The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who ...

I am not an animal!! I am a human being!! This week on The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen podcast we’re watching The Elephant ...

From a desperate existence in a Victorian freak show to his days as the toast of London high society, the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, has fascinated the world for well over a century.

John Merrick was born in Victorian England with a rare, little-understood condition known as Proteus syndrome that causes severe body disfigurement and deformities. Merrick was shunned by family, ...

The public in Victorian England sees Merrick (Michael Wartella) as “a freak of nature.” In order to survive, says his huckster manager, Ross (E. Gray Simons III), Merrick “exposes himself to crowds ...