Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern and Lexy Kolker star in this menacing sci-fi thriller nominated for Best Canadian Feature at Toronto.
"Isolated...
Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern and Lexy Kolker star in this menacing sci-fi thriller nominated for Best Canadian Feature at Toronto.
"Isolated and desperate to get outside and experience life beyond the crumbling walls of their dilapidated house, Chloe (Kolker) finally makes a break for it when her sleep-deprived father (Hirsch) drifts off. But the outside world isn't all she envisioned ... She's immediately met by a twitchy, oddly familiar ice-cream salesman (Dern) who gives off the wrong kind of vibes but entices Chloe onto his truck. He speeds off to the park and en route she's introduced to a strange world, haunted by the threat of freaks who look like us but are markedly different — and likely dangerous." (Toronto International Film Festival)
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88 %84 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
86 %152 reviewsAudience score rating
"Its most effective trick, though, is to trap us all inside Chloe's head, presenting a child's-eye view of a world gone incomprehensibly mad."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It's watchable and intriguing stuff, yet also silly and inconsistent."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Nothing is less scary than a movie that makes no sense."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"...an unexpected gem of a film, well-acted, well-written and well-shot, with timely themes and clever staging."
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FilmInk
FilmInk"A tight yarn whose structural cleverness makes it easy to ignore the deeply familiar story at its core."
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Variety
Variety"The film doesn't earn many points for originality, but writer-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein show just enough low-budget gusto to suggest that they might have a future as B-movie mavens."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"[Kolker's] semi-improvised performance couldn't be any more authentic and she's well matched with Hirsch, drawing on his own parental experience, as her conflicted and overprotective father."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Young Lexy Kolker delivers unforgettable work, and the level of detail and emotion Lipovsky and Stein achieve suggests this isn't a pair to merely lean on a clever concept. They strive to make it mean something and in the case of Freaks they've succeeded."
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ColliderFreaks (2018) | Details
- Rating
- TBC,
- Runtime
- 104
- Genre
- Science Fiction, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
