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Freaks
Directed by
Tod Browning
Not Rated
1932
66m
Drama
,
Horror
7.8
95%
88%
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A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
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Cast of Freaks
Harry Earles
Hans
Olga Baclanova
Cleopatra
Daisy Earles
Frieda
Henry Victor
Hercules
Wallace Ford
Phroso
Leila Hyams
Venus
Roscoe Ates
Roscoe
Angelo Rossitto
Angeleno
Jerry Austin
Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited)
Daisy Hilton
Siamese Twin
Violet Hilton
Siamese Twin
Schlitzie
Himself
Josephine Joseph
Half Woman-Half Man
Johnny Eck
Half Boy
Frances O'Connor
Armless Girl
Peter Robinson
Human Skeleton
Olga Roderick
Bearded Lady
Koo Koo
Herself
Prince Randian
The Living Torso
Martha Morris
Armless Girl
Elvira Snow
Pinhead
Jenny Lee Snow
Pinhead
Elizabeth Green
Bird Girl
Edward Brophy
Rollo Brother
Matt McHugh
Rollo Brother
Rose Dione
Madame Tetrallini
John Aasen
Giant (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
Demetrius Alexis
Mr. Rogers (uncredited)
Hooper Atchley
Doctoer (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Hans' Butler (uncredited)
Mathilde Comont
Madame Bartet (uncredited)
Albert Conti
Landowner (uncredited)
Tiny Doll
(uncredited)
Edith
Crawling Girl (uncredited)
Delmo Fritz
Sword-Swallower (uncredited)
Murray Kinnell
Freakshow Barker (uncredited)
Constantine Romanoff
Man bringing Friedas Horse (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff
Jean (uncredited)
Tod Browning
Director / Producer
Charles MacArthur
Writer
Irving Thalberg
Producer
Freaks Ratings & Reviews
Tyler S
March 12, 2025
👍👍 8/10
Steve Trezza
October 14, 2024
A movie way ahead of its time
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
[Boasts] some of the most terrifying scenes ever consigned to film.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
A masterpiece of the horror mold, and one that warrants a loyal audience.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] In spite of the tremendous success he enjoyed with "Dracula" in 1931, Tod Browning's directorial career was effectively ruined after he made "Freaks" the following year.
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
TIME Magazine
Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror.
TV Guide
Freaks is one of Browning's more consistently fine films, a landmark still worth seeing.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Steve Crum
Absolutely spine chilling Tod Browning classic horror film. "We will make you one of us." Yike!
New York Times
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer definitely has on its hands a picture that is out of the ordinary.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
The movie's influences can be found in nearly every conceivable corner of modern film.
DVDJournal.com
Mark Bourne
...drills into our hindbrain and jolts our atavistic response to the not-normal, then forces us to confront our prejudices and feel something -- revulsion, compassion, or surprise at the realization that those aren't mutually exclusive responses.
Filmjourney
Doug Cummings
It's part of the film's brilliance that the lines between normal and abnormal, us and them, and even morality and immorality, are constantly blurred and reversed...
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
...the movie was never meant to be a horror film; it was meant to be a character study and morality play.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's a truly amazing film, not so much horrific as it is funny, touching and extraordinary; you'd be hard-pressed to find another film like it.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Mark Robison
Unforgettable.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Pretty pioneering for 1932, but modern desensitization to such things (hell, we have Paris Hilton on TV) mutes the freak-out effect almost completely.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Browning uses the film's famous "Wedding Feast" sequence and its rhythmic use of montage to fantastically blur the lines between the normal and the abnormal.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Freaks is one of those legendary films, made all the more legendary by its ill-repute over the years.
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