Dark Force Entertainment, with sales and
distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K film
restoration (from the original uncut film negative) of director Matthew Bright’s
1999 midnight cinema treasure, Freeway II: Confessions of a
Trickbaby, which will be ready for a
Blu-ray push on Mar. 17.
If you are looking for entertainment where David
Lynch meets John Waters, then look no further than this cult-status horror
comedy teaming Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black, Russian
Doll) and Maria Celedonio (The
Substitute, How to Make an American Quilt) as
psychos on the run.
Crystal Van Meter (Lyonne), or better known to her
fellow inmates as simply “White Girl,” is a teenage inmate who has been moved
over to the local psycho ward to deal with her eating disorder of bulimia. Here, she meets the lovely Angela Garcia, a
crazed serial killer who goes by the handle, “Cyclona.” On a bad day, Cyclona would simply rape and
kill White Girl for nothing better to do, but instead the two hit it off and
become friends.
Cyclona goes on and on about “Sister Gomez,” who
runs some sort of religious facility in Tijuana and can pretty much cure
anything. Seems reasonable, so the two
bust out in search of a cure for White Girl’s eating fetish, bodies pile up,
they end up with a cache of guns and drugs and more bodies litter the landscape
and eventually they make their way across the border into Mexico.
It is here that things take a dark turn
(understatement … as if things weren’t violent enough up to this point), as
Cyclona’s memories of just how wonderful Sister Gomez would seem to be a bit
confused. The good “Sister” is actually
a psychopath played by Vincent Gallo (Stranded,
Buffalo 66), who loves to eat small
children … he gathers them up as strays on the streets of Tijuana.
After a sumptuous (don’t ask) meal to welcome
Cyclona home, Crystal is put to work as a glorified go-fer, while Cyclona goes
MIA. In a terrific “twist” ending (as
if the film wasn’t twisted enough), Crystal finds out what happened to her
friend and lover … and the two team up to set things straight with the good
“Sister.”
Bonus goodies include a new video session with
director Matthew Bright and producer Chris Hanley, plus there’s a
Behind-the-Scenes featurette with filmmaker John Landis.
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