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Freaks: Banned in Boston and other places ...
Freaks (1932)
Tod Browning made films from 1915 through 1939 encompassing both the silent film and classical cinema eras. Browning’s most famous work was Dracula (1931), one of the original talkies, and he soon followed that classic with Freaks, which showed circus sideshow workers...
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Offend One, Offend All
"Gooble-gobble!...we accept her!...one of us!," is the unnerving chant of Freaks.
Background
Back to the days when movies had just made the transition to "talkies," director Tod Browning was hired by Irving Thalberg for MGM--the glamor and gloss studio--for the...
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Freaks 1932 Movie Reminds Me of George Carlin's Philosophy
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. ... so said George Carlin. There was a time where the freak show was a part of every travelling circus. We weren't so politically correct and could look at people who were different than... Read full review »
Too Strange to Be Believed
It's tough to say which is creepier: the idea that someone thought the black-and-white 1932 movie "Freaks" needed to be made or the choice of the snippets that are used to advertise it.
I just can't figure out where this story came from or how it regularly shows up on TV.
The...
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A celluloid tribute to a vanished way of life....
The circus sideshow was an American phenomenon for decades, satisfying the public's need to be scared, disgusted, and left in disbelief. Attractions were more and more preposterous, but many of the performers in Tod Browning's Freaks were memories of sideshows past. Sideshows were one of the few... Read full review »
A celluloid tribute to a vanished way of life
The circus sideshow was an American phenomenon for decades, satisfying the public's need to be scared, disgusted, and left in disbelief. Attractions were more and more preposterous, but many of the performers in "Freaks" were memories of sideshows past. Sideshows were one of the few options for the... Read full review »
Step Right Up for the Greatest Film Ever Made!
Most of you may not have ever heard of director Tod Browning but you've all seen the original 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Well if not for Brownings vision, said film would not still be talked about today. You might say "Well how come the guy who made Dracula isn't talked about as much as the... Read full review »
Carnies plot revenge in Freaks (1932)
Freaks is a unique film from 1932 that was directed by Tod Browning, who previously made the original Dracula film with Bela Legosi. It is about a group of carnival folk and most of the cast are real sideshow attractions with unique physical deformities. This controversial film was banned for many... Read full review »
A Historical Film
The first time I watched Tod Browning's Freaks, it was at a Midnight Mass presentation at San Francisco's Bridge Theatre. This comical celebration is performed a la Rocky Horror Picture style in which audience members shout, scream, and throw crap at the screen in a joyful effort to live up to the... Read full review »
Freaks: Bizarre cast to say the least
I had heard about this movie for a long time so finally I watched it. I wasn't repulsed like everyone said I would be. I was more fascinated by what i was watching in black and white and I appreciated the story for what it was; The redemption of those less fortunate who've been constantly mocked by... Read full review »
The Black and White Movie I've Seen More Times Than Any Other...
For some people, it's probably, "It's a Wonderful Life," "Citizen Kane," "Sunset BLVD," or "Miracle on 34th Street," or maybe even "Psycho." For me, it's "Freaks." The 1932 movie, directed by Tod Browning, and banned for many years in both England and the States, is one I discovered about five... Read full review »
Best Horror Movies FREAKS Banned Horror Classic Write-Off !
Freaks is a dated,melodramatic, horror classic which boasts an ending so powerful and shocking, it still resonates with modern audiences nearly 80 years after it was filmed. Several fine reviews of this film can be found by good writers and critics here at epinions and I strongly recommend you... Read full review »
Mutant Morality Play
?The revulsion with which we view the abnormal, the malformed and the mutilated is the result of long conditioning by our forefathers.?
While Tod Browning will probably be most remembered for his classic version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi, he was born to make the 1932 cult...
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Freaks
This movie is a cult classic, and is not for everyone. I had heard different opinions and decided to view it recently. The movie takes place in a circus performers enviornment, showing different types of performers, but it begins with the showing of different side shows.
On one side, they...
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Poetic tale of the bizarre.
I saw this movie at an art theater during the early eighties on a double bill with "Eraserhead". I was always a big fan of human oddities as a child and would frequent all the sideshows at carnivals and fairs. The use of actual freaks in the film added an element of strangeness that set the pace of... Read full review »
a must see for horror lovers
If you enjoy old horror movies (black and white with no blood) than you need to see this movie. I heard about this movie over 15 years ago and have wanted to see it ever since. I never could find it to rent and I just figured that I would never get to see it. I tried to order it through Tower... Read full review »
A horror-film antidote to Farrelly Bros. comedies
I'm writing this on the eve of the premiere of The Farrelly Bros.' Jim Carrey comedy Me, Myself, and Irene--an intended comedy which, in best Farrelly tradition, pokes fun at mental illness, albinos, blacks, and midgets, among other politically incorrect floutings. Some of us older viewers can... Read full review »
Browning's Freaks
Freaks
Directed by Tod Browning
Starring:
Wallace Ford
Roscoe Ates
Olga Baclanova
Edward brophy
Harry Earles
Daisy Earles
(1932)
Based off the short story Spurs written by Tod Robbins
Browning hired real circus freaks to act out this...
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Freaking Out?
Todd Browning's semi-documentary appalled worldwide audiences upon release, causing it to be banned across the globe before finding its niche as a cult classic nearly a half century later. Irving Thalberg, a visionary at MGM who is best known for the political annihilation of socialist George... Read full review »
Gabba Gabba Hey!
"Freaks" rocks. No digital effects=real freaks playing surprisingly and refreshingly written sympathetic people livng in a corrupt circus environment where it's us against them. This is a morality play. Remember when your mom said not to stare or be mean to anyone different? Will this will remind... Read full review »
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Freaks
Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova. Circus freaks strike back in a horrifying manner at the strong man and trapeze artist who abuse and mistreat them in this chilling cult favorite. 1932/b&w/66 min/NR/fullscreen .
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Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova. Circus freaks strike back in a horrifying manner at the strong man and trapeze artist who abuse and mistreat them in this chilling cult favorite. 1932/b&w/66 min/NR/fullscreen .
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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting Spurs for the screen, writers Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Wolf, and Al Boasberg retained the circus setting and the little man-big woman wedding, all the while de-vilifying the midget and transforming the woman into the true heavy of the piece. German little person Harry Earles plays Hans, who falls in love with long-legged trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova). Discovering that Hans is heir to a fortune, Cleopatra inveigles him into a marriage, all the while planning to bump off her new husband and run away with brutish strongman Hercules (Henry Victor). What she doesn't reckon with is the code of honor among circus freaks: offend one, offend them all. What set this film apart from director Tod Browning's earlier efforts was the fact that genuine circus and carnival sideshow performers were cast as the freaks: Harry Earles and his equally diminutive sister Daisy, Siamese twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, legless Johnny Eck, armless-legless Randian (who rolls cigarettes with his teeth), androgynous Josephine- Joseph, pinheads Schlitzie, Elvira, Jennie Lee Snow, and so on. Upon its initial release, Freaks was greeted with such revulsion from movie-house audiences that MGM spent the next 30 years distancing themselves as far from the project as possible. For many years available only in a truncated reissue version titled Nature's Mistakes, Freaks was eventually restored to its original release print. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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