She-Freak

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Summary: Exploitation - Sideshow fans rejoice!
Review: "She-Freak" is an ultra-low budget remake of Tod Brownings classic "Freaks," only contemporized and in color. This is truly a bad film, and fans of bad b-movies will get a kick out of it. The transfer of the DVD looks great, and the newsreel footage of real freaks is an added bonus. There's also commentary by Exploitation King David Friedman. Would have earned 5 stars if they had included a few trailers to some other films in the "Something Weird" catalog.

Rating:
Summary: A "Freaks" remake without freaks?
Review: David F. Friedman, former collaborateur of H.G. Lewis, produced this low budget horror film as an hommage to the travelling carnivals of the US. He took the storyline of "Freaks", the Tod Browning classic, and transformed it into a rather tame film with lots of carnival atmosphere, a little bit of horror and a little bit of skin. So don't expect too much. At that time (1966) real freaks were not available so Friedman used actors in makeup - a major disappointment! This film is a nice little oddity. But definitly not for the gore-hounds...

Rating:
Summary: A "Freaks" remake without freaks?
Review: David F. Friedman, former collaborateur of H.G. Lewis, produced this low budget horror film as an hommage to the travelling carnivals of the US. He took the storyline of "Freaks", the Tod Browning classic, and transformed it into a rather tame film with lots of carnival atmosphere, a little bit of horror and a little bit of skin. So don't expect too much. At that time (1966) real freaks were not available so Friedman used actors in makeup - a major disappointment! This film is a nice little oddity. But definitly not for the gore-hounds...

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Summary: Tod Browning, Where Are You?
Review: Exploitation meister David Friedman was an expert at churning out low-budget skin-flicks and drive-in masterpieces. "She Freak" has been restored in clear detail and colors and you can see for yourself that Friedman blatantly ripped off Tod Browning's 1931 masterpiece, "Freaks." The movie starts out with promise, giving us glimpses of a real-life carnival, circa l967. But after awhile, it becomes boring. There's no skin shown, no soft-core sex, no violence and no suspense. There's even a scene taken literally from the ending of "Freaks" in which the devious heroine is transformed into a monster--bad make-up and all.