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The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.
The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 2K digital restoration of Freaks
- New 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of The Unknown by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli
- New 2K digital restoration of The Mystic, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley
- Audio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. Skal
- New interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror
- Archival documentary on Freaks
- Episode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez’s podcast Ticklish Business about disability representation in Freaks
- Reading by Skal of “Spurs,” the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based
- Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947
- Program on the alternate endings to Freaks
- Video gallery of portraits from Freaks
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme"
- YEAR: 1925–1932
- RATING: NR
- B&W
RUN TIME: 204 MINUTES
Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers
Title: | Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic (Criterion Collection) |
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Genre: | Horror |
Starring: | Johnny Eck, Joan Crawford, Olga Baclanova, Aileen Pringle, Wallace Ford, Lon Chaney |
Director: | Tod Browning |
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Studio: | Criterion Collection |
Number of Discs: | 2 |
Attributes: | Subtitled, Mono Sound |
Release Date: | 10/17/2023 |
Product Type: | DVD |
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Rated: | NR |
UPC: | 715515287913 |
Item #: | 2578605X |
Subtitles: | ENG |
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Street Date: | 10/17/2023 |
Original Language: | ENG |
Run Time: | 204 minutes |
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CreditsAileen Pringle
Joan Crawford
Johnny Eck
Lon Chaney
Olga Baclanova
Wallace Ford
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DirectorsTod Browning