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Once a smug former child star, Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter) is now the unfortunate face of a shady mega-corporation pushing questionable products in South America. But when Ricky and his misfit companions — the endlessly weird Ernie and idealistic Julie — take a wrong turn, they find themselves at a derelict roadside freak show run by the mad scientist/showman Elijah C. Skuggs (Randy Quaid). Skuggs doesn’t just run the show — he makes it. Using a volatile chemical blend and a flair for the grotesque, he transforms poor Ricky and friends into full-blown human oddities, adding them to his gallery of bizarre attractions.
"I've been in show-business all my life, the public does not want to see disgusting, depraved, violent filth.”
A '90s fever-dream too weird to be true, Alex Winter (BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE) and Tom Stern have seemingly conjured a drug-induced freak-out into the real world. How else could you explain a film that includes Mr. T as The Bearded Lady, Bobcat Goldthwait as a humanoid sock puppet, and an uncredited Keanu Reeves as a dogboy? With fantastic practical effects by Screaming Mad George, FREAKED is a bizarre and darkly satirical gross-out comedy that never takes its foot off the gas. This is truly a Cult film of epic proportions!