Freaks
Year: 2018
Country:
USA, CANADA
Language:
English
Run Time:
104 minutes
Seven-year-old Chloe has never been outside. Her father (Emile Hirsch) forbids it, telling her bad people want to kill them and they must stay hidden. One day Chloe defies dad, going outside for ice cream from a Mr. Snow-Cone truck. Mr. Snow-Cone (Bruce Dern) knows things about Chloe and shows her a world that may be just as insane as dad says. Billboards warn of “abnormals” and the news tells of children destroying Dallas. Does the strange Mr. Snow-Cone have the answers or is he a new danger? FREAKS is the cinematic equivalent of having a hand-mixer plunged into your brain and turned on high. This fiendishly crafted genre salad is an unsettling and pulse-pounding experience. Mixing dark political parable and apocalyptic sci-fi, it upends every expectation. Sometimes grim and violent, the film’s most subversive maneuver is making these crazed events uncomfortably familiar while being genuinely touching. At its core, FREAKS is a story about what any family, “normal” or otherwise, will do to protect themselves and survive. —C.R.
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Directors
Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein
Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein met 11 years ago as competitors on “On The Lot,” Steven Spielberg’s reality show that searched for up-and-coming filmmakers. The duo made a new short film every week and lived together for a summer, sequestered in a bungalow on a studio lot in Los Angeles. Over the years, Lipovsky and Stein have directed digital and TV projects, most recently the live-action version of Disney’s “Kim Possible.”
Filmography
FREAKS (2018)
Producers
Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein, Jordan Barber, Mitchell Waxman
Screenwriting
Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein
Cinematography
Stirling Bancroft
Editing
Sabrina Pitre
Principal Cast
Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew, Lexy Kolker
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