January 8th, 2008
Freaked
I had to buy a Secret Santa present for somebody in work and I was aimlessly drifting around HMV looking for a dvd for them when I saw Freaked. I hadn’t seen it in years and it would no doubt be appreciated by whoever recieved it and then I could borrow it off them.
I love this flick. I used to be big into special effects and would pull my pud to Fangoria and The Dark Side. All the stills I saw from it just looked nutty. I remember renting it out around 1997 and keeping it for weeks, it blew me away and it still annoys me when people haven’t even heard of it. This is the problem with Freaked, it’s a classic film, recieving praise from the press but completely dumped on by the studio and not distributed/written off by them. It also suffered the typical creative meddling but it’s remarkable that they even let it be made.
Stuey Gluck in a funny but no effects sequence
The direction, production values and gags are top class. Alex Winter from Bill and Ted wrote, directed and stars as the lead in it. It also has Bob Goldthwait, Mr T, Brooke Shields, Randy Quaid and an uncredited role by Keanu Reeves. It’s mad, they’ve re-released it on DVD with loads of extras but they’ve completely repackaged it, moving away from the nutty effects which are the soul of the film and instead just making it look tame and sedate.
Here’s the trailer but it makes it look SHIT!!!
So buy the film or illegally download it. Just watch it. Can’t recommend this enough. You’ll never get to see a pair of Rastafarian Eyeballs run around and shoot machine guns if you dont.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
haha, was thinking about that the other week. The end scene in the studio is great.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Yes it is. Yeah you watched it on that month long rental copy which was on Dave’s card.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Oh yeah, update, Alex Winter is directing the new Ben 10 live action flick. Smashing.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:31 am
did quinner not get it in his plethora of shite vids?
January 9th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Never heard of it man, bit that clip was hilarious. Gotta check that out.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:35 am
never hear of it either! Looks deadly. Cheers, will buy on Saturday.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Classic film! I’ve got a bad vhs copy but also got a HMV gift card for xmas!
January 9th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Neglected to mention that I got to keep the dvd because I forgot to bring it in a Secret Santa pressie. You can’t get the one with all the extras over here though but alot of the material is on youtube innit
January 10th, 2008 at 2:14 am
To my shame, I’ve never seen it. I must correct this error immediately. Looks supoib.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am
ah man, loved this movie too, bought it for like 3 pounds back in the day, it is like one of those movies you almost doubt seeing because no one else talks about it, I always had a soft spot for blossom’s alco/ambulance driver brother
http://imdb.com/name/nm0832989/
I had a friend at college, dave who like Jenna von Oy purely because she played a character in blossom called ’six’ purely because it sounded a bit like ’sex’
http://imdb.com/name/nm0001883/
January 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Quinner says he has your original VHS version. Love the jake and the fatman ref in the trailer - how many heads would that go over today…
January 11th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Hey pals. Yep it’s a classic. CLASSIC! Yeah Lorcy, funny you should say that, Blossom was a guilty pleasure, I knew I should have hated it but me and Poncho lapped it up. It was on around when I was a satanic teenager but that little dykey Jew girl brought sunshine to our lives. Sniff.
‘ I had a friend at college, dave’ Thats a fucking fib if I ever I heard it Lorcs, just admit it,
January 12th, 2008 at 8:45 am
A good default excuse - “I had a friend at college, dave”.
As in…
“I had a friend at college, dave…who once got so frustrated he tried to rape the hoover”
“Not me y’understand. My friend at college…Dave…”
February 14th, 2008 at 8:29 am
dude, was listening to a last week jonathon ross’s podcast (not a euphemism) and lee majors and alex winter were one, winter has directed a live action version of Ben 10! know nothing about it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RbNTHMYSxz0
loooks ok