AGFA August: She Freak (New Restoration)
August 7, 2024
Newly restored from the original camera negative. In this gutter-noir reworking Tod Browning’s Freaks, a waitress joins a carnival, marries the owner, and makes various employees her enemies. New Restoration.
Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
Fed up with waitressing, Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen) embarks on a new life with a traveling carnival. But she discovers that what lurks behind the curtain doesn’t take too kindly to her backstabbing plans. A gutter-noir reworking Tod Browning’s Freaks and a valentine to the carnival lifestyle that defined the career of producer David F. Friedman (Blood Feast), She Freak is a snapshot of life, love, and revenge on the grounds of a seedy carnival in Smalltown, USA—complete with crackpot monster make-up effects from Harry Thomas (Plan 9 from Outer Space). Like Devo’s music and Ed Wood’s novels, She Freak creates a synthetic reality that is often preferable to our own. AGFA + Something Weird are beyond excited to present a dazzling restoration of this essential weirdo classic from the original camera negative.
- Director: Byron Mabe
- Principal Cast: Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney
- Country: USA
- Year: 1967
- Running Time: 83 min.
- Producer: David F. Friedman
- Screenplay: David F. Friedman
- Cinematographers: William Troiano
- Editors: Byron Mabe
- Music: William Castleman
- Filmography: The Bushwhacker (1968), Space-Thing (1968)
- Language: English