Directed by Tod Browning
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.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Now that's what I call an ending.
A brave film for the time it was made in, Freaks is a genuinely empathetic story that still retains its power today. Quite who the real monsters are becomes clearer the more we are taken into the world of these circus performers. The horror arrives not from those who appear different from the 'norm' but those who cannot accept them.
There are moments of course where Tod Browning verges on exploiting the very same people he is trying to humanise. Some scenes are clearly set up as a spectacle, such as the man without limbs lighting his own cigarette or the rush to the bearded lady's tent to see her newborn. Yet by not filming their performances in the circus…
Unfairly labeled a horror film by audiences at the time (because pre-Code movies were just a different breed), as well as being extremely progressive even by today’s standards, the only real freaks in Tod Browning’s Freaks are the ones who are horrifying on the inside—not the outside. Straightforward, lovable, heartbreaking, and with one of the most satisfying endings in film history. I would literally take a storm of bullets for Hans and Freida.
"To me, you're a man. But to her, you're only something to laugh at." So sad. :(
cleopatra it's on sight
It's so sad that after making this film Tod Browning practically lost his career even though he made Dracula, all because of the lack of solidarity, the cruelty, and oppression in that time with what they called “different” people, but what an incredible story
spent the whole time waiting for jessica lange to show up and sing life on mars </3
engrossing, eccentric, and authentic. not a horror movie. just a community of based freaks.
"We accept her" -the gang,
Oh to see that destroyed footage. I could watch Prince Landian light a cigarette 100 times in a row and still think it was cool. If you haven't seen this, do so. It's a real delight.
Far more empathetic than I ever would have expected
Uh... Wasn't that something REVOLUTIONARY.
I wasn't expecting this at all but man, what a lesson in humanity.
she fucked around she found out
