FREAK BABYLON

A heavily illustrated book in the mold of Fredrick Drimmer’s VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE and Daniel P. Mannix’s FREAKS: WE WHO ARE NOT AS OTHERS, though not as satisfying as either

HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN

Like many cult movie buffs the world over, I’ve been curious about this long-banned Japanese film for years. It’s inevitable, I guess, that I was disappointed

FREAKSHOW

The DVD cover art for this trash contains some pretty astounding hype promising “THE MOST HORRIFYING FILM OF THIS CENTURY” with “A CAST OF ACTUAL SIDESHOW PERFORMERS” that was “BANNED IN 43 COUNTRIES.” What can I say? I fell for it

FREAK ORLANDO

Perhaps the ultimate Freak Movie, this beyond-bizarre German phantasmagoria features human oddities of every conceivable assortment (some natural born, others created by prosthetic FX) in a surreal cavalcade the likes of which you won’t see anywhere else