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Freak show
A freak show, also known as circus freaks, was commercial entertainment at circuses and fairs displaying people with unusual bodies, peaking in the late nineteenth century.
Freak Show (film)
Freak Show (2017) is Trudie Styler's comedy-drama, adapted from James St. James's novel, starring Alex Lawther as Billy Bloom, a gay teen running for homecoming queen; premiered at Berlinale, released by IFC Films in 2018.
Freak the Mighty
Freak the Mighty, also known through its film adaptation The Mighty, is Rodman Philbrick's 1993 young adult novel about Maxwell Kane and Kevin "Freak" Avery, two bullied outcasts whose friendship ends with Freak's death from Morquio syndrome.
Freak-out (slang)
Freak-out, also freakout, is English slang from about 1965-1966 for losing emotional control, originally via a psychedelic drug experience and now generally extreme surprise, fear, or excitement, from the base noun freak (1560s).
Freakazoid!
Freakazoid! is a 1995–1997 Warner Bros./Amblin animated comedy about geek Dexter Douglas, transformed into a zany internet superhero. Created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, developed by Tom Ruegger for Steven Spielberg; 24 episodes, voiced by Paul Rugg.
Freaked
Freaked (1993) is an American cult comedy directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, written with Tim Burns, about a former child star mutated at a mad scientist's freak farm; a Fox release that flopped on two screens and later received a 4K restoration.
Freakier Friday
Freakier Friday (2025) is Disney's sequel to Freaky Friday, directed by Nisha Ganatra, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in a four-way body swap; it earned $153.2M worldwide and a 73% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Freakin' Out (Dexter and the Moonrocks song)
"Freakin' Out" is a 2026 single by the American rock band Dexter and the Moonrocks, released March 11, 2026, and their first Billboard Hot 100 entry and second Alternative Airplay number one.
Freakish (TV series)
Freakish is a Hulu horror drama series created by Beth Szymkowski for AwesomenessTV, running 2016–2017 in two seasons of 20 episodes, about students trapped in Kent High School after a chemical plant meltdown unleashes predatory mutants.
Freaknik
Freaknik, originally Freaknic, was an annual spring break street party for Black college students in Atlanta from 1983 to 1999, founded by the D.C. Metro Club at the Atlanta University Center, peaking at over 200,000 attendees before the city shut it down.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics is a 2005 popular-economics book by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, applying incentives and data to questions like teacher cheating and the 1990s crime decline.
Freaks (1932 film)
Freaks (1932) is Tod Browning's MGM pre-Code horror drama, also known as Nature's Mistakes, about circus sideshow performers who avenge a trapeze artist's betrayal; cut, banned in the UK, later a cult classic.
Freaks (2018 film)
Freaks (2018 film), also listed as Freaks (2019), a sci-fi thriller by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein starring Lexy Kolker, Emile Hirsch, and Bruce Dern; TIFF 2018 premiere, $368,410 worldwide gross, Metascore 63, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Freaks and Geeks
Freaks and Geeks: 1999–2000 NBC one-season teen dramedy by Paul Feig and Judd Apatow, set 1980–81 Detroit suburb, starring Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jason Segel; canceled after 18 episodes.
Freaks of Nature (film)
Freaks of Nature is a 2015 American horror-comedy film directed by Robbie Pickering, in which a human, a vampire, and a zombie teen fight an alien invasion in Ohio.
Freaks on Parade Tour
Freaks on Parade Tour is Rob Zombie's recurring horror-themed North American amphitheater tour, first run in 2022 with Mudvayne; co-headlined with Alice Cooper (2023, 2024, with Ministry and Filter) and Marilyn Manson (2026, with The Hu and Orgy).
Freaks Part II
Freaks Part II (also Freaks Underground) is a 2026 Canadian sci-fi horror sequel to Freaks (2018), written, directed, and produced by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, starring Amanda Crew, Lili Taylor, and Lorelei Olivia Mote; it premiered as Fantasia 2026's closing film and was acquired by Paramount.
Freaky (film)
Freaky is a 2020 American body-swap slasher comedy directed by Christopher Landon and starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton, released by Universal on November 13, 2020.
Freaky (musician)
Freaky, styled FREAKY, is the stage name of Alex Fricke, a dubstep and bass music DJ and producer from Charlotte, North Carolina, known for his 2022 debut album Duality on Excision's Subsidia Records.
Freaky Ali
Freaky Ali is a 2016 Hindi sports comedy directed by Sohail Khan, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz Khan, and Amy Jackson, about a debt collector who becomes a golfer; released 9 September 2016, inspired by Happy Gilmore.
Freaky Deaky Texas
Freaky Deaky Texas is a Halloween-themed EDM festival produced by Disco Donnie Presents, first held in Houston in 2018 and staged in Austin since 2023.
Freaky Friday (1976 film)
Freaky Friday (1976) is Disney's body-swap family comedy directed by Gary Nelson, written by Mary Rodgers from her 1972 novel, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as a mother and daughter who switch bodies on Friday the 13th; remade in 1995 and 2003.
Freaky Friday (2003 film)
Freaky Friday is a 2003 American body-swap comedy directed by Mark Waters, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who wake in each other's bodies.
Freaky Friday (2018 film)
Freaky Friday (2018) is a Disney Channel Original Movie musical directed by Steve Carr, starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff, adapted from the Tom Kitt–Brian Yorkey stage musical, premiering August 10, 2018.
Freaky Friday (song)
Freaky Friday is a 2018 comedy hip-hop single by Lil Dicky featuring Chris Brown, released via Commission Music/BMG, in which the two swap bodies as in the 2003 film; produced by benny blanco, DJ Mustard, and Twice as Nice.
Freaky Styley
Freaky Styley (1985) is the second studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, produced by George Clinton at United Sound Studios, Detroit; Hillel Slovak returned on guitar, Cliff Martinez's last album, three singles, missed the Billboard 200.
Frecciarossa 1000
The Frecciarossa 1000 is an Italian high-speed electric train built for Trenitalia by AnsaldoBreda and Bombardier, in service since 2015 with a design speed of 400 km/h.
Fréchet derivative
The Fréchet derivative is the derivative of a map between Banach spaces, a bounded linear operator approximating it locally, named after Maurice Fréchet, who introduced metric spaces in 1906.
Fréchet Inception Distance
The Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) is a metric for image-generation quality, introduced in 2017, that compares generated images to real ones, with lower scores indicating closer resemblance.
Fréchet regression
Fréchet regression is a statistical method for regressing random objects, such as probability distributions, covariance matrices, or shapes, on Euclidean predictors, introduced by Petersen and Müller in 2019.