This was loaned to me by a co-worker who claimed it was almost certainly the best horror movie filmed in Manchester, New Hampshire in the past two years. That's almost certainly correct.
And it was a revelation, because I think it explores new territories in film quality. I'd previously put movie quality on a spectrum:
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Good movies, like Casablanca, or Batman Begins.
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Bad movies, like Godfather III or Superman Returns.
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Movies so bad they're good. Amazon has a list, but I'm
sure you can think of others.
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But beyond that are movies so bad, they become just bad again.
No pleasure, not even guilty pleasure. No laughs, not even laughing at
the incompetence of everyone involved. I think the last one of these
I watched was Perfect Stranger, the one with Halle Barry and
Bruce Willis.
- Movies so bad that their badness lacks pretense, and approaches perfection.
Freaky Farley has its own MySpace page. The DVD has a "Making Of" featurette in addition to the movie, and it appears the filmmakers are a decent and pleasant bunch. So I urge you to buy it and watch it.