Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (4320)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
40x40

Awix (3310 KP) rated Freaks (1932) in Movies

Feb 29, 2020 (Updated Feb 29, 2020)  
Freaks (1932)
Freaks (1932)
1932 | Drama, Horror
7
8.2 (16 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Tod Browning's notorious horror movie remains problematic and uncomfortable to watch nearly a century on from its release. The plot is much more the stuff of a melodrama than a traditional horror movie: a vain and greedy trapeze artist and her lover plot to murder a gullible man enamoured of her for his fortune. What makes the film so queasily memorable is the fact that many of the characters are sideshow 'freaks' of different kinds.

Severely hampered by the fact that many of the cast aren't professional actors, and it shows; also by the fact that several of them don't have English as a first language (some of the dialogue is so heavily accented to be unintelligible). The existing version of the film is fairly thin on plot, too. There is strange tension between the script, which takes pains to make clear that the deformed characters are people, not monsters, and the way that the camera voyeuristically dwells on their physical abnormalities - it's there again in the climax, where the trapeze artist clearly deserves some kind of retribution, but the sequence of the 'freaks' closing in on her is deeply disturbing. A uniquely unsettling movie, and perhaps that's for the best.
  
    Acupuncture Assistant

    Acupuncture Assistant

    Education and Medical

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Cheaper than any Acupuncture book and a lot more practical, the Acupuncture Assistant helps students...

    Division - Teachers App

    Division - Teachers App

    Education and Games

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Mind4Learning math apps are a serious, yet engaging way to really boost math performance. Our...

    Anatomy Quiz Pro

    Anatomy Quiz Pro

    Medical and Education

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Learn anatomy easily with this unique quiz app that features traditional multiple-choice quizzes on...