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| Nelson_Mandela 05/14/19 4:01:21 PM #10: | #249. Freaks https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/FreaksPoster.jpg Dir: Tod Browning Genre: Horror Year: 1932 Fun SephG fact: I literally became interested in discovering weird/obscure films after Goldust listed his favorite movies in WWF magazine. Freaks was the first one on his list that I watched, and I've been hooked ever since. Pre-code horror movies are fascinating to me. You always think of old movies as really Puritan, very tame by today's standards. But there was a brief window of time when there essentially was no film board, and people like Tod Browning went wild--using real circus performers to give the movie an uncanny realism even modern filmmakers seldom dare to do. Freaks can be legitimately disturbing, and it delights me to imagine how much it fucked with people who still had to make their own clothes. Unlike many other films of this era and in this genre specifically, Freaks really holds up well and is a frightful watch to this day. GOOBLE GOBBLE. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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