Synopsis:
You're travelling through another
dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into
a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, the
Twilight Zone!
The Freak's
Rating: C+ :
I will always have a soft spot for horror
movies. This spot comes from my love of
The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone and some of
Hitchcock's films. I grew up watching (in
B&W mind you) Twilight Zone episodes and was
terrified at times. The stories made you
think. They weren't simply bad guys
wearing hockey masks and hunting teenagers.
It was an entirely different style to
storytelling and I loved it.
TZ
the movie has an ENORMOUS monkey on its back.
For those who don't know, this film was the last
of Vic Morrow's career. For those who can
stomach it, search YouTube for "vic morrow
helicopter" and get an eyeful of the accident.
The helicopter crash decapitated Morrow and a
child, then fell onto a second child.
Trials and lawsuits came from it and the studio
reluctantly pushed the film out regardless.
That chapter of the film is near impossible to
watch without thinking about what happened.
If you are able, which I tried hard at, the
chapter seems incomplete. The helicopter
scene was one of the end scenes for the chapter.
It was rewritten after the accident and pieced
together.
Trying to get the monkey off its back, TZ places
the flawed chapter at the beginning of the film
and follows it strongly with a couple others.
The stories are decent and the acting par for
the course. The film's real struggle is
within the animatronics it uses. They are
creative, but over the top. Lithgow's
sequence on the plane ups the ante for acting,
but the animatronics and the enormity of the
outcome of the first chapter can't lift the film
into a recommendation.
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