Every time I teach Film History and Appreciation, covering the early development of cinema up to and including Citizen Kane, I show this 1932 Tod Browning movie, made only a handful of years after the first full-length sound film. It’s a beautiful horror film about a circus sideshow troupe, in which the abnormal performers gathered for the amusement of audiences – the midgets, pinheads, Siamese twins and others – are the sweet and loving heroes, and the conniving human circus performers are the actual “freaks.” This movie, once seen, will never be forgotten.