Freaks

Freaks (1932)

Genres - Drama, Horror  |   Release Date - Feb 12, 1932  |   Run Time - 66 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Freaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film in which the eponymous characters were played by people who worked as carnival sideshow performers and had real deformities. The original version was considered too shocking to be released and no longer exists. Directed and produced by Tod Browning, whose career never recovered from it, Freaks has been described as standing alone in a subgenre of one.

At 16, Browning had left his well-to-do family to join a traveling circus; he drew on his personal experiences for Freaks. Because of his success as the director of Dracula, he was given a considerable leeway for a major studio's first horror film: this and the fact he was working in Pre-Code Hollywood enabled a unique production. In the film, the physically deformed "freaks" are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the "normal" members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.

Movie Info

Budget

$310,607

Box Office

$4,072

Tags

Art/Music, Artist, Attempted Murder, Bigotry, Circus, Clown, Cult, Cult Film, Disability, Dwarf, Flashback Film, Freak, Infidelity, Literary, Microcephalics, Midnight Movie, Mind-Bending/Experimental, Newlywed, Poisoned Drink, Revenge, Sideshow, Speech Impediment, Told In Flashback, Trapeze Artist

Alternate Titles

A Parada dos Monstros
PT
Ajibolkhelgheha
IR
Barnum
BE, FR
Dziwolągi
PL
Fenómenos
AR, MX, PE, UY, VE
Forbidden Love
US
Freaks
AU, AT, CA, DK, EC, EG, DE, IN, IL, IT, NL, SG, ES, SE, AE, GB
Freaks (La parada de los monstruos)
ES
Freaks - kummajaiset
FI
Freaks - La monstrueuse parade
FR
Freaks - Missgestaltete
DE
Krvava maneza
SI
L'amour chez les monstres
CA
La parada de los monstruos
ES
La Parade des monstres
FR
Monstres
FR
Monștrii
RO
Monstros
BR
Nakaze
HR, RS
Nature's Mistakes
US
Sirkussällskapet
FI
Sirkusseurue
FI
Spake
SI
Szörnyszülöttek
HU
Ta Terata
GR
The Freaks
US
The Monster Show
US
Vérző porond
HU
Zrudy
, CZ
Τα Τέρατα
GR
Изроди
BG
Потвори
UA
Уродцы
, RU, SU
怪物団 フリークス
JP
怪胎
TW