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Among classic horror
films, FREAKS stands alone
as one of the most grotesque
and the most controversial.
Rarely seen since its 1932
release, and banned
in Britain for thirty years,
it has achieved cult status
as the masterpiece of the
macabre.
The film features a cast of
actual sideshow freaks,
human-beings of every
conceivable physical
aberration. yet the film
soon reveals that the normal
members of the traveling
carnival are the true
monsters; pitiless,
conniving and murderous!
When one beautiful trapeze
artist discovers one of the
freaks has a small fortune,
she lures him into marriage.
But when she and her
strongman lover plot to kill
him after the wedding, the
enraged freaks defend their
friend and take revenge on
their betrayers,
transforming the aerialist
into the most hideous
side-show attractions of
all.
From the acclaimed
director of the original
DRACULA, Todd Browning,
FREAKS is a fasci-nating
drama of prejudice and
injustice with a provocative
and timeless moral. |
