the past via the original screen adaptation of Tales from the Crypt (1972), an omnibus horror film from England's Amicus Productions w...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) from 2013-10-05T19:00:50
This week, we usher in Halloween with Colin's pick of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), a famous monster-rally that has comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello running afoul of Dracula (B...
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Drive-In Theater Horrorthon from 2013-09-28T19:00:50
This week, the Saturday Night Freak Show fellows take a field trip to the local drive-in movie theater and catch a dusk till dawn horrorthon that includes Fright Night (1985), Death Race 2000 (1975...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) from 2013-09-21T19:00:50
This week, Tom champions Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), the live-action, feature film version of the popular comic book and cartoon series featuring a quartet of humanoid turtles, Leonardo, R...
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Days of Thunder (1990) from 2013-09-14T19:00:50
This week, Brent claims we can't outrun the thunder as he subjects us to Days of Thunder (1990), which follows the career of a hot shot stock car racer (Tom Cruise) as he battles his way to the Day...
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Sleepaway Camp 2 (1988) from 2013-09-07T19:00:50
This week, Travis forces us to watch Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988), a late addition to the slasher-movie cycle which features the return of transgendered psychopath Angela (now played b...
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Shogun Assassin (1980) from 2013-08-31T19:00:50
This week, Colin subjects the guys to Shogun Assassin (1980), which chronicles the adventures of a renegade warrior and his infant son as they travel the length and breadth of feudal Japan, slashin...
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The Warriors (1979) from 2013-08-24T19:00:50
This week, Tom calls out The Warriors (1979) in which a NYC gang finds themselves framed for the murder of a gang chieftain and must fight their way back home, 100 miles through enemy turf belongin...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) from 2013-08-17T19:00:50
This week, Brent targets The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), in which Geena Davis stars as an amnesiac assassin who teams up with con-man/private eye Samuel Jackson to uncover her hidden identify. Lis...
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Last Action Hero (1993) from 2013-08-10T19:00:50
This week, Sean takes a look back at Last Action Hero (1993), in which a movie obsessed kid gets whisked into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action blockbuster by means of a magic movie ticket, and finds...
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Deconstructing Harry (1997) from 2013-08-03T19:00:50
This week, Travis introduces one of his favorite filmmakers to the group via Deconstructing Harry (1997). Woody Allen writes, directs, and stars as a neurotic writer, suffering from writers block,...
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Warlock (1989) from 2013-07-27T19:00:50
This week, Colin conjures up Warlock (1989), starring Julian Sands as a 17th century witch who escapes into the modern day to find the three parts of Satan's bible. He's pursued through time by wi...
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The Road Warrior (1981) from 2013-07-20T19:00:50
This week, Tom opens up the throttle and puts the pedal down for The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2) (1981), in which a haunted, burnt out former cop (Mel Gibson) roams the wasteland of the post-apoca...
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Brick (2006) from 2013-07-13T19:00:50
This week, Sean brings us director Rian (Looper) Johnson's Brick (2006), a neo-noir which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school student who infiltrates a seamy underworld in order to find out...
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Monster in the Closet (1986) from 2013-07-06T19:00:50
This week, Travis digs up the Monster in the Closet (1986) from his childhood memories, in which closets worldwide become unsafe from sudden appearances by a hulking, man-eating monster. We talk a...
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Event Horizon (1997) from 2013-06-29T19:00:50
This week, Brent challenges us with Event Horizon (1997), in which a rescue crew must board a starship that went missing on its maiden voyage and has now mysteriously reappeared, but has seemingly ...
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Lifeforce (1985) from 2013-06-22T19:00:50
This week, Colin subjects us to Tobe Hooper's 1985 sci-fi horror opus Lifeforce, in which astronauts discover a spaceship in the tail of Halley's comet and subsequently bring back a trio of energy-...
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Reign of Fire (2002) from 2013-06-15T19:00:50
This week, Tom subjects us to Reign of Fire (2002), which pits Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey against fire breathing dragons in a post-apocalyptic England. We learn about the Reign of Fire...
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Tango and Cash (1989) from 2013-06-08T19:00:50
This week, Brent brings us Tango and Cash (1989), a buddy-cop movie that teams Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell in an action-packed romp that sees them framed, thrown in prison, and then setting...
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Robocop (1987) from 2013-06-01T19:00:50
On this week's episode, Travis pits us against Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi classic, Robocop, in which a Detroit police officer is murdered and then resurrected by a soulless corporation as the "pe...
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Tremors (1990) from 2013-05-25T19:00:50
Sean finally gets to pick Tremors (1990), an affectionate updating of 1950's giant monster movies that pits Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, as two handymen in the small town of Perfection, Nevada, again...
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) from 2013-05-18T19:00:50
This week, Colin offers up for study Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974), a film from England's Hammer Films studios, in which an unflappable vampire hunter (Horst Janson) and his hunchbacked ass...
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Ghostbusters (1984) from 2013-05-11T19:00:50
This week, Brent insists asks "who you gonna call?" and we answer with a resounding: Ghostbusters (1984). As it nears it's 30th birthday, the Ghostbusters phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down,...
