The American Genre Film Archive will be teaming up with Something Weird for the Aug. 31 Blu-ray debut of director Byron Mabe’s 1967 carnival horror tale, She Freak. This is a new 4K film restoration from the original 35mm camera negative.
As an homage to Tod Browning’s Depression-era classic, Freaks, we meet the busty blonde waitress by the name of Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen — The Domino Principle, Mystic Mountain Massacre), who becomes enamored with the thought of joining a traveling circus when it passes near town (filmed in and around Bakersfield, California) … and impulsively does so.
With her ample talents she quickly hooks up with Steve (Bill McKinney — Deliverance, Cleopatra Jones, Breakheart Pass), who is the money-man of this traveling roadshow and they end up married. But being a natural-born hustler, Jade can’t pass up the opportunity to sleep with, Blackie, the “muscleman” (played by Lee Raymond), which leads to a death-duel with Jade’s husband Steve … Steve loses, Jade is in charge by default, but the “freaks” will have the final say!!
Bonus features include a vintage commentary with producer David F. Friendman and Mike Vraney from Something Weird, the inserts that were used in the latter “padded” version of the re-released film, which was titled Asylum of the Insane, are included here, there are also vintage carnival midway short films and a collection of Something Weird trailers.
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