Jay: "Hey Mike, wanna do a re:View of Freaked?" Mike: "You mean the '93 comedy featuring Commander Bruce Maddox from the Star Trek TNG episode Measure of a Man?" Jay: "Hey Josh, wanna do a re:View of Freaked?"
beeilve honestly that’s something I hate about Picard so much. It taints an episode THAT good. Measure of a man made me cry at the end as after all of it Data himself comforts Riker, understanding he had to do a job essentially attacking Data’s own sentience, to ensure that Data was treated as a being and not a machine.
Appreciate the nice shout out on this episode. We did a cover story on Freaked in the 90s when Film Threat was a print magazine. We love RLM. Thank you just for existing.
You guys are still around?! I had a Film Threat t-shirt in high school. A white one with black rings around the collar and sleeves. It got me a lot of compliments from other pretentious movie nerds. Ah, memories...
I still have that Freaked issue. Used to buy Film Threat all the time (and Film Threat Video Guide) and still have all my issues. Never seen this film, though. Now is the time!
"The lady who played Pinhead is Patti Tippo, she also portrayed Nurse Temple in Star Trek: The Next Generation's third season episode "Transfigurations."" - Mike Stoklasa
It also made an appearance in Peter Gabriel's 'Big Time' video. Id always wondered how it was done. Seeing how doesn't make it seem any less impossible.
PSA: If you have not seen this movie, the full film can be found here on UA-cam. Take advantage of it before it gets too much attention and gets taken down.
I remember seeing bits of it on the "SyFy" channel many, many years ago, such as the scene where the conjoined boy was vomiting after seeing the mutant boy. Catching weird things on television after midnight sure was a childhood experience.
32:14 this technique is called the strata cut! It’s a very rare style of claymation and it’s not seen as much today unfortunately, mostly because clay is expensive as shit and strata cut basically wastes a lot of it by rendering it unrecyclable
It seems similar to polymer or Fimo claty beads where the make a long, layered tube of it where the image shows on the ends. Almost like making a sushi roll.
Straticut animation is as old as the 1920s but was prominent in the 1980s when it was used in Peter Gabriel's Big Time, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, and different animations for Pee Wee's Playhouse.
I've seen this movie one million times and I just rewatched it, and my girlfriend was laughing because the hammer was dressed like the milkman. I had to rewind it. I had never noticed. I laughed and laughed.
When Disney got mailed all of Fox's film old film prints, Freaked ,Freddy Got Figured, All of the seltzerberg films, Batman The Movie and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls all """" accidentally""" fell in to a paper shredder
@@jfgibson73 I haven't seen the movie and was mostly listening to this video from the other room, but if I understand right, the hammer was being established in that joke as not just a hammer but actually one of the freaks, in that it had been transformed by Randy Quaid and had originally been a wrench? And the hammer is supposed to be somehow telling the other freaks about this, because they are all explaining their origins to one another in that scene, and the other freaks act super sad about the hammer's story as if they all perceive it to be deeply tragic. And their reaction is also supposed to make you laugh - that part is kinda corny I think. But the initial joke is really strong.
As a kid in the 90s; "why doesn't this decade have it's own feel, like the 60s, 70s and 80s all did". Now; "damn; everything was really odd back then".
I wasn’t convinced that Red Letter Media was the channel for me, but man, that incredible montage of big hats from Blossom changed my mind immediately. Breath-taking stuff.
After 15 minutes of this video being uploaded the top comment with a few hundred likes was a joke about the absence of the Picard finale review. Strange they've all vanished...
I refuse to believe that this movie was ever shown on any kind of tv programming. Maybe you have a weird uncle that had it playing on his VCR or something.
Fun Fact: In the commentary for the movie, Randy Quaid had issues trying to be the character in the movie. He finds his characters by finding the right shoes. Once he found the right ones, he jumped into character.
I remember reading a LONG time ago that David Daniels was inspired to do that animation technique after visiting a sushi bar in Japan. He was enthralled when the chef cut the sushi rolls and each piece was left with a beautiful pattern, each the same, but subtly different. I can’t remember exactly where I read that or why it is in my head, but there it is.
I feel like Josh gets to TRULY shine whenever he does re: View. I personally don't think he's "built" for Best of the Worst but I really like him on re: View. I really do enjoy his knowledge of the weird and bizarre films on re: View.
Ok, so this is a movie that I have been trying to convince everyone that I know is real. I describe it to all of my friends but nobody has ever heard of it and are consequently convinced that I am absolutely insane. I now have tangible proof that it, indeed, is a real movie that other people have seen.
I remember seeing this when I was in my early-to-mid 20's and maybe I was one of the few people this movie was made for because I distinctly remember laughing non-stop through the entire damn thing. Completely sober. Just straight up, compulsive laughter at how funny it was. Absolutely everything seemed to click with my sense of humor. I haven't laughed so much and so consistently at a single movie since.
My favorite gif to come from RLM is from the "Faust" episode when Rich points out editing a supercut of all his disgusted reactions to what they're watching, then pan left to Jay who's giggling like a schoolgirl. For all the jokes they've made over the years of Rich being the sex pervert/weirdo, it was really Jay all along lol.
@@luckyspurs I was watching Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater on The Movie Channel on the living room TV when I was 10. Late-night, uncut splatter flicks, women in prison, European sex comedies. My parents took me to see Halloween II in a theater when I was 5.
