Description
“gobble-gobble… we accept her…one of us,” goes the haunting chant of freaks. yet it would be decades before this widely bonnes morality play gained acceptance as a cult masterpiece. tod browning (1931’s dracula) directs this landmark movie in which he true freaks are not the story’s slideshow performers, but “normals” who mock and abuse them. browning, a former circus contortionist, cast real-life slideshow professionals. a living torso who nimbly lights his own cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics (whom the film calls “pinheads”) – they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them as subhumans. in 1994, freaks was selected for the national film registry’s archive of cinematic treasures.
Year: 1932
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