Saturday Night Freak Show

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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