Word: freakishly
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...University as their own? They have been admitted here--God knows why--by the Admissions Committee, just like everyone else (I'm assuming). They think of themselves as grass-roots conservatives with a monopoly on truth, justice and the American way. In fact, they are the fringe: the freakish fascists who parade as Americans under the Stars and Stripes while eschewing all the freedoms for which this country exists. They are the intolerant. They are the fundamentalists. They are the malcontent minority who, guised in hypocritical morality, attack the virtuous elite of which they only long to become a part...
...enough, Bergman decided to model his putatively most personal of films, "Hour of the Wolf," after The Sandman by the great German fantasy writer E.T.A. Hoffman, a story for which no critic ever has written a satisfactory and definitive interpretation. In both tales an artist of questionable talent and freakish temperament grows insane from his own delusions. And in both, the portrayal of sexual anxiety and madness defies resolution...
...probably behooves you to go out and see the movie before writing the review. Don't (at least, at first) say things like, "How good can any movie with Pia Zadora be?" or "Well, since when has Steven Spielberg come up with anything popular?" You never know when some freakish twist of cinematic nature might prove you wrong...
...within flying distance of Transylvania is now familiar with at least the basic outline of the legendary Dracula tale, any reinterpretation of this horror classic could only succeed by either following along in the campy B-movie tradition and playing it up for humor value, or by employing the freakish in a fresh attempt to scare a jaded audience...
...freak of scheduling--and the results were freakish...