Its Great to Feel Like You Made a Cult Favorite: Alex Winter and Bill Corso on Freaked

Alex Winter and Tom Sterns 1993 cult classic Freaked is less an example of high and low art commingling than of pop- and-sub-cultures colliding. At the precipice of marquee fame after headlining the first two Bill & Ted movies alongside Keanu Reeves, Winter-along with his former NYU classmate Stern and TV writer Tim Burns-pitched 20th Century Fox on an anarchic comedy called Hideous Mutant Freekz, in which Ricky Coggin (played by Winter), a shallow TV idol, becomes spokesman for a patently evil ...