Freak
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Actor: Darren N. Cates, Dave Bell (II), Kate Black, Kevin Ball (II), Paul FiedlerDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: E.I. Independent
Movie Reviews of Freak
Movie Review: Getting your freak on - B movie style
Summary: 3 Stars
Tyler Tharpe's 1999 indie effort Freak resides in that cinematic limbo plane of horror I like to call Not Great but Not Too Bad Either. The storyline isn't all that original, the acting is average, and the "scary" scenes are few in number, yet the movie does possess a certain atmosphere that makes it effective in a B-movie sort of way. I think the moral of this story is: if you are going to have a dog-faced child and keep him locked up all the time inside the house, it would be in your best interest not to scream at and threaten him all the time. Mavis Keller, whose last act on earth involves tossing out a newborn baby (I don't even want to think about how this wholly unattractive woman got pregnant again) learns this lesson the hard way, as we see in the film's prologue set seven years in the past. In the here and now, the Keller boy sits in a mental institution, his head permanently wrapped and hidden by his own demands. The folks in charge have obviously never seen a horror movie before; they are blissfully unaware of the fact that every time you transfer a mentally deranged person for apparently no reason, especially a patient deemed to pose "no danger whatsoever," somebody always ends up dead. An orderly and well-known slacker named Jason (Travis Patton) gets the job of driving Keller to his new home. I suppose I don't even need to tell you that the freak escapes. While all of this is going on, a pair of sisters is traveling from Ohio to Virginia to begin a new life after the death of their parents. The younger sister is - surprise - adopted and - surprise again - about seven years old, and Staci spends much of the trip attempting to bond with this youngster who doesn't want to move in the first place. Naturally, all of these wacky characters get together in the end to take part in Keller's surprise homecoming. Fortunately, the conclusion is a little bit surprising; unfortunately, what makes it so surprising is its total lack of any surprise whatsoever. Plot elements that I took mental note of early on, thinking they were surely important, are pretty much overlooked and forgotten, and that is probably the biggest weakness of this film.
Don't expect any blood and gore; there is little killing to be found in this film, and most of what does take place happens off-camera. There are a couple of nice moments set in the dark and brooding house during the climactic crescendo of the movie, our hero and her sister aren't bad screamers, and the Freak (played by the film's director Tyler Tharpe) does have a presence of insane malevolence about him. This isn't a movie I would urge B horror movie lovers to rush out and watch, but it's worth taking a look at if you happen to come across it somewhere.
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