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.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer definitely has on its hands a picture that is out of the ordinary.
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New York Times,
8 Aug 2006
fresh:
Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror.
– ,
TIME Magazine,
7 Oct 2008
fresh:
It has now achieved deserved recognition as a masterpiece.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
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.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
24 Sep 2007
rotten:
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.