She-Man: A Story of Fixation

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SHE-MAN is one of those cheap black and white exploitation pictures, the kind which they churned out hundreds of during the 1960s in America. This one was made in Hollywood and features some mildly controversial material about sex change, but as usual predominance is given over to prostitutes, scantily-dressed prostitutes at that. There's shy nudity in silhouette, a guy at a desk presenting the whole thing to add gravitas and weight, and a supporting character who seems to have inspired Varys in GAME OF THRONES. Most interestingly of all is the presence of writer/director Bob Clark on his debut feature; he would go on to horror greatness with the likes of BLACK Christmas and DEAD OF NIGHT.

Let me first say I LOVE many of Bob Clark's films, and that is the main reason I checked this one out. I also love cheesy movies (ie Robot Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda etc). But this film that comes in at 68 minutes, was dreadful. There are several other films of this genre that are much more entertaining. Avoid this one. You've been warned.

This early effort from Bob Clark trods the hoary old boards of the sexploitation flick by bookending the actual film with pseudo-authoritative commentary by an MD that purports to give information to dispel myths and educate the audience about the pressing issues portrayed in the film. Yeah right. People really need a 70 minute PSA about the dangers of malevolent transvestites who blackmail people into indentured servant-hood and forced cross-dressing. Something else this movie has in common with the sexploitation flicks of old is the sheer cheesiness of the sets: the same wood-paneled room is used again and again for an office, a bedroom, and a "gender reassignment" room, where the hapless victims are alternately shaved, plucked, made up, or bound with ace bandages, depending on which gender they are to become. Necessity is the mother of invention!

Come on now any movie released through "something Weird Video" Is bound to be,well Weird,And so this movie is..it's not just weird it's really really weird.This is what I've come to expect from SWV that's Why I watch these titles and love them so much.So I thought I'd write this comment to counter the negative remarks.Yes this movie is very low budget..with amateurish acting,directing and everything else.I think when you go into any SWV you have to do it with an open mind.Trust me there are a lot of these types of movies I can't stand,but if your a sicko like me and you might be interested in a movie about cross dressing,blackmail,lesbians,and dominatrix's check this one out......It's a hoot!

She-Man (1967) 1/2 (out of 4) Low budget, Florida filmed trash from the man who would go onto make such classics as Black Christmas, Porky's and A Christmas Story. Albert Rose (Leslie Marlowe) is a woman loving, all man type of man who gets blackmailed by a transvestite. What does the she-man want? She wants Albert to be his/her personal slave for a year and that includes him dressing up as a woman. What Albert doesn't know is that the transvestite and the lesbian assistant are giving him estrogen pills to turn him into a real woman. I guess you could call this an alternate version of Glen or Glenda? but that would be an insult to the Ed Wood film because his movie seems like an Oscar winner compared to this one. I'm really not sure what type of crowd this film was based for and the screenplay doesn't make much sense either. Everything in the film is pretty bad, especially the acting, which is as wooden as wood can get. The film only lasts 63-minutes but I had a hard time keeping the thing going. It's strange to see Clark directing a film like this but at least he went onto better things. The only reason I didn't award this a BOMB is due to how strange it is.

Jaw-droppingly awful; "She-Man: A Story of Fixation" is another Z-movie out to shock, in this case with a tale of transvestism and lesbians. It was directed by Bob Clark; yes, the same Bob Clark who made "Porky's" and at 66 minutes it certainly doesn't outstay its welcome. If you haven't heard of it, that's understandable as it's unlikely to have seen the light of day outside of those cinemas that were once popular in London's Soho and New York's 42nd Street. It may aim for seriousness but settles instead for sleaze and the kind of production values you might associate with a horror film of the trashiest kind as if 'she-men' were just one step away from vampires. A curio, then, but one that now seems positively prehistoric and definitely a must to avoid.

She-Man is the worst movie ever filmed, the worst movie ever produced, the worst movie ever acted in, the worst movie ever directed, the worst movie ever filmed, the worst movie ever written, and the worst of the worst movies ever made. In other words, She-Man is a piece of worthless, stinking, stinky, smelly, boring, lackluster, pile of junk! The cast looks like a bunch of rejects from a "Z" *-film. Sorry, but the cast of Plan 9 From Outer Space looks like academy awarding winning performers compared to the cast of freaks in She-Man. The story-line is so freaky. Cross-dressing soldiers, cross-dressing freaks, and freaks, creeps, and perverts in general. I repeat, She-Man is the Worst Movie Ever Made!

Plot: A soldier is forced to take estrogen and wear lingerie when he's blackmailed by a violent transvestite. That's it folks. The plot can be written on a napkin. Only in this case the napkin should have been burned. The movie is really horrible. It's positioned as a learning movie with an old guy in a suit introducing the movie and providing the exiting speech calling for tolerance. Only isn't blackmailing someone into doing something he doesnt want to do a crime? Virtually nothing happens for a full half of the movie. Th acting is horendous. It's so slow I was spacing out left and right. Just bad. Bob Clark writes and directs this garbage. For those in the know, he made Porky's, A Christmas Story and some other well known low budget flicks. Thankfully he got some talent after this fiasco.