Episode 137. One of Us: Freaks (1932)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Join us as we delve into the lineage and legacy of Tod Browning’s pre-code horror classic. From the morality police to representation of disability to community building through murder, we discuss why Freaks remains a unique and unrepeatable entry in the horror canon. More content over on our Patreon! REQUIRED READING Freaks. Dir. Tod Browning, 1932. […]

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:01.0	I'm going to be.
0:03.0	And so The
0:23.6	The Hi, everyone back to the faculty of horror Podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea Subasati.
1:01.0	And welcome back, Andrea. Thanks. Welcome back to you.
1:04.1	What do we welcome each other back from? You were just about to say, weren't you?
1:08.9	Well, I mean, from the abyss. Okay.
1:11.3	I'm still in the abyss.
1:13.7	From the terror that so far 2025 has yielded.
1:18.2	Yes.
1:19.0	But I think it's a good time to kind of go back to an older film, a film that's almost a century old. Can you believe that? Because things have gotten
1:30.8	better? No, they haven't. No, they haven't. And yet this film feels to me like a really warm hug.
1:37.8	This film feels to me like it embodies what I love about horror, what is critical and subversive
1:44.1	about horror, what is wrong and subversive about horror,
1:45.2	what is wrong with horror as an industry, as a business. All that is in this film. And so I think
1:51.9	it's a delightful choice for this episode. And I have to say, I thought I had seen freaks.
1:58.7	Oh boy, but you had it? So I had seen the wedding scene and the kind of end scene.
2:07.8	Yeah, yeah.
2:08.4	And then I was, you know, a few minutes in to watching this film and being like, oh, no,
2:14.2	this is all new information to me.
2:15.9	Okay.
2:16.8	So I'm so excited that I got to like fill in properly
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