Freaks update feed

Watched in 2010 (411 movies items)

"Tämä oli kertakaikkisen hämmentävä kokemus. En tiedä mitä mieltä pitäisi olla Browningin tavasta käsitellä vammaisuutta ja "friikkiyttä". Sirkusympäristö antaa kuitenkin elokuvalle puitteet käsitellä aihetta melko vapaasti. Eniten kummastusta herättää, että ohjaaja on hommannut rooleihin oikeita friikkejä. Aikanaan tämä on varmasti ollut varsin joviaali ratkaisu, mutta nykypäivänä se vain herättäisi paheksuntaa. Kaikella kunnioituksella Freaks on silti valloittava kuv"

A Century of Good Films (85 movies items)

" Directed by: Tod Browning Plot: 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. Why? More drama than horror, but I have a feeling people were scared shitless of this movie in the 30's. Worth Seeing."

“Freaks is a cult-classic for obvious reasons that tight-rope walks a fine line between exploitation and authentic story-telling. At times it veers too heavily toward sensationalistic self-indulgence or misplaced sympathy/false nobility, while at others it strikes an earnest tone, providing a complex study of human behavior at its best and worst. Anyway you slice it, the film ultimately suffers because of its failure to reach a coherent underlying identity. Equally unfortunate is the fact that there's no chance of the performances redeeming the shortcoming of the script. Most of the major players are not actors, reflected quite obviously by their performances. This is not a criticism, only an observation of the difficulty inherent to making a too often unmoving story moving without the bene” read more

Classics For the Weekends (340 movies items)

"84 -Gruesome Twosome"

My Top Movies (199 movies items)

" Full Review Link "

Step right this way - Circus themed films (23 movies items)

" Director: Tod Browning Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates Story: 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."

The Most Controversial Films of All-Time (83 movies items)

"#33"

History of Horror (2213 movies items)

"Released on: 20 February 1932 "

Best of 1930s (10 movies items)

" Director: Tod Browning Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates Story: 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."

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (338 movies items)

"Director: Tod Browning"