Writer's Block: Killer tomatoes

[i_amthecosmos]

[Error: unknown template qotd]This is an impossible question. But I'm going to go with Freaks, just for the disturbance factor. This is Tod Browning (Dracula director) ruining his career! Nobody in 1932 wanted to see a horror movie starring circus prodigies. It was banned in England for decades, and for all I know might still be. But it's one of the most surreal, odd movies ever. Here, have a scene.

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So basically, a cult film needs pure fearlessness!

Comments

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

I love Freaks. I have a crush on Johnny Eck. /TMI (But he was awesome!)

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Didn't Johnny Eck become a folk artist later in life? I heard he was one of the performers who felt that Freaks was exploitive and never wanted to talk about it. (Lady Olga the bearded lady wasn't a fan either.)

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

He was an artist, among many other things. I've never read that he felt the movie was exploitative, though, or didn't want to talk about it.

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Well, I read that in an interview with John Waters, who has been known to get his information wrong before. But he did talk about Johnny Eck's art.