Freaks [VHS] Overview
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
Customer Reviews
Prohibited in most countries for more than three decades, this is one of the most bizarre and fascinating films Hollywood has ever produced. In practice, a soap opera set in the side of the road-show is a look into the lives of a group of artists in a traveling circus Sideshow. At the beginning of the film we meet Cleopatra (Baclanova), meaning beautiful, but, trapeze artists, who seduces and marries the owner of the circus midget Hans (Earles) for his money. At the wedding ceremony, welcomed the company closely Freaksin the family as "one of us, one of us." Cleopatra is very disturbed by this thought and tells them that they are never grotesque, even stronger than his secret lover, Hercules, howling with laughter. He humiliates her husband kissing openly Hercules. Once discovered that he had tried to poison Hans, is the group with the idea of revenge from the strong man beautiful trapeze artist and her lover. Tod Browning made a film truly bizarre and unique. Browning, had directedthe classic Dracula 1931 was a former actor and circus artist so Browning's experience with the circus, his interest for fans, an MGM production has been moved. If Dracula is his most famous work, this is his masterpiece. The casting in Freaks is also unusual, since all the "actors" are real and play basically. The turning point of history, marriage is his. Each is a good time, with the exception of Frieda, who was theCleo evil and manipulative behavior from the beginning and the chicken man named Koo Koo is dancing on the table. Woman without arms half-man/half-woman, etc. have this opportunity. However, if the drink and Cleo throws raging with his tirade, you can not help but feel disgust and sadness at the "Freaks". It's a memorable scene ... one of many in this excellent film. I recommend this cult classic.
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