Editing Freaks (1932 film) (section)

==Home media==
''Freaks'' was first issued on Beta, VHS, and [[LaserDisc]] by MGM/UA Home Video in 1986,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/21764/ML100843/Freaks|work=[[LaserDisc Database]]|title=LaserDisc Database: Freaks}}</ref> and was rereleased on [[VHS]] by [[MGM/UA Home Video]] in 1990.<ref name="slant">{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/freaks-2/|url-status=dead|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330225138/https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/freaks-2/|archive-date=March 30, 2019|title=DVD Review: Freaks|author=Gonzalez, Ed|date=August 2, 2004}}</ref> MGM/UA then issued a remastered LaserDisc in 1993. [[David J. Skal]], a documentary entitled Freaks: The Sideshow Cinema, and a shorter documentary on the film’s various alternate endings. This disc went out of print in 2016. Interviews include film sideshow performers and film historians [[Todd Robbins]] and Johnny Meah, and sideshow performer [[Jennifer Miller]] and actors [[Mark Povinelli]] and [[Jerry Maren]]

Films Around The World (FAT-W) released ''Freaks'' on DVD in 2016, and Frolic Pictures released Freaks on a double feature DVD with Browning’s 1931 film ''Dracula'' in 2018. However, neither of these discs were authorized releases of either film.

In 2023, [[The Criterion Collection]] announced the release of Tod Browning’s ''Sideshow Shockers'', a set which contains new [[2K resolution|2K]] restorations of ''Freaks'', ''[[The Unknown (1927 film)|The Unknown]]'' and ''[[The Mystic]]''. It was released on [[Blu-ray]] and DVD on October 17, 2023.<ref name="fangoria_2023">{{cite web |last1=T |first1=Amber |title=Here's All The Horror Headed To The Criterion Collection This October |url=https://www.fangoria.com/original/heres-all-the-horror-headed-to-the-criterion-collection-this-october/ |website=Fangoria |access-date=July 18, 2023 |language=en |date=July 17, 2023}}</ref> David J. Skal recorded a new commentary for this release of ''Freaks''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6911-freaks-the-unknown-the-mystic-tod-brownings-sideshow-shockers|title=Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers &#124; The Criterion Collection}}</ref> The Criterion release features all of the extras included in the original Warner DVD Home Video release, in addition to an audio recording of David J. Skal reading Tod Robbins' "Spurs," film stills, a segment called ''One of Us: Portraits From Freaks,'' an episode from critic Kristen Lopez's podcast on the film's disability representation, and a booklet containing photos, credits, and critical essays.<ref name="fcc">{{cite web|url=https://dvdmg.com/freaksbr.shtml|title=Freaks Criterion Collection}}</ref>