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Plot: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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MCT:August 6, 2008
This is a must see movie. You won't believe what you see. The cast was not even real actors, they were real freaks. But there is a problem to it. I think I rate it so high just because of the pure interest and excitement of how the director had the balls to do this. I mean it did get banned. The problem was that because they had no acting skills they could not act. But it was interesting.
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MCT:July 30, 2008
A great horror film from the golden age in movies. What makes it even scarier is that all the "freaks" are REAL. These are real people folks from the circus sideshows.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
Tod Browning's Freaks is one of the most disturbing films as it claims to be. It covers the range of Horror, Art-house and Documentry. The realism shown in this film is extra-ordinary. It shows you a whole new world which one may have never seen before!
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Horror classic featuring real sideshow freaks! Tod Browning wasn't really a very dynamic director, and some of the scenes seem a bit stiff, but there are many classic moments nonetheless. The moment the freaks get revenge in the rainstorm will haunt your dreams forever!
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MCT:May 31, 2008One of my all time favorites!! Banned for years and finally released for us to enjoy. Tod Browning is a genius. I don't think any other movie could compare. A brilliant take on the carnie lifstyle. Hell, they even have a few of Barnum & Bailey's old popular side show characters in here. And alot of people say the ending is repulsive or shocking, myself I find it sad.
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MCT:May 30, 2008
Controversial at it's time. perhaps even more controversial now with all the political correctness. But if the "freaks" in this film didn't mind, then why throw a hissy fit?
This film is a different, in fact, unique film experiance. You can sympathisise well with the freaks and the script they were given works fantastically.
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MCT:May 29, 2008
Possibly one of the weirdest movies ever but absolutely great!
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MCT:May 22, 2008Well, I read a book titled "Freaks" by Annete Curtis Klause. It is probably the best book I've ever read. She said in her author's note (Who ever reads those?) that she was inspired by the director of "Freaks" boldness by displaying these human oddities. I had never really thought about these sorts of people until I read the book. I now understand the hardships and feelings of them and I have come to appreciate them. I desperately want to see this movie. i admire every one out there who is different, I admire that they can go out there and live their lives. It's what's on the inside that counts.
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MCT:May 14, 2008Wow! What a messup but great film. It is unfortunate that so many people were closed minded then that this film all but ended the great Todd Browning's carrer
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MCT:April 5, 2008
This is a movie that I was never planning on watching. Just the concept seemed exploitative. Well, I guess I'm wrong...kind of.
Let's talk about the hour runtime. I might be a big fan of the hour run-time from here on out. Yeah, it's barely long enough to be considered a movie, but I'm very okay with that, especially with content that can be seen in Tod Browning's Freaks. But the part that puzzled me most was the "horror" label that the mighty 501 referred to it as.
The movie constantly reaffirms that these "freaks" are people with real emotions and hate to be laughed at and tormented. I acutallly really liked that aspect. I personally thought this movie was going to be a documentary style movie showing people with deformities on display, very much like a circus sideshow. Nevermind that, because I was pleased to see a running narrative with the lifestyle of the circus exposed to a rich family community. That's pretty cool. But then where does the horror come in?
The last ten minutes of the movie maybe the most terrifying thing I have seen in a long time. 1932? Seriously? People would have been screaming their heads off. This is the guy who filmed Dracula for Universal. That movie wasn't scary at all. This, though? Sideshow freaks crawing through mud in the rain and lightening, chasing down an evil woman to turn her into one of them? Last thing I was honestly expecting.
It actually is a nice little tail. While there is some problems understanding some of the characters due to their voice deformities, it's a pretty solid little movie. I did find it interesting that the movie decided that it needed to have a non-freak romance going on with two honorable characters while paralleling their lives to two evil normal people. Perhaps an audience wouldn't like the idea that all normally functioning people are considered evil so they make these freak-friendly normal people to contrast them. I feel bad even saying normal people, but I don't know what the terminology is. Either way, I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I don't know if I'd watch it again on my own, but now I know what all the hype is about and that it is not misplaced. -
MCT:March 17, 2008
There is no other film like this. A 'freak' is taken advantage of, and the rest of the freaks all get together and get revenge. A classic.
