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This is a great movie - especially considering the times... but catch the unedited version.
Freaks was banned outright originally and released in a severely truncated (pun intended) version that makes vitually no sense.
It's radical because they used actual "freaks" for the movie, and hardly no makeup (except for a lon chaney sequence near the end)... and the resulting images were sometimes and still are nightmarish.
Catch it for sure...
The guy who made this flick, Tod Browning, was sometimes notoriouslly static in his set up but that could have been because of cumbersome cameras etc... but he sometimes took "real" stuff for atmosphere in almost documentary style - like the spiders he cut into "Dracula" (yes the Bela Lugosi version) - that invariably add to the atmosphere and creepiness of the whole thing.
For the young'uns: no CG monsters, sorry.
:D
(don't get me started I love this stuff)
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