Freaked - re:View

well Josh we're gonna talk about a movie that is not available anywhere digitally and the blu-ray and DVD or long out of print as I assume was the VHS probably yeah I don't think there's still manufacturing that but the last time we talked about a movie that was in this sort of shape was true stories the David Byrne film that's true and shortly after our review that came out on criteria hey no fingers crossed so I'd be ready for a first criterion release so freaked sorry about freaks from 1993 mm-hmm this is like we mentioned it's been long out of print so more than a lot of movies we do on this this is one that a lot of people probably haven't seen well Alex winter who you'll know from the Bill and Ted movies and the Lost Boys and many other things Death Wish 3 that's right Alex winter plays Ricky Coogan who is a child star that asked isn't is is aged into was a younger man years and he's still a Hollywood star and he is meeting with everything except shoes the EES corporation yes and they want him to promote a fertilizer wasn't that stuff ban only in the US and Europe and even though all of his advisors recommend he doesn't he says great think they're well they're offering them a bunch of money in this case because Ricky kook ins an [ __ ] well that is if the board agrees gentlemen all those in favor good it's unanimous that's that's the main thing we need to establish here is that Ricky Koons an [ __ ] yes so he flies down to South America with his friend blossoms older brother oldest brother the not Joey Lawrence brother right the other one yep I'm not sure we had like a drug he was like a recovering drug addict yes I think so I don't remember a lot of blossom but I remember a lot of special episodes and hats big hats [Music] and when they get there they find a big protest group and one of them is uh watching Meghan ward Meghan ward the actor bunch of stuff in the 90s she was in Encino man she was in my personal favorite PC you I have a deep love for that terrible stupid movie another movie this was like a big comedy trope in the 90s was like the the environmentalists Oh God which is so weird in retrospect now but it was like a mainstream comedy trope yep those those Kooks they're driving to wherever they're gonna go and they see a sign for a freak show over on the side of the road the rest of the plot is dictated on one bad decision exactly and stop to see that freak show hmm Randy Quaid the proprietor of the Freak Show why just see scoggs which is a great character name absolutely it isn't Randy Quaid that's fantastic in this movie I'll talk more about that later civilization but he has the time to go ahead and turn them into freaks because why not well it turns out that's his thing is it's not a traditional freak show it's he manufactures freaks with what turns out to be the chemical does I got 24 fertilizer that Ricky Coogan was paid to endorse that's right and what the movie really cares that much really about anything no other than gag yeah but then the rest of the movie is yeah he meets all the other freaks or tease the dog boy made by an uncredited Keanu Reeves he looks like he's having the time of his life yeah of the freaks the relationship between Alex winter and Keanu Reeves seems very sweet yeah they're not they weren't just like co-stars in some dumb 80s movie like they've continued to be friends over the years day to this day this year the ones heads Dillons head face the music getting an Alex winter back into acting just because then like I'm working together so Ortiz the dog boy we've got nosey the just a giant nose just called Sakura's Bobcat Goldthwait plays sock head just just a sock puppet with you know on top of the body there's also the hideous frog man bug is the guy in scuba gear he's French and it turns out later he is one line of dialogue his French and the worm who was a man who studied worms and became one yeah then the novelty wore off so much so just to be able to buy Olaf's mr. t as the bearded as the bearded lady yes hey this is me I am woman me Rosie the pinhead rows of the pinhead hmm and don't forget about Paul Lynde that's a that's a really weird joke for that movie to be make it anyway there's a handful of jokes I mean the movie now you could say there's jokes in movie that are dated cuz it came out in the early nineties but even when the movie came out there was intentionally dated joke yeah Paul Lynde who's on the real Hollywood Squares he's always the center square in like what the seventies nobody knows who Paul Lynde I well it's another one of those jokes that I feel like a lot of the jokes in here the criteria was desert amuse us yeah Tim then it's in the movie another day to joke is during multiple protest scenes there's a guy with an eye like Ike oh but I love him he's a great example of how they will take a joke and then just keep piling it on and so that's I love the way that they stack up the jokes yeah they do that a lot throughout the throughout the movie where it's just like it seems like it would be a one-note quick joke and I was like no we're not done yet we're still not done yet yeah and it's it's very skilled with that we should say that the Elijah runs out of fertilizer halfway through so Ricky's only half transformed yes that's important for some reason yeah well you would lose that I mean his character is like an [ __ ] yeah at the start of the movie he's incredibly unlikable but if he was a complete monster you would lose that kind of human connection yeah you have a little bit of him still there which helps okay yeah for what it's worth in this movie yeah yeah he's only half done the other freak that has been created is that blossoms brother and Megan would have been made into a he-she man-woman split down the middle that's important too yes that's what they're most concerned about but she's like a you know an environmentalist and a feminists and he's a he's a sexist pig no now they're stuck together dodge performing Three Stooges routine which is exactly what should happen Lumpkin sir so then basically the rest of the movie is just the freaks trying to concoct a plan to to escape his clutches and turns out he is more of a direct connection was I got 24 than they first thought mm-hmm first Ricky thinks that EES is going to come and save him but the head of yes is William Sadler yes of course Alex winter worked with previously is the grim