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It's time for another classic Tod Browning film. This one is actually considered to be quite good. Although it is another one that is considered a little controversial. It's mostly due to the fact that it's a story ahead of its time. I recently watched American Horror Story that shares many ideas from this. I figured I should definitely go ahead and finally watch it for my Horrorthon of 2016. I have only heard of some films from most of the writers. Edgar Allan Woolf is the only one I have seen a movie from with The Wizard of Oz. This is going to be a very short watch at barely a few minutes over an hour. Anyways it's time to see the legend. Hopefully this goes better than my Dracula experience.
This was actually pretty darn good. Unlike Dracula this actually captivated me. I do think the missing footage slightly dampens the experience, but not by much. I am definitely curious as to what happened in those twenty plus minutes they had to dispose of. I mean it could have been pretty tame by today's standards. Anyways it's nice to see where horror came from. I also think there were bits of subplot that were kind of spoiled by that. Some things were never remarked on again. I like the little bits of comedy that were here. I have seen a lot of homage of this in AHS Freakshow. The crawling in the mud scene was actually pretty disturbing and well done. That scene and the dinner scene have to be some of the most iconic moments of the whole thing. The reveal at the end was quite insane. I wonder how they made that possible! I like that this is another of the type of stories where you learn that "normal" people are the ones who are the problem.
I really enjoyed the characters here. Even the acting is fairly good from everyone. I do wish some people had bigger roles. They probably did in the disposed of footage. I like that they tend to make these people as very sympathetic and likable. If they had made them unlikable then I could see why this had so much hate. I personally thought they were well respected besides of course what they end up doing.
I'm glad this actually proved to still be a good movie. I wish it was in it's entirety though. I think the disposed of film possibly took away from some subplots. I'm also just genuinely curious about what they had to give up. I liked the characters and I thought the acting was pretty decent given the time period. The message it gives it clear that the "Freaks" are the people who bash others for being different. It has some great iconic moments with a fantastic ending. It was definitely worth finally watching. I would recommend others to do the same.
