Oozing slime and gushing '90s vibes, rapid fire jokes and non-stop laughs, incredible make-up, puppetry, and creature designs; including work by Screaming Mad George. Co-directed and co-wrote by Alex Winter, (Bill S. Preston of Bill & Ted) Winter also stars as the protagonist and is reunited with Keanu Reeves, who plays Ortiz the Dog Boy. There's several other memorable characters, as well, such as: Cowboy, Worm, Sockhead, Nosey, and the freak show proprietor Elijah C. Skuggs.

Starting with a title track wailed by Henry Rollins that sets the bizarre and manic tone for what's to come and triggers joy and nostalgia, this is an amusement ride featuring hideous mutant freaks, really big shoes, psychedelic claymation, projectile vomit, and giant rastafari eyeballs;…

Like the cinematic equivalent of the Butthole Surfers signing to Capitol or Something Weird Video winding up on the USA Network, a true freaks-running-the-asylum moment of desperation from a major studio wanting to cash in on a youth movement that it didn’t understand. I know the temptation is to compare this to Browning’s Freaks, but it feels so much closer in spirit to Dave Friedman’s love-letter to the carny life, She-Freak. If that film was a girlie show disguised as the kiddie matinee, then this is the entire midway, all smashed and smeared together like David Daniels' incredible stratacut title sequence. This, along with films like Serial Mom and Basket Case 2, feels so informed by Something Weird, Sinister Cinema,…

My attitude towards this movie is too caught up in a specific feeling of nostalgia to give it an "adult" analysis. My little sister and I taped it off of cable (I was probably 13, her 7), and it became our favorite movie. We watched it over and over, memorizing every gag and every line. Just a few hours ago, I told her that I was watching it in a theater with Alex Winter in person, and she confessed to me that once she tried to type out the entire movie from memory on our old Tandy 2000 computer.

The movie itself is the product of the same "alternative" culture zeitgeist corporate buying spree that landed The Boredoms and The…

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So what will you know? Alex Winter co-wrote/co-directed a bizarre crossover of Freaks and Society. And its as bonkers and insane as you would expect.

Just like I said on my review for The Legend of Billie Jean on how that was the most 80s movie my eyes have ever witnessed, this one probably takes a major part of the cake for the wildest 90s film out there. Like Jesus H. Christ! That opening credits alone screams 90s like if its life depended on it; while it also captures most of the frantic and weird nature of the film, which at times becomes very self-referential and meta (the Brooke Shields comment for the sequel of Blue Lagoon…

I'm a 90s kid. I grew up watching all manner of bizarre, incoherent acid-trip-inspired cartoons. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Rocko's Modern Life, Courage the Cowardly Dog and many more colored those impressionistic years with their manic imagination. As any kid-at-heart from my generation will attest, those wacky days are treasures that we hold onto and that inspire us to seek out content that evokes memories of the carefree bliss they brought us.

I didn't realize it going into Freaked but it definitely taps into the gonzo fever dream aesthetic of those childhood favorites. And then it does nothing with it. The insane, fourth-wall-breaking "humor", the David Zucker-esque abstract touches, and the gross-out gags, all of it is done with solid technical…

Movies I love that you probably hate #1233333. I know this movie might seem annoying at times but it's honestly never really bothered me, I think it just adds to the overall charm of everything. This is geniunely one of my all time favorite films, I've loved since I watched it for the first time probably 13 years ago, it's been a big part of my life ever since. The movies I think about most in my life on a daily basis are probably Frankenhooker, Freaked, and Cemetery Man. This film is so painfully 90's but in the absolute best way possible, it has this unique charm and style I've just never seen in many films. It's also my kind…

It's show time! Freaked is a wonderful cocktail of old school 50s classics like Freaks, 70s surrealist comedies like Monty Python, 80s body horror and 90s MTV music videos. All in all, an absolutely delicious film with a location and characters you just want to eat up.

It's humour is wacky and outrageous. What's truly shocking is just how many of the jokes land considering the speed at which those fuckers come at you. Gross out humour and film references galore. The rastafar-eye machine gun carrying body guards blew me head off. Mr T playing the bearded lady. That dude who's just a worm. Screaming mad George got me covered.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter continue their success together taking…