Great premise, boring movie. I mean, the Siamese twin situation gets old fast, Hans is a dumbass, the freaks humanity isn't portrayed well at all, and the production values are just plain bad. I'd like to say it was too short, but I could hardly sit through the hour it took. P.S: Gobble gobble, one of us. Not one of us? Well then I guess we'll have to turn you into a hideous chicken woman... Normal people do stuff like that right...

The fact that this was made in '32... wow. Quite ballsy for its time. Even though it won't shock anyone the way it must have once done, what's left is a surprisingly engaging (if predictable) film with some inspired moments.

You have to see it, to believe it.

Fucking spooky. The pinheads haunted my dreams for months. To this day when I change someones mind and scream "One of us! One of us!" in their face, I feel kinda bad.

"They're going to make you one of them, my peacock!" Absolutely breathtaking stuff by Tod 'Don't Call Me Dracula' Browning. Eerie, idiosyncratic, horrifying, funny and with some monumentally weird shifts in tone. But it all gels. How in earth...? What a freak.

A movie that if you are a movie buff of any kind you have to watch. The leaps that it took when it was made in 1932 have very little shock value with people now, but it's still an effective as a bizarre and eerie horror film. There are some very memorable scenes and a truly unsettling climax, but overall this is a movie where the whole is greater than the individual parts. I recommend this to almost everyone, but there are many who won't like it.

I love how ballsy this movie is. I've never seen a movie that showcases physically deformed people with such nonchalance. You could tell most of the players hadn't had much acting experience, but that didn't bother me too much. I loved the climax. Very unique and unsettling film.

One of the most bizarre horror films ever made, yet it's actually fun and oddly touching, because we see the world through the freaks' eyes and notice that the ordinary people are the most grotesque. And I guess I don't need to mention its finale, which is, wow... you just have to check it! Freaks is a cult favorite, but I find it very hard to like.

Edgy, mean, pre-Code nastiness.

not the horror movie i was expecting, but much better. it's really a charming movie about class warfare between the "freaks" and the "normals." i love that it shows how the freaks may look different on the outside, but on the inside they're some of the sweetest individuals. similarly, the normals are often rotten on the inside while normal on the outside.

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There were only about 30 minutes worth of plot and the whole thing was obvious quickly. The climax made up for a lot.

Shitty film; the freaks are portrayed as juvenile idiots, the acting is horrible, the story is as simplistic and predictable as a cheap romantic comedy, and few things make sense in an adult world. The freaks aren't even the least bit sympathetic, either; Hans is a loathsome, cheating imbecile, and the rest aren't much better. Only the "normals" are portrayed as mature, complete characters, of which some are positive and others are bad. Primitive, lousy stuff.

The end shot is horribly dated, but the rest of it stands up pretty well to the test of time. Not so much a shocker as a film that oozes with uneasy tension. Classic scene: "One of us, one of us! Gooble Gobble Gooble Gobble!"

The direction is sometimes unbearably slow, but Browning's compassion for the whole group of circus freaks makes me forgive him everything. Nobody is exploited here in this harrowing tale of human diversity, evil and revenge.

Concebido como um filme de horror, causou polêmica à época por conter cenas fortes e pessoas com claras deficiências físicas, os 'freaks'. Fica mais como um registro histórico e uma sensível revolução estética que como um filme contundente e obrigatório. Lynch bebeu de 'Freaks' em seu 'Elephant Man'.

This film was so highly controversial in it's time, it really set the mark for future controversial exploitation films to come. Horrifying and full of wonder, all in one.