Freaked
Alex Winter stars as Ricky Corgan, an arrogant former child star who becomes the celebrity spokesman for toxic fertilizer Zygrot-24. But when Ricky is taken prisoner by demented sideshow impresario Elijah C. Skuggs (Randy Quaid) he is transformed into a hideous mutant freak to join the likes of The Bearded Lady (Mr. T), Sockhead (Bobcat Goldthwait), a human worm, a giant nose, and their fearless leader, Ortiz The Dog Boy (an unaccredited - and unforgettable - performance by Keanu Reeves). Can a hack actor-turned-genetic nightmare now survive an evil conspiracy of corporate sleazebags, desperate milkmen, Rastafarian eyeballs, canned cheese and most horrifying of all, Brooke Shields? It's time to get Freaked!
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WTF was that? - Grossed
Unless you are a ten-year-old boy I can’t think of a worse way to waste an evening. With dated special effects, a cast of actors threatening their own careers with fading obscurity, and a story that appears to be lifted from any number of MAD magazine parodies this film is one of the worst films I’ve ever suffered through.
Everything to delight the juvenile is found here: latex and green slime are abundant, open sores and oozing wounds squirt directly at the camera, Pink vomit spews with the pressure of a fire hose (ala the Mr. Creosote skit from Monty Python). It is beyond over the top and shocking. It gets dull pretty fast.
Unless class acts like Randy Quaid and William Sadler have somehow seen something more in this production than is immediately evident on the screen, I wonder at their judgment. I suppose actors have to pay the rent too. The rest of the cast is a collection of has-beens and obvious friends of producers.
The story is lame with a paper thin morality theme running through it. The dialogue is only bearable. The jokes fall apart and are carried too far.
Don’t watch this movie. “Freaked” wanted to be smart, funny and at the same time to be socially relevant, but fell miserably flat. I want my ninety minutes back. Instead rent “How to Get Ahead in Advertising,” that movie was everything “Freaked” could have been.
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WTF was that? - Grossed
Unless you are a ten-year-old boy I can’t think of a worse way to waste an evening. With dated special effects, a cast of actors threatening their own careers with fading obscurity, and a story that appears to be lifted from any number of MAD magazine parodies ...