She Freak
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An ambitious young girl joins a travelling freakshow, marries the wealthy owner, enters into an affair with the Ferris-wheel operator and then pays dearly as the freaks take revenge for her infidelity. |
Sleaze expert David F Friedman (the producer of the legendary Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs) takes elements from Tod Browning's 1932 classic Freaks, relocates it to redneck country and hopes for the best. Sadly, director Byron Mabe isn't up to the challenge and lets the tale slip from promising camp trash into complete ineptitude. While the story — an ambitious greasy spoon waitress marries the owner of a seedy side show with gruesome results — is not without its compelling moments, you can see the money drain away from the micro-budget as this grade Z flick staggers to its rip-off climax of Browning's masterpiece.