FREAKS (1932) on TCM Wednesday Oct 30 12am EST

[Allhallowsday]

FREAKS (1932) on TCM Saturday Oct 19 8pm EST.  

Though I considered listing this notice in Good Movies, FREAKS is a sterling example of a "bad" movie.  Badly shot?   No!  Badly produced, scripted...?  Not so much.  Badly acted?  Well...  BAD TASTE?  BAD for you???  Oh yeah.  Downright naughty.  The original Hollywood WTF? movie.  

[RCMerchant]

I own this movie.
Not as disturbing as it's been touted.
The fact that Tod Browning,who had a childhood in a carnival explains alot about his fasination with the macabre. FREAKS was a fiplanned on making with Lon Chaney-evidence of Chaney photos of the human chicken.

[Gst0395]

I have seen parts of Freaks, it is quite interesting. It was a controversial film in the UK, where it was banned until it was finally passed uncut with an "X" rating in 1962.

[BoyScoutKevin]

You can add bad editing to the other "bads." When it failed upon its first release to theaters, it was taken back to the studio and re-edited to make it more palpable to 1932 audiences and re-released. It still failed. I suppose proof that it was a film ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it was also the film that almost destroyed the career of its director Tod Browning. Though, having seen "Freaks" on TV, I think it's a better directorial effort than his better known "Dracula" and "Mark of the Vampire," which I have also seen.

[Allhallowsday]

You can add bad editing to the other "bads." When it failed upon its first release to theaters, it was taken back to the studio and re-edited to make it more palpable to 1932 audiences and re-released. It still failed. I suppose proof that it was a film ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it was also the film that almost destroyed the career of its director Tod Browning. Though, having seen "Freaks" on TV, I think it's a better directorial effort than his better known "Dracula" and "Mark of the Vampire," which I have also seen.

I agree; I'd much rather look at FREAKS than the other two.

[Allhallowsday]

FREAKS is on again, tonight October 30, 2013 at 12 am - Midnight - !!!