Freaks (DVD)

"Gobble-gobble...we accept her...one of us," goes the haunting chant of Freaks. Yet it would be decades before this widely banned morality play gained acceptance as a cult masterpiece. Tod Browning (1931's Dracula) directs this landmark movie in which the true freaks are not the story's sideshow performers, but "normals" who mock and abuse them. Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast real-life sideshow professionals. A living torso who nimbly lights his own cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcepalics (whom the film calls "pinheads") - they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them as subhumans. In 1994, Freaks was selected for the National Film Registry's archive of cinematic treasures.

Audio Commentary By David J. Skal, Author Of 'Dark Carnival: The Secret World Of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master Of The Macabre'
Freaks: Sideshow Cinema - All-New Documentary
Three Alternate Endings
Special Message Prologue Added For The Theatrical Reissue