Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic (Criterion C

Description: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic (Criterion C Title: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic (Criterion Collection) Format: DVD Label: Criterion Collection Genre: Horror UPC: 715515287913 Release Date: 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.TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:New 2K digital restoration of FreaksNew 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of The Unknown by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip CarliNew 2K digital restoration of The Mystic, with a new score by composer Dean HurleyAudio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. SkalNew interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horrorArchival documentary on FreaksEpisode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez’s podcast Ticklish Business about disability representation in FreaksReading by Skal of “Spurs,” the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is basedPrologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947Program on the alternate endings to FreaksVideo gallery of portraits from FreaksEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme"YEAR: 1925–1932RATING: NRB&W RUN TIME: 204 MINUTESFreaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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