reaper and Bill & Ted's bogus journey he's fantastic heels that movie work out all the time and reaping burns a lot of calories doesn't have as much comedic stuff to work with him is no but he does he does the best of all he's got he's always all the screen time as is you're very focused on him yeah because he's got that great creepy smile wears like his eyelids are lowered but the smile is there it's just like that's the movie in a nutshell that's all there is to it it's it's an excuse to hang gags on co-written by Alex winter and another fellow named Tom Stern and another guy named Tim Bern's yeah I don't know anything about this guy nope I don't know where he came from but he was involved but Alex winter in addition to being an actor as we mentioned and the Bill & Ted movies of course what he's most known for he is a filmmaker yep and he went to film school and why you film school that's where he met Tom Stern and somehow landed a job at MTV doing a series called the idiot box which I loved when it was on yeah that was that was a influencer on me and the same with like liquid television and stuff like that that was on MTV at the time that was really a bit more experimental than you'd expect out of any cable station but yes MTV which now seems like the bastion of standard you know just reality plus crappy reality stuff that has been for a long time yeah everyone saw you still run into that person that's like I missed I remember when MTV was music videos and saying it hasn't been that for 25 years no yeah I think care about you know that's the thing I didn't care about it was music videos it was the things that were between the videos yeah like like liquid television and it's funny because I would say this movie is very it's very 90s mm-hmm and it has that kind of 90s aesthetic of lots of wide-angle lenses lots of Dutch angles and it's very fast-paced I would call it very MTV but I feel like Alex winter is one of the people responsible for what became the MTV aesthetic that particularly yeah yeah yeah that particularly because well it's interesting the note 2 that it started out as completely different movie script wise they had written it as a vehicle for the Butthole Surfers we're gonna be completely weird punk rock Campbell thing musical I think yeah yeah there's more of a horror movie at getting but that cut it I think what came through from that is kind of just the anarchic sense yes like chaos right it's it's a chaotic movie which CD a box was to was very easy I've never seen anything like that and that's both that and the movie I would like I would describe him is very aggressive style of humor is very aggressive yeah I'm lots of yelling yeah the opening of the first episode the idea box is to get like it's a black and white video like gangsters driving in car just thudding in the trunk and they go back what's going on here it's Alex winter they beat him up stab him and shoot him while he's trying to introduce the show that's the show yeah and that's yeah it's it's funny because I think when people think about MTV especially from I think it's probably more of a late 90s early 2000s just like general kind of commercialism yeah and very like bland but those early days there was some interesting stuff like like we mentioned liquid television that like Phoebus and Butthead yeah and Beavis about his pretty you know common now but at the time een it was fairly breakthrough at the time well yeah it seemed like the stipulation with a lot of their shows was that there had to be some sort of music video incorporation into it yep because beavis and butt-head would watch music videos and the the idiot box was kind of sketches with interspersed with music videos mm-hmm yeah which is great because at the end of every there are only six episodes of the idiot box which is a shame but at the end of every episode they would have it there to have a computer animation come on with a computer voice and just recap the entire show videos commercials video but yeah that uh I guess 20th Century Fox saw that show and said let's give these guys a movie yeah I guess the head to the studio at the time was 100% behind it super excited yeah and gave them 12 million or something well yeah that's the crazy thing is that some very few people have heard or seen him this movie but it was meant to be a studio film it's certainly what 20th Century Fox and the story is at some point either in late in production or in post-production there was a kind of regime change it's 20 Century Fox as always happens the new president came in and said what the [ __ ] is this movie and then they had a disasters test screening on top of that oh right it's like one of those for people unfamiliar or the test screen and they'll just kind of bring in people off the street or it'll be in like a mall theater and drag people in from the mall and then have them kind of fill out questionnaires and stuff you don't have a target audience you just have random people that are like oh free movie and everybody hated it well I don't know what to make of it I'd be hard pressed to say who the target audience for this movie was anyway that's true like on one hand I love this movie and it's great on the other hand I kind of get it you're like geez you like being a man that's why you like my cheese moe real cheese for real men now in a handy aluminum dismantle definitely feels like it should be like a like a scrappy indie that Alex went to called in all his chips to get made yeah I was like not really oh yeah studio buddy yeah millions of dollars although the cast really makes it feel like he called in a lot of favors because there are a lot of just short appearances about like Morgan Fairchild is it it's a stewardess is that your luggage up there yeah is it your ugly little troll Brooke Shields is the talk show host which field is fantastic yeah she's great most the the framing device of the movie is that Ricky Coogan is being interviewed about his whole story yeah and she's thought the sky Daily Show she's the host and that that's the crazy thing it's it's a very like it's a very aggressive movie it's a very like right out of the gate [Music] it starts with that what's the band blind idiot dog or blind idiot God I'm not familiar with that band but it's Henry Rollins singing yeah London be God was interrelated with Black Flag and SST records okay run SST yeah mostly instrumental if I remember