Saturday Night Freak Show

Michaela gets trapped with both insufferable theater artistes and an owl-headed mental patient on the loose with Stagefright (1987), an Italian made attempt at an American-style slasher flick. Listen as we make sure the cat survives, grade the body count splatter effects, imagine a use for a prop 'bang flag' gun, make damn sure we "shoot him right between the eyes," and more on this weekend's exciting episode!

Holly digs up the fossil of a pagan snake god and finds herself drawn to The Lair of the White Worm (1988), provocateur director Ken Russell's comic, psychedelic slice of English folk horror, based on a novel by Bram (Dracula) Stoker. Listen as we find Paddington pair Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi in their first on-screen teamup, cast suspicion on English food, find Kate McKinnon's on-screen twin, and more on this week's exciting episode!

Sean gets trapped in an elevator with the Devil (2010), a twisty supernatural thriller dreamed up by M. Night Shyamalan but directed by the guys who did The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Quarantine. Which one of the five people is the Devil in disguise? Will the dedicated cop be able to figure it out and rescue them on time? Listen as we talk about the touchtone television show The O.C. and debate theology on this week's exciting episode!

Colin tries to figure out who's killing Milan's hottest fashion models in Nothing Underneath (1985), where the Italian giallo meets 80s MTV glitz. A Yellowstone park ranger with a psychic connection to his model twin sister flies to Italy to solve her disappearance. Listen as eat sauceless spaghetti at an Italian Wendy's, play Russian roulette, and learn how to spot a killer on this week's exciting episode!

Although struck color blind by psychological trauma, Michaela gets all hot and bothered by The Color of Night (1994), our late entry into the 90s "erotic thriller" genre. A psychiatrist is murdered, and his psychologist buddy (Bruce Willis) tries to figure out which one of his group therapy patients did it, while becoming involved in a torrid affair with a mysterious femme fatale. Listen as we explore the origins of sexy movies and one that caused a heart attack on this week's exciting episode!

Holly unleashes The Fury (1978), director Brian De Palma's follow up to Carrie, which features two telekinetic teenagers for the price of one. Golden Age star Kirk Douglas is in a spy movie, trying to rescue his abducted psychic son, while Amy Irving is a girl with a psychic connection to him. Listen as we crack wise about throbbing veins, forgetting location of the Playboy Mansion in Chicago, and then we explode! Cut to credits.

Sean finds that the worst giant blood-sucking bugs come from space with Mosquito (1994), in which oversized insects swarm a Michigan campground, forcing a scientist, a college couple, a park ranger, and a trio of bank robbers to team up to fight the deadly menace. Listen as we marvel at shoestring practical makeup and creature effects, watch eyeballs and butt cheeks get poked by proboscises, and shotgun a swarm of mutant bugs on this week's exciting episode!

Colin hits the skeevy underbelly of LA in pursuit of cinema's craziest, scariest, most sadistic psycho pimp with the Vice Squad (1982), with the late, great Wings Hauser at his demented best as Ramrod, who spends the night hunting down the call girl (Season Hubley) who set him up. Listen as we spend time learning about pimp sticks, sugar pimps, toe suckers, and profess a surprising love of sleazy movies on this week's exciting episode!

Michaela can't determine if the products she dreams of owning are because she wants them or because they were subliminally implanted by the advertisements in Looker (1981), in which a plastic surgeon investigates the deaths of his beautiful models and uncovers a corporate conspiracy. Listen as we ask for answers to basic questions, witness the greatest fall onto a car roof in movie history, and lick our debit cards on this week's exciting episode!