Freaks...... on DVD Tues.

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

Tod Browning, who directed Bela Lugosi in the original Dracula, stepped into even eerier territory with this 1932 story of betrayal and retribution in the circus. Evil trapeze artist Olga Baclanova seduces and marries a midget in the circus sideshow, hoping to inherit his wealth. But in doing so, she has crossed the wrong folks: the tightly knit group of nature's aberrations, who stick together like family--and who set out to avenge their little pal. Browning brought in some of the most famous sideshow attractions of the era, include Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton and Johnny Eck the Legless Boy, as well as Zip and Pip, microcephalics whose appearance in this film inspired cartoonist Bill Griffith to create his comic strip, "Zippy the Pinhead." So disturbing that it was banned for 30 years in Great Britain.

 

 

 

Freaks less than 15$ at amazon.com!

[The Mandarin]

Yeah, I heard about this a while back (I think I was looking up something about the fat lady from What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and it linked me there.. ).

 

Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing this, but there's so many other movies I haven't seen that I put on my list before it, so it's likely going to be a couple of years or decades before I see it.

 

But still, I'm hyped!

[Bruiser Chong]

Was elated to hear about this and the Bad Seed getting a nice DVD treatment a few months back. I would be getting them both later today, but I decided to just place an order with DDD, since they had the Alf set for $21. Can't wait to check it out, though.

[LivingLegendGaryColeman]

I hadn't heard about this movie til I saw the clip in "The Dreamers", based on the clip I wanted to see it and have been counting down the days. I didn't realize the controversy, but I bought it this morning. Now I have something to look forward to.