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* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof. Nolter that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Lynch wears black greatcoat with the collar turned up and and wide-brimmed black fedora pulled down low whenever he goes out to hide his facial deformities. While the hat and coat do mostly hide his deformities, the distinctiveness of the outfit, combined with his height, still makes him stand out.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Lynch wears black greatcoat with the collar turned up and and wide-brimmed black fedora pulled down low whenever he goes out to hide his facial deformities. While the hat and coat do mostly hide his deformities, the distinctiveness of the outfit, combined with his height, still makes him stand out.
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* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling traveling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof. Nolter that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Lynch wears a black greatcoat with the collar turned up andand a wide-brimmed black fedora pulled down low whenever he goes out to hide his facial deformities. While the hat and coat do mostly hide his deformities, the distinctiveness of the outfit, combined with his height, still makes him stand out.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Lynch wears a black greatcoat with the collar turned up and
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Lynch stand stock still and poses as one of the dummies in the 'Haunted Goldmine' ride, and Tony runs straight past him.
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Lynch stand stands stock still and poses as one of the dummies in the 'Haunted Goldmine' ride, and Tony runs straight past him.
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* SceneryCensor: When Heidi is unconscious and naked on Nolter's operating table, her breasts are visible but her crotch is obscured by a tray of surgical instrument above the table.
* SignatureItemClue: Burns makes the mistake of wearing the medallion he took off Bridget when he and Lynch abducted her, which attracts the attention of her classmates when the visit the freak show.
* TrailOfBlood: Tony's escape from the lab is showing by the camera following a trail of blood across the laboratory floor to the French windows when it disappears outside into the night.
* SignatureItemClue: Burns makes the mistake of wearing the medallion he took off Bridget when he and Lynch abducted her, which attracts the attention of her classmates when the visit the freak show.
* TrailOfBlood: Tony's escape from the lab is showing by the camera following a trail of blood across the laboratory floor to the French windows when it disappears outside into the night.
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* SceneryCensor: When Heidi is unconscious and naked on Nolter's operating table, her breasts are visible but her crotch is obscured by a tray of surgical instrument instruments above the table.
* SignatureItemClue: Burns makes the mistake of wearing the medallion he took off Bridget when he and Lynch abducted her, which attracts the attention of her classmates whenthe they visit the freak show.
* TrailOfBlood: Tony's escape from the lab isshowing shown by the camera following a trail of blood across the laboratory floor to the French windows when it disappears outside into the night.
* SignatureItemClue: Burns makes the mistake of wearing the medallion he took off Bridget when he and Lynch abducted her, which attracts the attention of her classmates when
* TrailOfBlood: Tony's escape from the lab is
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* MadScientist: Professor Nolter is obsessed with creating a race of [[PlantPerson human/plant hybrids]] and is kidnapping and experimenting on unwilling victims as of way of achieving this.
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* BathtubScene: Heidi (played by [[UsefulNotes/ScreamQueens scream queen]] Julie Ege) takes a long bath after she calls Brian to discuss her concern about Tony's disappearance. Her bath is disturbed by the arrival of Tony who has been transformed into a PlantPerson.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Prof. Nolter believes that creating a race of human/plant hybrids will save the human race by eliminating starvation.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Prof. Nolter believes that creating a race of [[PlantPerson human/plant hybrids hybrids]] will save the human race by eliminating starvation.
* HeelFaceTurn: The other freaks manage to persuade the dwarf Burns that by aiding Lynch he is not actually helping the freaks' cause, but actually making things worse. He leads the freaks when they rise up and turn on Lynch.
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* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof. Nolter in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's lab, in exchange for Nolter curing his physical deformities.
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* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof. Nolter in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's Nolter's lab, in [[WorkingForABodyUpgrade exchange for Nolter curing his physical deformities.deformities]].
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* TrailOfBlood: Tony's escape from the lab is showing by the camera following a trail of blood across the laboratory floor to the French windows when it disappears outside into the night.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically powerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Nolter in exchange for Nolter curing his deformities.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically powerful but deformed Lynch (who used to be a freak show act bill billed as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Nolter in exchange for Nolter curing his deformities.
