stackyFACTSIf you think modern test audiences are fragile, try 1932.
If you think modern test audiences are fragile, try 1932. MGM proudly screened Tod Browning's Freaks, only for a horrified woman to threaten a lawsuit claiming the film's shock value caused her miscarriage. Panicked studio executives butchered nearly thirty minutes from the director's cut, permanently erasing some of the most fascinating pre-code footage ever shot to appease the moral sensibilities of a terrified public. Naturally, the uncut version is gone forever.
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