To no avail, Mammy vigorously lectures Scarlett: "If you don""t care what folks says about this family, I does.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.It was explained why the zombies congregated here: "Some kind of instinct.Memory, of what they used to do.This was an important place in their lives." As Romero said in an interview, "I""ve always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.Of the seven Academy Award nominations, there were four Oscars: Goldman was awarded an Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay and Conrad Hall was honored for his cinematography.