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Tod Browning’s Freaks is a prime example of what films used to be and a sad reminder that they will never quite be like this again. Based on the short story ‘Spurs’ by Tod Robbins, the movie tells the story of a circus midget who falls in love with a beautiful, ‘normal’ trapeze artist. When she and her strongman lover try to poison him for his money, the ‘freaks’ exact their revenge on them. Browning, a former circus performer himself, treats his unusual cast of real-life circus freaks with genuine sympathy. They are the true human element of the film. In most ways this is the first truely compassionate horror film ever made. But upon it’s release, censors flipped, audiences ran in horror, and the film was yanked from the screen and banned in Europe for 40 years. A shame, indeed, as the film is a true triumph for Browning. A film that makes a convincing argument about our expectations of beauty and humanity. Sure, it’s creepy and frightening. But it’s also very sad. It shows you that it’s not what we look like that makes us human or that we don’t have to be beautiful to be respected. A strange argument for a ‘horror’ film to make. The only downside to this long-lost and vastly underappreciated film is that the sound can sometimes be rather muffled and a few of the actors have thick accents that sometimes make understanding the dialogue a chore. But it’s a minor complaint and doesn’t really distract from the wonder up on the screen. If you’re in the mood for something a little… uh… different… definitely check this one out. You will be thankful you did.
For years I had heard about the legendary Tod Browning film “Freaks” that so upset audiences it was banned in Boston and Great Britain. I had read the short story “Spurs” on which it was based and when the film was finally screened on campus I talked my roommate into going with me. Most of the people sitting around us knew nothing about the film and when I told them about it everybody started to get nervous. Then the film began…and we all loved it! My roommate and I both had crushes on Daisy Earles who plays Frieda in the film, opposite her husband Harry as Hans. The story is quite simple: Hans and Frieda are a pair of midgets in love, but Hans thinks that Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) the bareback rider is beautiful. Cleopatra plays with Hans’ affections until she learns he has money. Over the objections of her boyfriend, Hercules (Henry Victor) the freak show strongman, she accepts Hans’ proposal. During the wedding feast when the freaks accept her into their ranks, she makes it clear how much she despises them all. But when Hans starts to become ill because of the poison she is feeding him, the freaks decide it is time to take matters into their own hands. The film’s climax, when the freaks chase Cleopatra and Hercules during a rainstorm, is truly chilling, although Cleopatra’s final fate is as unreal as it is ironic.
All Browning really did to terrify audience was to include real freaks in his film, such as Daisy and Violet Hilton the Siamese Twins, Schlitze the Pinhead Girl, Josephine Joseph the Half-Woman/Half-Man, Johnny Eck the Half Boy, Frances O’Connor the Turtle Girl, Peter Robinson the Living Human Skeleton, Olga Roderick the Bearded Lady, Koo Koo the Bird Girl, Martha Morris the Armless Wonder, and Randion the Living Torso (who rolls his own cigarettes despite having neither arms nor legs). However, the film clearly portrays the “freaks” with dignity. As Madame Tetrallini (Rose Dione) tells someone, “These are all God’s children.” The true monsters in this film are the “normal” human beings, who receive their just desserts (supposedly a scene in which Hercules is castrated was cut from the film). This is Browning’s best film, not “Dracula.” It is not even close. You might screen this film for the first time because of its reputation, but you will watch it again because it is a good film.
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