All-in-all, Freaks is an excellent, thought-provoking film well worth owning. Given the quality of the digital transfer, the MGM DVD is worth picking up for the fifteen dollars or so I’ve seen it selling for. As long as you view the special features as a bonus and not a big reason for picking up the film on DVD instead of VHS, you shouldn’t be disappointed.
(Originally published at Sobriquet Magazine).
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
thanks Erik, I have still never seem this and now have a much better idea what the hubbub is all about
2 - Rodney Welch
Great film, great review, but come clean now. Simone Lazaroo’s
The Australian Fiancée -- you made that part up, right?
3 - Chris Beaumont
Nice review, I reviewed this as well last year. You can check it out here.
4 - Sobriquet Magazine
Rodney-
Actually, Lazaroo and her novel are real. The book, thankfully, hasn't been published in North America, but I assure you it does exist. I had to read it for a graduate English class. The whole class hated it.
5 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
nice one Erik, Freaks is one of my favourite flicks, i gotta say, and certainly Browning's best. And this DVD is wonderful.
6 - Brooke Lee
I always watched this movie everytime they showed it on TCM, and loved to hear about the backstories. I am utterly delighted it's out on DVD. Let me go ahead and inform everyone now that this is on my Christmas list.
7 - Phillip Winn
It only took 72 years to hit DVD, that's not so bad. :-)