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Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic : Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers Available October 17
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The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.
STARRING: Various
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#horror – #horrormovies – #Freaks #TheUnknown #TheMystic – #TheCriterionCollection – @Criterion –
The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.
STARRING: Various
Read more “Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic : Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers Available October 17”Horror History: Saturday, February 20, 1932: Freaks was released in theaters
This pre code movie, shocking for it’s time, still pushes the edge of filmmaking with it’s riveting tale of love and betrayal between a normal circus performer and the wealthy carnival midget whom she marries for money and then betrays.
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