Michael Ledo I hate to admit I watched this movie...I was watching it for a friend. It is all about what you are into.A group of "outsiders" are hired by a circus, which is run by all deformed individuals and are called family. Lon (Christopher Adamson) is in charge, a man who has open sores oozing with pus. The outsiders come up with a plan to rob the circus by stealing the gate receipts. When it is discovered Lon has a ton of money including "castles" they opt for plan "B" where Lucy (Rebekah Kochan) the gang's girl comes onto Lon to the point he wants to marry her.The rest of the family is skeptic of Lucy, as well they should be.Without giving away any plot spoilers, I will dare to say there are bloody and graphic scenes. Outside of the midget, the deformities appear to be special effects. For example, the guy with no arms, clearly had arms under his shirt.I think if they had a metal soundtrack, this could have been an excellent grindhouse. As it was, it was just pretty disgusting. If you can make it through 6 "Saw" films and a couple of "Human Centipedes" this one should be a snap.F-bomb, sex, and nudity (Rebekah Kochan, Amanda Ward)

TheLittleSongbird Freakshow was one of those movies that promised much, unfortunately it was also one of those movies that didn't deliver at all what it promised. Its sole bright spot is the final 10 minutes which does have a little bit of tension and some decent gore. That's it for the pros however. I personally didn't think the production values were all that good, I found the fading in and out technique of the camera work overused and distracting, the special effects rather crude and the settings all too basic, there are only about 5 or 6 of them and neither of them are that special. I disliked the soundtrack as well, it just seemed very cheesy and because it seemed as though it was trying too hard to sound like the 20s-30s it came across as dated as well. The dialogue is horrendously stilted, the characters are too underdeveloped to have any likability(to me the cannibal girl seemed too attractive to be a freak) and the story bored rather than excited me with sluggish pacing and a complete lack of suspense. The acting is very poor, nobody stands out in a good way and it feels either over-earnest or non-existent. All in all, the final 10 minutes are decent but the rest is a waste of time. 2/10 Bethany Cox

miraquin I'm not sure where I should start with this movie. I mean, nothing even happens until the last five minute. Why is this movie banned in 43 countries??Nothing even happened during the movie...it was probably the most boring movie i've ever sat through. I was hoping throughout the film that if I lasted five more minutes something would happen...nope!The cover of the movie caught my attention with the "banned in 43 countries" so I thought it must be a hostel type movie, boy was I wrong. The only reason it should be banned is because it's so pointless. the storyline is garbage, there's no point to it. I get that it's supposed to be gory but, the gore is in the last scene.I'll never recommend this film to anyone...ever! Don't be fooled by the "banned in 43 countries" crap on the cover. Total waste of time!

mrush Well once again a DVD box at the rental store drew me into a wasted night.Who could resist a movie that claims to have been banned in 37 countries?So ,even though by now I should know better,I rent this thing and take it home.So we have a traveling circus and one of the attractions is the freaks or strange people as I think the sign on the tent said.Also traveling with the circus is the support group of guards and mechanics etc.Anyway a few of these support guys and a girl decide to rob the circus during it's travels.The group decides that the girl should cozy up to the owner and trick him into marrying her where the group of plotters will have access to his fortune.Apparently the owner of this fleabag circus has big money somewhere although looking at him you'd never figure. The owner is a repulsive mess,bad teeth,greasy hair and big yellow boils all over his body.The boil covered owner of the circus feels more at home with the freaks of the show than he does with normal people.He considers them his family.His family protects him as one of their own when they feel he is in trouble.Therein lies the main plot I guess you'd say.This movie really sucked bad.It was just too much for me to believe that the beautiful young women would have sex with the oozing nasty owner for all the money in the world.She was so hot she could have found a much cleaner and less repulsive sugar daddy.The sets were lousy shots of tents and the Ferris wheel was shown over and over.There never seemed to be any people at the circus and all the workers just sat around slurping beer from bottles that somehow came with no labels on them.And the sound track was the most irritating soundtrack of any movie I've ever seen....one after another of bad fakey attempts to recreate old scratchy songs like they sounded on records made in the 20's and 30's.On and on these miserable songs went until I was nearly mad.And the acting was bad.Terribly bad.And I'm not even sure this movie had a script as many of the actors seemed to fumble for their words.Or maybe the budget was so tight that re shots weren't allowed?The freaks themselves weren't really all that freaky except for the one that looked like a miniature version of the Toxic Avenger.Special effects were minimal,little bit of gore near the end but for the most part this movie was just people doing mostly talking.A couple of women showed their breasts but they were small and uninspiring.I think I gave it a 3 mostly because of the breasts because really this movie was probably a 1 or 2 at best.It's very apparent that this movie was nothing more than a sad weak blatant rip-off of Tod Browning's "Freaks".This mess is totally forgettable and I probably wouldn't have even finished watching it had it not been a cold rainy day with nothing else going on for me to do.The only way this crapola was banned in 37 countries was for being so bad.Skip this crud fest and watch Browning's original.