Freaks: You're One of Us

2020 1h 32m German 5.4

Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

In Germany, Wendy is a woman married with the security guard Lars and with the son Karl. She works at a fast-food restaurant and is under therapy with Dr. Stern since she was a child and taking pills. They have a debt in the mortgage and Wendy is requesting a promotion to her manager Angela, who treats her badly. One night, the beggar Marek asks for a piece of chicken from the garbage to her, and tells Wendy that she is one of us, having hidden powers. When he meets her again, he jumps from a bridge and a truck runs over him. Soon she meets Marek again and he says that she should stop the medication to learn which power she has. Wendy finds that she is super-strong and changes her life. Wendy tells her idle friend Elmar, a young man who spends his time reading comic books and lives in his father's house, to stop his medication and he finds that he has electrical powers and calls himself Eletroman. Marek tells them to keep low profile, but Elmar is deranged and begins a crime spree using his powers.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil