The laboratory of horror - The Freakmaker
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The laboratory of horror - The Freakmaker |
| Original title | The mutations |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Cardiff |
| script |
Edward Mann Robert D. Weinbach |
| production | Robert D. Weinbach |
| music | Basil Kirchin |
| camera | Paul Beeson |
| cut | John Trumper |
| occupation | |
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The Laboratory of Horror - The Freakmaker (original title also The Mutations ) is a British horror film from 1974. Directed by Jack Cardiff , Donald Pleasence , Tom Baker , Julie Ege and Brad Harris also play actual members of a sideshow. The German-language premiere took place in 1988 on video.
action
The biologist Dr. Nolter is a college graduate plant specialist and is devoted to research in which he subjects some of his students to operations to create crosses in DNA between plant and human life. He passes the results of this action on to Mr. Lynch, the misshapen director of the freak show in the nearby amusement park, who also helps him "persuade" the people concerned, as he hopes for a cure from the professor.
When the American Redford arrives, Tony the professor soon falls victim to a group of students who have taken care of him and who have also attended the freak show. After the freaks of his show, led by their announcer Mr. Burns, see him as one of their own, Lynch tries to prove himself to be a normal person and visits a prostitute. Redford's investigations lead to the uncovering of the events, while Hedi of the mutated Tony has to fight back.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film saw a "low-level (n) horror film without any trace of logic, which equips an old topic with dusty horror clichés and exhibits deformed people in the fairground scenes as objects of inhuman voyeurism."
"Although the film is so bad it gets weird involuntarily, it also has a certain cruelty about it," notes TVGuide.
Remarks
The film, shot in 1973, is clearly inspired by the classic Freaks from 1932. A scene in which the freaks of the film party together and refer to the director of the show as "one of us" is taken over directly.
The following sideshow members play themselves: The short stature Tony Mayne, Molly Tweedlie and Kathy Kitchen, Lesley Roose (a "skinny lady" suffering from anorexia ), Fay Bura (a woman with a beard), OT (a "human pincushion"), Madge Garnett (an "ape woman"), Willie Ingram (who can protrude his eyeballs unnaturally) and the overgrown Hugh Bally and Félix Duarte. The "alligator woman" Esther Blackmon (1926–2003) suffered from ichthyosis . Michael Dunn , also of short stature, was a well-known actor. He died shortly after the film was finished.
The film's fair is in Battersea Park .
Web links
- The laboratory of horror - The Freak Maker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Laboratory of Horror - The Freakmaker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://movies.tvguide.com/the-mutations/review/126841
- ↑ Blackmon's life at phreeque ( Memento from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )