Amazing that the film was permitted to be made, since it did involve people with serious physical abnormalities.
I dont think I will ever forget the microcephalic people dancing in the woods.
Speaking of it being amazing that the film was even made, I always found the sexual subtext (present in almost every scene in the movie) to be amazing, in itself.
Sometimes its more subdued, other times much more explicit. When the trapeze artist calls over the midget to massage her shoulder, she suddenly grabs and yanks her collar down and I swear, every time I see that I expect her to expose her bosom. Of course, she didn’t, but that’s just one example of how present sex is throughout that film.
I also never understood why that catepillar/snake man comes after the bad guy with the knife in his mouth. It’s a haunting and scary image, sure, but what’s he going to do? Poke at his ankle? I’d go for a field goal and send him dozens of yards away!