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Name: Freaks
Released: 1932-2-20
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles

Freaks

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2h 0m
1932

95%

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This pre code movie, shocking for it's time, still pushes the edge of filmmaking with it's riveting tale of love and betrayal between a normal circus performer and the wealthy carnival midget whom she marries for money and then betrays.

Director:

Tod Browning

Producer:

Tod Browning

Writer:

Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Woolf

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

95%

Critics Consensus: Time has been kind to this horror legend: Freaks manages to frighten, shock, and even touch viewers in ways that contemporary viewers missed.

Reviews

Film Occasionally

Michael Nordine

That such a daring, transgressive film was made by a major studio in the early ‘30s remains a marvel (thanks, Irving Thalberg); that it irreparably harmed the career of its director is disheartening if not surprising.

Each one, by nature of the period in which they were released and how audiences responded to them, have a legacy that must be explored, mulled over, and come to terms with if cinema is going to tell honest stories without exploitation.

An astounding film.

While Freaks might not be perfect, its respect and empathy for such a marginalized group so early on is absolutely worth noting.

September 11, 2022

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