freakshow be set in a circus where lon ( christopher adamson ) run a freak show and scheme blonde tart lucy ( rebekah kochan ) and her slimy boyfriend lee ( mark preston miller ) decide to rip him off . they devise a plan where lucy seduces lan and get him to propose to her and then kill him off leave her to inherit all of his money so she and lee can live happily ever after and simple eh . what could go wrong . well and lucy get cold foot and her murderous plan be discover and the freak want revenge . direct by drew bell and although uncredited and unacknowledged freakshow be a remake of tod brown controversial classic black and white horror flick freak ( 1932 ) and not wish to put to fine a point on it freakshow be frankly crap . the script by keith leopard be pretty faithful to brown original but with several change and the basic story of a normal person try to exploit the freak by marry into their number be still present and correct but it the character which be the main difference . in the original the lan character be a midget call han and he be present a a naive lovestruck child and someone to sympathise with and feel sorry for and here in freakshow lan be depict a nothing more than a dirty old man who want a nice young blonde girl to give him a blow job when he want and motivation which just doesn not entice the same sort of feeling towards him . in the original the lucy character be name cleopatra and again in a way you could see that she be evil but want a good life of her own with her boyfriend and here lucy be just a slut who be use by both lan to get a blow job and by her boyfriend to help him steal lan money and she fall for it . in the original the freaks themselves be proper character and here they be just a collection of amputee miss various limb and dwarf and retard and a strongman and a half man half woman thing who barely feature . the dialogue be poor and the character turn the original story from a sometimes move piece involve real people into a standard low budget horror where you do not care about anyone and to top it all off it seriously slow and bore with virtually no exploitation or gore at all . there one bit in this i do not get and lucy refuse to drink out of a bowl that the freak have just drink out of fear drink their spit and however it be also show that lucy have no problem have sex or give a blow job to a man old enough to be her dad and literally cover in wart and boil . director bell do nothing to make this watchable and the entire circus consists of three tent and one carousel and a ferris wheel which no one ever visit . this film have the most number of slow and boring and utterly pointless fade to black at the end of a scene i have ever see in a single film and it also have some utterly awful gramophone style 20 and 30 music constantly play on the soundtrack to maybe try and evoke an atmosphere like the original 1932 version . the film be also shoot in a sepia tone ( again maybe to try and mimic the original black and white original ) which give everything a candle lit orange type hue and like yeah that original isn not it . there very and very little gore here and the filmmaker hire some of those masochist type guy who hang themselves on hook which piece their skin and can be find just about everywhere to do several hook piece the skin on their back type scene and there a bit when someone cut a girl scalp off and someone head be bash in ( off screen ) and someone be hit with a wrench ( off screen ) and someone be stab with a knife and someone have part of their throat bite out and the end sequence which doesn not last that long and be again full of annoy slow fade to black shot when lucy have her lip sew shut and the skin on her body slice off as well a the skin on her face in a scene which be much less effective than a similar one in the texas chainsaw massacre 2 ( 1986 ) . with a supposed budget of $ 1 and 000 and 000 one have to say freakshow felt like it have a low budget than that and i wouldn not be surprise if it be . it look grubby and cheap with horrible music and annoy editing and poor special effect and a circus which consist of about three tent in a field . the act suck as well . freakshow be a terrible film to be sure and it one of those film which promise much but deliver nothing . there no gore for 80 minute and the character be awful and if you do not think that matter watch the original again and see the difference . it throughly bore to sit through as well and one to avoid .