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Freaks
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5 /10
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7.17 /10
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| Starring |
| Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams, Wallace Ford |
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Directed by: Tod Browning 
Written by: Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, from Tod Robbins’s story Spurs.
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| Released: |
1932 |
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MONSTER
HORROR
OVERRATED
CONTROVERSIAL
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| Origin: |
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| Length: |
64 |
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Circus freaks avenge themselves on an able-bodied trapeze artist (Olga Baclanova) who marries a circus midget (Harry Earles) for his money, then poisons him.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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MGM executive Irving Thalberg told director Tod Browning “I want something that out-horrors Frankenstein”. When he got it, he didn’t know what to do with it. This legendary exercise in bad taste, using cast-members with real and horrific disabilities, is a cinematic curiosity - so you would expect it to be riveting. Oddly, it’s a bit dull. Its most dramatic scenes are let down by a banal script and amateurish acting; and the undoubted compassion which Browning shows is offset by his equally obvious voyeurism. It was banned in Britain until 1963.
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