Freaks

Origin: U.S.(MGM) 1932
Length: 64 minutes
Format: Black & White
Director: Tod Browning
Producer: Tod Browning
Screenplay: Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins, from his novel Spurs
Photography: Merritt B. Gerstad
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Rose Dione, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Schlitze, Josephine Joseph, Johnny Eck, Frances O'Connor, Peter Robinson
Links:Freaks Trailer, Freaks Wiki, Spurs Wiki

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Originally conceived as a horror film, Freaks has also been known throughout the years as an art-house film and as a documentary because of it's realism as expressed in its use of "real freaks". Freaks remains to this day a very under appreciated film. Tod Browning, director, also directed the original version of Dracula. However, this film is considered to be the most remarkable film of his career.

Reaction to the film was so intense that the studio was forced to cut it from a length of approximately ninety minutes to just over an hour. Today, the parts that were removed from it are considered lost. Because its deformed cast was shocking to moviegoers of the time, the film was banned in the United Kingdom for 30 years. Beginning in the early 1960s, Freaks was rediscovered as a counterculture cult film. In 1994, Freaks was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The chanting of "One of us!" is not uncommonly used as a reference to the film.