Freaks,” produced in 1932 by Tod Browning, is a movie about a traveling circus. It is a work of fiction, but features real people with various disabilities, malformities, and other abnormal conditions ...

Before his pivot to movies, Tod Browning, who was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1880, worked as a performer in carnivals and vaudeville. The experience made him uniquely suited to direct pictures ...

The director who gave us the most iconic of Dracula films — yes, the 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi — also fell from Hollywood’s good graces a year later with “Freaks” (1932), a movie whose ...

Regarded for decades as an embarrassment by its studio only to become a cult hit since its rediscovery in the 1960s, Freaks (1932) is the best-known feature in the Sideshow Shockers collection—and by ...

Guillermo del Toro's five picks from October 2023's Turner Classic Movies lineup are very appropriate for this spooky ... he chose Tod Browning’s “Freaks” (airing on TCM on October 19 at 4 ...