{"product_id":"tod-browning-s-sideshow-shockers-1194-dvd-used","title":"Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (#1194) DVD USED","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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 (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unknown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and a long-unavailable rarity (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mystic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew 2K digital restoration of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew 2K digital reconstruction and restoration of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unknown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew 2K digital restoration of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mystic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAudio commentaries on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unknown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and an introduction to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mystic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by film scholar David J. Skal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArchival documentary on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEpisode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez’s podcast \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTicklish Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e about disability representation in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReading by Skal of “Spurs,” the short story by Tod Robbins on which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is based\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrologue to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was added to the film in 1947\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProgram on the alternate endings to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVideo gallery of portraits from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFreaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Orbit DVD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45240917917740,"sku":"715515287913U","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/files\/tod-brownings-sideshow-shockers-1194-dvd-used-used-dvd.jpg?v=1787527581","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/tod-browning-s-sideshow-shockers-1194-dvd-used","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}