Freaks
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. They band together and carry out a brutal revenge that leaves her knowing what it truly means to be a 'freak.'
18 June 1885, San Francisco, California, USA
5 February 1908, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
December 18, 1877 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1 May 1905, New York City, New York, USA
10 October 1905, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
3 April 1902, Stolpen, Germany
28 February 1877, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
5 February 1908, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
August 21, 1881 in Germany
1880, Minnehaha Falls, Georgia, USA
20 October 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 April 1907, Stolpen, Germany
18 November 1889, Moscow, Russia
22 January 1894, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
24 July 1889, London, England, UK
2 March 1901, Hartwell, Georgia, USA
12 October 1871, Demerara, British Guiana
April 30, 1887 in Ebenezer, Tennessee, USA
12 February 1898, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
19 August 1893, Russia
13 October 1877, Paris, France
September 9, 1886 in Bordeaux, France
4 July 1891, Austria
8 September 1914, Granite City, Minnesota, USA
27 February 1895, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1892, London, England, UK
18 February 1908, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
10 September 1901
6 April 1874, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
June 10, 2015
Undoubtedly flawed, Freaks is also admirably bonkers and quite simply unforgettable.
June 08, 2015
One of the most powerful films ever made about the need for humanity and solidarity in the face of cruelty and oppression.
October 15, 2015
Browning locked in some of horror cinema's most indelible images.
October 28, 2013
A masterpiece of the horror mold, and one that warrants a loyal audience.
June 18, 2015
With strong performances and a surprising tenderness, Freaks more than deserves its towering reputation.
September 28, 2015
[Boasts] some of the most terrifying scenes ever consigned to film.
March 26, 2009
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.
June 14, 2015
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.
November 17, 2015
...despite its gruesome conclusion, the movie seems to do everything in its power to create community.
September 24, 2007
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.
