Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic (Criterion Collection)
- DVD
- Rated NR
- Genre: Horror
- Release Date: 10/17/2023
The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.
The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.RUN TIME: 204 MINUTES
Title: | Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic (Criterion Collection) |
Genre: | Horror |
Starring: | Johnny Eck, Joan Crawford, Olga Baclanova, Aileen Pringle, Wallace Ford, Lon Chaney |
Director: | Tod Browning |
Studio: | Criterion Collection |
Number of Discs: | 2 |
Attributes: | Subtitled, Mono Sound |
Release Date: | 10/17/2023 |
Product Type: | DVD |
Rated: | NR |
UPC: | 715515287913 |
Item #: | 2578605X |
Subtitles: | ENG |
Street Date: | 10/17/2023 |
Original Language: | ENG |
Run Time: | 204 minutes |