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.'
29 April 1907, Stolpen, Germany
28 February 1877, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
5 February 1908, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
18 November 1889, Moscow, Russia
2 March 1901, Hartwell, Georgia, USA
19 August 1893, Russia
10 September 1901
2 October 1892, London, England, UK
1880, Minnehaha Falls, Georgia, USA
1 May 1905, New York City, New York, USA
3 April 1902, Stolpen, Germany
27 August 1911, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
June 18, 2015
With strong performances and a surprising tenderness, Freaks more than deserves its towering reputation.
June 10, 2015
Undoubtedly flawed, Freaks is also admirably bonkers and quite simply unforgettable.
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.
November 17, 2015
...despite its gruesome conclusion, the movie seems to do everything in its power to create community.
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.
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.
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.
September 28, 2015
[Boasts] some of the most terrifying scenes ever consigned to film.
October 28, 2013
A masterpiece of the horror mold, and one that warrants a loyal audience.
