Circus freaks fight Nazi occupiers in Italian director Gabriele Mainetti's dark fantasy movie "Freaks Out", which is competing for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. By Silvia Aloisi VENICE, ...

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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting ...

GARDNER - It was 100 years ago this week that two-headed Pasqual Pinon arrived in the Chair City and was decapitated. He only lost one head and survived to tell the tale, but the operation in what is ...

SANDUSKY, Ohio - Have you ever wondered what circus performers do outside of the tent? Well, Cedar Point's new haunted house called Freak Show lets visitors get the full experience during ...