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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301969581
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301969588
Label: MGM (Warner)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalogGermanOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 65 minutes
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 1932
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Tod Browning, who directed Bela Lugosi in the original Dracula, stepped into even eerier territory with this 1932 story of betrayal and retribution in the circus. Evil trapeze artist Olga Baclanova seduces and marries a midget in the circus sideshow, hoping to inherit his wealth. But in doing so, she has crossed the wrong folks: the tightly knit group of nature's aberrations, who stick together like family--and who set out to avenge their little pal. Browning brought in some of the most famous sideshow attractions of the era, include Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton and Johnny Eck the Legless Boy, as well as Zip and Pip, microcephalics whose appearance in this film inspired cartoonist Bill Griffith to create his comic strip, "Zippy the Pinhead." So disturbing that it was banned for 30 years in Great Britain. --Marshall Fine
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Once a horror movie is now a morality play. Completely identifiable characters and identifies predjudices and their consequences. Browning suffered after making this film but he was a visionary for sure.
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Growing up, I never thought I was very attractive. I spent too much time complaining about my physical imperfections. I wish someone had shown me the classic horror film, "Freaks." Seeing the unfortunate humans, known as "circus freaks," who suffered from birth defects made me appreciate that I had arms and legs. My heart broke for them. It is sad to think that people would abuse and exploit other humans simply because they are handicapped.
Todd Browning, who directed 1931`s "Dracula," also directed this horror masterpiece which used real life "circus freaks" as actors. Hans, a German midget, falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, Cleopatra. Cleopatra pretends to love Hans while she and her secret lover, strongman Hercules, plan to kill him for his riches. When they are caught in the act, the "circus freaks" exact a horrifying revenge.
"Freaks" made me feel more sympathetic towards those with handicaps. They have feelings just like ... Read More
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Freaks is a film that is entertaining and disturbing. As a matter of fact, it is just so very disturbing that it was banned for many years. When first released, the studio cut almost half an hour from it because it so disturbed audiences of the day. Freaks was directed by Tod Browning, who also is responsible for Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
Somehow this film was rediscovered by the counterculture and it became a favorite at midnight shows. If you were in college at the time, you've probably seen this film. Perhaps the theme of beauty not being what "the establishment" perceives it to be spoke to that generation. How disturbing is it to find that the real evil is in what seems the most attractive to us?
Set in a carnival populated by society's outcasts, the story's soap-opera theme is acted out by non-professionals who ... Read More
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Tod Browning's 1932 cult classic film Freaks is not what most people seem to think it is. It is neither a blatantly exploitative film nor a film of profound compassion. Of all of his films, silent or not, it is in many ways both his most artlessly produced yet also his most indelible- even more so than Dracula, which came out a year before. Most of all, though, it is not a horror film. Yes, it is horrifying to look at the poor freaks that are onscreen, and the film has the exterior trappings of a horror film, in terms of mood and sets, but the film is really about the human desire for love, and the often impotent pursuit of it. Even the normal sized people in the film are not able to achieve real love.
The tale of the film is almost as well known as the tale within the film. The exterior story is how the film was critically lambasted, after MGM studio decisions led to its demotion from a film with A List MGM stars (Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow) to a B List film Irving Thalberg couldn't ... Read More
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I received this as a Christmas present back in 2005! This is a very good film. When it came out, it was hugely controversial. The idea of actually getting real circus freaks was, at the time, unthinkable. The little woman who played Frieda was pretty hot. In a way, it's not really scary, but shown how they were treated and how they get back at the ones who torment them. If you love classics, you'll love FREAKS!!!
"Gooble Goble, Gooble Goble, we accept you one of us!"
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