Freaks

Tod Browning · 1932 CE · Film · Modern / American · Modernist

A beautiful trapeze artist marries a besotted sideshow dwarf for his inheritance, scheming with the circus strongman to poison him while the sideshow's community of performers watches and judges by its own fierce code. Browning cast real sideshow performers, and the studio-mutilated release ended his career decades before its rehabilitation as a horror landmark; its source, Tod Robbins's story 'Spurs', is not in this archive.

Open Freaks in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• A Man of the People
  Chinua Achebe · 1966 CE · Novel

  59% · 7 shared
  BetrayalWealth & GreedIndividual vs SocietyIronic ReversalThe Feastvs Personvs Society
• Vile Bodies
  Evelyn Waugh · 1930 CE · Novel

  53% · 7 shared
  Wealth & GreedIndividual vs SocietyModernistIronic ReversalThe Fair / CarnivalThe Feastvs Society
• You Can't Take It with You
  Frank Capra · 1938 CE · Film

  49% · 8 shared
  FilmWealth & GreedIndividual vs SocietyModernistIronic ReversalThe Feastvs SocietyModern / American
• Double Indemnity
  James M. Cain · 1936 CE · Novel

  49% · 7 shared
  BetrayalWealth & GreedModernistFemme FataleIronic Reversalvs PersonModern / American
• The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston · 1941 CE · Film

  47% · 7 shared
  FilmBetrayalWealth & GreedFemme FataleIronic Reversalvs PersonModern / American
• A Fish Called Wanda
  Charles Crichton, John Cleese · 1988 CE · Film

  47% · 7 shared
  FilmBetrayalWealth & GreedFemme FataleIronic Reversalvs Personvs Society