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In a film set in this sort of place, a man removes a match from a box, lights it, and uses it to light a cigarette, all using only his mouth. The twist ending to a film titled for this sort of place occurs after an organist boards a bus out of Salt Lake City to escape a white-faced figure called (15[1])“the Man,” only to discover that all the passengers are ghouls. In a film set in this sort of place, a group of people each wielding a switchblade slowly advance towards a wounded man crawling in the mud. That film set in this sort of place ends with the rich (*) Hans regretting that his companions turned a beautiful woman he once loved into a legless, squawking feathered “human duck.” (10[1])In that Tod Browning film, Cleopatra is “accepted” at her wedding banquet by the employees of one of these places (-5[1])chanting the phrase “gooble, gobble, one of us.” For 10 points, name this sort of place where the protagonists of the 1932 film Freaks perform in a sideshow. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: carnivals [or circuses; accept fairs; accept sideshows until read; accept Carnival of Souls]
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