{"product_id":"tod-brownings-sideshow-shockers-freaks-the-unknown-the-mystic-criterion-collection-dvd","title":"Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks \/ The Unknown \/ The Mystic (Criterion Collection) (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\r\nThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 2K digital restoration of Freaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of The Unknown by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 2K digital restoration of The Mystic, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. Skal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArchival documentary on Freaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpisode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez’s podcast Ticklish Business about disability representation in Freaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReading by Skal of “Spurs,” the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProgram on the alternate endings to Freaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVideo gallery of portraits from Freaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYEAR:  1925–1932\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRATING: NR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eB\u0026amp;W\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRUN TIME: 204 MINUTES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFreaks \/ The Unknown \/ The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarring: Aileen Pringle, Joan Crawford, Johnny Eck, Lon Chaney, Olga Baclanova, Wallace Ford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRating: NR\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49072020488466,"sku":"715515287913","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/4235101-3021419.jpg?v=1715273838","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tod-brownings-sideshow-shockers-freaks-the-unknown-the-mystic-criterion-collection-dvd","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}