Freaks of Nature

Plot synopsis:
In an all out war who will win? What will be left? In the nearly ancient right of Mortal
Combat , when you had thought that you had seen it all - you will be overtaken, overcome . Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Zombies? Vampires? Aliens? Creatures of Various report -
From all walks of ghoulish life...and DEATH! Do you know what the bloodiest most horrifying thing for mom and dad was back in the day? It was the game mortal combat? Now imagine that virtually surrounding you completely.Just you and a few friends - that's all that stands between you and the rest of the world?
Overwhelmed ? You won't be ...once you discover for yourselves who shall inherit the earth from among the horrible combative creatures in Kitchen Sink.

Tags: dark, comedy, murder, allegory, violence, flashback, satire

Review:
It's even more fun describing it to a friend.When it was playing at one local Portland theater, with no local reviews and no advertising I knew I had to check it out.No spoilers here.I'm just going to say this horror comedy combines vampires, zombies and aliens in a totally original way.
'FREAKS OF NATURE': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)A horror-comedy flick about vampires, zombies and humans; that all live together peacefully, in a small conservative town, until aliens arrive.
The film stars Nicholas Braun, Mackenzie Davis, Josh Fadem, Vanessa Hudgens, Ed Westwick, Mae Whitman, Denis Leary, Keegan-Michael Key, Bob Odenkirk, Joan Cusack, Patton Oswalt and Pat Healy.
I absolutely loved it!The story takes place in the town of Dillford; where zombies, vampires and humans have all been living together peacefully, for years.
Three outcasts teenagers (a human, a vampire and a zombie) must ban together, to save themselves and their town.
I also love monster movies, so I might be a little biased, but I loved it!Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/Rd5zIXOxTPs. Monsters, Gore, Laughs, and Aliens - It Works.
Good Horror/Comedies are hard to come by, so many of them just tend to be super cheesy low budget movies with no real laughs or originality.
"Freaks Of Nature" isn't groundbreaking or some kind of cult masterpiece, but it is a lot of fun and full of monster action & Blood.The film has sort of a teen flick atmosphere but it isn't too heavy and it isn't as corny as most flick's with that atmosphere tend to be.
The film is riddled with some really fun cameos that help to speed things up a bit when things start to slow down a bit (which doesn't happen very often).I had a good time watching this film, it was fast pace, funny, gory, and original enough to make it not seem like just another horror/comedy.
Freaks of Nature blends in horror/comedy/romance/drama with zombie/alien/vampire/human smashed-up and it works really well thanks to the strong performance and likable cast.
The movie has insanely GORY and bloody action sequences and really interesting premise which continues to deliver that to the end despite some nonsense moments along the way.
It also has great dramatic moments, crazy twists, and is a really funny and pure entertainment film with a heart.
Overall, Freaks of Nature bites the right note in horror/comedy genre with its gleefully smashed-up theme, strong cast, freaky humors, ridiculously fun plot, and a heart, proving it to be more than just a brainless teenage flick.>>B+<<.
Freaks of Nature is really a curiosity; a town inhabited by zombies, human and vampires, living peacefully until an alien invasion creates havoc and a huge civil war.
It has some really comic moments (aided by the presence of comedians like Patton Oswald, Joan Cusack, Keegan-Michael Key, Denis Leary, Bob Odenkirk among others; and a voice cameo from Werner Herzog that is really worth watching).Sadly many times, the movie slow down too much to enter into the clichéd territory of school / teenagers stories, with the romance, the good girl and the slut one, the nerd and the former nerd trying to be cool.
If the movie did not sink is because the acting of the three main characters is really good and some secondary characters / situations are hilarious.With all its mistakes; however the movie has a deeper subtext that rise the movie above the classic teenager fare to become a satire on thin equilibrium of a society that looks peaceful but is a time bomb about to explode, the USA concept of family, food and culture; and the rejection of the smarter being just because it is smarter.In brief; if you can digest some gory situations and zombie makeup, the movie is worth to dedicate some time..
They put zombies, vampires, and aliens all in the same movie, and made it work.
Mixing zombies, vampires, and aliens sounded cool enough.
With Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, Denis Leary, Keegan-Michael Key, and Werner Herzog, one would think this could be a really funny movie.
Instead, those really funny people all play relatively small roles and we are mostly left with a trio of unfunny heroes plodding around the film.The town has zombies and vampires mixing in society, mostly at a high school, and none of that ever gets a back story.
Vampire-on-zombie crime is most assuredly despicable, and we should all get along.This vague social commentary gets mixed with the eternal story font: High School is Tough For Everyone, Even the Popular People.
Mackenzie Davis, however, puts in a sincere performance and is a star-to-be.Freaks of Nature is neither clever enough, funny enough, gross enough, nor serious enough to be much of anything in particular.
But after seeing a group of zombies getting of a school-bus and moving towards the school entrance in their well-known manner plus a macho vampire who tries to seduce Petra in the next scene, it became clear that this could well be an entertaining film.It certainly was entertaining.
