The Criterion Collection
Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers
Edition no. 1194
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Freaks
Year: 1932
Time: 64
Aspect Ratio
1.37:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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The Mystic
Year: 1925
Time: 70
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
Musical Score 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo
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The Unknown
| Freaks
| The Mystic
Licensors
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
| George Eastman Museum
Directed by: Tod Browning
Featuring: Aileen Pringle, Lon Chaney, Wallace Ford, Conway Tearle, Norman Kerry, Leila Hyams, Joan Crawford, Olga Baclanova, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Ober, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Stanton Heck, David Torrence, Harry Earles, Gladys Hulette, Daisy Earles, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton
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.
Technical Specifications
Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1 , 1.37:1
Audio:
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
, Musical Score 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo
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Subtitles:
English
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1
Discs:
2 Discs |
DVD-9
Supplements
- New audio commentary for Freaks by film scholar David J. Skal
- New audio commentary for The Unknown by film scholar David J. Skal
- Introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. Skal
- New interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror
- Archival documentary on Freaks
- Reading of “Spurs,” the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based
- Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947
- Program on the alternate endings to Freaks
- Video gallery of portraits from Freaks
- An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme
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