Freaky Farley

A weirdly unique aesthetic style; rough but engaging
FREAKY FARLEY is the first feature film by the New Hampshire based Motern Media. It has a weirdly unique and compelling aesthetic style, which Motern carried on in their second film, MONSTERS, MARRIAGE, AND MURDER IN MANCHVEGAS.

This aesthetic style includes adult characters behaving in a childish manner, much like Chris Elliot did in the early 1990s TV sitcom, GET A LIFE. And like that show, FREAKY FARLEY is quirky and satiric, yet also innocent.

FREAKY FARLEY is about a peeping Tom turned serial killer, who is released from prison on condition that he kill the Trogs -- monsters who inhabit the nearby woods. It sounds very bloody, but neither "freaky Farley" nor the Trogs are particularly scary. Their attacks resemble children playfully patting their "victims." These attacks are occasionally intercut with gore shots that look both faked and out of place.

All the younger characters (i.e., people in their 20s) suffer from arrested development. Freaky...





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