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  Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 1

  Brothers Grimm: 90’s cult white trash edition.

  Scuzzfest big bad wolf pedo serial killer time capsule of my favorite Reese Witherspoon performance. Lewd, crude, and one hell of a mood, Freeway boasts a great cast and is one of those movies I discovered by accident in the mid 90’s—it’s been a low key favorite ever since.

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  Review by Tony the Terror ★★★★½ 6

  I hadn’t seen this since the VHS glory days, but damn it still holds up! This is a superb modern white trash take on Little Red Riding Hood with tons of violence and dark subject matter.

  The acting all around is pretty brilliant, but Reese Witherspoon gives one of the greatest performances of all time. Every time I hear an accent like that, I automatically revert back to my full-on NC accent so I’ll probably be talking like her for the rest of the day. Also, shoutout to Susan Barnes as Ms. Collins because she was hysterical.

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★★ 20

  Holy shit! Look who got beat with the ugly stick. Is that you Bob?
  -Vanessa

  Forget 2011's Red Riding Hood with Amanda Seyfried. It might be 18 years old, but Freeway is the only modern take we need on Little Red Riding Hood. It's the L.A. contemporary white trash version of the Brothers Grimm fairytale where the wolf is replaced by a serial killer/pedophile and Red Riding Hood is replaced by the illiterate teenage daughter of a hooker. Off to grandma's house we go!

  Here Red's name is Vanessa Lutz and she is played by Reese Witherspoon in what has to be the craziest performance of her career and therefore her best. Vanessa is a charismatic little gutter punk with…

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  Review by c h r i s ★★★★½ 6

  Why you killing all them girls, Bob? 

  girl vs. the big bad wolf, unhinged and trashy is the best way to describe this demented reimagining of the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood. Completely mind-blown by how gritty and filthy this was, you can smell sweat and cigarette smoke off this damn thing. mixing crime drama and dark fairytale—even throwing in some of that scuzzy 70s exploitation woman’s prison melodrama— Freeway is relentless with its constant no-fucks given tone and fully relies on its performances. Reese is one feisty woman in this and that accent is pure bliss, she’s just spewing one-liners and taking no shit from anyone—this movie is nothing without her!— Kiefer’s transformation from nice guy to psychopath freeway serial killer is maddening as it is quick, but completely believable. 

  fucking weird little 90s oddity, shot straight to the top of my fav Vinegar Syndrome releases. 

  “why did you call him all those names?”
  “because he didn’t say he was sorry!”

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  Review by Grayson ★★½ 4

  It's okay but it's no Hoodwinked

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 10

  I… no… the world needs more white trash, Reese Witherspoon!

  One of those films that seems like a LB staple by this point, I just keep hearing and reading about it on the site. Like, even not so long time ago for some reason, a lot of people started to post about it, so it finally moved me to give it a shot.

  And man! I miss these 90s sleazy films. There’s something inherently 90s about this film—the type of edgy in your face and “transgressive” stuff so many Indie filmmakers were doing around this time. Don't get me wrong, this film doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it does draw inspiration from numerous films while maintaining a sense of originality.…

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  Review by Aberrant Ghoul ★★★★½ 12

  Man, the 90s sure were dangerous, huh? Wasn't even safe to be a serial killer.

  I used to love this crazy-ass thing in the 90s. A weird little oddity that was on a shortlist of films that I practically wore out the VHS for. Then the 2000s came crashing in and I was all busy trying to adult and shit (41 now and still haven't quite got the hang of it), and I forgot all about this and so many other films from that period of my life. I think I just watched them so many times that I kind of wore them out, and needed a break. But here I am, all these years later, looking for some random…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 10

  gosh i hate pigs so much....insane number of cowardly 4.5 star reviews on here, "mister im a person!"

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★★ 2

  "Freeway" is a 1996 crime thriller that plays heavily into the themes of exploitation. Directed by Matthew Bright who was also a featured lead actor within the film "Forbidden Zone" (1980), "Freeway" blends the flair of whacko absurdism from "Forbidden Zone" where no theme is safe and applies to a movement within the 90's that is already a revisionists version of 70's exploitation. While you can say that this film has the same flared gritty temperaments of a Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, or even an Álex de la Iglesia film you would be right, but additionally the film is also uniquely its own in an off the wall and at times, suicidal trip into crime fantasy with the most amount…

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★★★½ 15

  To be a young person in the 1980's and 1990's was to be told that you were disposable, that you were violent, that you were sociopathic, that you were a burden to a class that had forgotten about you several marriages ago and whatever novelty there had been to your early years of crying and trauma and the tiresome not ever getting better meant that there needed to be a place to flush you a system to keep you in from school to prison to hospital to prison hospital to solitary confinement to the streets to the prison to the hospital to the morgue and the fact that you were there meant that they were right the people who made…

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  Review by Daisoujou ½ 18

  what

  I don't even know where to begin, so let's just try to take this chronologically. I enjoy plenty of black comedy, and a lot of trashy films. Something like Pink Flamingos features nearly constant objectionable material, but it works because it's pushed into the realm of absurdity and every John Waters film has such heart at the core. He makes trash because he loves society's outcasts. Freeway has no such heart. It's a black hole of edgy nihilism. Right from the beginning, prostitutes, drug addictions, and molestation of family members are played for laughs. I assume that the very opening in which we see that the protagonist can't read is also meant to be amusing, but the tone is…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 4

  A very crude, grisly and darkly comic thriller from the post-Tarantino 90s video store exploitation era with Reese Witherspoon as the tough and resourceful trailer trash little red riding hood and Kiefer Sutherland as the big bad serial killing pedophile wolf. Lost some energy for me after the tense, perverse and impeccably sustained sequence between the two of them when he picks her up on the highway, but there's still quite a bit of fun to be had even as it messily changes gears to goofy courtroom drama and women in prison movie and queasy serial killer procedural. At its best made me think about bad-taste underclass satires as dirty, angry punk crime spree movies like Blonde Death, or The…