A film directed by Tom Stern & Alex Winter. Ricky Coogan (Alex Winter) is the friendly face of a chemical company who, in attempting to discover the effects of the toxins he’s peddling, travels to a mutant freak farm run by an eccentric scientist (Randy Quaid).
“It remains anyone’s guess as to what sort of return 20th Century Fox expected when the studio threw $10,000,000 at first-time filmmakers Alex Winter and Tom Stern in 1992 for use in realizing their original screenplay Hideous Mutant Freekz. Winter and Stern had met at New York University a decade earlier and, although they had failed to charm their film professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, the duo's anarchic short films found a receptive audience on the USA Network magazine program Night Flight and caught the attention of MTV...” Freaked will be playing on Turner Classics, check your listing.