Welcome to the town of Dillford where if Zombies and Vampires don't live in peaceful harmony with humans at least they've arrived at a somewhat peaceful co-existence.
But that gets threatened by aliens who arrive at the small peaceful town and cordon off the place with a force field.In the end it's up to human kid Nicholas Braun, vampire girl MacKenzie Davis and zombie boy Josh Fadem to save Dillford and the human race from some other Freaks Of Nature.What are the aliens after?
Kind of like that famous Married With Children episode where the alien ship is powered by the stink of Al Bundy's socks.The factory is run by multi-millionaire Dennis Leary who is making pure profit here because he employs zombie labor and they work cheap.
Comedy version of zombie apocalypse has been done a few times in last year alone, but "Freaks of Nature" has a brilliant idea, throws in vampires and aliens too for good measure.
Its abrupt change can be distracting since it tries to pile so many fleshy gore together, then suddenly includes display of nudity."Freak of Nature" is the example of outlandishly bloody parody, it's as juvenile as they come but might work momentarily for a mindless fun escapade..
And "Freaks of Nature" turned out to be a very entertaining movie.The movie starts out in a fast pace, and the audience is introduced to a world where vampires and zombies live among the living humans.
Then on one fateful night, aliens show up and that upsets the balance of the world, causing the vampires, zombies and humans to turn against one another in a chaotic surge of violence.The characters in the movie were nicely detailed, lots of characteristics and personalities.
The three lead talents, Nicholas Braun (playing Dag), Mackenzie Davis (playing Petra) and Josh Fadem (playing Ned) really carried the movie quite well.The story is good, filled with action and humor, and the effects are great as well.
And having good special effects in a creature feature is a make or break deal, and I am glad to say that the special effects team really pulled their weight here and came through where it counted.The whole mixture of aliens, humans, vampires and zombies in one movie was really good.
It was surreal, for sure, but it was highly entertaining.There has been a good addition of zombie comedies to the zombie genre in the recent years, and "Freaks of Nature" does rank high on the list, right alongside with "Shaun of the Dead", "Zombies of Mass Destruction" and "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse"..
Humans, vampires, zombies and aliens oh my!.
FREAKS OF NATURE review by Mike Smith "FAT Mike"In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace until the alien apocalypse arrived.
This unique movie had me laughing from start to finish.This film has an awesome cast of up and comers including Nicholas Braun (Red State), Mackenzie Davis (That Awkward Moment) and Josh Fadem (Miss March).
The rest of the cast is made up of some well known people; Denis Leary, Bob Odenkirk, Keegan-Michael Key, Joan Cusack, Ian Roberts, Rachael Harris and the funny Patton Oswalt.
Unlike films similar to Caddyshack where the bigger named stars over power the smaller named actors, Freaks Of Nature doesn't do this and the main cast is the focus.This film has some good practical effects although the C.G. is a bit cheesy, but it gives the film charm.
One thing that makes me grade this movie so high is as soon as I finished watching Freaks Of Nature I wanted to watch it again right away.With an awesome cast, ridiculous unique story, laugh out a loud comedy and an all around fun ride I have to say Freaks of Nature is my first must see film of 2016.
"Freaks of Nature" has a great cast and a premise with potential, but just falls flat..
Then there's the cast: Denis Leary has voiced characters in "A Bug's Life" and the "Ice Age" movies, been a supporting player in the 2012 and 2014 "Spider-Man" films and starred in the TV series "Rescue Me" on FX.
You would think."Freaks of Nature" takes place in the fictional town of Dillford, Ohio ("The Home of the Riblet"), where humans, vampires and zombies live in relative harmony.
Two of Dag's classmates, the pretty but insecure Petra (Mackenzie) and the brainy outcast Ned (Fadem) decide to become a vampire and a zombie, respectively, which means that Dag is now friends with a girl who wants to drink his blood and a guy who wants to eat his brains.
You might think that the town's three main groups would band together in the face of a common enemy, but this alien invasion (which results in a force field being created around their town) just brings up long-held prejudices and suspicions, leading the vampires, humans and zombies to start fighting and killing each other.
Dag, Petra and Ned find themselves in a situation that provides them temporary safety, which allows them to calm down and become level-headed enough to devise a plan to save their small town."Freaks of Nature" has a premise which sounds fun, but fails to deliver on that promise.
Too many of the characters are unlikeable and the jokes aren't nearly as funny as in the similarly-themed "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" (which, by the way, manages to be far more entertaining with far fewer well-known actors).
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The first 7 minutes or so when I watched it, it felt like a poor spoof film (of Twilight and a bunch of other flicks) so I really wasn't getting into it at all as I really am not a fan of spoof flicks (at least the ones they do these days).But I decided to give it another go and although a lot of jokes (of which in some scenes every line of dialogue is one) fall flat (the ratio of funny jokes for me would probably be about 1 out of 10) once the action kicks off it still gets rather amusing.It helps that it moves at a fast pace so you can't focus too much on the flaws.Teenagers cracking jokes and battling various monsters seem to been a very popular subject in film in 2015 and if you loved DEATHGASM (2015), THE FINAL GIRLS (2015) and SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE (2015) I'm sure you will at the very least like this one as they are pretty similar..
