The Freakmaker

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At his home in London, Professor Nolter (Donald Pleasance) is trying to solve the world’s food crisis by genetically engineering a new breed of plant… crossing human DNA with plants. His human victims are supplied by the horribly deformed Lynch (Tom Baker) who works for a local circus freak show and whom the loony professor promised to rebuild. However, things go horribly array when the circus freaks figure out what the professor is really up to—engineering a new hybrid man-plant freak of Nature—which enrages the circus freaks, and together they extract a horrible revenge. From the first day of its release (in the US under the title The Mutations) Freakmaker has become notorious for its casting of real circus freaks such as s the infamous “Pop-eye”, a man who can literally pop his eyes out his head, the Woman with Alligator skin, the Pretzel boy, the Human Frog Boy, the Bearded Lady, dwarves and other oddities and human freaks of Nature.