Freaks

Monsters at the very beginning of the sound era produced the greatest of the hollywood majors, MGM, and then alone his boss, the great Louis B. Mayer, left destroy the original and this work for the full thirty years condemned to oblivion. The reason why this film so incensed the contemporary audience, is the same as the reason why in the second half of the 60. years become a cult – it's probably the most bizarre film ever made in Hollywood was created. The plot is simple – blindly in love dwarf is threatened by ruthless high blonde named Cleopatra, which helps well-proportioned guy with the stage name of Hercules. Pygmy colleague rip the death out of the hands of greedy women his monstrous friends, the friendly clown, and a good slump-seal... the Story is set in the environment of the circus with its own obludáriem, teeming with human monsters (siamese twins, the bearded woman, mikrocefalikové, man-torso, the man-skeleton and other "mistakes of nature"). However, the play is disguised actors, but real human "monsters". Just the cast should obviously be the triumph, which had a new horror to ensure success. Director to your bestiary picked from several hundred applicants from across the United states, roughly twenty, which in total has created its kind of "the best of" contemporary menu. In 1931, a similar anomaly, although I do not expose in cages, but there were still quite a favorite part of clubs, while many of the protagonists have the status of real stars. In February 1932, the movie premiered in Los Angeles and despite the favorable evaluation of the influential critic Louelly Parsons had a desperate two-week agony. Although in some cities led the surprisingly successfully, else totally flopped or was straight banned. Tod Browning of Freaks once and for all did the feat in cinematic history, so special, that in the following decades no one even tried to imitate.