It's about the second or third time in the past year I noticed that. So I'm optimistic it turns up in as little as 2 or 3 years. Side note: 'Enicino man' is 'California man' in the UK.
@@DirtyFrigginHarry The utter disregard for what the fan base wants is what makes them special. They've definitely mentioned UHF enough to the point I imagined they did it already. Your comment just now made me realise that they actually didn't.
@@phillydelphia8760 Oh yeah its definitely one of their strong suits. I"m just really interested in what Jay has to say about it because he clearly likes it to reference it 3 separate times and usually when Jay says he likes a movie its one I end up having no interest in at all
Practical effects are one of my favorite draws toward older cinema, I can't believe I'm learning about this movie now. What an awesome collection of ridiculousness, and Keanu seems to be having the best time with it. This was a real wholesome re:View, thanks Jay and Josh.
Thanks for the memories. I worked on this film. It was shot in 1991. I first saw it on laserdisc. There was a DVD with an alternate cut of the movie. Great, fun shoot to be a part of. I believe it will have its day. BTW, it was shot under the title of Very Special People. By the time it was done the crew jackets said Hideous Mutant Freaks.
You guys are seriously my favorite curators to the film world. And I love that I get to discover these movies with all the rich history you provide! A million hearts to you lovely people!
Josh really suits Re-View episodes. Sometimes feel he gets a little swallowed up on Best of the Worst, with Mike, Jay, Rich and Jack all bouncing off each other so well.
@@luckyspurs the problem with him in some of the BOTW episodes is that his role as that one person that talks seriously about the movies no matter how awful they are is usually already fullfilled by Jay, and Jay despite not being the funniest of the group has carved for himself a nice niche of balance between the chaotic Mike-Rich dinamic and that by itself has a nice comedic element sometimes; Josh's knowledge and personality shines better in this format and while he has never bothered me in BOTW (I think the Dr. Butcher episode gave him an exagerated bad rep) his talents suit him better here and I hope we see him more often like this.
The scene with Stuey Gluck getting sucked out of the cabin is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. From him appearing in the overhead locker to him landing on the ground is gold.
So I just watched this again in full last night for the first time in a very long time. And I still love it, and it’s what led me to this review because I wanted to see what I could find nowadays on UA-cam regarding Freaked. But I want to say, when this came out, I must be one of the few people in the world who has seen this movie in a theater. TWICE. In ‘93 it actually did get a brief release at the Village East Cinemas in NYC. I was at least 16, and I and a buddy of mine knew about this movie’s existence because of an episode of the E! series Behind the Scenes (which can be found here on UA-cam) that featured it under the original name. We were also fans of The Idiot Box and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, so when we saw it was getting a release under the name “Freaked” we immediately went to see it. I’m pretty sure we were two of the four or five people in the cinema that day. And we loved it! So much that the following weekend we told other buddies of ours that they had to see this movie immediately. Again, second showing, we were the only loonies in the theater. So it DID indeed get a release (of sorts) in A theater or two. And you know, I’d like to think somewhere out in the Multiverse, in an alternate timeline, this movie got the major release it deserved, and was enough of a hit it spawned an animated series on MTV, perhaps some comics, and most definitely, an action figure line produced by Playmates.
Always love the dynamic between Jay and Josh. All the RLM guys are hilarious but put these two in a room together and its the best of both worlds; niche knowledge of music and cinema
RLM sustains me through the lock down. I had already seen every single best of the worst, but I'm working on viewing 2 or 3 now for every episode. Of course I love re:view and half in the bag as well. The shrill shriek of Rich Evans laughter has lulled me to sleep most nights this week.
@Steven Keck if only they had a RATM song too, cos Tom Morello was in Voyager. Seems like star trek more than any other series has all these weird cameos. The Rock was in Voyager too, giving a rock bottom to Seven of Nine and then raising his eyebrow, while dressed as an alien, and this was before he was an actor, I think it was his very first role actually. The Big Show was also in Enterprise. And he's an actor, but I always found it really bizzare when George Costanza showed up in Voyager too. Cos he also had all this alien make up on, but all I could see was Costanza. I almost think getting Jeffrey Combs in began as just a cameo. Like "let's make all the nerds happy by bringing in the Re-Animator guy" ans then he turned out to be so good that they just kept him on to play about 5 different characters in one show, even at one point his main character being killed off, and then a _clone_ of him being introduced, just so they could keep Combs acting on the show. For another musician cameos, Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, was in Star Trek too. On TNG. Oh another good one was when Kelsey Grammer showed up on TNG. On the "groundhog day" episode that actually came out years before Groundhog Day came out, and I'm pretty sure invented the whole concept that Groundhog Day and then later X-Files and probably a bunch of other shows copied.
This used to play on HBO all the time when I was a kid. I remember a joke where the cowboy says, "I have esp. and sockhead over there, hes got espn" I'll never forget that lol. And of course, as a kid, stuey gluck was my favorite.
This is the first "The Idiot Box" reference I have seen since I was a kid. That show was hilarious back in the day. Alex Winters getting shot in the head at the beginning of the episode then doing interviews with people on the street and making children cry. Classic.
Loved this film. I last watched it in 2007 when I worked for McFarlane Toys with the most wonderful weird person I ever had the honor of calling a friend. RIP my Dude
I just watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure for the first time, then get this new video on my birthday with a Bill and Ted reference in the description. What are the odds. Love you RLM, never stop doing what you're doing.
