Saturday Night Freak Show Podcast

15/08/2024

IGOR'S MAILBAG: This weekend we're watching THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS (1996). Leave us a question or comment and we'll read it on our show!

14/08/2024

James Earl Jones is the Lee Marvin-like head coach of a Dirty Dozen of martial arts warriors in BEST OF THE BEST, staring down one of the best 80s mullets worn by Eric Roberts.

14/08/2024

Who's the BEST OF THE BEST? The team that goes home with the medals, I guess. Right? Right??

13/08/2024

Hey, that's Kane Hodder in one of his non-Jason roles in BEST OF THE BEST, as a tough guy who starts a bar fight with the U.S. karate team.

13/08/2024

The real star of BEST OF THE BEST is Phillip Rhee (also co-writer), since the movie is based on his real-life exploits in professional martial arts. Here, he has to take on the fearsome fighter who killed his brother many moons prior.

12/08/2024

Christopher Penn co-stars as one of America's finest fighting machines in BEST OF THE BEST, one of the best-loved karate sports movies of all time.

12/08/2024

Sally Kirkland is a martial arts sensei paired up with James Earl Jones' tough-love coach in BEST OF THE BEST, in which they hope to guide Team USA to victory against the Korean team in a climactic title fight.

11/08/2024

Eric Roberts, brother of Julia and father of Emma, followed up his Academy Award nomination for Runaway Train with BEST OF THE BEST, a martial arts sports drama featuring his mane of 80's hair.

11/08/2024

Phillip Rhee (right) stars in BEST OF THE BEST, a movie inspired by his exploits representing the US in a 1980 martial arts tournament. Rhee would go on to star in three sequels before founding a company that converted 2D films to 3D.

10/08/2024

Meet Team USA from BEST OF THE BEST, the most skilled Tae Kwon Do warriors in the United States, chosen to do battle with the best Korea has to offer in a intercontinental tournament.

10/08/2024

Holly wants to see if she's got what it takes to be BEST OF THE BEST (1989), by representing Team USA in a Korean martial arts tournament. James Earl Jones is the coach, and the team of karate superdudes consists of Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn. Send prayers! Listen as we explore the dubious methods of winning gold in the high-stakes world of Tae Kwon Do championships on this week's exciting episode!

The Saturday Night Freak Show is a weekly movie review podcast that focuses on horror, sci-fi, action, and cult movies.

09/08/2024

IGOR'S MAILBAG: This weekend we're watching GODZILLA: MINUS ONE (2024). Leave us a question or comment below and we'll read it on our show!

08/08/2024

IGOR'S MAILBAG: This weekend, we're watching the Oscar-winning GODZILLA: MINUS ONE (2024). Leave us a question or comment and we'll read it on our show!

07/08/2024

French actress Vicky Kreips stars in OLD. She also starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Viggo Mortensen's Western, The Dead Don't Hurt. But you, of course, remember her from Hanna.

07/08/2024

Thomasin Mackenzie stars as one of several children who grow up seemingly overnight in OLD, thanks to the mysterious powers of a secluded tropical beach.

06/08/2024

Body horror! In M. Night Shyamalan's OLD! It doesn't do well to suffer from a calcium deficiency on a beach where time runs fast and broken bones heal in seconds, as Abbey Lee discovers.

06/08/2024

Actor Aaron Pierre stars as superstar rapper Midsize Sedan in OLD, trapped on a beach where people age prematurely. We assume he was 19 when he got there.

05/08/2024

On the time-accelerated living conditions in OLD, not only will a 6-year-old reach child bearing age within hours, but a pregnancy will come to term within minutes!

05/08/2024

M. Night Shyamalan on the set of OLD, which was inspired by a French graphic novel called "Sandcastles," if you're interested in tracking down the source material.

04/08/2024

Fury Road and Neon Demon star Abbey Lee wears a swimsuit in M. Night Shyamalan's OLD.

04/08/2024

Alex Wolff, of Hereditary and A Quiet Place: Day One (he also played Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev in Patriot's Day), plays a 6 year old in a teenager's body in M. Night Shyamalan's OLD, after being exposed to a beach with magical aging powers.

03/08/2024

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal leads an international cast in M. Night Shyamalan's OLD, about beachgoers who inexplicably begin to age rapidly. He's best known for arthouse films like Amores Perros, Y tu Mama Tambien, and as as a young Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries.

03/08/2024

Sean takes us to the beach so we can grow OLD (2021) together, since vacationers who visits said beach never leave. Instead, they age rapidly, children grow to adulthood, psychological and biological medical conditions bloom. Listen as we put Benjamin Button on the island, overexplain the plot until we're blue in the face, and consider M. Night Shyamalan a Secret Genius in this week's exciting episode!

The Saturday Night Freak Show is a weekly movie review podcast that focuses on horror, sci-fi, action, and cult movies.

02/08/2024

IGOR'S MAILBAG: This weekend we're watching BEST OF THE BEST (1989), starring Eric Roberts and Shannon Tweed. Leave us a question or comment below and we'll read it on our show!

01/08/2024

IGOR'S MAILBAG: This weekend, we're watching the karate klassic BEST OF THE BEST (1989). Leave us a question or comment below and we'll read it on our show!

31/07/2024

WICKED, WICKED uses the organ score for the Lon Chaney "Phantom of the Opera" throughout, and actually shows the organist in one of the split screen windows as you watch the film.

31/07/2024

The madman strikes in WICKED, WICKED. Currently unavailable for streaming, the movie was made available on DVD through Warner Archive and was featured on heavy rotation on TCM. It can also be found on the Internet Archive, if you're interested.

30/07/2024

WICKED, WICKED goes for a Grand Guignol finish, as we (and heroine Tiffany Bolling) find out exactly what the killer has been doing with the bodies of all those pretty guests he's murdered.

30/07/2024

WICKED, WICKED's Mrs. Karadyne (Diane McBain) says she comes from money and is a former actress, but in the film's Duo-Vision split screen, we're shown the truth about her sordid past.

29/07/2024

Randolph Roberts plays the psychopathic killer in WICKED, WICKED, a kind of "Phantom of the Opera" character who lives in the crawlspaces of the Grandview Hotel and has a penchant for blondes.