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Freaks (1932)

NR ★ 7.8/10 64 min Drama, Horror United States English
Director: Tod Browning
Screenplay by: Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon
Story by: Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
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Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?

Description

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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Top Cast

Harry Earles
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Olga Baclanova
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Daisy Earles
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Wallace Ford
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Leila Hyams
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Roscoe Ates
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Angelo Rossitto
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Freaks Appears on 21 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #931
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures #98
BFI The Ultimate Horror Watchlist
British Film Institute #254
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #1188
Movies Approved By The Church Of Satan
Church of Satan #33
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #241

Critic Curated

Collider's 100 Best Horror Movies Of All Time
Collider #32
Entertainment Weeklys Top 50 Cult Movies
Entertainment Weekly #03
Esquire’s 50 Scariest Movies of All Time
Esquire #19
Indiewire's Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time
IndieWire #42
Paste Magazines Best Movies Of The 1930s
Paste Magazine #18
Rolling Stone - 101 Best Horror Movies Of All Time
Rolling Stone #56
Vulture's 101 Best Movie Endings
Vulture #84

Filmmaker Curation

Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #028

Fun Lists

"All Movies Referenced In Every 'Treehouse of Horror' by The Simpsons"
Letterboxd #67

Genre Curation

100 Cult Films by BFI
British Film Institute #04

Jimmy Lists

Jimmy Weber's 100 Favorite Movies
Jimmy Weber #077

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1930 1939 Films
Letterboxd #32
Letterboxds Top 250 Horror Films
Letterboxd #64
Showdown Dirty Pictures
Letterboxd Showdown #09

Temporal Era Sets

100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years by Rolling Stone Magazine
FilmSite.org #99

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