"There is no digital release of this anywhere". *Checks pirate site. Immediately finds two versions of it. One is the theatrical and the other is the extended European cut.* Piracy always wins
This is a film review site run by people who like film. They don't just want to see the movie, they want to see a good print of it along with special features. They incidentally may also want to pay artists for work they appreciate.
One for me is Freeway. It’s a white trash retelling of Little Red Riding Hood starring Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, and wouldn’t you know it, Brooke Shields.
I can think of at least 5 movies not starring Deep Roy Mission Impossible Fallout The Shining (The original, not the TV remake) The Thing Star Trek Into Darkness Ghostbusters II Easy peasy
Laughed hard at several clips, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention! (the kid through the glass, the airplane door, the backstories, the milkmen... great stuff)
I thought that the title sequence looked like Peter Gabriel's video for Big Time and sure enough David Daniels did both. Oddly enough, IMDB only lists his work on that music video and Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
IMDB's awful for animators' credits. My dad worked on a ton of Pink Floyd, Roger Williams, Hanna-Barbera, BBC and other stuff and his only credit on there is for a Palme d'Or nominated Linda McCartney short.
@@kyleshockley1573 Can confirm from working in studio environments, IMDB does not fact check at all. Fellow animators were credited (or not) for many productions and departments.
Lol I grew up near a stripmall that had a mediaplay, circuit city, service merchandise, and funcoland all in the same plaza... Yeah that ended well lol.
I worked with Dave Daniels whose opening credit/claymation technique is discussed at the end of the video. I was an animator on Gary and Mike, the show that featured the melting head animation at 32:15 - I was given a "slice" of the animation that I had framed and that lives in my office to this day. Great guy with a brilliant mind to have invented this technique (which he calls "strata-cut").
On the subject of Randy Quaid and obscure early 90s comedies, I rewatched “Quick Change” the other day, a highly overlooked flick with Bill Murray and Randy Quaid, and damn it doesn’t receive its due credit. Genuinely good movie.
It's so awesome finding people on UA-cam who watched the same weird movies I had watched. The 90's was a strange time. I haven't watched all the weird stuff Jay has, but it still feels nice hearing movie references that you almost forgot about.
I saw this on tv as a kid in the mid nineties and it haunted my dreams for a decade. I loved it so much that my dad got me the VHS. Thanks to your review my boyfriend is now finally willing to watch this all the way through with me! Thank you!!
We've lost Rich Evans. ...we lost him in his celeb-sized mansion last seen wearing his Dick the Birthday Boy shirt.... ..And the Plinkett hat and shades.
Cool to know that you guys were part of the 12 people who saw the Idiot Box. The Eddie the Flying Gimp theme song has been stuck in my head for 30 years.
This movie looks so incredibly cool! Love all of the imagination and hard work that were put into it. Now I have to go watch it, thanks for spreading the word boys!
Saw this for the first time yesterday, on UA-cam - thanks to Jay for mentioning it being on the platform in another episode. Great film, thoroughly watchable. Oh my Eyes!
Jay: "Hey Mike, wanna do a re:View of Freaked?"
Mike: "You mean the '93 comedy featuring Commander Bruce Maddox from the Star Trek TNG episode Measure of a Man?"
Jay: "Hey Josh, wanna do a re:View of Freaked?"
Mike probably wants to never think about Bruce Maddox ever again after Picard
That's not a fair comparison. Measure of a Man is the greatest episode of Trek in the IP. How is ANYONE going to not want to talk about that instead?
beeilve honestly that’s something I hate about Picard so much.
It taints an episode THAT good. Measure of a man made me cry at the end as after all of it Data himself comforts Riker, understanding he had to do a job essentially attacking Data’s own sentience, to ensure that Data was treated as a being and not a machine.
ignore the replies, this is legitimately one of the funniest comments i've ever read
I demand more RLM comments with this level of quality
Appreciate the nice shout out on this episode. We did a cover story on Freaked in the 90s when Film Threat was a print magazine. We love RLM. Thank you just for existing.
33:20
This is really sweet.
You guys are still around?! I had a Film Threat t-shirt in high school. A white one with black rings around the collar and sleeves. It got me a lot of compliments from other pretentious movie nerds. Ah, memories...
this just makes me love how closely connected people can be through the internet now. Film threat!
I still have that Freaked issue. Used to buy Film Threat all the time (and Film Threat Video Guide) and still have all my issues. Never seen this film, though. Now is the time!
I can't help but think of Rich's comment on some episode of BotW: "Jay, you like incomprehensibly weird shit..."
Fuck yeah
I wonder if Jay has seen Street Trash.
@@judsongaiden9878 You wonder?
You wonder if Jay as seen one of the most famous weird cult films?
You also wonder if he's seen Pink Flamingos?
@@missingclover I wonder if he's seen Tourist Trap.
@Blue .Barrymore I wonder if he's seen The Ice Pirates.
"The lady who played Pinhead is Patti Tippo, she also portrayed Nurse Temple in Star Trek: The Next Generation's third season episode "Transfigurations."" - Mike Stoklasa
I like at the end of the film when she walks out and has hair/is completely normal.
Also wasn't Deep Roy in Star Trek (2009)?
tpacheco28 this makes me sad that mike died of Covid-19 rip mike 1946-2020
@@fatguy4279 Just remember, "No One's Ever Really Gone." - Mike Stoklasa (by way of the spirit box gifted to him by Macaulay)
And William Sadler played Luther Sloan on Deep Space 9.