Worse movie ever!It's the type of film that makes you think who in their right mind would give money to get it made.The premise is outrageous.
A town in which zombies, vampires and humans attempt to live in harmony together, gets attack by aliens from outer space.
It balances coming of age, high school cliques, zombies, vampires, pot heads, aliens, battle scenes, a bit of sports, and more (to avoid spoilers).
The acting was pretty good especially from Vanessa Hudgens & Mackenzie Davis and Keegan-Michael Key. I would definitely watch it again at somepoint.
For me not really, it do has funny moments as I said but again, the gore adds toward the fun, just look how a tough guy is been eaten by zombies.
It sure is above mediocre over all and it's the acting of the zombie Ned by Josh Fadem that makes it worth seeing.
Like the story is full of freaks and good and bad parts I'm stuck with mixed emotions, still I will recommend it because it do has things for everyone out their, if you're a horror buff of course.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 2/5.
Freaks of Nature could have, should have and would have been a really fun romp with the genre and despite the pace of the film being set to go for most of the running time, lazy editing and shortcuts in the writing leave me a little than more underwhelmed.
Zombies, Vampires and Humans coexists in the small down of Dillford.
When the arrival of aliens throws everything out the window in a royal rumble of sorts between the three different "species", it's up to three teenagers, one vampire, one zombie and one human, to get the town's life back to "normal".What a wild and interesting premise.
Backed up by a comedic supporting cast including Denis Leary, Bob Odenkirk, Joan Cusack, Patton Oswalt and Keegan-Michael Key in small but decent roles, Freaks of Nature seemed destined to be a cult comedy hit.
I'm not sure if I enjoyed A Scout's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse more or not, but both of those films feel similar in humour and structure.
So, in conclusion, Freaks of Nature is an unsatisfactory and boring film, and I can't recommend it despite the solid performances from the whole cast and the competent special effects.
Freaks of Nature is a prime example of this trend by throwing in a plot about the co-existence of teenage humans, zombies and vampires with raunchy one-lines.
The idea of combining monster genres was a clever idea, the film managing to mesh teenage inner-drama (the world being a cruel existence) along with the evolution of becoming a monster, such as been bitten at the neck by a vampire or on the foot by a zombie.
Enjoying the humor and original substance, I still couldn't find myself thinking this was a good movie at the end of watching it.
Say lets have a town where zombies, vampires and humans live together.
What makes Shaun of the Dead so great is that it's a horror movie, following all the conventions of such films, and it's funny at the same time.
A gang of teenagers, one a human, another a vampire, and the other a zombie, must work together to thwart an alien invasion..
Playing counterpoint to Dag's unconfidently cool exterior is Ned (Josh Fadem), who roams the halls between vampiric scorn and ridicule from long-time and long-toothed teacher Mr. Keller, and centuries old yet still high school senior Milan (Ed Westwick), who manipulatively preys on the fair skinned Petra (Mackenzie Davis).
After a series of strange events, a high-school nerd finds that the burgeoning war between humans, vampires and zombies is about to be tested when an alien invasion turns their peaceful town into a war- zone and tries to help the survivors fend off the intruders.This was quite the disappointing though really appealing effort.
The opening half spends a vast majority of time dealing with the high-school angst of the different crowds at the school and how he tries to get their different activities lined up with the set-up giving the groups quite a lot to like here, and once the film devolves into the different camps warring with each other as the three-way battle that erupts in the streets has so much incredibly great mini-action moments of the groups getting ripped to pieces in great ambushes at the main house and the spectacular scenes in the school where they realize the aliens are coming and what they want through the fun attack scenes that are given a humorous slant through the humiliation given to the characters forcing them to be nude during the encounter.
Usually like zombie/vampire/alien movies, but this was tooooo much to put up with.
"Freaks of Nature" is a comedy/horror movie that actually works for a change!
It takes place in Dillford, Anywhere, USA, where humans, vampires, and zombies live side-by-side and actually get along, that is, until some aliens decide to pay them a visit.
A town comprised of Zombies, Vampires and Humans.
Keep in mind that it does have an R rating, and while the concept might sound like a horror movie, there are no jump scares, and the movie plays out more like a action comedy.
These are zombies, vampires, and humans.
When the aliens attack, a human, vampire, and zombie team together to save the town.This is a campy film.
I'm really not trying to do write a full out review of FON, this was more like what I felt about the film, so as the reader you can take this however you want to take it...again, see Freaks Of Nature, you'll love it..
I used to like horror but I grew out of it and am not a fan of torture porn horrors - I like gore but only if it's done in a cheesy way in a movie where it is over the top and meant to be funny.It's like that in this film (not extremely excessive but fairly gory) and adding the aliens made the story, action and humor even better.
This was a great movie with a lot of funny moments and clever writing.