What a waste of my time!!!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

***SPOILERS*** Very inferior re-make of the 1932 Ted Browing cult classic "Freaks" with Claire Brennon as social climbing gold digger Jade Cochran who'll step on anyone to get what she wants even if they were the ones who helped her get it! Seeing a chance in working at the local carnival Jade quits her waitress job at her bosses Greasey's, Claude Earl Jones, greasy spoon truck stop diner. Jade gets a job waiting tables at the carnival where she soon ends up marrying the places manager and owner Steve St. Johns, Bill McKinney.At first Jade's very friendly with those she worked with at the carnival but when she married the boss her attitude towards her friends and former fellow employees changed drastically. Jade also ends up cheating on her husband Steve by rekindling her affair with handsome ferris-wheel operator Blackie Fleming, Lee Raymond. It's midget performer Shorty, Felix Silla, who catches both Jade and Blackie in the act, making out with each other, and tips his boss, and Jade's husband, Steve off. This ends up with Shorty getting smacked by Steve in him refusing to believe that Jade is cheating on him. It's later when Steve does catch Jade and Blackie in a motel room together that a violent fight breaks out between the two and Steve ends up getting the worst of it: A knife in the gut by Blackie that ends up killing him! Now with Jade becoming the top man or woman at the carnival she makes life impossible for everyone working for her there. As for Shorty he gets canned by Jade for ratting her out to her husband Steve which in fact, with him getting murdered by Jade's lover Blackie, ended up her getting complete control of the carnival!***SPOILERS*** The ending of "She Freak" is a lot like the ending in the movie "Freaks" with the vengeful carnival freak show performers lead by the just fired from his job Shorty getting their hands of Jade and disfiguring her face and body where she ends up being the star attraction at the carnival freak show. It was a sorry ending for Jade Cochran who had everything to live for but blew it all in showing her true nature as a low down and unfeeling creep when she finally achieved what she always wanted: Total independence and lifetime security. Instead Jade ended up becoming the heartless and sadistic person that she was in the movie in her treating people the way that she did. It was that change of attitude on Jade's part that in the end turned her into what she intimately became.

She Freak (1967) 1/2 (out of 4) Exploitation master David F. Friedman was a big fan of Tod Browning's FREAKS and decided to remake it but the end results are quite horrid for several reasons. As in the original film, we're warned about a "freak" who was once normal but before seeing her we get the backstory. Claire Brennen plays a small town waitress who gets a job in a traveling sideshow where she decides to go after the big boss man, which eventually costs him his life. The carnival sideshow freaks decide to take revenge. This is a very painful 85-minute movie to sit through because it moves extremely slow and after a while you can't help but want to turn the thing off. There are a few good moments but there's no denying that the greatest thing about this movie is the fact that it makes FREAKS look even better than it already is. It's funny that FREAKS was hidden from the public for decades because of its controversial nature and it's even funnier to think that this film here is a lot tamer than that 1932 film. The only "freaks" on display here is a sword swallower as well as a woman who puts a snake in her mouth. The rest don't show up to the final scene. The entire film centers on Brennen as she never gets what she wants. It's just too boring. We get countless scenes of the circus being put together, which is fun for a minute but this film just drags the scenes out. What does work is Brennen who is fairly good for this type of film and of course that ending when we see what's happened to her. The make up job was quite good and makes for a smile. Character actor Bill McKinney made his debut here.

The fact that this movie is a rip-off of Tod Browning's "Freaks" should not be construed as a reason to see it. The photography and acting are bottom drawer, the direction is listless and unimaginative, and writing is rarely sly (or at least it's hard to get any good dialogue out of these actors' mouths). There isn't even all that much exploitation footage here.What is kind of interesting is the picture of carnival life in the 60s (a period of decline for that art form) it provides. Roustabouts, geeks, carneys, all are presented with some sort of versimilitude. With a stronger lead actress and a more competent cast/director, this film could at least have been a memorable shock-fest. Instead, it's ultimately forgettable.

Complete, total crap. Truly awful. I'd rather ingest my own excrement than sit through it again. Redefines the meaning of the word "bad" (Leonard Pynth- Garnell never endured this). I'd say that watching it was cruel and unusual punishment, but I don't want to give cruelty a bad name. Seriously, we're talking Amateur Hour at the Film School for Living Brain Donors from frame one. The story begins about ten minutes before it ends -- and even then, nearly every shot crosses the line or is awful in some other way. A pathetic, pointless, incompetent waste of celluloid. Other than that, not too bad.