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Saturday Night Freak Show

Saturday Night Freak Show

Saturday Night Freak Show 712 Episodes Oct 10, 2026

The Saturday Night Freak Show is a weekly movie discussion podcast hosted by Colin, Sean, Holly and Michaela, a group calling themselves the Internet Radio Superstars. Each Saturday they assemble to watch and analyze a film, chosen round-robin style. The show focuses on geek cinema, horror, sci-fi, and action movies. Episodes are distributed via Acast.

Episodes

Crawl (2019)
Crawl (2019) Oct 10, 2026 1:12:51 Sean traps us in a flooded Florida nightmare with Crawl (2019), as a competitive swimmer goes to check on her estranged father during a Category 5 hurricane, only to find the basement filling with water and hungry alligators! Listen as we talk about: realistic pain response, sand sharks, visiting Florida and living in terror, and suspension of disbelief, all on this week's exciting episode! Ho
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) Oct 3, 2026 1:20:31 Colin spent his whole life avoiding Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) because he believed what they told him - that it was one of the worst movies ever made. Linda Blair returns as Regan MacNeil, recovering just fine from her exorcism until a whackadoodle shrink (Louise Fletcher) gets the idea to poke around in her dreams via a telepathy machine, while screen legend Richard Burton stars as a Catholi
Amsterdamned (1988)
Amsterdamned (1988) Sep 26, 2026 1:16:01 Michaela likes her European travelogue with a side of slaughter and finds Amsterdamned (1988), a movie which finds a grizzled police detective hunting for the slasher-in-a-wet-suit who prowls Amsterdam's canals for victims, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Listen as we complete our hat trick of films from gonzo director Dick Maas, marvel at the cultural enthusiasm on display, and have though
Body Heat (1981)
Body Heat (1981) Sep 19, 2026 1:17:40 Holly sets the temperature to sizzling with Body Heat (1981), a sweaty throwback to 40s-era film noir made with 80s-era permissive on-screen sexuality with Kathleen Turner (in her film debut) starring as a smoldering femme fatale ensnaring sleazy lawyer William Hurt in a plot to murder her husband. Listen as we find out what sexual activity is illegal in Florida, learn about female terror at male
Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Nightmare Weekend (1986) Sep 12, 2026 1:14:54 Sean spends spends a Nightmare Weekend (1986) making sense of a flick that combines hot coeds and a killer computer and ends in blood and guts! A telekinetic computer system makes drooling zombies out of visitors who've been invited to a scientist's home for a softcore sex romp. Pet Sematary's Dale Midkiff, NYPD Blue/Babylon 5's Andrea Thompson, and a hand puppet named George, star. Listen as we p
Timerider (1982)
Timerider (1982) Sep 5, 2026 1:13:21 Colin gets zapped back to the Old West on a motocross bike in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan (1982), a movie co-concocted, produced, and scored by original Monkee Michael Nesmith. Fred Ward stars as our hero, who wanders into a time travel experiment while racing the Baja 1000, and finds himself fending off gunslinging cowboys when he's transported back to 1875. Listen as we critique pistol
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Perfect Stranger (2007) Aug 29, 2026 1:15:28 Michaela resurrects a memory-holed Halle Berry-Bruce Willis erotic thriller called Perfect Stranger (2007), about a disgraced reporter seeking to get close to a philandering murder suspect, a powerful NYC advertising executive, while her friend-zoned cyberhacker buddy snoops around for evidence. Listen as we uncover chatroom melodrama, unravel twisted plot machinations, and try to determine if Bru
Commando (1985)
Commando (1985) Aug 22, 2026 1:23:23 Holly goes to war with Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime as Commando (1985), the quippiest, explodiest, gunniest of all the 80s "one man army" actioners, with Big Arnie punching bad guys through plate glass windows, dropping them off cliffsides, scalping them with circular saw blades, and impaling them with steam pipes as he hunts down the men who abducted his daughter. Listen as we learn who Win
Ice Cream Man (1995)
Ice Cream Man (1995) Aug 15, 2026 1:25:29 Sean screams, you scream, we all scream for the Ice Cream Man (1995), with Clint Howard playing the adult version of a boy who witnessed the mob execution of his favorite ice cream man; after escaping(?) from an asylum, he assumes the duties but adds his own extra special ingredients for naughty boys and girls. Listen as we try to suss out what was the original intention of a porn filmmaker's atte
Hokum (2026)
Hokum (2026) Aug 8, 2026 1:18:26 Colin spends the night is a creepy Irish hotel despite warnings of a witch locked in the honemoon suite, calling it Hokum (2026). The latest film from scare-master Damian McCarthy casts Adam Scott as a boorish novelist who begins investigating the strange goings on after a mysterious disappearance. Listen as we discuss frightmares, jackasses, children's programming, goat's milk and psychedelic mus
Last Stop in Yuma County (2023)
Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) Aug 1, 2026 1:15:18 Michaela is out of gas and stranded at the Last Stop in Yuma County (2023), taking refuge in a twisty, Tarantino-esque character thriller about a group of people (and two on-the-lam bank robbers) waiting uncomfortably at a roadside diner for a refueling truck to appear. Listen as we recast Richard Brake as a romantic lead, reverse-engineer first time director Francis Gallupi's No Country for Old M
Psycho (1998)
Psycho (1998) Jul 25, 2026 1:13:04 Holly takes a film school detour to examine Gus Van Sant's experimental "remake" of Psycho (1998), a shot-for-shot, line-for-line remake of Alfred Hitchcock's horror masterpiece. Is it the ultimate work of homage or wholesale cinematic theft? Listen as we debate the wisdom of peephole masturbation, how to improve on perfection, the folly of unchecked hubris, and more on this week's exciting episod

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