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.” 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. “The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers will first be added to the Criterion Collection on October 17, followed by Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others on October 24 and Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny on October 31. Those films are Freaks, The Unknown and The Mystic, packaged together in Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers The Others (2001) and Nanny(2022). The Criterion Collection is celebrating Halloween with a brand new lineup of horror releases this October, and we’ve got the full scoop straight from Criterion’s website.Ĭoming this October, “three Pre-code chillers from a master of the morbid a gothic supernatural tale & a haunting modern-day fable of cultural dislocation in NYC.”
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