The film revolves around the beautiful circus artist Trapez who decided to marry the leader of the side performers. Within a short time, his mutilated friends discover that this woman marries their friend only for his inheritance. This artist and his friends come together and make a brutal revenge that changes the course of things.
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.
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.
