Jul 3, 2023
She Freak (1967)
"There are only two kinds of freaks, ladies and gentlemen: those created by God and those made by men. I guess both of them had a hand in what you see here."
#she freak#american cinema#exploitation film#asylum of the insane#1967#david f. friedman#byron mabe#donn davison#claire brennen#lee raymond#lynn courtney#bill mckinney#claude earl jones#ben moore#vanteen#madame lee#marsha drake#felix silla#william bagdad#sandra holcomb#william allen castleman#cheap schlock unofficial remake of Tod Browning's Freaks for the gaudy technicolor 60s#it certainly looks quite striking and has a pleasantly vibrant aesthetic to its scenes of carnival hijinks and melodramatic affairs#but the film spends most of its run time on the day to day of carnie life and on star Brennen's journey from diner waitress to femme fatale#and wicked queen of the carnivals misfits (god forbid a woman have ambition 😏) and the actual horror element appears only in the final 5#mins. theyre 5 good mins! but i wish the film had found a little of that energy earlier in its run bc this is something of a slog tbh#a different director shot inserts and this was rereleased as Asylum of the Insane but those inserts were a special feature on the disc i#watched and somehow they achieve the impossible by being more dull than the og film.#a bit of a meh watch but it does look intermittently groovy