right so it makes sense that that Henry Rollins would just step in and do the vocals first on but it's it yeah I mean the movie just starts with Henry Rollins screaming at you with this opening animated sequence it's claymation sequence that is really great looking so cool and then you cut right from that to a reference to Eddie the flying [ __ ] which was a character on the idiot box yeah we repeat the flying [ __ ] has been destroyed you may return to your homes and then you cut from that to Brooke Shields interviewing someone you're like what is this yeah it doesn't give you a chance to even think about it yeah and that's the whole movie it just keeps plowing through this yeah that I would compare to like the Zucker brothers that's sort of like gag of minutes that stuff lets my first touchstone for that yeah particularly I like I was saying that like the building of jokes and the way that it yeah you know they will even even even build up the thing to like everything except shoes leads to a shoe joke in the end it's a long time coming for that but it does get there yeah so it's it's a gag a second movie like a Zucker Brothers film and it's also very stylized lots of lots of distorted camera angles and and fast pace of like a Sam Raimi movie yeah it's like Sam Raimi meets the Zucker brothers meets like Looney Tunes yes well I mean you know just trying to remember how Looney Tunes you know we got used to him you know all being around our entire lives they're pretty anarchic at the time oh sure as well yeah and yeah stuff like like the one of them one of the freaks is is just he farts all the time and it's on fire that's that's it that's Lee Ehrenburg who was also on the idiot yes I remember there was a sketch with it was like a sketch for like a headache medicine it's on the first episode yes he's just screaming [Applause] and I think in the idiot box I think of people screaming mm-hmm and also in the movie is speaking of cast we have as the cowboy yeah it was just a man that's a cow I reckon that troll could help you you just ride him into your butt John Hawkes I'm sure Academy Award nominated actor John Hawkes it was a great actor he started on the idiot box too he's the bad and the the flying instructions but yeah he's fantastic I mean there's nobody you know there's nobody that's miss casts no it's me because it would be almost hard not to like it's just the characters are so no no once I want to say OneNote exactly but very closely defined yeah well they have their thing yeah that's kind of it okay don't need more than that yeah one of my very favorite performances by Randy Quaid I'm gonna say my favorite performance it's hard to say cuz this Christmas vacation well I'll say second favorite my favorite is this recent character that he's been doing on YouTube what a wondrous like crazy man carrots it's it's he's very committed to yeah it's like the joaquin phoenix things yeah exactly committed so this is my second favorite performance after that he does such a great gamut of like completely true in the scenery is the most understated little lines my favorite delivery in the whole movie from now on no more screw-ups okay Styrofoam cup just how much you can get out of two words man yeah so good he's he's hamming it up everybody's hamming it up yo yeah can be in in some stuff that can get tiresome and for some reason and when I say like this movies kind of aggressive that can get tiresome in some movies and for some reason it just works with this I think it's just like that that that manic energy yeah it's just the pace of the movie yeah it's 80 minutes yeah it flies by absolutely but yeah just and everybody's on the same page and as in it's it's you know it keeps up through the whole thing so I could see it being tiring but it's not to me and it's a movie about freaks which I don't know if a movie like this would get made today there's what do you say it's about freaks you know you think of like the movie freaks the Tod browning film which was pretty controversial kind of still is yeah have you ever seen it not all the way through it's it's a good movie and there's a lot of like humanity given to these characters it's only at the end which I think was a studio mandated thing or they kind of turned into monsters and kill people right but it's not a humane movie and then you see this movie which is so like in-your-face and over-the-top and there's there's nothing mean-spirited about it it has the potential to right from the start because like Ernie Ricky's trainer and he's that [ __ ] prick and it's just like he's got like a fake hand sticking out of his fly this is like especially like his character beads such a prick then that's you you have him gets merged with the extreme opposite of that yeah and then they're doing you know I go jizz and Three Stooges should all the characters are so ridiculous it never feels it like connected to reality in any way one of the one of the one of the sequences that really kind of sets up for me how the the tone of the movie is and how it treats his characters is when Ricky's just gotten in to the to the house and he's lined up around the campfire and everybody's explaining their origin stories basically like the worms you know he goes through his whole thing yeah we get a little flashbacks for everybody sock heads takes about two lines and then just a little topper and that whole thing is that they cut to or they pan over to to a hammer on the floor that's probably my favorite joke in the whole movie great that's just so silly but so perfect yeah well the other star of the film is the effects the creature effects in the movie which had to have been most of the budget I would assume yeah yeah and it's it as someone that grew up I'm like fingering a magazine and scene because this is like five or six different effects houses just so much so he had all these different people kind of doing different effects for the movie and it's all like the top people from that time yeah I didn't recognize most of the names I had to go look for you know what else they did but screaming Matt George I knew my obviously off the top of my head yeah screaming man George did the I think he did like the initial designs for all the the creatures in the movie at screaming Matt George is a very fascinating man he's a musician he's a sculptor and then he does effects he has worked on a lot of Brian used in the film