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Release Date: 1993 Cast: Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, Brooke Shields, Megan Ward, Mr. T, Lee Arenberg, Eduardo Ricard, Morgan Fairchild, Alex Zuckerman, Randy Quaid, Derek McGrath, Bobcat Goldthwait ...MORE
Cast: Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, Brooke Shields, Megan Ward, Mr. T, Lee Arenberg, Eduardo Ricard, Morgan Fairchild, Alex Zuckerman, Randy Quaid, Derek McGrath, Bobcat Goldthwait, Henry Carbo, Michael Stoyanov, David Bowe, Brian Brophy, John Hawkes, William Sadler ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Science Fiction, Indie, Absurdism, Comedy, Black comedy Freaked (originally titled Hideous Mutant Freekz) is a 1993 American comedy film, directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, and written by Stern, Winter and Tim Burns. All three were involved in the short-lived MTV sketch comedy show "The Idiot Box", and Freaked retains the same brand of surrealistic and absurdist humor as seen in the show.
Originally conceived as a low-budget horror film featuring the band Butthole Surfers, Freaked went through a number of rewrites, eventually developing into a black comedy set within a sideshow, which was picked up by 20th Century Fox for a feature film.... MORE
Freaked (originally titled Hideous Mutant Freekz) is a 1993 American comedy film, directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, and written by Stern, Winter and Tim Burns. All three were involved in the short-lived MTV sketch comedy show "The Idiot Box", and Freaked retains the same brand of surrealistic and absurdist humor as seen in the show.
Originally conceived as a low-budget horror film featuring the band Butthole Surfers, Freaked went through a number of rewrites, eventually developing into a black comedy set within a sideshow, which was picked up by 20th Century Fox for a feature film. After several poor test screenings and a change in studio executives who then found the film too "weird", the movie was pulled from a wide distribution and only played on a handful of screens in the United States.
The film starts with a breaking news report announcing that the flying gimp has been destroyed and it is safe for citizens to return to their homes. This is a reference to Alex Winter's old MTV variety show, The Idiot Box.
The news break ends to reveal "The Skye Daley Show", already in progress. Skye (Brooke Shields) is interviewing beloved former child star Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter), who LESS
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