That claymation effect is insane. I'm so glad they gave credit for that and explained it.
CG looks very fake too that's the thing, it is too perfect most of the time and you can tell.
It also made an appearance in Peter Gabriel's 'Big Time' video. Id always wondered how it was done. Seeing how doesn't make it seem any less impossible.
@@Arkangel630 I hate when they do CGI but it's at a different frame rate to the other parts, makes it too obvious
PSA: If you have not seen this movie, the full film can be found here on UA-cam. Take advantage of it before it gets too much attention and gets taken down.
It showed up randomly on my feed last year when James Rolf reviewed it, I'm glad a new audience gets to watch this crazy thing.
Rattlebones yeh that’s how I saw this film when this was brought up a few years ago
holyshitman ur right
broke the first rule of free movies on youtube club.
I'm going to do just that and come back to this review after. That's a damn interesting movie. Never knew about it.
I thought this movie was a fever dream for years.
Same
It was. And so is this...
@Hennimore me too... There's one more movie I'm trying to remember... Something about shooting a fly out of the air.
It definitely feels like it/some sort of drug trip. Saw clips of it and I instantly loved it for that reason.
I remember seeing bits of it on the "SyFy" channel many, many years ago, such as the scene where the conjoined boy was vomiting after seeing the mutant boy. Catching weird things on television after midnight sure was a childhood experience.
Jay and Josh on Re:View
Me: “ok, this is going to be some weird shit.”
My kind of shit.
Love their pairing
"That's a lot of milkmen on the same route, no wonder they fight." That actually got a huge laugh out of me.
Wait wait wait...a joke made you laugh? That's unheard of! Preposterous!
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 Lots of jokes are funny, but getting an actual out-loud laugh can be less common.
I also love 12 milk men is possible but 13, ridiculous
@@lotus-prince Gotta explain these things to the robots.
@@degenermights2427i love how even the hammer is dressed up as a milkman.
32:14 this technique is called the strata cut! It’s a very rare style of claymation and it’s not seen as much today unfortunately, mostly because clay is expensive as shit and strata cut basically wastes a lot of it by rendering it unrecyclable
It seems similar to polymer or Fimo claty beads where the make a long, layered tube of it where the image shows on the ends. Almost like making a sushi roll.
Straticut animation is as old as the 1920s but was prominent in the 1980s when it was used in Peter Gabriel's Big Time, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, and different animations for Pee Wee's Playhouse.
I love the bright smile on Josh's face when Jay shows him his toys.
You are right! The joy and amazement are so honest and wholesome. Josh is awesome.
They brought the hammer back for the milk man joke and even dressed the hammer up as a milk man I've never noticed that ever.
I missed that even during the review, cheers! 😂😂
I've seen this movie one million times and I just rewatched it, and my girlfriend was laughing because the hammer was dressed like the milkman. I had to rewind it. I had never noticed. I laughed and laughed.
with as tragic of a backstory as Hammer had, there's no way they were leaving him behind. Coogan sure, but Hammer deserved freedom.
freaked is in the disney vault right next to song of the south.
Well, Zippity Doo Da Damnit
When Disney got mailed all of Fox's film old film prints, Freaked ,Freddy Got Figured, All of the seltzerberg films, Batman The Movie and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls all """" accidentally""" fell in to a paper shredder
its on youtube on the creaturefeatures channel now :)
Alex Winter has responded that he's trying to get it up on streaming / digital purchase!!!
Any update on that???
Any update now?
Far out!
So this is a live action rocko's modern life skit. I'm sold.
Nah, it’s wayyyyyyy better than rocko’s modern life.
Rockoooooo's Modeeeeern liife...rockos modern life.
Never even heard of this movie, but Christ, that hammer origin story was literally a 2-second gag and it cracked me the fuck up
The whole movie is like that. And the jokes come so quick you have to watch it two or three times to catch all of them.
Hopefully somebody put it up for download somewhere or something....
@@Virjunior01 it's on UA-cam. Just type in Freaked 1993, boom.
Can someone explain that joke? I'm too dense to figure it out
@@jfgibson73 I haven't seen the movie and was mostly listening to this video from the other room, but if I understand right, the hammer was being established in that joke as not just a hammer but actually one of the freaks, in that it had been transformed by Randy Quaid and had originally been a wrench? And the hammer is supposed to be somehow telling the other freaks about this, because they are all explaining their origins to one another in that scene, and the other freaks act super sad about the hammer's story as if they all perceive it to be deeply tragic. And their reaction is also supposed to make you laugh - that part is kinda corny I think. But the initial joke is really strong.
I didn’t realize how 90’s the 90’s were until I watch a 90’s movie today
As a kid in the 90s; "why doesn't this decade have it's own feel, like the 60s, 70s and 80s all did".
Now; "damn; everything was really odd back then".
I miss it.
@@luckyspurs
As a young man in the 2000s, "Man this decade is bland."
Now: "Boy that decade sure was bland."
Accurate
@@benjaminthefox give it till the middle of this new decade. Aughts nostalgia will start picking up.
Jay and Josh’s pop-culture knowledge is straight-up awe-inspiring.
How is being a hack fraud awe inspiring?
The least thing they have is pop-culture knowledge
And somehow they entirely misssed the goodfellas bit in the idiot box first episode. he is recreating the opening scene.. come on!!
Can wait for their Masterclass on Pop culture factoids and trivia
Here's hoping there's enough goodwill left between them and the Schmoes for a Schmoedown run
That's a lot of milkmen for one route. No wonder they fight.
