Spielberg also had cast notable director Francois Truffaut in the film in a major role (modeled after French UFO expert Jacques Vallee).It was advertised with alternative titles:Forbidden Love, The Monster Show,andNature""s Mistakes.The morality play remains a ruly amazing masterpiece about an odd clique of sympathetically-portrayed, but grotesquely-deformed circus "freaks" in a traveling sideshow that took revenge on a beautiful, gold-digging, heartless high-wire trapeze artist that wronged one of the freaks.To be fully armed, Peter and Stephen stole dozens of guns, holsters, and ammunition belts and boxes from the Gunnery store inside the mall.The terror amplified during a relentless assault on seven innocent strangers - fugitive survivors who were hiding out in an isolated, barricaded house in rural Pennsylvania to escape being infected by zombie bites.[Note: Actress Susan Harrison was the mother of Darva Conger, the vilified bride on Fox""s infamous reality TV showWho Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionairethat aired in the winter of 2000.