Freaks

Schiltzie, the "Pinhead"
Cast of "Freaks"
Just got finished watching Freaks. A movie from 1932 about people who today would be referred to as "special". People who were born different. They marketed it as a horror movie, but the people who put it together seemed to have been very much in favor of equal treatment of the so-called freaks. It's actually kind of a sweet little story. The main guy in the movie is a little person named Hans. He looks like a 5 year old, but is an adult. The ones who really intrigued me were the "pinheads": Three women who were born with microcephaly, a congenital disease which affects the growth of the head, leaving the person with a tiny cranium. Kinda strange, and it certainly affects inteligence. It seems like I would have seen it before now, I'm sure the disease still exists Anyway, found it on google video. Watch it HERE.