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 This little movie is about as fun as a backroad jaunt through rural Ohio. That's because it is a backroad jaunt through rural Ohio. Unfortunately, there isn't much to write home about, and the most horrific scenes are clustered toward the beginning. If you watch it in its entirety, all you see is four homicides (and only one is remotely gory) and a looooooong, almost uneventful road trip. Adding to the ennui is a minimal cast, with only four significant characters and a few others who appear for no longer than a couple minutes. Occasionally, a small cast works just fine, as "Alien" and "The Cube" demonstrate, but as "Freak" demonstrates, a small cast also limits the possibilities and often makes the movie boring. For some spice, they could have written in an Aunt Edna character who dies in the back seat, gets tied to the car roof, and turns into a zombie or something monsterous. Maybe they can cross paths with a sexy vampiress driving a Ferrari targa every now and then. Or any other ideas you can steal from "National Lampoon's Vacation", the benchmark for all movies involving hellacious road trips. The bottom line: "Freak" is mediocrity at its finest, but then again, isn't all mediocrity at its finest? Skip it. |
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** NOTE: The more dots on the domino, the better the movie. 11 or 12 dots is top-notch entertainment while one or no dots signifies the bottom-notch variety that may be slightly more amusing than watching the needles move on the gas meter. ** |
    
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