Something Weird (1967; 120 brain eaters) : Another Herschell Gordon Lewis exploitation film that stars Tony McCabe, Elizabeth Lee and William Brooker. It also features the paranormal with the drug LSD, a psychic, a hideous witch who morphs into a sexy young woman, a seance, a kung-fu chopping socialite, ghosts, psychopaths and federal agents. In this very bizarre late '60s horror film, a man named Cronin Mitchell (Tony McCabe) survives a horrible electrical accident, but ends up with a terribly scarred face. He also finds that he has developed strange psychic and telekinetic powers. His maimed face depresses him and he strikes a bargain with a witch, Ellen (Elizabeth Lee) who agrees to fix him on the condition that he becomes her lover. This is difficult, because although she appears beautiful to every one else, his powers enable him to see that she is hideously ugly. Still he vainly wants his good looks back and so they become lovers and begin traveling the country. Cronin Mitchell becomes a renowned psychic. Circumstances change when Cronin attempts to use his psychic abilities to identify a maniac committing murders in a small town and runs head-to-head into a karate-happy government official, Alex Jordan (William Brooker) sent by the feds to work on the case. Trouble really begins when Alex begins falling in love with the witch, with no idea what he is getting himself into.
Hopefully you enjoyed Exploitation July, I will be posting more here and there, like Nunsploitation Sundays but the next 3 months will be focused on my favorite time of the year HALLOWEEN!!!
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