Also released as
- Fenómenos
- Zrudy
- Freaks - Missgestaltete
- Freaks (La parada de los monstruos)
- Sirkusseurue
- Sirkussällskapet
- Barnum
- Freaks - La monstrueuse parade
- La Parade des monstres
- Monstres
- Τα Τέρατα
- A Parada dos Monstros
- Nakaze
- Уродцы
- Forbidden Love
- Nature's Mistakes
- The Freaks
- The Monster Show
- Изроди
- L'amour chez les monstres
- Freaks - kummajaiset
- Szörnyszülöttek
- Ajibolkhelgheha
- 怪物団 フリークス
- Dziwolągi
- La parada de los monstruos
- 怪胎
- Потвори
- Hilkat Garibeleri
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Freaks
Freaks is a 1932 American gothic horror film directed by Tod Browning.
Tod Browning cast real sideshow performers, MGM cut a third of it, and it ended his career.
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A trapeze artist marries a sideshow performer for his inheritance and is discovered plotting to poison him. The community deals with it.
Browning had worked in circuses and cast performers who worked in them, and for most of the running time the film is a workplace drama in which the leads are simply people with jobs, relationships and grievances. That is the part that unsettled 1932 audiences, not the ending.
The wedding banquet, and the chant of one of us, is the most famous sequence in pre-Code horror.
MGM cut it from 90 minutes to 64 after a test screening at which a woman reportedly threatened to sue. The excised footage is lost.
It was banned in Britain for thirty years. Browning directed only a few more films and none of consequence.
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