1932 Review Blog
Freaks
Grade: B+ 10/20/2008
You know why this 1932 film is so successfully disturbing and horrifying? Because they used real "freaks" when they made it. To watch the film populated with pinheads, people with no arms, no legs, midgets, transexuals, giants, and all other matters of weirdness is just plain hard to do...especially when none of them are in makeup or anything. The moral of the story is don't mess with Circus Freaks or their whole fraternity will attack you. I wouldn't want to be anywhere NEAR these people, let alone attacked by them. In that respect, it is a pretty successful horror film. No wonder it has been banned for decades in various countries.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: B+ 10/20/2008
You know why this 1932 film is so successfully disturbing and horrifying? Because they used real "freaks" when they made it. To watch the film populated with pinheads, people with no arms, no legs, midgets, transexuals, giants, and all other matters of weirdness is just plain hard to do...especially when none of them are in makeup or anything. The moral of the story is don't mess with Circus Freaks or their whole fraternity will attack you. I wouldn't want to be anywhere NEAR these people, let alone attacked by them. In that respect, it is a pretty successful horror film. No wonder it has been banned for decades in various countries.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Vampyr
Grade: C- 10/27/2010
Well...I guess I just don't quite get Carl Theodor Dreyer's fame. I wasn't much impressed with his PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC and I wasn't too impressed with this spook story either. The man, for the time, had a good eye and projected eerie visuals onto his film...but VAMPYR just seems to meander along without direction or purpose, and the fact that this was his first non-silent film...is obvious. There is hardly any dialogue so the story is told through walking, seeing, and making faces...and it is simply odd.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: C- 10/27/2010
Well...I guess I just don't quite get Carl Theodor Dreyer's fame. I wasn't much impressed with his PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC and I wasn't too impressed with this spook story either. The man, for the time, had a good eye and projected eerie visuals onto his film...but VAMPYR just seems to meander along without direction or purpose, and the fact that this was his first non-silent film...is obvious. There is hardly any dialogue so the story is told through walking, seeing, and making faces...and it is simply odd.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die