Unappreciated Tod Browning films?
 

After first reading The Monster Show by David J. Skal, however many years ago, I became interested in Browning as a person. The man is famous for directing Dracula, and infamous for helming the cult classic, Freaks - a film which got him blackballed from the industry almost entirely.

Prior to his movie making career, Browning ran away with the circus when he was 16, where he worked as a hypeman for freak shows, and later perfected his own act where he was literally buried alive in front of an audience, entitled "The Living Corpse"; eventually performing as a circus clown.

Now, even knowing all that about the man, I still haven't seen any of his films aside from Dracula, and Freaks - NOT EVEN THE LON CHANEY ONES! I was wondering if anyone could possibly enlighten me as to what I should seek out next.

I know someone here has to be more familiar with his body of work than me.

*cough* Demonrail, LifeDistortion, NR, nicfit, etc. *cough*

 

Most of his stuff was from the silent era and (from what little I've seen) not especially noteworthy. The only thing I've seen in his talkie period (besides Dracula and Freaks) is Mark of the Vampire, which I'd definitely recommend. I actually prefer it to his original Dracula. Carroll Borland is one of the classic female vampires, and arguably more influential on subsequent vampire movies than Bela Lugosi ever was.

The Unknown and The Unholy Three are the only others you really need to bother with, the rest you can easily let go. Extremely interesting director if not only for the subject matter he interested himself with.

Thanks and + rep to both of you.

errr... sorta....

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