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.
Both oddly charming, horrific and crude in parts.
Tod Browning’s bizarre black comedy about a band of circus performers is a disturbing curio of old Hollywood that has lost none of its power to unsettle.
If there are ‘freaks’ on display, they are not the versatile performers to whom this 1932 movie’s title appears to allude.
Freaks: 'A fleeting glimpse of the Old Weird America'
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