Saturday Night Freak Show

Holly leads us into the woods with The Ritual (2017)! Four friends embark on a hiking trip through the Swedish wilderness in honor of a fallen companion and find an ancient pagan deity and its followers waiting for them among the trees. Listen as we learn never to stray from the path, confront one of the best movie monsters in recent memory, and mourn that it remains buried in Netflix's title library on this weeks exciting episode!

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Sean sinks his teeth into The Cycle (2026), in which Deborah Ann Woll stars as an anthropologist whose long-missing father's body turns up next to a brutal, animalistic crime. What starts as a grim police procedural eventually transforms into something far stranger. Listen as we dig into impossible crime scenes, cadaver dong, and practical effects creature horror on this week's exciting episode!

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Colin resurrects the Universal Monsters for Halloween with Son of Frankenstein (1939). Basil Rathbone plays the titular heir, who returns to the ancestral family castle only to find the Monster (Boris Karloff) still alive and under the command of the sinister Ygor (Bela Lugosi), who seeks revenge on the townspeople who condemned him to hang. Listen as we uncover sordid Hollywood secrets, find the film's place in the Universal legacy, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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Michaela visits the Halloweentown cursed by Sawtooth Jack the pumpkinhead in Dark Harvest (2023), a 1960s set tale in which all the boys in town must participate in an yearly ritual, in which they are required to hunt down a creature annually birthed from the corn rows to save themselves and the entire town. Listen as we talk literary origins, the career trajectory of 30 Days of Night director David Slade, and monsters that bleed candy on this week's exciting episode!

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Holly unloads pure New York grit on the Freak Show with Ms. 45 (1981), Abel Ferrara's no-holds barred revenge flick about a mute seamstress who is assaulted twice in one day, arms herself with a .45 and begins a methodical campaign of revenge against all the men of NYC. Listen as we dig into feminist rage, New York City special brand of sleaze, and who to root for when the good girl is the bad girl, on this week's exciting episode!

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Sean traps us in a flooded Florida nightmare with Crawl (2019), as a competitive swimmer goes to check on her estranged father during a Category 5 hurricane, only to find the basement filling with water and hungry alligators! Listen as we talk about: realistic pain response, sand sharks, visiting Florida and living in terror, and suspension of disbelief, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Colin spent his whole life avoiding Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) because he believed what they told him - that it was one of the worst movies ever made. Linda Blair returns as Regan MacNeil, recovering just fine from her exorcism until a whackadoodle shrink (Louise Fletcher) gets the idea to poke around in her dreams via a telepathy machine, while screen legend Richard Burton stars as a Catholic priest who takes a side trip to Ethiopia to consult a pagan religion for how to beat the devil. Listen as we ponder one of life's most important questions - is it really one of the worst movies of all time - on this week's exciting episode!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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