Ricky Coogan, un ambicioso y avaro ídolo juvenil, es contratado por la malvada ESS Corporation y enviado a la República de Santa Flan, en América del Sur, para promover un tóxico fertilizante biogenético, el Grotex 24. Prohibido en los USA por las mutaciones que provoca, Ricky nunca llegará a su destino porque decide parar en una feria de monstruos en el camino.
Jade is a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
An outcast creature pines to be accepted by his local village. One night, outside his mountainous home, an opportunity arises.
Two brothers - one a priest, one a career criminal - find bloody salvation in a mysterious underground carnival.
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.
Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement.
A man with a bald head visits a specialist and places an order for an especially strong hair tonic. Late in the evening a messenger is dispatched with the tonic to the purchaser, but, through error, delivers to wrong flat. The contents of bottle, however, are drained by the male contingent of the family and water substituted therefore. Later on we see our friend applying the water to his head and giving liberal massage, but the soil remains as unfertile as ever. Our other friend, however, meets with better results, and he is soon covered with a luxuriant growth of hair. He is exhibited as a man monkey and, playing his part well, proves quite a drawing card with the ladies, when his wife, who is acting as his keeper, proves competent and administers to him a flogging, and one of the feminine members of the affair also comes in for an ample share. (Gaumont catalogue)