This movie was a little slow, however for a low rated movie i enjoyed it. I first rented it years ago from blockbuster actually expecting the worst (renting movies weekly i didn't have much left to watch at that time and settled for this), but ended up liking it so much i watched it a second time before returning it. A few months ago i remembered the movie and found it to watch it again (made my bf watch it and he didn't seem to care much for it that day, but a week later was wanting to watch it again). There are scenes that can be a bit boring however the "thing" between Lon and Lucy was enough to keep me tuned in as well as a few of the carnival freaks, kept me wanting to see how it would all end. Its definitely a weird movie (which is probably what had me intrigued), not scary but there were parts that were creepy (at least to me). Not a movie everyone's gonna love, Worth a watch if you have the patience.

Totally plagerized version of Tod Browning's Freaks, albeit with significant ending gore.It's not worth the wait.The film is poorly made and even more poorly acted.And it's virtually a complete ripoff of the original.The original wasn't even that great a flick -- it was just shocking for its time The remake is a borefest.Funniest part? Rebekah Kochan's bio on IMDb. Her "acting" career appears to be roles in gay themed movies, whose titles sound like hardcore porn! Eating Out? which had 2 sequels! Including Sloppy Seconds! and Lez Be Friends.Oy vey. Be proud

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.

Last 10 minutes of the movie were completely unnecessary... It was like watching a surgery, a nasty surgery... n btw I'm sure a person could die from that much blood loss, or at the very least pass out.I don't particularly like scary movies, and this is a perfect example of why, because they're stupid, but I wanted to see this because I do like the original Freaks. The success in that movie was they left the gore to the imagination, and otherwise told a story-- that's something today's movie have no concept of. Everything is all shock appeal, and the success of a horror movie is merited to the one that makes you want to vomit the most.The other comments were right, there is zero character development. Characters get hurt, and die gory deaths, and you really don't care, there is no effort in the screenplay to pull the movie watcher into the film; they just want to gross you out. I forced myself to not be grossed out by the last 10 minutes because I didn't want to give the makers the satisfaction of achieving that from me for this stupid movie, which had the potential to be a lot more.