Freaks

Freaks is a 1932 American PreCode horror film in which the eponymous characters were played by people who worked as carnival sideshow performers and had real deformities. The original version was considered too shocking to be released and no longer exists. Directed and produced by Tod Browning, whose career never recovered from it, Freaks has been described as standing alone in a subgenre of one.

The film opens with a sideshow barker drawing customers to visit the sideshow. A woman looks into a box to view a hidden occupant and screams. The barker explains that the horror in the box was once a beautiful and talented trapeze artist. The central story is of this conniving trapeze artist Cleopatra, who seduces and marries sideshow midget Hans after learning of his large inheritance. Cleopatra conspires with circus strongman Hercules to kill Hans and inherit his wealth. At their wedding reception, Cleopatra begins poisoning Hans wine. Oblivious, the other freaks announce that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a normal outsider they hold an initiation ceremony in which they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, We accept her, we accept her. One of us, one of us. Goobagobble, goobagobble. The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who accidentally reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules. She mocks the freaks, tosses the wine in their faces and drives them away. The humiliated Hans realizes that hes been played for a fool and rejects Cleopatras attempts to apologize, but then he falls ill from the poison.While bedridden, Hans pretends to apologize to Cleopatra and also pretends to take the poisoned medicine that she is giving him, but he secretly plots with the other freaks when to strike back at Cleopatra and Hercules. In the films climax, the freaks attack the evil pair during a storm, wielding guns, knives and other sharpedged weapons. Hercules is not seen again the films original ending had the freaks castrating him the audience sees him later singing in falsetto. As for Cleopatra, she has become a grotesque, squawking human duck. The flesh of her hands has been melted and deformed to look like duck feet, her legs have been cut off and what is left of her torso has been permanently tarred and feathered. She is the opening scenes cause for alarm. ........

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