Twelve milkmen *is* theoretically possible. Thirteen...is silly.
one of my fav jokes in the movie..
29:20
This is such a wholesome episode holy shit. Jay showing off his little action figures, incredible.
I wasn’t convinced that Red Letter Media was the channel for me, but man, that incredible montage of big hats from Blossom changed my mind immediately. Breath-taking stuff.
Did the girl that played Blossom back then grow up to be Sheldon's girlfriend in 'Big Bang Theory',
or am I actually losing it for good just now??!
@@fredlabosch5164 One and the same person.
It’s their appreciation of Ishtar for me.
@@RPGDesignatedPaladin These men are pawns.
It's trippy knowing that the Dog Boy was Keanu. Back then his voice sounded deeper, but hearing the clips now I can totally hear that it is him. Lol
After 15 minutes of this video being uploaded the top comment with a few hundred likes was a joke about the absence of the Picard finale review.
Strange they've all vanished...
@@SansAppellation which doesn't have anything to do with my comment.
@@alwaysxnever No one but you seems to care.
For years I had no idea it was him. He really does look like he had the time of his life olaying that role.
This movie is like tank girl where I must’ve caught it on hbo or some shit as a small kid and I thought for the longest time it was just a dream.
I think Tank Girl was Niaomi Watts first film.
I refuse to believe that this movie was ever shown on any kind of tv programming. Maybe you have a weird uncle that had it playing on his VCR or something.
@ShotgunSurgery what is the name of the anime your profile picture is from?, also can you send me a link of the picture please thank you.
ShotgunSurgery Same here. Watched it when I had the stomach flu. Thought it was a fever dream
Abolish Eden With Fire it’s Zero-Two from Darling in the Franxx
Fun Fact: In the commentary for the movie, Randy Quaid had issues trying to be the character in the movie. He finds his characters by finding the right shoes. Once he found the right ones, he jumped into character.
Where did you find movie commentary for this?
@@GeneralBulldog54 I have the movie on DVD. It has the commentary.
@@Spectrumpigg The DVD is from where?
@@GeneralBulldog54 I bought the movie a long time ago. I cannot remember where. I still have it to this day.
I miss the 90s. Even if you didn't do drugs, it felt like it.
This 😂👍🏻
It felt like one long summer.
Basically
When it felt like the entire decade was high off speed and smack
the shot with the hammer convinced me. need to watch this movie right now
It's on UA-cam. Go watch it.
I remember reading a LONG time ago that David Daniels was inspired to do that animation technique after visiting a sushi bar in Japan. He was enthralled when the chef cut the sushi rolls and each piece was left with a beautiful pattern, each the same, but subtly different. I can’t remember exactly where I read that or why it is in my head, but there it is.
Fucking weeb
@@jpetras16 🤣
It sounds like the same technique as candy art too, where they make a tube of candy and the images appear as you watch from the cross-section.
Can't wait for the 90s 'zombie on a skateboard' asthetic to come back in style
Woah
For some of us, it never went out of style
It's called Kustom Kulture Art, youngster. It was quite popular.
Well, Urban Outfitters is selling $50 t-shirts of skeletons on skateboards, so we may not be too far away from coming back around!
I feel like Josh gets to TRULY shine whenever he does re: View. I personally don't think he's "built" for Best of the Worst but I really like him on re: View. I really do enjoy his knowledge of the weird and bizarre films on re: View.
My exact sentiments. Been thinking this since the first episode of re:view he appeared in
He’s a lovely person with a great appreciation for all that is odd and adventurous, whether it be movies or music!
Ok, so this is a movie that I have been trying to convince everyone that I know is real. I describe it to all of my friends but nobody has ever heard of it and are consequently convinced that I am absolutely insane.
I now have tangible proof that it, indeed, is a real movie that other people have seen.
Lol, I did the exact same thing when one of my friends was describing it to me for the first time.
I'm still trying to figure out that genie movie.
@@Pwnstared what genie movie?
@@MadsterV Shazam, with Sinbad. Not to be confused with Kazaam, with Shaq.
I saw this movie late at night on tv as a kid and never knew what it was until now. I hadn't remembered anything from it except the freaky monsters.
The clay loaf animation technique's called Strata-cut. It's insane the talent and skill David Daniels must have.
I love how they even went through the effort of dressing the hammer up as a tiny milkman.
I just love these two together. They embody the innocent love of cinema.
Boris Tarczy innocent? These two sex perverts?
They're still young enough to not have the bitter cynical hatred of everyone and everything that Rich Evans and Mike have xD
I remember seeing this when I was in my early-to-mid 20's and maybe I was one of the few people this movie was made for because I distinctly remember laughing non-stop through the entire damn thing. Completely sober. Just straight up, compulsive laughter at how funny it was. Absolutely everything seemed to click with my sense of humor. I haven't laughed so much and so consistently at a single movie since.
Show of hands (or likes), who thinks Freaked should be in the Criterion Collection?
Arrow Video would be another good option, especially as they have started doing 4k blu-rays!
It really deserves it, a really unique and fun film.
My favorite gif to come from RLM is from the "Faust" episode when Rich points out editing a supercut of all his disgusted reactions to what they're watching, then pan left to Jay who's giggling like a schoolgirl. For all the jokes they've made over the years of Rich being the sex pervert/weirdo, it was really Jay all along lol.
