She Freak (1967)

Director:

Byron Mabe

Writer:

David F. Friedman (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

A Barbarous Experience..!

Plot:

Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival...

Plot Keywords:

Carnival | Freak | Remake | B Movie | Exploitation

Cast

Claire Brennen	...	Jade Cochran
Lee Raymond	...	Blackie Fleming
Lynn Courtney	...	Pat 'Moon' Mullins
Bill McKinney	...	Steve St. John
Claude Earl Jones	...	Greasy (as Claude Smith)
Ben Moore	...	Ben Thomas
Van Teen	...	Al Babcock
Madame Lee	...	Snake Charmer (as Lee)
Marsha Drake	...	Olga
Felix Silla	...	Shorty
William Bagdad	...	Pretty-Boy (as Bill Bagdad)
Sandra Holcomb	...	Canival Woman

Also Known As:

Alley of Nightmares
Asylum of the Insane (USA) (recut version)
Freaks!

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Bakersfield, California, USA

Company:

Sonney-Friedman Pictures

Trivia:

Felix Silla (Shorty) and his leading lady, the late Claire Brennen, met on the set of this movie. They began a nine-year relationship and managed to keep it secret for all of those years, despite the fact that it produced a son.

Quotes:

Greasy: What do you say you and me, we go up to Lee County tonight for a couple of beers. Eh? Eh?
[laughs]
Jade Cochran: Gee, Greasy, that sounds groovy. But I'm afraid I don't have anything classy enough to wear for such a grand occasion.
Greasy: Don't you get so damn snotty. Who in the hell do you think you are, anyway?
Jade Cochran: I know who I am. I'm nobody. Just like you.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Extra Weird (2003) (V)

a tribute to "Freaks"???

This was supposedly made as a sort or tribute to Tod Browning's early 1930's movie "Freaks", but you couldn't prove it by me. The earlier film did show many freaks of nature but it also looked into their lives a bit and showed that they were well cared for and taken care of. Here, instead of any insight, we're treated to loads of filler: a carnival being assembled, a carnival being disassembled, people riding on various attractions, eating, etc. It's all accompanied by jazzy sort of music and on occasion it will break into something almost twangy and surf-like, but it's all filler, really. Now it seems like this waitress who has grown tired of her job at some nothing little café quit and joined the carnival and married the man that owns the freak show, but she has been making little side excursions to hop into the sack with one of the "roughies", the guy that runs the ferris wheel. When she's caught with him her hubby gets stabbed and dies and she's in charge, but not for long, because she's rather cruel and heartless. Of course she's set upon by the other side-show attractions and becomes one of her own. This at least has a good look and feel to some of it, but it seemed to have quite a long run time and most of that was padding. OK for a rainy afternoon or something but nothing to treasure forever in your collection. 5 out of 10.