Freaked
[whoooa]
"Dog make-up" reminds "wildly hilarious and brilliantly satirical" "audiences of the world" during this "kind of movie" that "sentimental value" can be "quite freaky" "and all"; "another one of those" bewitched fans noted: "'I guess I just prefer' 'watching 'Dracula'' and 'I mean that'" - but this "funny at times" kook is obviously "kinda weird."
This movie has more sentimental value than anything else. It was written and directed by Alex Winter (the Bill of Bill & Ted), and Keanu plays a character named "Dawgboy," which makes me wonder if that was the original inspiration for the name of Keanu's band. This movie is quite freaky; makes me think of the kind of movie that Matt and I would write if we had any ambition to write a really freaky movie. Funny at parts, laborious at others.
This is another one of those "cult favorite" types--you either find it wildly hilarious and brilliantly satirical, or, in my case, you just find it funny at times and, you know, kinda weird. Keanu's buddy Alex Winter--who co-wrote and co-directed this--calls in a favor and gets him to play a role as a mutant, dog make-up and all. I guess I just prefer my Keanu "in the flesh," as it were, and preferably in a movie that doesn't also have Randy Quaid in it.
Where are more movies from Alex Winter? You know. Alex Winter. Bill Preston, Esquire. In addition to being "the one who isn't Keanu," he decided to make a kind of a modern day Tod Browning movie (but with a lot more prosthetic make up & Mr. T), which succeeds at exactly what it wants to do - be pretty funny and weird. Nice to watch a movie with modestly good ambitions. Too bad the audiences of the world are watching "Dracula," instead of this. Really. I mean that.
Cast
Keanu Reeves
Ricky Coogan
The Bearded Lady
Julie
Dick Brian
Skye Daley
Elijah C. Skuggs
George Ramirez #3