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Tod Browning, who directed Bela Lugosi in the original Dracula , stepped into even eerier territory with this 1932 story of betrayal and retribution in the circus. Evil trapeze artist Olga Baclanova seduces and marries a midget in the circus sideshow, hoping to inherit his wealth. But in doing so, she has crossed the wrong folks: the tightly knit group of nature's aberrations, who stick together like family--and who set out to avenge their little pal. Browning brought in some of the most famous sideshow attractions of the era, include Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton and Johnny Eck the Legless Boy, as well as Zip and Pip, microcephalics whose appearance in this film inspired cartoonist Bill Griffith to create his comic strip, "Zippy the Pinhead." So disturbing that it was banned for 30 years in Great Britain. --Marshall Fine
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  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Full Posted: September 24 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    he had a far better sense of composition, and a keener sense of color than kahlo.

    TOD BROWNING'S FREAKS

    ...For Browning it is the beautiful ones who are the freaks and the freaks who are the beautiful ones. That the freaks are not professional actors is blatantly obvious from the outset, yet they ring ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Empty Posted: July 18 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    browning, who had directed the classic dracula in 1931 was a former actor and circus performer so it was browning's experience with the circus that stirred his interest in freaks, an mgm production.

    Not exploitative, but a haunting look into the world of sideshow artists.

    ...The casting in Freaks is also extraordinary, since all the "actors and actresses" are real and basically play themselves. The turning point of the story has to be the wedding feast. Everyone is ha ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Full Posted: June 16 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    if you want a very good copy, buy the warner home video copy and not the copy put out by triad productions corp.

    Freaks (Warner Home Video)

    ...I like this movie. It starts out just a little slow but it just keeps getting better. I read where some people complained about the poor video qu ... y copies. (No, I do not work for Warner Broth ... read more

  • Star FullStar EmptyStar EmptyStar EmptyStar Empty Posted: May 23 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    because of the fuzzy picture grain and inaudible sound, they took a movie that was disturbing and scary and made it a laughable mess.

    Fantastic movie, terrible DVD

    ...Let start out saying that Freaks is one of the best horror films ever made. It was disturbing, creepy, and raunchy in a way no other film made during that time was. Tod Browning, fresh off of Drac ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Full Posted: April 13 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    when this was first released, the newspapers and even radio film critics, churches and the movie houses, even the studio, were agahst, critical, disgusted, etc etc.

    Nothing to freak out about

    ...FREAKS actually showcases the performers as the humane and socially/morally upright ones, and shows the "normal" performers as the cruel and evil ones - so superior in their "normality", that they ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Full Posted: March 9 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    every single performance is genuine and sincere, transposing the viewer into a fly on the wall in what feels like an honest portrayal of true events.

    Freaks

    ...It is so rich in character, depicting the so-called "freaks" in such an endearing and human manner, while showing the most cruel and intolerable sides of the "normal" characters. Every single perf ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar EmptyStar Empty Posted: March 2 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    the quality is quite good considering the year this movie was made.

    ...It is a good movie and I thought compassionate. The quality is quite good considering the year this movie was made. I would have given "Freaks" five stars if much of the movie had not hit the cutt ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Full Posted: February 1 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    todd browning deserves credit for raising the questions presented here and for treating the actors with dignity.

    ...You can read other reviews for the story line and the strengths and weaknesses of the film. This is a flawed film in many ways, yet it is a fasc ... o bring understanding to those who he worked w ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar FullStar Full Posted: February 1 2010 review from Amazon User
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    i saw it back in the 70's as a teen, and knew i had to own this true classic.

    ...In case you have never seen or even heard of a person called a "pinhead", they are strange looking folks from days gone by who were used in the c ... will be your's as well. Gooble Gobble, one of ... read more

  • Star FullStar FullStar FullStar EmptyStar Empty Posted: January 3 2010 review from Amazon User
    Pros & Cons :
    this is a simple morality play with a simplified script.

    ...Knowing the history of this film, I am extremely disappointed that we will never see the Tod Brownings original version before it was mutilated b ... ul.Michael L. GoochAuthor of Wingtips with Spu ... read more

Product Specs for Freaks

Actor: Wallace Ford Leila Hyams Olga Baclanova Roscoe Ates Henry Victor
Director: Tod Browning
Format: Black & White NTSC
Audience Rating: Unrated
Category: VHS Tape
Brand: MGM (Warner)
Label: MGM (Warner)
Product Group: Video
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Theatrical Release Date: 1932-02-20
Part Number: NULL
UPC: 027616084330
ASIN: 6301969588
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