Freaks
The love story of a siren, a giant, and a dwarf!

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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 13, 2016
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: Mr Fat - W Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wallace Ford | |
Performer: | Leila Hyams, Henry Victor, Daisy Hilton, Roscoe Ates, Olga Baclanova, Rose Dione, Harry Earles & Daisy Earles | |
Directed by | Tod Browning | |
Edited by | Basil Wrangell | |
Screenwriting by | Willis Goldbeck, Al Boasberg, Leon Gordon & Edgar Allan Woolf | |
Produced by | Tod Browning | |
Director of Photography: | Merritt B. Gerstad |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
...despite its gruesome conclusion, the movie seems to do everything in its power to create community.
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LarsenOnFilm
If the heart of the horror movie is the annihilating Other, the Other has never appeared with more vividness, teasing sympathy, and terror than in this 1932 film by Tod Browning.
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Chicago Reader
Freaks is sumptuously produced, admirably directed, and no cost was spared. But Metro failed to realize that even with a different sort of offering the story still is important.
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Variety
Completely unique.
Uncut
Rating: 5/5 --
With strong performances and a surprising tenderness, Freaks more than deserves its towering reputation.
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SciFiNow
Rating: 4/5 --
Browning's sympathies are clear; if there are "freaks" on display here, they are not the versatile performers to whom the title seems to allude.
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Observer (UK)
Over the years FREAKS has grown in reputation and now is considered one of the most remarkable films of the 1930s.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
When released theatrically in 1932, FREAKS was met with near universal disgust by critics and audiences alike, lasting in theatres for only a short time in the states and banned in England. The film stars Harry Earles as Hans, a suave midget who belongs to the sideshow of a seedy circus and who makes the mistake of falling in love with the beautiful Cleopatra, one of the "normal" circus performers. Learning that Hans is about to inherit a fortune, Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans even though she abhors him, planning to steal his money and get rid of him. When the freaks of the circus, who keep a watchful eye on Cleopatra, discover her scheme, they plan to exact an unforgettable revenge.
Far more unsettling than Browning's best known horror film, DRACULA, FREAKS has long been neglected due to its subject matter, even though it is a genuinely effective film. Gripping and often creepy, FREAKS manages to humanize its main performers, even looking at them with a sense of awe. By contrast, the "normal" performers in the film are largely hateful creatures who turn out to be much more repellant than their deformed colleagues. Both an excellent horror film and a unique look at the lives of sideshow performers, FREAKS is a chilling movie whose final ten minutes are some of the most harrowing in all of cinema.
Far more unsettling than Browning's best known horror film, DRACULA, FREAKS has long been neglected due to its subject matter, even though it is a genuinely effective film. Gripping and often creepy, FREAKS manages to humanize its main performers, even looking at them with a sense of awe. By contrast, the "normal" performers in the film are largely hateful creatures who turn out to be much more repellant than their deformed colleagues. Both an excellent horror film and a unique look at the lives of sideshow performers, FREAKS is a chilling movie whose final ten minutes are some of the most harrowing in all of cinema.
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