THIS IS THE WEBSITE CUT OF FREAK OUT // Its a good movie for what it is, Brad Jones' first movie with small budget. The reason I say this is it's an acquired taste. The fact is however, it is only on release at thecinemasnob.com and has no DVD release. Any viewer of the film almost certainly is a Brad Jones fan, and will probably like this movie.
The greatest part of Freak Out is its horror, characters, and plot. The story is well paced and developed. Brad Jones is great as Dean Corll, pulling off a very, very haunting performance. (Warning: a very NC-17 serial killer performance. I don't want to get into further details, and I don't even think IMDb would let me.) The second and third acts of this movie are chilling and completely unpredictable, if you stuck around through the first act, just be ready for anything...
Acting outside of Dean is a bit shaky, ranging from just adequate to almost mediocre. Line delivery can be very boring, and seem to actually fit into the cheap style of this film, which seems unintentional in my eyes. It felt that supporting characters acting in this film are just simply not ambitious at all. This doesn't mention the fact that many of these characters are supposed to be teenagers, which just doesn't look right. Everyone seems to be in their mid-20s.
The cheap technical style of this movie seems to be the strongest in this movie, making the film a little less appealing than Jones' others. Editing in this movie is also a little off. There's a scene in this movie which has a random cut to somebody putting on a backpack. Never to be seen again. Also the sound quality is a bit on the mediocre side, music is playing in the actual scene usually rather than in post-production, the car scenes are OK with this at the very most, but the opening disco scene feels horribly cheap.
I am personally a big Brad Jones fan so I may have a little bias, but I can assure you, for those who like these types of movies, meaning low-budget alternative B-movies, this is a excellent film.
