The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting ...
Tod Browning's Freaks is one of the most interesting films in Hollywood history, and easily one of its most divisive. The 1932 film, based on the 1926 short story Spurs by Tod Robbins, is, at its most ...
Director Tod Browning tries to destigmatize the disabled and remind them, in 1932, that they're people. “Watching horror films is a disabling experience,” Angela M. Smith, Associate Professor of ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The plot of Freaks is rather simple. Slightly based on the short story, “Spurs” by Tod Robbins, ...