Something Weird (film)

Something Weird
Directed byHerschell Gordon Lewis
Written byJames F. Hurley
Produced byJames F. Hurley
Fred M. Sandy
StarringTony McCabe
Elizabeth Lee
William Brooker
CinematographyHerschell Gordon Lewis
Andy Romanoff
Edited byRichard Brinkman
Music byEdward J. Petan
Production
company
Hur-Lew Productions
Distributed byMayflower Pictures (theatrical)
Something Weird Video (home video)
Release dates
August 1967 (Chicago)
  • March 27, 1968 (1968-03-27)
(re-release)
Running time
80 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$35,000 (estimated)

Something Weird is a 1967 American exploitation film directed 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 young woman, a séance, a kung-fu chopping socialite, ghosts, psychopaths and federal agents.

The film played on a double bill with another 1967 film by the same director, The Gruesome Twosome.[1]

The film distributor Something Weird Video, based in Seattle, gets its name from this film. They specialize in obscure and exploitation films, like Something Weird.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2023-03-29.