Freaked
![]() | Directed by Alex Winter Starring: Brian Brophy, Henry Carbo, Jaime Cardriche, Nicholas Cohn, Morgan Fairchild Starz / Anchor Bay, 2005, DVD Customer Rating: 52 reviews Recommend |
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A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image via popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan. Ricky travels to South America to get a first-hand look at the chemical's effects and finds himself at a mutant freak farm. Elijah, who runs the farm, is only too happy to have new subjects on which to try his freak machine. The very chemical that Ricky is supposed to promote is the one responsible for creating the great variety of freaks.
By the time the pair of bloodshot, gun-toting, Rastafarian eyeballs appears, you know you're witnessing the birth of a new cult film. In the delirious Freaked, a sleazy multinational corporation hires a spoiled-rotten former child star named Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) to be the spokesman for a toxic biochemical fertilizer. When Ricky goes down to the poverty-stricken third world country where the toxin is used, he — -along with his best friend and a comely anti-corporate activist (Megan Ward, Joe's Apartment) — get sidetracked to a freakshow presented by the flamboyant Elijah C. Skuggs (Randy Quaid, Kingpin). But Skuggs doesn't just display freaks, he creates them, and Ricky is going to be his masterpiece. This is only the beginning of a crass, tasteless, and hysterical (in both senses of the word) movie. Co-writer/co-director Winter and his pals pile on joke after idiosyncratic joke (clearly influenced by the shotgun-style humor of Airplane! and Mad magazine). You can feel that they fell all over themselves with laughter when they conceived each bit — no tepid Hollywood committee would have turned a movie's love interest into a double-gendered conjoined twin or cast Mr. T as a Bearded Lady, along with such an eclectic bunch as Bobcat Goldthwait, Brooke Shields, and an uncredited Keanu Reeves. Freaked is clearly a labor of love that deserves to find its infatuated audience. This dvd features a bushel of extras, including some unjustly deleted scenes. — Bret Fetzer
Title: Freaked
Sales Rank: 29684 in DVD
Actor: Brian Brophy, Henry Carbo, Jaime Cardriche, Nicholas Cohn, Morgan Fairchild
Director: Alex Winter
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay, 2005-07-12
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.85:1
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 80 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds
- MADNESS!! MADNESS I SAY!!! and some decent make up work too.
- this movie is not for the sane. this movie not for those on narcotics or alcohol. the special features are pretty cool. not the best, but cool. i was a bit annoyed when my version didn't have the slip cover with it, but the movie and punk songs and doodles at the end credits make it worth while. More reviews
- Wow a freak show!...Lets check it out!
- 3 999/1000 stars
Freaked is not really an Airplane or Hot Shots style parody. The people who made Airplane and Hot Shots knew exactly what they were going to parody and the audience knew it too.
If freaked is a parody I don't have a clue as to what Freaked parodies
Freaked is more of a gaudy conglomeration of the original 1950s Mad More reviews
- Great movie
- Awesome movie, hadn't watched it in years and I'm happy to be owning it now. Classic... More reviews
- There Is a Reason People Don't Build Churches to Worship John...
- ...because as important as sidekicks are, nobody comes to see them specifically. This film is full of people who are best known for being sidekicks. Not surprisingly, I found "Freaked" completely by accident. Some accidents are happy. Some accidents are sad. Some accidents make you angry enough that you want to start a fire and melt polycarbonate. "Freaked" might More reviews
- So You're A Hideous Mutant Freak........Now What?
- Freaked is the answer to that old question, "What ever happened to that Alex Winter guy?" Granted he hasn't really done much since this, but he makes a rather impressive and memorable film as both lead actor and co-director.
I'm a bit surprised that more cult fans aren't aware of this film. It's zany as all hell, has some More reviews