Bro Mike is constantly calling Jay out for being such a weirdo
@@beanacomputer Jay must have had a TV in his room as a kid. No way he was watching all this niche stuff in the living room.
@@luckyspurs I was watching Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater on The Movie Channel on the living room TV when I was 10.
Late-night, uncut splatter flicks, women in prison, European sex comedies.
My parents took me to see Halloween II in a theater when I was 5.
Handsomeness belies the monster within.
@@luckyspursof course he did. He grew up in McCallister's mansion after all.
"12 milkmen is theoretically possible, 13 is silly"
@@Arthurzeiro Alex Winter grew up in London as a kid, so he probably absorbed some of that British-style gonzo absurdism while he was there.
Lotta milkmen on the same route... no wonder they fight.
I love that the hammer is also dressed as a milkman.
The fact that Keanu Reeves is under that makeup saying that, just made it even more surreal.
Oh my god. This is "UHF"-levels of awe-inspiring weirdness. I need to have it.
WHEEL... OF... FISH!
Yes, yes you do.
@@hunterrose8019 I'll take the box! The box!
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@Nchap20 - You soooo stupid!
We keep this up we will get a ReView of UHF. Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
Josh mentioned Encino Man by the laws of RLM we'll get a Re:View in like 4 years
It's about the second or third time in the past year I noticed that.
So I'm optimistic it turns up in as little as 2 or 3 years.
Side note: 'Enicino man' is 'California man' in the UK.
@@phillydelphia8760 Jay has brought up UHF three different times I'm still waiting for that
@@DirtyFrigginHarry The utter disregard for what the fan base wants is what makes them special.
They've definitely mentioned UHF enough to the point I imagined they did it already.
Your comment just now made me realise that they actually didn't.
@@phillydelphia8760 Oh yeah its definitely one of their strong suits. I"m just really interested in what Jay has to say about it because he clearly likes it to reference it 3 separate times and usually when Jay says he likes a movie its one I end up having no interest in at all
Its been 4 years and unfortunately were still waiting
Practical effects are one of my favorite draws toward older cinema, I can't believe I'm learning about this movie now. What an awesome collection of ridiculousness, and Keanu seems to be having the best time with it. This was a real wholesome re:View, thanks Jay and Josh.
This episode gave me so much nostalgia, I broke my hip from realizing how old I am.
The EES corporate guy was the actor who played Section 31 operative Luther Sloan in Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
thanks Mike Stoklasa
Colonel Stuart in Die Hard 2 and the President in Iron Man 3.
The whole movie's on UA-cam right now boys, go watch this masterpiece
Thanks for the memories. I worked on this film. It was shot in 1991. I first saw it on laserdisc. There was a DVD with an alternate cut of the movie. Great, fun shoot to be a part of. I believe it will have its day. BTW, it was shot under the title of Very Special People. By the time it was done the crew jackets said Hideous Mutant Freaks.
You guys are seriously my favorite curators to the film world. And I love that I get to discover these movies with all the rich history you provide! A million hearts to you lovely people!
I've grown to enjoy episodes of re:View with jay and josh more then any one so far, true stories was a banger of a movie
I missed Josh, his reviews with Jay are usually solid stuff.
Josh really suits Re-View episodes. Sometimes feel he gets a little swallowed up on Best of the Worst, with Mike, Jay, Rich and Jack all bouncing off each other so well.
@@luckyspurs the problem with him in some of the BOTW episodes is that his role as that one person that talks seriously about the movies no matter how awful they are is usually already fullfilled by Jay, and Jay despite not being the funniest of the group has carved for himself a nice niche of balance between the chaotic Mike-Rich dinamic and that by itself has a nice comedic element sometimes; Josh's knowledge and personality shines better in this format and while he has never bothered me in BOTW (I think the Dr. Butcher episode gave him an exagerated bad rep) his talents suit him better here and I hope we see him more often like this.
@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 Very well said.
There was that "Rich Evans is Defeatable" moment.
Granted that was an episode where Jay wasn't at the discussion table.
That's Josh? I thought Mike had really let himself go
Subvert those Picard expectations. These guys know what they're doing.
the hammer's backstory revealing that it used to be a wrench, was heartbreaking tbh :(
Heart-wrenching, in fact.
The scene with Stuey Gluck getting sucked out of the cabin is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. From him appearing in the overhead locker to him landing on the ground is gold.
He's very much a live-action Milhouse Van Houten in this movie.
I gotta say, Jay and Josh make one of the best teams for reviewing... my favorite re:views are by them
When I saw it was Freaked, I was hoping somebody would mention The Idiot Box. Glad you guys came through, loved that show back in the day.
“And death wish 3” Jay truly is a man after my heart
So I just watched this again in full last night for the first time in a very long time. And I still love it, and it’s what led me to this review because I wanted to see what I could find nowadays on UA-cam regarding Freaked.
But I want to say, when this came out, I must be one of the few people in the world who has seen this movie in a theater. TWICE.
In ‘93 it actually did get a brief release at the Village East Cinemas in NYC. I was at least 16, and I and a buddy of mine knew about this movie’s existence because of an episode of the E! series Behind the Scenes (which can be found here on UA-cam) that featured it under the original name. We were also fans of The Idiot Box and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, so when we saw it was getting a release under the name “Freaked” we immediately went to see it. I’m pretty sure we were two of the four or five people in the cinema that day. And we loved it! So much that the following weekend we told other buddies of ours that they had to see this movie immediately. Again, second showing, we were the only loonies in the theater.
