Something Weird
Something Weird Video is an American publisher of videotapes and DVDs, based in Seattle, Washington. They specialize in exploitation film, particularly the works of Harry Novak, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. SWV videos are available on-demand to Comcast subscribers. There are also several titles available on Netflix.
Among the series of titles within their library are "Kid's Commercials From The Golden Age Of Television", "Hey Folks It's Intermission Time", and "Campy Classroom Classics".
The owner of the business, Mike Vraney, was inspired by his teenage job as a theater projectionist. His love for the obscure films that never made it to video prompted him to transfer hundreds of ancient reels of film to VHS and DVD.
Distributors of Something Weird titles also include:
- Odeon Entertainment in the UK
- Siren Visual Entertainment in Australia
Something Weird (film)
Something Weird (film) is the basis of the company's name.
Something Weird was a 1967 American exploitation film by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It stars, among others, Tony McCabe, and Elizabeth Lee, and features a paranormal plot involving LSD drug use, a psychic, a hideous witch who morphs into a sexy young woman, a séance, a kung-fu chopping socialite, ghosts and psychopaths, and federal agents into a very bizarre late '60s horror film.
Plot
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.
External links
- Something Weird Video Official Site
- Something Weird Video Checklist
- Something Weird at the Internet Movie Database
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