FREAKED (1993)
Sometimes, you don't get around to seeing a certain movie that is right up your alley. Scientists will never discover why, and for years, Freaked has been one of those contingencies for me. It's a rainbow-skewbald horror/comedy (mostly comedy, if I'm being upfront with you) starring and co-directed by Alex Winter. From the image I have chosen, it may seem like z-junk, but it actually commanded a budget of $11 million. That's paper money! Most of those banknotes were funneled straight into the special effects department. As the title suggests, the plot implicates freakishly freakish freaks. Winter plays Ricky Coogan, an actor who agrees to do promotional work for a chemical company, and you could probably finish this synopsis yourself.
The poor bastard is victimized by Randy Quaid's freak machine. I promise that sounds worse than it is, but it does result in moldered, gangrenous creatures. Aren't those the best kind? They were designed, in part, by Screaming Mad George. Those freaked in Freaked range from nauseating to preposterous (I dug Sockhead, as voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait). This is a fun flick to look at, but it's also just plain funny. I laughed on a regular basis, and I deplore the corpus of American comedy. Freaked is instantly quotable. And the soundtrack! That tune with Henry Rollins and Blind Idiot God is a fucking jam. Keep a Rastafarian eyeball out for cameos by Brooke Shields, Morgan Fairchild and Deep Roy. In addition, see if you can spot Keanu Reeves. Get it? See? Spot? Go!
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