At the movie’s center is 7-year-old telepath, Chloe (Lexy Kolker), and her hyper-paranoid dad, Henry (Emile Hirsch). She’s a sweet kid who uses her telepathy in innocent-kid ways while ...

But in the 1960s and ’70s it resurfaced as a midnight movie and cult oddity, at a time that overlapped with the beginnings of film studies as a formal university program. “Freaks” rose to ...