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Henry Victor, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Wallace Ford
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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Landmark cult film about the relationship between a long legged trapeze artist named Cleopatra and Hans, the dwarf she marries. Uncategorizable film is creepy and disturbing, but also touching and sweet. What makes this film so unique is director Tod Browning's controversial st...( read more)
An excellent film! There is no other film like it and I doubt there ever will be again. You and I are the freaks, the guy with no arms or legs is the normal one is the message but at the end of the day we are all capable of wrong doing (Adultery, punching a half man half woman in...( read more)
"Gooble Gobble! Gooble Gobble! One of us!"
I'm sure that 'Freaks' was a very controversial film when it came out. There's no special make up effects, Tod Browning has used persons with real deformities.
It actually works very well, even better than modern horror movies. 'Freak...( read more)
One of my favorite Tod Browning films. Considered controversial (especially at the time of its release), for his use of actors with actual deformities.
Weird and disturbing, yes, and everyone should watch it once, true, especially on Halloween, but the acting is so stilted, the film is nearly unwatchable.
This film touched me because of the way all these unusually shaped people were treated in those days. So terrible. A very short movie but an interesting story about love and betrayal.
Great, great film. This movie looks amazing today, I can't imagine the impact in 1932, so real, without no make-up or special effects; a horror movie without a unreal monster, only real people. Personally, I respect Dracula and Frankenstein, but I think those movies have not aged...( read more)
The film that see is amazing, the history and reality gives a good message
