Freaks

  • Freaks

10/20/23 (Fri)

Tod Browning’s 1932 film is usually described as a horror flick, but that doesn’t feel quite right. It deals with a deformed cast – Siamese twins, a man without a torso, another without arms or legs, pinheads, dwarfs – but they are not monsters: they are real people with normal feelings and emotions. The title is deceptive, as it’s not clear at the end just who the real freaks are.

Continue reading