Attention classic movie freaks – Set your DVR for this Monday!!!! Tod Browning (1880-1962) was a pioneering director who helped establish the horror film genre. Born in Louisville Kentucky, Browning ...

Warm-weather good vibrations threaten New York City—as an antidote, every Monday for the next five weeks, the Film Forum is offering Tod Browning double features. Through the ’20s, Browning issued ...

“Unspeakable: The Films of Tod Browning,” a retrospective running March 17-26 at Film at Lincoln Center, can’t help but highlight the movie “Freaks” (1932). It is, after all, Browning’s most famous ...

Before his pivot to movies, Tod Browning, who was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1880, worked as a performer in carnivals and vaudeville. The experience made him uniquely suited to direct pictures set in ...

“Any seventh daughter of any seventh daughter can answer this question”: So reads the introductory title card for “The Mystic” (1925), a film included in “Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers,” a new ...

Pretty is power. Ugly is unbearable. That's the underlying message in "Freaks," early-Hollywood horror maestro Tod Browning's resounding thriller of manipulation and sadism amid a traveling carnival.

Amid all the dreamers, showmen, sermon-sayers, artistes, and middle managers that came to Hollywood in its first half-century to make movies for the masses, Tod Browning was the outsider’s outsider, ...