Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (T (Blu-ray)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (The Criterion Collection)Condition: NewFormat: Blu-rayDescription: 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 curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden. TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES * New 2K digital restoration of Freaks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack * New 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of The Unknown by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli * New 2K digital restoration of The Mystic, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley * Audio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an 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 * Episode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez’s podcast Ticklish Business about disability representation in Freaks * Reading by Skal 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 * English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing * PLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith NehmeDirector: Tod BrowningActor: Aileen Pringle, Lon Chaney, Olga Baclanova, Joan Crawford, Johnny EckRating: MPAA Not RatedNo Of Discs: 2Country/Region of Manufacture: USAStudio: The Criterion CollectionEAN: 0715515287814Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...) Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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