yeah including the best of the worst favorite Faust his masterpiece a film that I've championed many times now is Society yeah goes into surreal territory it's not just creature effects those some incredibly bizarre stuff on that movie and you can see a little society influence at the at the end of towards the end of freak although that effects I don't know maybe scream and George designed that but that shoe that it's a stop-motion shoe yeah that's David Allen who I knew from I think he's done bigger movies but I know him he worked on the puppet master movie yeah he did all the stop-motion of the puppets and those but then Ricky Coogan's makeup the Beast Boy was done by Steve Johnson who's worked on tons of big movies everything from like Ghostbusters to remember species kind of he did species but Steve Johnson yeah he did the Beast Boy and worked on night of the demons okay he was briefly married to Linnea Quigley Wow which is how I first heard about him do you remember there was briefly for a few years I think it was on Fox they aired the Fangoria chainsaw Awards from Universal Studios in Hollywood California hosted by Robert Englund yeah Wow and throughout the specials they would cuts a little like special-effects tricks by Steve Johnson and and his assistant was his wife Linnea Quigley all these all these like people at the top of their game people that I knew about from Fangoria and so going into this movie I was excited more for that than anything else cuz it's like all these awesome effects guys yeah so even though it's not particularly a horror movie it's definitely something that horror aficionados would be interested in see just because yeah all this all this work by all these different people together and this is yeah and it's right on the cut like this is same year as Jurassic Park I think right 93 so right on the cusp of CG kind of taking over and this is like yeah every effect in the book we got stop-motion we've got miniatures and matte paintings and just wonderful animatronic creatures oh yeah I mean Ricky is fantastic yeah that side of his of his his makeup when he gets angry after the after the Shakespeare play yeah and just like start spurting oh man it's and I can't imagine how uncomfortable that makeup was cuz he has these fake teeth in where he can't close his mouth yeah it's constantly drooling through the whole movie and that's real drool because you can't you can't close his mouth because and then the the full-size monsters at the end yeah when Stewie Gluck we haven't talked about Stewie Glocke there'll be a separate thing but monster Stewie and then the full beast boy they look great the the big animatronic his eyeballs are going in every direction and I that style seems to be like the look of them influenced by the was that Hot Rod monster you know I'm talking oh yeah yeah yeah I think it's probably influenced by that what they look very similar yeah let's do a glog let's talk about Stewie possibly one of my favorite comedy characters oh my tobe ever I got a rare scale from your first season on the baker's dozen could you sign it for me so good it's just a little kid constantly yelling but he's like a Ricky Coogan fanboy he appears on the plane and that that goes with the they kind of over-the-top style the whole movie very much it's not just a kid that's like yelling and as a fanboy but they gave him these big goofy ears just little things big chunky glasses and like of course he's got to have like big puffy red hair just the epitome of the Apple cheek to red rosy kid just like turned up honored percent yeah it makes it more satisfying when he's constantly getting abused the stuntman for that is deep Roy who shows up earlier in a movie when the but he he's trying to explain that the there are no side effects is I got 24 and as he's explained it he keeps getting smaller and smaller one of those is deep Roy was the Oompa Loompas and Tim Burton's that's right Charley the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie and yeah he was the stunt double for that part yeah it was just all of this yeah be a small child speaking to little people though and in that part where the guy keeps shrinking the last one is meet you what's right the world's smallest man I think he passed away a couple years ago yeah but he was I knew him most from the movie waxwork so where's that star started moving its me shoes in it yeah me shoes in it Depot is in it Calvert de Forest is in it [Music] yeah that's another thing that a lot of people let as far as like dated references ago I wouldn't do it at the time not at the time but I don't know how many people know who that is now it's all kind of works is just like a weird observer of everything that's going on and that's yeah that's that's one man might might not have age for everybody but is wonderful to see great to see him again yeah and yeah also cameo in that sequence there's the the clown that it will fart your weight one of the the like white trash lady that's in the foreground on that shop that's Catherine Hardwicke who did the production design for this movie went on to direct infamously directs the first Twilight film so that sound is that there are freaks there's the director of Twilight we talking about not just jokes but like production design of the movie and how its it feels so much bigger than a movie like this feels like it should like his Elijah's whole compound like the look of all that which was Catherine Hardwicke great and then yeah right in the center of it you have this big Randy Quaid head yeah yeah just the look of that whole compound and then even the the outhouse that they're all yeah like it looks almost like Tim Burton II like from that arrow Tim Burton yeah just yeah that's that great design of like ramshackle but you know huge and just the sense of the space is fantastic yeah um and the the bit where Tom Stern gets to get in there as the milkman that's probably my other favorite joke in the movie is anything all the milkman stuff yeah which is the setup is yeah Tom Stern co-writer of the film is a milkman and Riki kook and tries to escape by stealing his milkman costume I guess all the other freaks have the same idea 12:30 is silly that's a lot of milk men on the same route no wonder they fight how oblivious he is to his surroundings sometimes that's like he's as dumb as he needs to be for any given joke yes and that's kind of all the