Saturday Night Freak Show

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!

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Top 10 Saturday Night Freak Show Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Saturday Night Freak Show episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Saturday Night Freak Show for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Saturday Night Freak Show episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Saturday Night Freak Show

03/26/22 • 83 min

Colin gets to know life by becoming a gallblader enthusiast in Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, 1973), which finds a fascist Dr. Frankenstein seeking to create a superior race of humanoids but things go wrong when he chooses the wrong subject for his experiments. Listen as we get gross with weird sex and splattery gore as body parts are flung out of the screen in three dimensions on this week's exciting show!

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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)

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10/24/20 • 79 min

Sean finds vampires in the Wild West in Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), a drive-in classic that was shot in 8 days and features John Carradine, reprising his interpretation of the vampire count, this time trying to steal Billy the Kid's girlfriend. Listen as we talk vampire Westerns, bats with top hats, questionable Wolfsbane, and watch one of the West's famous outlaws save America from a bloodsucking menace on this week's exciting episode!

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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

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07/04/20 • 87 min

Sean learns that people who live in ornate glass houses shouldn't throw stones at the Thirteen Ghosts (2001) housed within! Twelve of the creatures are trapped inside with Tony Shaloub and family, who must figure out how to stop an infernal machine, which is the clockwork house itself, from opening the dreaded Eye of Hell. Listen as we discuss the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright(!), bisected lawyers, AVID farts, and the surprise participation of James Gunn on this week's exciting episode.

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Ghost (1990)

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09/12/20 • 103 min

Listen as we celebrate our 400th episode with Michaela's nostalgia pick of Ghost (1990), yes, the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore/Whoopi Goldberg romantic-comedy-fantasy-thriller which put a premium on at-home pottery kits and landed the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" on the Billboard Top 100. Listen as we tunnel through eight years of Freak Show history and lore and get appropriately high on our own supply on this week's exciting episode!

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Pet Sematary 2 (1992)

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08/29/20 • 84 min

Sean discovers that "sometimes, the original is better" after a return trip to Pet Sematary 2 (1992). The sequel finds a sullen Edward Furlong with mommy issues discovering the sinister power of a cursed Indian burial ground, while Clancy Brown stops around as a clownish undead sheriff. Listen as we talk dead kittens, zombie rape, dog-headed sex, pug taxidermy and more on this week's episode!

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

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08/01/20 • 77 min

Sean heads back to Texarkana to track down the Phantom Killer who terrorizes The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976). Based on the real-life Moonlight Murders of 1946, a sleepy town finds itself under siege from a hooded killer while local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers set in to solve the crimes. Listen as we talk about independent drive-in moviemaking, prototypical slasher movies, and the use of a trombone as a murder weapon on this week's exciting show!

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The Haunted Palace (1963)

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10/17/20 • 78 min

Colin opens his copy of the Necronomicon to summon the Great Old Ones alongside Vincent Price in The Haunted Palace (1963), one of the big screen's earliest adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and possibly the first time the name C'thulhu is uttered aloud in a movie. The movie was sold as an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, but we know better, don't we? Listen as we talk smoking jackets, possessed portraits, and Bill Hader's Vincent Price impression, all on this week's exciting episode!

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After Earth (2013)

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06/20/20 • 76 min

Michaela implodes along with Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan with the sci-fi box office dud After Earth (2013). A gruff military dad and his son (Jaden Smith) are marooned on a hostile planet and have only each other to rely on as an extraterrestrial menace - which hunts by sensing their fear - stalks them. Listen as we plot the trajectory of Shyamalan's fall from grace, expose the subtext of Scientology, and bathe in the sin of cinematic nepotism, and more on this week's exciting episode!

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The Relic (1997)

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04/11/20 • 81 min

Sean ventures into the rainforest and comes back as a big, scaly monster in The Relic (1997). Said creature gets shipped back to Chicago's Field Museum where it decapitates 25 people and is hunted down by the bulk of the metropolitan police force while scientists try to decode its genome, ad nauseum. Listen as we question the wisdom of shooting an entire movie without lighting, wonder about the nutritional value of the hypothalamus, and find out about the St. Lawrence Seaway, all on this week's exciting episode!

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Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

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06/22/24 • 86 min

Michaela cuts the cake while surrounded by corpses of her friends, and finds herself singing Happy Birthday to Me (1981)! Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Sue Anderson is a prep school student plagued by repressed memories and blackouts as members of her rich-kid clique are murdered by a black gloved killer. Listen as our brains explode from over-processing a overly complicated plot on this week's exciting episode!

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FAQ

How many episodes does Saturday Night Freak Show have?

Saturday Night Freak Show currently has 619 episodes available.

What topics does Saturday Night Freak Show cover?

The podcast is about Radio, Movie Review, Podcasts, Sci Fi, Talk, Movies, Cult, Tv & Film and Horror.

What is the most popular episode on Saturday Night Freak Show?

The episode title 'Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Saturday Night Freak Show?

The average episode length on Saturday Night Freak Show is 84 minutes.

How often are episodes of Saturday Night Freak Show released?

Episodes of Saturday Night Freak Show are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Saturday Night Freak Show?

The first episode of Saturday Night Freak Show was released on Dec 8, 2012.

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