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"Gooble-gooble...we accept her...one of us", goes the huanting chant of the freaks. Yet it would be decades before the widely banned morality play gained acceptance as a cult masterpiece. Tod Browning (of 1931 Dracula fame), directs this landmark movie in which the true freaks are not the story's sideshow performers, but "normals" who mock and abuse them. Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast real life sideshow professionals. A living torso who nimbly rolls and lights a cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics ( who are called in the movie "pinheads", they and others play the big top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them a subhumans. In 1994, Freaks was selected for the National Film Registry's archive of cinematic treasures.
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. Ted Browning's movie "Freaks", has become a cult classic.
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