So it DID indeed get a release (of sorts) in A theater or two.
And you know, I’d like to think somewhere out in the Multiverse, in an alternate timeline, this movie got the major release it deserved, and was enough of a hit it spawned an animated series on MTV, perhaps some comics, and most definitely, an action figure line produced by Playmates.
Always love the dynamic between Jay and Josh. All the RLM guys are hilarious but put these two in a room together and its the best of both worlds; niche knowledge of music and cinema
RLM sustains me through the lock down. I had already seen every single best of the worst, but I'm working on viewing 2 or 3 now for every episode. Of course I love re:view and half in the bag as well. The shrill shriek of Rich Evans laughter has lulled me to sleep most nights this week.
Thanks for the style survey taut yfuyfyyfpayayufsyigaiy
It's when you start even rewatching Wheel of the Worst episodes, that you realise how good these guys are.
William Sadler was in Star Trek DS9, he played Section 31 agent Sloan, I feel like this was not mentioned enough, STAR TREK!!!
@Steven Keck if only they had a RATM song too, cos Tom Morello was in Voyager.
Seems like star trek more than any other series has all these weird cameos. The Rock was in Voyager too, giving a rock bottom to Seven of Nine and then raising his eyebrow, while dressed as an alien, and this was before he was an actor, I think it was his very first role actually. The Big Show was also in Enterprise. And he's an actor, but I always found it really bizzare when George Costanza showed up in Voyager too. Cos he also had all this alien make up on, but all I could see was Costanza.
I almost think getting Jeffrey Combs in began as just a cameo. Like "let's make all the nerds happy by bringing in the Re-Animator guy" ans then he turned out to be so good that they just kept him on to play about 5 different characters in one show, even at one point his main character being killed off, and then a _clone_ of him being introduced, just so they could keep Combs acting on the show.
For another musician cameos, Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, was in Star Trek too. On TNG.
Oh another good one was when Kelsey Grammer showed up on TNG. On the "groundhog day" episode that actually came out years before Groundhog Day came out, and I'm pretty sure invented the whole concept that Groundhog Day and then later X-Files and probably a bunch of other shows copied.
As soon as Jay was introduced, you're gonna see some serious trippy shit.
Didn't disappoint.
This used to play on HBO all the time when I was a kid. I remember a joke where the cowboy says, "I have esp. and sockhead over there, hes got espn" I'll never forget that lol. And of course, as a kid, stuey gluck was my favorite.
This is the first "The Idiot Box" reference I have seen since I was a kid. That show was hilarious back in the day. Alex Winters getting shot in the head at the beginning of the episode then doing interviews with people on the street and making children cry. Classic.
Alex Winter: the critically acclaimed Director of Smosh: The Movie!
AND BOTH BEN 10 FILMS!!!
@@ZyxthePest live action Ben 10 films?
@@leonardotavaresdardenne9955 Oh, you sweet summer child...
@@ZyxthePest shut the fuck up
Loved this film. I last watched it in 2007 when I worked for McFarlane Toys with the most wonderful weird person I ever had the honor of calling a friend. RIP my Dude
Who was your friend ?
I just watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure for the first time, then get this new video on my birthday with a Bill and Ted reference in the description. What are the odds. Love you RLM, never stop doing what you're doing.
"There is no digital release of this anywhere". *Checks pirate site. Immediately finds two versions of it. One is the theatrical and the other is the extended European cut.* Piracy always wins
Piracy is the only thing keeping some of this history alive.
Did any of you guys bother checking youtube? It's been on here for like three years.
This is a film review site run by people who like film. They don't just want to see the movie, they want to see a good print of it along with special features.
They incidentally may also want to pay artists for work they appreciate.
Always will win
There’s an extended European cut?!?!
This and that David Byrne movie are the two most "I thought I dreamed that..." movies of 90's cable TV.
One for me is Freeway. It’s a white trash retelling of Little Red Riding Hood starring Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, and wouldn’t you know it, Brooke Shields.
@@erakfishfishfish lolYES! I remember that one. Perfect example.
I'm so happy you keep digging out these weird-ass movies for us neophytes to discover. So many more must be forgotten and hard to find.
I feel like Deep Roy is one of those actors who's in EVERYTHING.
Deep State Roy.
I can think of at least 5 movies not starring Deep Roy
Mission Impossible Fallout
The Shining (The original, not the TV remake)
The Thing
Star Trek Into Darkness
Ghostbusters II
Easy peasy
@@captaincarrot8928 he was in Star Trek into darkness
Only thing I can think of him in is Eastbound and Down.
@@ConnorMcCartney95 Damn it. Still 4 out of 5 aint bad.
Laughed hard at several clips, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention! (the kid through the glass, the airplane door, the backstories, the milkmen... great stuff)
Putting the Club on a trailer-mounted boat remains my favorite low-key gag in this.
I can't believe after all these years I find out something I never knew about one of my fav films! Keane Reeves was the dog man!!! So epic!!
I didnt know that Ortiz was Keanu Reeves but when I hear him speak, I can hear it! Whoa!
I thought that the title sequence looked like Peter Gabriel's video for Big Time and sure enough David Daniels did both. Oddly enough, IMDB only lists his work on that music video and Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
IMDB's awful for animators' credits. My dad worked on a ton of Pink Floyd, Roger Williams, Hanna-Barbera, BBC and other stuff and his only credit on there is for a Palme d'Or nominated Linda McCartney short.
