Freaked

Freaked
American VHS cover
Directed by	Alex Winter Tom Stern
Written by	Tim Burns Tom Stern Alex Winter
Produced by	Harry J. Ufland Mary Jane Ufland
Starring	Alex Winter Randy Quaid William Sadler Megan Ward Michael Stoyanov Bobcat Goldthwait Mr. T Brooke Shields
Cinematography	Jamie Thompson
Edited by	Malcolm Campbell
Music by	Kevin Kiner Paul Leary/Butthole Surfers Blind Idiot God
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	April 24, 1993 (1993-04-24) (USA Film Festival) May 31, 1993 (1993-05-31) (Italy) October 1, 1993 (1993-10-01) (US)
Running time	82 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$12 million[1]
Box office	$29,296[2]

Freaked is a 1993 American black comedy film directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, both of whom wrote the screenplay with Tim Burns. Winter also starred in the lead role. Both were involved in the short-lived MTV sketch comedy show The Idiot Box, and Freaked retains the same brand of surreal humour seen in the show. Freaked was Alex Winter's last feature film before he shifted to cameo and television films for many years until 2013's Grand Piano.

Originally conceived as a low-budget horror film featuring the band Butthole Surfers,^[3] Freaked went through a number of rewrites, eventually developing into a black comedy set within a sideshow, which was picked up by 20th Century Fox for a feature film. After several poor test screenings and a change in studio executives who then found the film too "weird," the film was pulled from a wide distribution (except for Australia and Japan) and only played on two screens in the United States.