Michaela rethinks adopting Russian girls with a penchant for murder after dealing with Orphan (2009), in which a close-knit family brings said tot into the fold and then the evil imp promptly exploits fault lines in the happy relationship. Listen as we delve into the real-life case that inspired the movie, bird murder, multiple instances of coitus interruptus, the Warner Bros horror factory, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Orphan (2009)

Each Saturday, the Internet Radio Superstars (Colin, Sean, Holly and Michaela) assemble for some movie watchin' and analysis, with the accent on geek cinema, horror, sci-fi, and action films - chosen round-robin style by the Saturday Night Freak Show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TV & Film

This week, we took a Freak Show Field Trip to see In A Violent Nature (2024), a indie Friday the 13th-style slasher shot almost entirely from a 3rd person perspective of it's Jason-like monster. Listen as we go stomping through the woods turning campers into curly-Qs in an effort to determine if the movie is having a go at us as a deadpan comedy sendup of F13 flicks on this weeks' exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In A Violent Nature(2024)

God created Sean, but science turned him into a god after getting programmed by The Lawnmower Man (1992), the best remembered 90s cautionary tale about the horrors of virtual reality. Simple-minded Jobe becomes a tyrannical terror after he's given VR brain chemistry enhancements by unscrupulous scientist Pierce Brosnan. Listen as we discuss how well VR is going in the present day, trip out to the most rudimentary computer animation ever rendered, and side with Stephen King on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Colin kneels at the throne of Stirba, the werewolf queen of Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985), following Freak Show man of action, Reb Brown, into battle alongside werewolf hunter Christopher Lee into deepest, darkest Transylvania to infiltrate an orgy of punk lycanthropes. Listen as we discuss full moon sex rituals, monkey wolves, and threaten to hang the editor on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)

Michaela wishes to explode over the local ruffians as a gelatinous mutant after watching X-Men (2000), the movie often credited with kick-starting the Marvel movie takeover. Listen as we reminisce about a simpler time when wire-stunts and small scale disasters were the order of the day, have nightmare flashbacks of cramming for the high school exam, and go out as swamp goblins on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

X-Men (2000)

Holly finds all the boys think Nicole Kidman is To Die For (1995) playing a narcissistic, media obsessed weathercaster who seduces an idiot teen (Joaquin Phoenix) into killing her husband (Matt Dillon) in Gus Van Sant's fictionalized version of the  Pamela Smart case. Listen as we discuss true-crime documentaries, 90s TV talk shows, and discover we're complicit in the ongoing media takeover on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Orphan (2009)

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