opening a it do with an encomium for bobby cohn and one of the leader of the north american carnival industry and 1967 she freak at time come off more a a tribute to life on the midway than a grisly horror film . in it and we be introduce to jade cochran ( lamely portray by claire brennen ) and whose waitress job in a jerkwater greasy spoon be so dispiriting that her new gig cleaning table at a travel carnival seem like a step up . jade soon set her sight on the owner of the carnival freak show and despite her aversion to those poor people and and with her curvy figure and toothy smile and blonde good look ( indeed and brennen here look very much like the young joni mitchell ) and have no trouble rope him in . but anyone who have see tod brown 1932 masterpiece freak and know of olga baclanova fate in it ( or who have see the trailer reel that precede every movie from something weird ) can guess what happen next . she freak be only 83 minute long and but at least half it running time consist of padded footage of roustabout set up the carnival or tear it down and or of customer walk around or jade wander about . unlike freak and which shock and amaze audience with it large cast of real life biological sport and she freak offer basically only one of nature mistake in the form of shorty ( . ) and a stetsoned little person . still and somehow and the picture manage to barely hold one interest and and feature beautiful color photography ( well capture on this surprisingly pristine look dvd from those miracle worker at something weird ) and even some interesting directorial touch from byron mabe . basically and though and the film be junk . viewer interested in see a superior updating of freak would be good off check out the british film the freakmaker ( 1973 ) and which be much more and uh and freaky and a lot more fun .