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.'
5 February 1908, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
10 September 1901
1880, Minnehaha Falls, Georgia, USA
18 February 1908, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
27 February 1895, New York City, New York, USA
4 July 1891, Austria
13 October 1877, Paris, France
April 30, 1887 in Ebenezer, Tennessee, USA
22 January 1894, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
1912, Hartwell, Georgia, USA
August 21, 1881 in Germany
20 October 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 January 1895, Grange, Mississippi, USA
18 November 1889, Moscow, Russia
29 April 1907, Stolpen, Germany
2 October 1892, London, England, UK
September 9, 1886 in Bordeaux, France
12 October 1871, Demerara, British Guiana
1 May 1905, New York City, New York, USA
December 18, 1877 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
28 February 1877, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
24 July 1889, London, England, UK
27 August 1911, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
5 February 1908, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
10 October 1905, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
18 June 1885, San Francisco, California, USA
19 August 1893, Russia
8 September 1914, Granite City, Minnesota, USA
2 March 1901, Hartwell, Georgia, USA
October 28, 2013
A masterpiece of the horror mold, and one that warrants a loyal audience.
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 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 18, 2015
With strong performances and a surprising tenderness, Freaks more than deserves its towering reputation.
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.
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.
October 15, 2015
Browning locked in some of horror cinema's most indelible images.
September 28, 2015
[Boasts] some of the most terrifying scenes ever consigned to film.

