Wednesday 16 August 2006

Freaked (1993)

In between trying to keep up with newish releases and watching worthy efforts, I always try to make room for trash cinema as some sort of palliative for my jaded soul.  I hadn't viewed this film directed by Alex Winter -- Keanu Reeves' partner in the Bill and Ted movies -- for a while, but it is the idiotic, off-the-wall picture I remembered.  Winter plays a Hollywood action star who is paid a lot of money to go to Central America or somesuch to promote a lethal product for a similarly poisonous corporation.  En route he and his sidekick are captured by Randy Quaid's Freakmaster and turned into mutant monstrosities to add to his cabinet of curiosities which includes Mr. T as a woman, a Cow Boy, a muppet-like "sock-head", and (in an uncredited role) Reeves as Ortiz the Dog Boy.  I bet that part doesn't feature large on his filmography.  It is all extremely stupid with only the occasional real laugh, but if you fancy parking your brains for ninety minutes or so, this film will certainly fit the bill.

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