characters [Music] the club still thing yeah that still I still see that around oh people still use it they do yeah yeah yeah you might have to I'm gonna have to go a little niche to find it these days go to a specialty store is it like a hipster thing now no dude are people using the club ironically they want analog alarms for their cars something that's got some weight to it but speaking of fetishized hipster things most recently this is what spurred the whole idea to do this discussion mm-hmm freak this had itself a nice little reissue soundtrack the good folks at mondo have put together it's both the score and the songs I believe yeah so you get the you get the Henry Rollins yelling at you track well not even a reissue it's the first time no I never lose there's never a soundtrack release and that's something to point out I thought about that they're going into the post production of the movie the original idea was they wanted to have all these like big names doing songs for the movies so they have the opening track there's butthole surfers what's that song called like sweat lo sweat loaf [Music] yeah the sweet leaf riff with different lyrics yeah which is a great song it sounds like bubble times throughout the movie but the original idea is that it would yeah I'd be this big kind of rock and roll soundtrack yeah they're gonna get like he pop Iggy Pop recorded a demo and it was never used in the movie and as far as I know it's never been heard but it's on the new soundtrack this is awesome yeah cool I'm excited to hear that yeah but yeah and then like parliament-funkadelic does a song yeah credits give you some mutant freaks yeah but I mean that's the original idea was that there would be all these you know I think there's gonna be even more but yeah which is there a post-production budget got slashed for this film when the studio had changed that the totally 90s thing is to have the tie-in soundtrack with all the hip songs yeah every singles very reality bites and yet it cuts covered but now is the time it's out there right now and it's got a cover up by the same guy who did the credits I think to mention those opening credits though yeah like the new album is artwork by that guy yeah his technique is so bizarre I don't know if I can properly explain it so I'll have visual aids that will hopefully help yeah but he would make like a loaf of clay that had the image of you know whatever it was the character or whatever and would like cut off a piece of it and take a photo of it caught up the next piece of it take it and it just creates this weird love you guys I don't even know how to explain the technique I think it's easiest to see in the the idiot box opening credits because you can kind of see like you're actually moving through and that's how he kind of builds he's like moving things through the stop-motion yeah I don't know how he could visualize it in the first place yeah how do you how do you sculpt this loaf like that it's so weird yeah it's such a unique I've never heard of anything like that but no outside of the idea box on those yeah it's really something it's extremely unique and yeah it's the only place I ever see it is Alex winter stuff ya know the the post-production budget was slashed so they didn't get to do what they wanted with the soundtrack and then the movie was unceremoniously just dumped on VHS but I remember reading about it in film threat magazine when he was still in production and at that point the title was hideous mutant freaks mmm and I was reading about it in there and that's how he heard about like oh all these effects people working on it was like this sounds like the best movie ever right and then it just never came out and then one day I was in the video store and there's this one little copy of it and the cover art for the VHS kind of sucks well speaking of the original title being hideous mutant freaks before there was the regime change at 20th Century Fox there was some promotional materials made for the film whoa which I have oh my god and have had since 1993 holy [ __ ] oh we have cowboy Julie Ernie and uh and Ortiz the dog boy ice I had Ricky Coogan but sometime over the years he's vanished oh but these were Suncoast exclusives Wow although and the reason I know they were from the original movie is that they had tags on them that said hideous mutant freaks okay I did not get them at Suncoast video I got them at media play ah which for anyone unfamiliar was it a Midwest today I believe so you play but it was kind of like a Best Buy but they also had books yeah and like a year after the movie came out on VHS I was in media play and they just had like a dump bin with stacks of these in it oh my god I'm like what do we do with all these we made um give him to media play yeah Wow so I bought him because I was a fan of the film even though nobody else had had seen or heard of it [Music] but now is the time is ripe for rediscovery or discovery just discovering the room yeah it's still it's just never been easy to see yeah but it was a 20th Century Fox Film so now it's a Disney film which means it's gone forever it's in the vault because there's any other vaults there's no [ __ ] way that's gonna show up on Disney Plus that's true yeah a picture although like the 20th Century Fox films that are there now in a vault and I think of it like the end of Indiana Jones yeah stacks and stacks of movies in a where are as you can see they'll never be released yeah it was nice to nice to go back and watch it again I didn't seen it for a few years well I hadn't seen it in probably like a decade or so and we were talking about the soundtrack that's one kind of spurred this whole thing and I was wondering I was like it feels like one of those movies cuz the humor is so stupid and juvenile I was like I have a feeling if I saw that movie for the first time today as opposed to seeing it when I was a teenager I don't know if I would have the same reaction to it and that's still hard to say but in rewatching it if for the first time in like a decade a lot of it still holds up yep the visual style is infectious like it's you can't help but even when a joke doesn't land sometimes you're just laughing at how stupid it yeah and yes what you get swept along yeah yeah and it moves so quick that it's it's it's hard not to like yeah and you know and and enjoy just how game Brooke Shields is [Laughter] [Music]

