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 ...

VENICE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Circus freaks fight Nazi occupiers in Italian director Gabriele Mainetti's dark fantasy movie "Freaks Out", which is competing for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

“‘Side Show the Musical’ tells the true story of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton as they journey from a sideshow attraction to the bright lights of vaudeville. It is a celebration of ...

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Sometime in the fall of 1963, a 19-year-old Brooklyn art student named Bill Griffith attended a midnight screening of the 1932 cult movie “Freaks.” He went in clueless; he came out profoundly shaken ...

It could be real or it could be an elaborate hoax. Either way, if you're a standard-issue parent — one who's been taught that babies should not be tossed about like rag dolls or circus freaks — then ...