Bill & Ted made another movie and almost no one saw it. FREAKED (1993) was the brainchild of Alex Winter (Bill!), a full throttle FX-laden belly laugh comedy in which a former child star agrees to promote a toxic fertiliser and ends up mutated with a whole bunch of mutants, including Keanu Reeves (Ted!) as a heroic dog-boy.

Initially, 20th Century Fox put a lot of money into it, but with the replacement of the studio head Freaked was pulled from nationalised release and only showed in two cinemas. Freaked lived on, however, on video amongst stoners and the generally gonzo.

Fox now belongs to Disney and Disney are never going to stream a movie as wild, crass and slime-ridden as Freaked. But it exists all over YouTube, often in very good quality, so…