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A poem about a female clown by the name of Lionella who was always mistreated in school, ran away, joined a circus, and killed everyone who ever laughed at her.

"When I was born, all the fingers on my right hand were stuck together. I had two operations in St. Petersburg, in the city of Pushkin, if I'm not mistaken. First, one finger was peeled off, then, a year later, the second. I was just a baby. So I got three fingers. At the moment, I have on my right hand, it turns out, there is a little finger, index finger and thumb. From the ring and middle-only the metacarpal bones..."

A trip through the bizarre world of midgets, giants, tattooed ladies, and other human curiosities as we trace the colorful history of a distinctly American form of entertainment--the circus sideshow. From the 1840s when P.T. Barnum exhibited Tom Thumb to the last remaining shows struggling to survive at New York's Coney Island, we learn the truth behind the sideshow adage that freaks are not born, but rather created, as performers share their memories of the magical midway.

Sword swallowing, fire breathing, bull whip cracking and the burlesque arts take center stage in Freaky Circus Guy; a documentary about an eccentric collector of 1920's circus art who takes his obsession to the extreme and launches an authentic sideshow on a stormy pier in Seaside Heights, NJ. It's a wondrously strange world of gypsies, freaks, glamazon women... and one madman.

Follow Natalia Alyssandra through the trials and tribulations behind organizing The Freak Show Circus.

In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ticket sales, but the wily Lucy has bigger plans. She convinces the gang to let her seduce and marry the aging circus owner, Lon, in order to secure the entire circus fortune after he "suffers an accident". "People die all the time," Lucy says. The freaks are on to their scheme, however, and when the youngest of them is caught by the ruthless gang, they show no mercy to ensure her silence. When the circus folk find the child's remains, they swear vengeance, and no one is safe from their fury--least of all, the wily Lucy.

When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Struggling fair owner Kesselring (Nicolás de Jesús) is given a unique opportunity to restore the fair to its former glory when his friend Dr. Goodkat (Fredy Roque) introduces him to Marcus Kelevra (Alexis Adrián), a man whose mysterious act will draw people back to the fair, at a deadly cost, and even sparking interest among his fellow fairgoers.

Jade is a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.

An outcast creature pines to be accepted by his local village. One night, outside his mountainous home, an opportunity arises.

Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement.

A man with a bald head visits a specialist and places an order for an especially strong hair tonic. Late in the evening a messenger is dispatched with the tonic to the purchaser, but, through error, delivers to wrong flat. The contents of bottle, however, are drained by the male contingent of the family and water substituted therefore. Later on we see our friend applying the water to his head and giving liberal massage, but the soil remains as unfertile as ever. Our other friend, however, meets with better results, and he is soon covered with a luxuriant growth of hair. He is exhibited as a man monkey and, playing his part well, proves quite a drawing card with the ladies, when his wife, who is acting as his keeper, proves competent and administers to him a flogging, and one of the feminine members of the affair also comes in for an ample share. (Gaumont catalogue)

Two brothers - one a priest, one a career criminal - find bloody salvation in a mysterious underground carnival.

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