AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

poe-48833 THE SHE CREATURE has going for it one of the greatest monster costumes ever (rarely) seen- and the voluptuous Marla English (who makes the movie tolerable whenever the Creature's not on screen). Tom Conway's the Big Name Star slumming this time around, but his death makes for one of the movie's better scenes, so all is forgiven. Lance Fuller as "Ted" is the unsung star of this one: watch his eyes as they widen when he's told: "They'll swallow it, they'll swallow it whole- and they'll LOVE it..." Paul Blaisdell's Creatures were ALWAYS worth seeing, even if the movies in which they (rarely) appeared weren't. THE SHE CREATURE is an excellent example.

Rainey Dawn Dr. Carlo Lombardi is a hypnotist and claims to be able to help people with regression and to prove reincarnation. Dr. Ted Erickson call's Dr. Lombardi a fraud and wants to prove it. What happens next is horrifying for Andrea Talbott / Elizabeth Wetherby and others... Andrea/Elizabeth regresses back, way back to her first incarnation: a She-Beast! Don't take this one seriously - just watch this one as a fun piece of cinema and you might enjoy it (to a degree at least). I personally like this film - it's not perfect, it's entertainment.Not a bad B-film but it's not the best of the 1950s B sci-fi horror films but it is entertaining in it's way.Someone said this film is (Creature from the Black Lagoon) Gill-man's girlfriend - and I will have to agree. LOL.6/10

GL84 Following a hypnosis session at a party, a rash of murders leads the police to the professor who conducted the experiment, and eventually find that he inadvertently triggered his assistant to undergo a process that reverts her into a prehistoric creature and race to stop the creature's rampage.This one wasn't all that great, as it definitely has it's problems. One of the biggest factors against the film is the fact that the plot to this one drags the film out far longer than it really should since there's just not a whole lot of creature action in this. It's held off to such a small section of the film as the vast majority of this one is not in the slightest bit considering on the antics of the released creature, concentrating more on the disproving of his techniques which is quite a vast section of the film. Not only is these the endless scenes of him at parties and showing of her going around trying to build a case of his phoniness that comes off as the main focus here, there's not a whole lot here which makes it seem interesting or exciting and this leaves the film just wandering around and just plain stalling for creature action as it winds through them, leaving the few moments of action fun but entirely all-too-brief. Since the longest attack seems to last at least two or three minutes and it's not the finale, that comes up as a big stumbling block in this one to hold back the tempo and pacing found here being yet another factor which leaves the film to end on a whimper than a bang. These big issues, along with a lame romance angle that feels forced the second it's introduced and really doesn't do much to help the film, really do hold this one back from it's main positives here. The main factor that helps this along is that the titular creature does look good and rather original in its design, as the beast is cleverly designed and quite frightening when it appears in it's rather chilling form while it also has a fair mystery in whether or not it's a real creature or a figment of the imagination. That comes from the strange attacks here that leave enough clues behind into being unsure of this, and that leaves this one with a couple of tense and somewhat thrilling creature attacks here from it's appearance at the sea-side shack, the attack on the couple in the car and the strong series of continuous appearances along the beach including the final half which features some more decent action. These here make this one quite fun, but it's not enough to save it.Today's Rating/PG: Violence

bkoganbing If you take a look at the credits of Chester Morris's career, you'll note he did a lot of television in the Fifties and Sixties after his Boston Blackie series came to an end. Morris was one of those players who found a lot of work in the new medium as their screen careers dried up. One of his few unfortunate ventures back to the big screen was The She-Creature.Morris is in a cast with a whole lot of players like Cathy Downs, Tom Conway, El Brendel, and Frieda Inescourt whose careers had evaporated in film, due to blacklist and other problems. It's sad, but this sometimes was the best work they could get. Morris is a Svengali like hypnotist who's gone beyond anything that Messmer ever dreamed possible. His Trilby is Marla English whose bosoms excited many a pubescent male in the drive-ins. Most of the film she's in a trance and at a certain point in the trance, she dreams up from her past life a long extinct sea creature who looks like The Creature from the Black Lagoon's bride. You can tell by the rack the makeup people provide so we know it's the dreaming Marla.This She-Creature is Morrris's personal hit squad, killing both skeptics of his hypnotic abilities to bring out past lives and anyone else who looks longingly at English. In Lance Fuller's case he's both a rival and a skeptic.What's scary about this movie is not the content which today could be released as a comedy. The scary part is that the players I named all were in quality A films at one point in their career. Fortunately Morris got to appear in The Great White Hope before he died as a farewell performance. And I do remember him from the Fifties and Sixties showing a lot of quality acting in various television series.Maybe the guy from The Black Lagoon might like this film.