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Length: 36min 55sec (2215 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 12 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Tarijeno]

This movie gave me nightmares as a kid. I think I first saw it on cable when I was 8, and I didn’t have a strong grasp for dark comedy. I figured it was a horror movie.

It wasn’t until I was in my mid-twenties that I realized the movie was actually a comedy.

[u/blahblah1974]

Freaked and Brain Donors are two of my favorite childhood comedies. Love that it's finally getting some recognition.

[u/sunshine_enema]

When are these guys going to put out the review of the end of Picard?

[u/19bonkbonk73]

I happen to know Tom Stern and Alex Winter and saw this in the theater with them.

Tom has a cameo. He is the hideous Frog Man during the Hollywood Squares scene. It's a great joke cause he's in scuba gear.

Tom got a million dollar three script deal due to this movie. American Werewolf in Paris was the only one made. They paid him an extra mil to not direct.

Tom then became one of the main directors of TBS Chimp Channel. He became know for working well with chimps. If you see a commercial with a chimp most likely Tom directed it.

Been 20ish years since I have seen Tom. Last time it was with his punk/performance art band. He was jacking his cone strap on sparkler.

[u/Joekruel01]

A Keanu classic...

[u/gmredditt]

Must've watched this 20 or 30 times as a kid. It's perfect cable/streaming content, too bad it isn't available. Peak Randy Quaid.

[u/Dr_Colossus]

I must see this movie. Looks like a classic.

[u/[deleted]]

An absolute shame this movie hasn’t gotten a proper blu-ray remaster/re-release, in the quality of Scream Factory.

One of my childhood favorites!

[u/kirinmay]

They actually did release this on Blu Ray. I own it.