Saturday Night Freak Show

At long last, Sean follows the clues that lead to Dario Argento's maiden effort, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), the film that single-handedly kicked off a cottage industry of stylish giallo thrillers in Italy. An American writer witnesses a brutal attack, and then tries to solve the case while the killer zeroes in on him. Listen as we talk cat dinner delicacies, what happens when artwork attacks, and captive audiences to murder on this week's exciting episode!

Colin finds himself standing alone in defense of Outland (1981), a sci-fi riff on High Noon that stars Sean Connery as a marshal at a mining outpost on one of Jupiter's moons, fighting drugs and corruption on sets that feel borrowed from Alien. Listen as we talk space madness, exploding heads, slow children, and autoerotic asphyxiation on this week's exciting show!

Michaela plays favorites with The Good Son (1993), where a bereaved boy (Elijah Wood) crashes at his relative's snowy retreat, only to clash with golden-child Henry (Macaulay Culkin), a psychopath in the making. Listen as we dissect sibling sabotage, creepy kid classics, and discover that we need to talk about Kevin McCallister, all on this week's exciting show!

Holly does the Shimmy Slide with lawyer-actor-singer-director hyphenate John De Wirt's magnum opus, Champagne and Bullets (1993, aka Road to Revenge aka GetEven). De Hart recruits unhinged veterans Wings Hauser and William Smith along with Playboy Playmate Pamela Bryant for a tale of two LAPD cops-turned-limo drivers who tangle with a crooked cop/devil worshipper. Listen as we collectively loose our minds while witnessing multiple slow motion sex scenes set to De Wirt's drawling vocals, infanticide, stage hand prop maneuvers, and more on this week's exciting show!

Sean sequesters us for a seaside therapy session with I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), a dreaded 'requel' to the 1997 original which finds the small hamlet of Southport once again terrorized by hook-handed havoc, with o.g. stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr reeled in for another go-round. Listen as we carve through questionable moral quandaries, dangling plot threads, and try not to lose the plot on this week's exciting episode!

Colin summons a demonic doozy for Halloween, Amityville II: The Possession (1982), a prequel that amps up the original's haunted house chills into a full-on incest-fueled exorcism frenzy. Listen as we exorcise family feuds, practical FX monsters, and why it's the prequel punch the series needed, all on this week's exciting episode!

Michaela boots up Stay Alive (2006), cursing a crew of console commandoes with a haunted unreleased beta, a video game that operates on the edict of "If you die in the game, you die for real." Listen as we mash buttons on glitchy ghosts, the tortured history of Elizabeth Bathory, and give last rights at the LAN party on this week's exciting episode!

Holly sells her soul for our 666th episode, investigating Angel Heart (1987), as a rumpled NYC P.I. hunts a missing singer, only to tangle with shadowy clients, ritualistic riddles, and identity crises that cut deeper than a switchblade. Listen as we eat Deviled eggs, attend voodoo rituals, and discover chicken paranoia on this week's exciting episode!

Sean hooks us into Dangerous Animals (2025), where a surfer's Australian dream wave crashes into a serial killer's boat party, with sharks as invited guests. Listen as we dissect chum-filled chases, human predators worse than Jaws, and find the role Jai Courtney was born to play. Reel in the chaos on this week's exciting episode!