(See Filmsite""s extensive feature on the history ofZombie Films.) Other influential films included director Herk Harvey""sCarnival of Souls (1962)and Hitchcock""sThe Birds (1968).Another female guest, neighbor Mrs.Whitehead (Margaret Irving), schemes with friend Grace Carpenter (Kathryn Reece), because both are jealous of Mrs.Upjohn arrives with the gleeful news that Dr.Hackenbush has arrived, and she is willing to support the sanitarium in any way she can at least for he next month.It""s more fantastic and grotesque than any shocker ever written."It was unofficially remade twice in two modern retellings -She Freak (1967)andFreakshow (2007).Other horror films that picked up the idea of using real-life deformed or mutated characters (without Browning""s pathos) included director Jack Cardiff""sThe Mutations (1974)and director Michael Winner""sThe Sentinel (1977).