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MCT:March 17, 2008
This is a really unique movie. I can't see why it was banned considering that the freaks were acting and had agreed to do it. It wasn't as if anybody was abused.. and if they were.. it was the 'normal' people. The only let down is how Cleopatra turns out.. They could have done that a lot better.
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MCT:March 15, 2008
One of my favorite Tod Browning films. Considered controversial (especially at the time of its release), for his use of actors with actual deformities.
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MCT:March 11, 2008FREAKS (1932)
directed by Tod Brownning
starring Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Olga BaclanovaHurt one of them and you hurt them all. Freaks tells a simple story set in a circus. Its the chronicles of the characters working in it without ever seeing any of the shows it all takes place in the backstage area or even during their free times. There are a few romances going on and there are a few «freaks» around, I would even say a lot. A woman, beautiful one with that conspire to marry a little man, a dwarf when she discovers he own a fortune and she'll want to kill him. His pals, his disformed pals should I say will figure out the plot and will take revenge on her.Freaks is an odd piece of filmmaking. It doesnt make fun of the disformed people, some characters in the movie do though. Som bit are simply fascinating, like when that man with no arms and no legs - he basically looks liek a sausage - lights up a cigarette pretty easily using only his mouth.
Some moment are disturbing cause there is no make-up in the film. Those are all real life «freaks» but in the end the one making fun of them are the one that really are freaks.
The film is quite short, barely over one hour and some scenes feel useless but the ending is more than satisfying. Not as shocking as it must have been when it first came out over 75 years ago.
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MCT:March 8, 2008
Freaks is one of the creepiest, scariest, most depressing movies I've ever seen, and I love every minute of it. There really aren't any boring parts, and the climax is terrific. A favorite of mine.
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MCT:February 5, 2008
Not great filmmaking, and some of the freaks aren't exactly great actors. But this is an amazingly subversive film, especially for it's day. And all things said, it's a flat out fun film to watch.
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MCT:February 5, 2008
AWESOME! Though it killed Browning's career, thank God this film exists. A very intelligent horror film that is thankfully finally getting all the praise it deserved years ago, rather than getting banned. I still wear my Freaks t-shirt with pride. Gooba Gaba.
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MCT:February 2, 2008A sad movie about what REALLY goes on in the Circus and how the "FREAKS" are treated. Not to mention the evil people who run it and how the animals are also treated. The people who run it get their comeuppance at the end.
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MCT:February 1, 2008
This film was really strange!
It was good though, but the microcephalies really creeped me out..
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MCT:January 28, 2008
Wow! Increible... soy fan. Pense que iba a durar mas. Pero bueno... no ando de humor para poner un buen comentario asi que solo dire que la ame.
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MCT:January 24, 2008
Yeah. I feel bad for staring at all the freaks. But it's such an entertaining movie. All kinds of monstrosities crawling out from the wreakage of the circus carts in the mud and the pouring rain with knives and shanks and such. "Gooble gobble - one of us - gooble gobble - one of us". My favorite was Koo Koo the bird girl.
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MCT:January 23, 2008
Banned in Britain for over 30 years, Tod (Dracula) Browning's 1932 film is a very unusual and disturbing piece of cinema. The ending will haunt you for a long time afterwards.
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MCT:December 29, 2007
Ahead of its time. dark as they come and a ballsy move on brownings part to cast real authentic (freaks as the movie calls them). Then top it all off with a cruel story line and you have your self a hit. (nn)
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MCT:December 13, 2007Didn't hate it. Didn't love it either. I could see a remake of this but I know Hollywood would screw it up. A neat-o reversal role story.
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