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 Released: 1993
The manic writing-directing comedy team of Tom Stern and Alex Winter (the latter of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) followed up their deranged short-film collaborations and the short-lived MTV series The Idiot Box with this comic fantasy, which amounts to a virtual car crash of anarchic, mind-blowing weirdness. The brain-damaged plot follows self-centered sitcom actor Ricky Coogin (Winter), official spokesman for the E.E.S. (Everything Except Shoes) corporation, into the jungle-bound South American nation of Santa Flan. Coogin has been sent as an emissary on behalf of E.E.S. to placate the media uproar over a substance called Zygrot-27, a chief ingredient in many E.E.S. products which has been decried as a fatal environmental toxin. Accompanied by his friend Ernie (Michael Stoyanov) and environmental activist Julie (Megan Ward), Ricky takes a detour into the jungle to a bizarre amusement park overseen by bombastic barker/inventor Elijah C. Skuggs (Randy Quaid), who specializes in the display of "Hideous Mutant Freekz" (the film's original title). The trio soon discover that Skuggs manufactures his oddities himself, and they find themselves at the mercy of his hideous freakmaking factory which coincidentally uses Zygrot-27 as a catalyst. Once he has the hapless heroes strapped down, Skuggs reveals his intention to transform Coogin into an evil mega-freak who will destroy all the others in a slam-bang, standing-room-only closing event. Miffed at the notion of sustaining an acting career as a spine-covered, pus-gushing monster, Coogin joins a rebellion within Skuggs' captive stable of other man-made freaks whose ranks include such monstrosities as effete human worm; a bearded lady (Mr. T in a frilly dress); a man with a sock-puppet for a head (voiced by Bob Goldthwait); and Ortiz the Dog-Boy (an uncredited Keanu Reeves). Their plans to turn Ricky into a zygrot-powered superhero go astray, however, leading to a hilariously apocalyptic finale. Doomed to home-video status by lethargic distribution from Twentieth-Century Fox, this unappreciated gem deserves a second look; packed with hilarious visual gags, ultra-gross setpieces and body-function jokes, Freaked is a hallucinogenic funhouse of a movie. ...
ACTORS BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
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.Alex Winter - Ricky Coogin
Megan Ward - Julie
Michael Stoyanov - Ernie
Randy Quaid - Elijah C. Skuggs
Mr. T - Bearded Lady
Brooke Shields - Skye Daley
Alex Zuckerman - Stuey Gluck
Derek McGrath - Worm
Tom Stern - Milkman
Mary Gail Artz
Don Stark - Editor
Patti Tippo - Rosie the Pinhead
Joe Baker - Prof. Nigel Crump
Joseph S. Griffo - N. Eye
Robert Tapert - TV Cop #2
J.D. Silvester - Biker
Barbara Cohen
Bob Goldthwait - Sockhead as Tourist/Sockhead [Voice]
Sam Raimi - TV Cop #1
Jeff Kahn - Nosey
Jack Yates - Security Guy
Tim Burns - Frogman
Brian Brophy - Kevin
Jaime Cardriche - Toad
Calvert Deforest - Larry "Bud" Melman
Lee Arenberg - The Eternal Flame
David Bowe - EES Assistant
Ray Baker - Bill Blazer
Bill Sadler - Dick Brian
David Roberson - FBI Guy
Eduardo Ricard - George Ramirez #1
Deep Roy - George Ramirez #3
Morgan Fairchild - Stewardess
Arturo Gil - Clown
Keanu Reeves - Ortiz the Dog Boy (uncredited)
Vincent Hammond - Giant Rick Monster
John Hawkes - Cowboy
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...THE BEST 90S MOVIE EVER!!!!!!-SKATEMORE
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