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Willow (1988) from 2013-05-04T19:00:50
On this week's episode, Tom rolls out a staple of fantasy cinema - the George Lucas-produced, Ron Howard-directed Willow (1988), about a young Hobbit-like fellow named Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis)...
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The Last Starfighter (1984) from 2013-04-27T19:00:50
This week, Travis takes us on a trip down memory lane via The Last Starfighter (1984), and we relive a simpler time when video games were played at arcades and every boy wanted to be a space fighte...
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Danger Diabolik (1968) from 2013-04-20T19:00:50
On this week's episode, Colin takes us into the colorful world of a supercriminal named Diabolik who originated in Italian comic strips with Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik (1968). Diabolik (John Ph...
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) from 2013-04-13T19:00:50
On this week's episode, Brent chooses the pioneering, live action/animation hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) for us to watch. The film takes place in an alternate reality 1940's Hollywood in ...
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Wreck-It Ralph (2012) from 2013-04-06T19:00:50
On this week's episode, Tom takes us for a stroll down memory lane with his selection of Wreck-It Ralph (2012), in which an old school, 8-bit game character ventures outside of his own arcade game,...
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The Evil Dead (1981) from 2013-03-30T19:00:50
This week Sean chooses to revisit Sam Raimi's 1981 classic, The Evil Dead. The film, made by college students, went on to become hailed as a classic of the horror genre, inspiring sequels (Evil De...
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Porco Rosso (1992) from 2013-03-23T19:00:50
This week, we watch Travis' pick: Porco Rosso (1992), from Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle). The plot revolves around an WWI ex-fighter ace...
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Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008) from 2013-03-16T19:00:50
On this week's episode, Colin subjects the group to the Goth/sci-fi/horror/gore/punk rock musical, Repo: The Genetic Opera, which takes place in a futuristic world where organ transplants are commo...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D (1954) from 2013-03-10T19:00:50
On a special, bonus podcast this week, Brent, Tom and Colin recount their adventures of watching the 1954 classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon, the way it was meant to be seen - in jaw dropping ...
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Chasing Amy (1997) from 2013-03-09T19:00:50
This week, Brent places Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997) on the block. Pre-Good Will Hunting/Bennifer/Argo-director, Ben Affleck, stars as a comic book writer who falls in love with a cute lesbian...
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The Big Red One (1980) from 2013-03-02T19:00:50
This week, Brent sits the episode out while Tom brings us Sam Fuller's The Big Red One (1980), starring Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen), Mark Hamill (Sushi Girl), and Robert Carradine (Revenge of the ...
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Deathtrap (1982) from 2013-02-23T19:00:50
In this episode, Travis chooses to watch Deathtrap, a 1982 adaptation of Ira (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) Levin's Broadway thriller, which stars Michael Caine as a failing playwright who p...
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The Beyond (1981) from 2013-02-16T19:00:50
On this episode, resident horror buff Colin subjects the group to The Beyond (1981, aka The Seven Doors of Death) from "the Godfather of Italian Gore", Lucio Fulci. No eyeball is safe as a woman i...
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The Island (1980) from 2013-02-09T19:00:50
On this week's episode, true-pirate afficionado Tom unleashes The Island (1980), which stars Michael Caine as a reporter who runs afoul of real-life pirates forgotten on an island in the Bermuda tr...
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True Romance (1993) from 2013-02-02T05:39:50
This week: Brent picks Tony Scott's True Romance (1993), a movie that often gets lumped into Quentin Tarantino's filmography (he did write the original screenplay), but clearly exhibits the late di...
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Idiots and Angels (2008) from 2013-01-26T03:39:50
This week, Travis chooses Idiots and Angels (2008), a film from animator Bill Plympton, known for his distinctive art style and early-year MTV interstitials. In Idiots and Angels, a curmudgeonly f...
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The City of Lost Children (1995) from 2013-01-19T03:39:50
This week, Colin chooses Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children (1995), a visionary tale of a dystopian, steampunk-ish fantasy world filled with clever visual design reminiscent of the work...
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Fight Club (1999) from 2013-01-12T03:39:50
This week, Tom chose David Fincher's Fight Club (1999). In our most professional podcast yet, we analyze the film's messages, and discuss whether the film would be able to be made today. Plus, we...
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The Burbs (1989) from 2013-01-05T03:39:50
On our first podcast of 2013 we revisit Joe Dante's dark version of suburban paranoia, The Burbs; Tom reveals why he hates the 1980's; and we discuss our favorite movies of 2012 and what we're look...
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Cannibal The Musical (1993) from 2012-12-29T03:39:50
New Year's is almost upon us as we take in Travis' pick of the Western horror comedy Cannibal! The Musical, with a pulled pork BBQ appetizer. This divisive title provokes a definitive discussion on...
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Django (1966) from 2012-12-22T03:39:50
The gang gathers to watch Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) and eat spaghetti. Plus, there's talk about Italian Westerns, anti-heroes, subtitles, and an examination of the High Frame Rate version of...
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011) from 2012-12-15T01:37:50
We watch Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, discuss the return of 3D, contrast U.S. and Japanese animation styles, and have a lengthy discussion about the Rankin/Bass Hobbit.
Back to the Future (1985) from 2012-12-08T04:37:50
Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future is analyzed for it's cultural significance; plus; there's impersonations and the attempt to define science fiction once and for all!