An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
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Lawrence J. Aberwood
- Chief Vinton
- (as Lawrence Wood)
Ione Rolnick
- Banker's Wife
- (as Ione)
Kathleen Koenig
- The Ghost
- (as Kathy Koenig)
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- TriviaIncluded in a 1990 VHS series hosted by Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) titled "The Sleaziest Movies in the History of the World."
- GoofsIn the scene with the falling live wires, when asked if an ambulance has been called, a construction worker replies one has, but he wouldn't have anyway of knowing anymore than the guy who asked, as they both were on site since the moment of the electrocution.
- Quotes
Cronin 'Mitch' Mitchell: [leaning in to kiss Banker's Wife] Has anyone ever told you you're a prize...
Ellen Parker: Mitch, I need you!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are cast over a murder scene, frames frozen at various points in the progress of the crime, to cast the titles over the gruesome images and prolong the agony till the final title, after which the last image unfreezes, and the killer drops the body and walks away.
- ConnectionsFeatured in L'Oeil du cyclone: Femmes violentes en bikini (1995)
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Weird Is Exactly Right
Something Weird (1967)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This Herschell Gordon Lewis film certainly lives up to its title. Cronin Mitchell (Tony McCabe) gets electrocuted, which badly burns his face but the upside is that it gives him ESP. Soon afterwards a witch offers to fix his face if he becomes her lover. Then, a FBI agent learns of his skills so he wants to team up with Mitchell to track down killers.
SOMETHING WEIRD is exactly what this movie is and I'd argue that it's one of the director's better non-horror films. Technically speaking this is a bit better than what you normally see from Gordon as it appears he was really wanting to make a "good" movie and the screenplay itself has enough weird stuff going on to where you can't help but be entertained. This here is one of those movies where a little bit of everything is thrown in with hopes that something works.
I think the best moments happen early on and deals with the witch trying to put her moves on the young man. The scenes with the witch are mocking the Margaret Hamilton/THE WIZARD OF OZ and it doesn't even try to hide it. This here adds some fun as does the early scenes dealing with the ESP stuff. The later stuff with the FBI agent has the film lose some steam but there's still enough here that makes SOMETHING WEIRD worth watching.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This Herschell Gordon Lewis film certainly lives up to its title. Cronin Mitchell (Tony McCabe) gets electrocuted, which badly burns his face but the upside is that it gives him ESP. Soon afterwards a witch offers to fix his face if he becomes her lover. Then, a FBI agent learns of his skills so he wants to team up with Mitchell to track down killers.
SOMETHING WEIRD is exactly what this movie is and I'd argue that it's one of the director's better non-horror films. Technically speaking this is a bit better than what you normally see from Gordon as it appears he was really wanting to make a "good" movie and the screenplay itself has enough weird stuff going on to where you can't help but be entertained. This here is one of those movies where a little bit of everything is thrown in with hopes that something works.
I think the best moments happen early on and deals with the witch trying to put her moves on the young man. The scenes with the witch are mocking the Margaret Hamilton/THE WIZARD OF OZ and it doesn't even try to hide it. This here adds some fun as does the early scenes dealing with the ESP stuff. The later stuff with the FBI agent has the film lose some steam but there's still enough here that makes SOMETHING WEIRD worth watching.
- Michael_Elliott
- Sep 27, 2016
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