She Freak1967

This is a magnificent piece of sleaze. If you could reach out and touch this movie, it would be covered with a thick layer of grease from a dirty grill in a broken-down lunch wagon. David L. Friedman serves up some lowdown, Gutbucket exploitation that’s not much on plot (a cheap knock-off of Todd Browning’s legendary “FREAKS.”), yet in the midst of telling this tawdry little tale , “She Freak” becomes something of a documentary, capturing the day to day operations of a carny in the latter half of the 1960’s. In gives you a unique look at a forgotten Americana from nearly a half-century ago.

Though it looks like a washed-out, 1960’s home movie, the story and the characters seem to be made for an earlier time, a Dustbowl melodrama, overacted and overdirected, but that gives the film an energy that carries to an outrageous conclusion. David L. Friedman was above all, a showman, and this is definitely a show!

Trivia time. “Shorty” played by Felix Silla later became a cultural footnote when he put on a robot suit and became “Twiki” on TV’s “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” in the late 70’s. Beedee-beedee-beedee.

review coming up at theaterofguts.com here's a sample "Jade's career path ends up in the toilet, because wouldn't you know it, she's still a waitress only at a carnival instead! She's still got major tude and sticks her upturned piggy nose at a new breed of hicks. All the dudes in this movie have greasy pompadours and all the ladies look like hard faced strippers in between jobs, it's pretty glorious."

Morality tale with a happy ending. Sort of.

i dig the groovy tunes man........

the 1960's look was great...the film was terrible and anti climatic..