Saturday Night Freak Show

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 thoughts about mysteries that don't play fair, all on this week's exciting episode!

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 anatomy, and mourn the lack of modern erotic thrillers on this week's exciting episode!

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 put in considerable brainwork to untangle a kaleidoscopic parade of strangeness on this week's exciting episode!

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 grip techniques, puzzle over the early works of Mark Twain, and unravel how you could become your own grandpa on this week's exciting episode!

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 Bruce Willis wears a hairpiece on this week's exciting episode!

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 Wings Hauser was initially set to play, admit Sully is a funny guy, and unleash 10,000 bullets on this week's exciting episode!

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 attempt to go legit, and how he attracted all sorts of waning but still big name talent to his first (and only) mainstream feature, all on this week's exciting show!

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 mushrooms all on this week's exciting episode!

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 Men inspiration, and moral compromises on this week's exciting episode!