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* GirlsWithMoustaches: The freak show includes a bearded woman.
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Lynch wears black greatcoat with the collar turned up and and wide-brimmed black fedora pulled down low whenever he goes out to hide his facial deformities. While the hat and coat do mostly hide his deformities, the distinctiveness of the outfit, combined with his height, still makes him stand out.
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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFrombehind: Lynch catches Brian trying to break in to Prof. Nolter's lab and knocks him to the ground. He is about to smash Brian's head in with a rock when the freaks arrive and Popeye throws a knife into Lynch's back; causing him to drop the rock and stagger away from Brian's unconscious form.
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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFrombehind: ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Lynch catches Brian trying to break in to Prof. Nolter's lab and knocks him to the ground. He is about to smash Brian's head in with a rock when the freaks arrive and Popeye throws a knife into Lynch's back; causing him to drop the rock and stagger away from Brian's unconscious form.
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* TheDogBitesBcak: The freaks that Lynch has systematically bullied, terrorized, and treated as slaves gang up and turn on him. They leave him badly wounded and he is ripped apart by Nolter's {{Angry Guard Dog}}s as they walk away, not even turning back to look.
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* TheDogBitesBcak: TheDogBitesBack: The freaks that Lynch has systematically bullied, terrorized, and treated as slaves gang up and turn on him. They leave him badly wounded and he is ripped apart by Nolter's {{Angry Guard Dog}}s as they walk away, not even turning back to look.
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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFrombehind: Lynch catches Brian trying to break in to Prof. Nolter's lab and knocks him to the ground. He is about to smash Brian's head in with a rock when the freaks arrive and Popeye throws a knife into Lynch's back; causing him to drop the rock and stagger away from Brian's unconscious form.
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* TheDogBitesBcak: The freaks that Lynch has systematically bullied, terrorized, and treated as slaves gang up and turn on him. They leave him badly wounded and he is ripped apart by Nolter's {{Angry Guard Dog}}s as they walk away, not even turning back to look.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the film, Nolter and Lynch have been killed, Nolter's lab has been burned down--destroying Tony and the mutant plants--and Brian has rescued Heidi before anything could be done to her. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. As Heidi and Brian start making out in Brian's car, a close-up of her arms shows leaves starting to sprout.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Prof. Nolter is killed by the one successful [[PlantPerson human/plant hybrid]] he manages to create.
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* PlantPerson: Prof. Nolter is obsessed with creating a race of human/plant hybrids that he believes is the next stage in human evolution. He conducts experiments on unwilling human subjects that create freaks that do not live long. He eventually succeeds in creating a successful hybrid, but is killed by his own creation.
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* ManEatingPlant: Professor Nolter admires carnivorous plants for possessing attributes of both plants and animals. He has mutated several to giant size and feeds them cats and rabbits. He uses the DNA from a giant Venus flytrap to mutate Tony into a human/Plant hybrid, and later gets eaten by the mutant, whose chest opens up like a flytrap to swallow him.
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Students have been going missing from the local college, and the one person who knows what's happened to them is Dr. Noller, a rogue biologist. Not satisfied with the pace of natural selection in driving evolution, Noller wants to push things further by creating his own genetically engineered creations. Having already created some amazing specimens by mixing the DNA of plants and animals, the doctor has now set his sights higher, and want to work on modifying humans, as well. The failed experimental mutants are then given to a cruel circus freakshow owner who exploits them to the fullest. However, the mutants and the circus freaks will not be denied justice.
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Students have been going missing from the local college, and the one person who knows what's happened to them is Dr. Noller, Nolter, a rogue biologist. Not satisfied with the pace of natural selection in driving evolution, Noller Nolter wants to push things further by creating his own genetically engineered creations. Having already created some amazing specimens by mixing the DNA of plants and animals, the doctor has now set his sights higher, and want to work on modifying humans, as well. The failed experimental mutants are then given to a cruel circus freakshow owner who exploits them to the fullest. However, the mutants and the circus freaks will not be denied justice.
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* AngryGuardDog: Prof. Noller keeps a pack of angry Alsatian guard dogs on the grounds of his house to discourage nosy visitors.
* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof. Noller that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof. Noller that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
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* AngryGuardDog: Prof. Noller Nolter keeps a pack of angry Alsatian guard dogs on the grounds of his house to discourage nosy visitors.
* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof.Noller Nolter that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Prof. Noller believes that creating a race of human/plant hybrids will save the human race by eliminating starvation.
* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof. Noller in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's lab, in exchange for Noller curing his physical deformities.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Prof. Noller Nolter believes that creating a race of human/plant hybrids will save the human race by eliminating starvation.
* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof.Noller Nolter in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's lab, in exchange for Noller Nolter curing his physical deformities.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically powerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Noller in exchange for Noller curing his deformities.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically powerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Noller Nolter in exchange for Noller Nolter curing his deformities.
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* DisposableVagrant: A tramp getting drunk under a bridge becomes the first victim of the human/plant hybrid that climbs out of the river.
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* CircusOfFear: Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof. Noller that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
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* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof. Noller in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's lab, in exchange for Noller curing his physical deformities..deformities.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Lynch stand stock still and poses as one of the dummies in the 'Haunted Goldmine' ride, and Tony runs straihjt past him.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Lynch stand stock still and poses as one of the dummies in the 'Haunted Goldmine' ride, and Tony runs straihjt past him.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically pwerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Noller in exchange for Noller curing his deformities.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically pwerful powerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Noller in exchange for Noller curing his deformities.
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lab, in exchange for Noller curing his physical deformities..
* SignatureItemClue: Burns makes the mistake of wearing the medallion he took off Bridget when he and Lynch abducted her, which attracts the attention of her classmates when the visit the freak show.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically pwerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Noller in exchange for Noller curing his deformities.
* SignatureItemClue: Burns makes the mistake of wearing the medallion he took off Bridget when he and Lynch abducted her, which attracts the attention of her classmates when the visit the freak show.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The physically pwerful but deformed Lynch (who used to a freak show act bill as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as TheIgor to Professor Noller in exchange for Noller curing his deformities.
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''The Freakmaker'' (a.k.a. ''The Mutations'') is a low-budget 1974 British-American science fiction/horror film directed by Jack Cardiff, and starring Creator/DonaldPleasance and Creator/TomBaker.
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''The Freakmaker'' (a.k.a. ''The Mutations'') is a low-budget 1974 British-American science fiction/horror film directed by Jack Cardiff, and starring Creator/DonaldPleasance Creator/DonaldPleasence and Creator/TomBaker.
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''The Freakmaker'' (a.k.a. ''The Mutations'') is a low-budget 1974 British-American science fiction/horror film directed by Jack Cardiff, and starring Creator/DonaldPleasance and Creator/TomBaker.
Students have been going missing from the local college, and the one person who knows what's happened to them is Dr. Noller, a rogue biologist. Not satisfied with the pace of natural selection in driving evolution, Noller wants to push things further by creating his own genetically engineered creations. Having already created some amazing specimens by mixing the DNA of plants and animals, the doctor has now set his sights higher, and want to work on modifying humans, as well. The failed experimental mutants are then given to a cruel circus freakshow owner who exploits them to the fullest. However, the mutants and the circus freaks will not be denied justice.
!!Tropes in ''The Freakmaker'' include:
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Prof. Noller believes that creating a race of human/plant hybrids will save the human race by eliminating starvation.
* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof. Noller in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's lab.
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Students have been going missing from the local college, and the one person who knows what's happened to them is Dr. Noller, a rogue biologist. Not satisfied with the pace of natural selection in driving evolution, Noller wants to push things further by creating his own genetically engineered creations. Having already created some amazing specimens by mixing the DNA of plants and animals, the doctor has now set his sights higher, and want to work on modifying humans, as well. The failed experimental mutants are then given to a cruel circus freakshow owner who exploits them to the fullest. However, the mutants and the circus freaks will not be denied justice.
!!Tropes in ''The Freakmaker'' include:
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Prof. Noller believes that creating a race of human/plant hybrids will save the human race by eliminating starvation.
* TheIgor: The hulking Lynch assists Prof. Noller in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Noller's lab.
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