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Freaks (1932)

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Tod Browning

Writer:

Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon

Release Date:

Feb 20, 1932

Runtime:

1hr 4m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Wallace Ford
  • Leila Hyams
  • Olga Baclanova
  • Roscoe Ates
  • Henry Victor
  • Harry Earles
  • Daisy Earles
  • Rose Dione
  • Daisy Hilton
  • Violet Hilton

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Metacritic

80
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Based on 16 Critics
7.6

USER SCORE (29)

Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Reviews
80

Undoubtedly flawed, Freaks is also admirably bonkers and quite simply unforgettable.

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Metacritic review by Martyn Conterio
Martyn Conterio
CineVue
100

Freaks is filled with poignancy; it offers a premonition of eugenics, as well as a provocative comparison with the alienated condition of women and the freakish nature of all showbiz celebrity. It is a work of genius.

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Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
75

Today, hardcore fans have a way of trivializing the film’s moral significance, some calling it a mere “masterpiece of shock cinema.” This is to seriously underplay the film’s blistering humanity and the audacious aesthetic and philosophical lengths to which Browning goes to challenge the way we define beauty and abnormality.

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Metacritic review by Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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