has any one seen Freaks???

[heretic]

this a really old film I know 1932 but it is reported to have used real "freaks" during filming! if any one has seen this film could you please give me some insight into it please.

thanx

[Dude]

I've seen it. It does use REAL human oddities. An "interesting" flick to say the least. I heard this was supposed to be released on dvd, but dont know what happened. It's about a circus midget who falls in love with a trapeze woman (full size) she conspires with the strongman to bilk the little guy out of his money. She gets her just deserts at the end... but dont ask how its explained what they did to her. 5/10

[Johnny Handsome]

Back when AMC used to show movies without commercial breaks, they showed Freaks on there once in a while. I happened to catch it late one night and I enjoyed it a lot. It definitely uses real oddities and people who used to travel in circuses. The one that I remember most is Shlitzee. I think that's her name. She had one of those conehead skulls. There were some midgets and some other sorts of sideshow acts from back in the day. I really wouldn't consider it horror, but it is a weird flick nonetheless. Keep looking around. You're bound to find a copy of it on vhs somewhere. I'll take a look when I get home and see if I can find something. Actually my local video store has the dvd, I believe. If not, I know they have the video cause I saw it a few weeks ago while I was there. Good luck!

[Jewbo]

i really wanna see it. its in my hmv on VHS remember them? i dont wanna buy it tho.

[XCoRyX]

yeah the box alone for this one was insane i didnt ever view it i thought it would be too grotesque for me.

[7 Zark 7]

Schlitz was actually a male "pinhead" from Mexico. He wore the dresses because he had a habit of relieving jimself whenever and wherever. I enjoyed the movie alot. I have it on a CDR. You can probally find it on Kazaa.

[Mojo67821]

I don't remember this movie being "shocking", "gruesome" or "horrific", It's interesting but I would say not worth buying at all, unless midgets and circus freaks gets you off or whatever. Who knows...

I saw it in a film class back in high school.

[KcMsterpce]

Midgets are DA BOM!! GET IT GET IT!! Buy "Time Bandits" while you're at it!

Ok, I'm kidding.

I liked "Freaks". Like previous replies, it's interesting. Certainly odd, too, because the cast is eccentric.

I seeked it out a while ago because I remember Stephen King mentioning once that it freaked the hell out of him a long time ago, pun intended. I think I read about it in "Danse Macabre". I don't know, I'm getting old; I keep saying 'it's been a while' in my posts :(, and I'll say it here. I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't really feel the NEED to see it again.

[Scully1888]

For Scottish Schmoes reading this, Freaks and Devil Doll are playing at the Cameo in Edinburgh this Sunday afternoon.

[CKY]

If you wanna see this, its ion TCM pretty much monthly

[Asokan]

This is not so much a ordinary horror movie (as a tolerant person you have more pity and understanding than fear for the put-upon and discriminated "freaks", although at that time I could understand people being genuinely shocked), but a quite touching, if ultimately cruel and inhuman tragedy of a circus midget, who tries to be something he ain't: a "norman" human being.

He falls in love with a beautiful girl, although there's a midget girl he's with. She marries him for material reasons and laughs him off afterwards enjoying the company of a "real man". But then the midget takes revenge and things get pretty nasty (off-screen).

Definitely worth a watch, even if the plot is way too predictable nowadays.

[dario minion]

The film is worth seeing if only to appreciate how demented Todd Browning was. It does have a very creepy scene towards the end which I will never forget. Lightning flashing and freaks everywhere.

[tylerdurdensays]

Originally posted by XCoRyX
yeah the box alone for this one was insane i didnt ever view it i thought it would be too grotesque for me.

Not grotesque at all. Squeaky clean by today's standards. I liked it, but I don't know how it was put into the category of horror. More of a drama.

[the night watchman]

I don't care for Tod Browning movies, and while "Freaks" has a fairly interesting premise it also tends to drag like all of Browning's work, settling for talk more than action. It doesn't help that the only surviving prints of the film are in pretty poor condition, leaving the audio muddy and beset with a constant hiss. More of a curiosity, I think "Freaks" is worth seeing for the horror connoisseur, but for me once was really enough.

[Hans, wihout Franz]

I rented it a while ago after hearing the buzz around it. Was actually suprised by how much I enjoyed it in an old fashioned horror movie way. Worth a rental than decide. "One of us, one of us."
By the way he did use real freaks in it.