SHE FREAK

She Freak Movie Review

Tired of her job as a server, Jade (Claire Brennen) sets out to join the carnival. Once there, she takes on the exciting life of... a server. She also finds that she's not exactly welcome by some, namely the "freaks". If that sounds a little familiar, just wait. This 1967 movie starts off with promise, as we have some nice shots of a carnival. 

Hurry, hurry, step right up!

There's also a lot of footage of carnies setting up and tearing down--honestly, it looked like it could have been a documentary on the life of a carny in the 1960's. I watched this on Tubi, and it was not remastered--it was straight from film, with the missing frames, scratches, cigarette burns, et cetera, in tact--I am a huge fan of watching movies in this presentation. Sadly, that's where the positives for this film end. The acting in this movie is just awful. The story truly goes nowhere at all. Aside from seeing the carnival and carny shots, we get nothing but brief encounters between Jade and the rest of the cast. The movie appears to have no idea what it wants to be, so it decides to just try out different things. It's a horror movie with no horror. It's a nudie-cutie with no nudity. It's a documentary with no narration. It's a movie that just keeps going, and seems twice as long as it actually is. Jade seemingly does a complete turn in character near the end, and it's not until the final two minutes of the movie that we get any bit of horror...and that is nothing but an absolute theft of the ending of the 1932 classic Freaks. Being a sucker for such things, I have to give the movie a couple stars for the carnival setting and presentation--if not for these elements, She Freak would go down as one of the worst movies I've ever watched. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 3

She Freak Movie Trailer