[Boasts] some of the most terrifying scenes ever consigned to film.

| Sep 28, 2015

Browning's sympathies are clear; if there are "freaks" on display here, they are not the versatile performers to whom the title seems to allude.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2015

One of the most powerful films ever made about the need for humanity and solidarity in the face of cruelty and oppression.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 8, 2015

Freaks is sumptuously produced, admirably directed, and no cost was spared. But Metro failed to realize that even with a different sort of offering the story still is important.

| Mar 26, 2009

Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror.

| Oct 7, 2008

If the heart of the horror movie is the annihilating Other, the Other has never appeared with more vividness, teasing sympathy, and terror than in this 1932 film by Tod Browning.

| Sep 24, 2007

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer definitely has on its hands a picture that is out of the ordinary.

| Aug 8, 2006

It has now achieved deserved recognition as a masterpiece.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

Unclassifiable odd masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 6, 2005

Browning uses the film's famous "Wedding Feast" sequence and its rhythmic use of montage to fantastically blur the lines between the normal and the abnormal.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 29, 2003

Freaks is one of those legendary films, made all the more legendary by its ill-repute over the years.

| Mar 10, 2003

It is a work of genius.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 2, 2002

It's a cinematic slap in the face that'll leave you reeling with shock, surprise and maybe even delight. They certainly don't make them like this anymore.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 17, 2002