First FREAKS Trailer Here is the first FREAKS trailer! The film, co-directed by Zach Lipovsky, and Adam B. Stein, stars Emile Hirsch, Lexy Kolker, Grace Park, Amanda Crew, and Bruce Dern. FREAKS will be released in theaters on August 23. In this genre-bending psychological sci-fi thriller, a bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father’s protective and paranoid control.