"Freakshow" is a 1989 horror anthology movie."Freakshow" is a 1989 horror anthology movie."Freakshow" is a 1989 horror anthology movie.
Dean Richards Wiancko
- Fidge
- (as Dean Richards)
- …
William Korbut
- Funk
- (as Will Korbut)
Patrick Galligan
- Gordon
- (as Patrick Joseph Galligan)
Timm Zemanek
- Peter - TV Director
- (as Tim Zanmanek)
- Director
- Writers
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Dr. Borges: Society.
- ConnectionsReferences The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- SoundtracksA Million Ways
Written by Marc Connors and Paul Cooper (uncredited)
Performed by The Nylons
Courtesy of and (C) 1988 Attic Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Composition (C) 1982 Attic Music Limited. All Rights Reserved.
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Horrible horror anthology from up north
My review was written in May 1989 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening.
"Freakshow" is a rock-bottom horror film that only a tax loss specialist could love, Prospects are rotten in all media.
Amateurishly directed and acted opus consists of four horror stories, linked by the flimsy premise of loathsome tv newscaster Audrey Landers trapped in a curiosity collection exhibit by its goofball curator Peter Read.
Tales, wholly lacking in awe or ingenuity, go from bad to worse: an endlessly padded episode of a drug addict lured to his death by a poodle with a bag of heroin in its mouth; a pizza delivery boy who survives a night at an evil mansion located at 1313 Bram Stoker Blvd.; a ripoff of a classic "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" to episode in which a paralyzed girl (from drugs again) is subjected to an autopsy while still alive and conscious; and a stupid story of ghouls rising from their graves to punish two gravediggers who are stealing the dirt from the cemetery to sell it to a golf course (!).
Level of tastelessness here is evidenced in the final segment when a goon finds out the dead and come back, and exults: "That's great! That means there'll be a Beatles reunion".
Director Constantino Magnatta embarrassingly tries to simulate music videos, with terrible rock songs frequently thrown in and girls sashaying in their underwear (one couldn't call it dancing). Heavy-handed use of spiral patterns to try and hypnotize the audience plu bookended setting of the pic in a movie theater doesn't work.
"Freakshow" is a rock-bottom horror film that only a tax loss specialist could love, Prospects are rotten in all media.
Amateurishly directed and acted opus consists of four horror stories, linked by the flimsy premise of loathsome tv newscaster Audrey Landers trapped in a curiosity collection exhibit by its goofball curator Peter Read.
Tales, wholly lacking in awe or ingenuity, go from bad to worse: an endlessly padded episode of a drug addict lured to his death by a poodle with a bag of heroin in its mouth; a pizza delivery boy who survives a night at an evil mansion located at 1313 Bram Stoker Blvd.; a ripoff of a classic "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" to episode in which a paralyzed girl (from drugs again) is subjected to an autopsy while still alive and conscious; and a stupid story of ghouls rising from their graves to punish two gravediggers who are stealing the dirt from the cemetery to sell it to a golf course (!).
Level of tastelessness here is evidenced in the final segment when a goon finds out the dead and come back, and exults: "That's great! That means there'll be a Beatles reunion".
Director Constantino Magnatta embarrassingly tries to simulate music videos, with terrible rock songs frequently thrown in and girls sashaying in their underwear (one couldn't call it dancing). Heavy-handed use of spiral patterns to try and hypnotize the audience plu bookended setting of the pic in a movie theater doesn't work.
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- CA$1,700,000 (estimated)
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