@@kyleshockley1573 Can confirm from working in studio environments, IMDB does not fact check at all. Fellow animators were credited (or not) for many productions and departments.
@Frizzurd Wasn't that when the Nike guy bought his studio and put his failed rapper son in charge?
36 Minutes of Jay showing what a movie buff he is. This is great
I remember watching it but didn't remember the title. I now know why: in my country it's called "Everything Except Shoes"
I've probably seen this movie 40 times. Mostly because Comedy Central used to play it more or less on a loop during the summer in the 90s.
"Mediaplay?"
[Drags from cigarette]
"I haven't heard that name in years."
Lol I grew up near a stripmall that had a mediaplay, circuit city, service merchandise, and funcoland all in the same plaza... Yeah that ended well lol.
@@magemega4262 lmaooo only missing a FYE
"Macheesemo" is like the dumbest possible pun, but I busted up laughing at it. I have to see this movie now.
Do it. It's (supposedly) on UA-cam, and I got it on DVD, via amazon.
I would get this mixed up with the Yogi Beer ad in the John Ritter movie Stay Tuned.
Macheesemo would fit right in the Idiocracy universe.
I'm trying to imagine Rich being force to sit down and watch this movie.
This quarantine ain't so bad when these guys are around
For a while the virus doesn’t exist when RedLetterMedia’s around.
You’re right... it’s WORSE.
Is it just me or do they seem to be more productive now than before?
I worked with Dave Daniels whose opening credit/claymation technique is discussed at the end of the video. I was an animator on Gary and Mike, the show that featured the melting head animation at 32:15 - I was given a "slice" of the animation that I had framed and that lives in my office to this day. Great guy with a brilliant mind to have invented this technique (which he calls "strata-cut").
I always loved in the milkman scene that if you look at Mr. T, he is holding the hammer who is dressed as a little milkman.
On the subject of Randy Quaid and obscure early 90s comedies, I rewatched “Quick Change” the other day, a highly overlooked flick with Bill Murray and Randy Quaid, and damn it doesn’t receive its due credit. Genuinely good movie.
Oh, right! Terrific movie, and a fine Randy Quaid performance.
I haven't seen Quick Change in so long. I need to find a copy, stat!
It's so awesome finding people on UA-cam who watched the same weird movies I had watched. The 90's was a strange time. I haven't watched all the weird stuff Jay has, but it still feels nice hearing movie references that you almost forgot about.
"it's bad luck just seeing a thing like that!"
You guys are my soulmates. Just when I thought my day couldn’t get better, you make a Freaked reView. And as a bonus mention PCU.
PCU is one of my favorite movies ever. I was just talking to my roommates about it this morning.
Chant it with me now:
"We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're..."
@@CERTAIND00M Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer!
I remember when the Attack of the Clones Plinkett review dropped on Easter Sunday morning. Now we get ... a re:View of Freaked?!?
All those moments will be lost in time. Like fork in the brain.
I knowww it’s legendary isn’t it?
Will we ever get Mr. Plinkett’s review of The Rise of Palpatine?
And the little lord Jesus came back only to see freaked and immediately peace out
You guys HAVE to do, "Joe's Apartment"!
The towel's got the funk!
I saw this on tv as a kid in the mid nineties and it haunted my dreams for a decade. I loved it so much that my dad got me the VHS. Thanks to your review my boyfriend is now finally willing to watch this all the way through with me! Thank you!!
RedLetterMedia getting me through quarantine.
Wow I remember watching this late night on HBO against my dad's recommendation and it scared the pants off me for years.
We've lost Rich Evans.
...we lost him in his celeb-sized mansion last seen wearing his Dick the Birthday Boy shirt.... ..And the Plinkett hat and shades.
Wasn't he on that imagine video with all those hacks?
@@lilmoeszyslak4810 That was Gal Gadot
@@pliskin101 No no that i thought he was the Kristin Whig lady without makeup
@@lilmoeszyslak4810 no, he was crying in front of his $12 million dollar mansion.
And nothing else
Love how you guys saved the "spoiler" to the very last second of the video. Such gentlemen!
This movie used to crack me up in high school. Haven't thought about it in 20 years. lol Good shit.
I bought this movie in a pawn shop two years ago, and now I show it to everyone who will watch it
This IS the kind of of movie you find exclusively at pawn shops and estate sales of families who have mysteriously gone missing.
I asked Rich and Jack on a Pre Rec livestream if they had seen this. Rich says, "Sounds like some crap Jay would like." Guess he was right lol
I loved this movie as a kid, they played it on hbo all the time. Man the 90s were weird haha.
The 90s were GREAT!
Jayson Klein
You’re goddamn right they were.
Cool to know that you guys were part of the 12 people who saw the Idiot Box. The Eddie the Flying Gimp theme song has been stuck in my head for 30 years.
This movie looks so incredibly cool! Love all of the imagination and hard work that were put into it. Now I have to go watch it, thanks for spreading the word boys!
This movie is hands down one of my all time favourites. I snatched up the DVD when it released and I'm glad I did.
We need this movie back. I remember seeing it as a little kid.
WHERE IS THE LAST PICARD EPISODE REEEEEEE
thank you for confirming that this was an actual movie and not just a fever dream i had as a child
Saw this for the first time yesterday, on UA-cam - thanks to Jay for mentioning it being on the platform in another episode. Great film, thoroughly watchable. Oh my Eyes!