StunnaKrypto
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Libramedi
Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Leofwine_draca
SHE DEMONS is a low budget quickie of the 1950s with plenty of potential and not a lot of impact. It has all the ingredients to make a successfully entertaining B-movie, including: horrific deformed monsters, a two-fisted hero, whipping, native girls dancing in bikinis, women in prison, Nazi experiments, a sadistic German officer, and an erupting volcano. Somehow it manages to fumble the ball somewhere along the line, providing only two (count 'em) scenes of excitement: a prolonged battle between our hero and the whip-wielding Nazi bad guy, and the eruptive climax. The rest is talk, scene-setting and more talk, but the film isn't without its charms.Chief of those is Irish McCalla, the statuesque blonde playing the female lead. A commanding mix of Monroe, Mansfield, and Dors, she goes easy on the eye even if her acting isn't up to scratch. Sadly, little is made of McCalla, but her presence definitely helps. Tod Griffin is less impressive as the hero; he seems to spend more time standing around than actually doing anything, and I definitely needed to see him fighting the Nazis more.The film deserves kudos for having a third lead played by an Asian, Victor Sen Yung, who delivers much of the comic relief. He's fine, as is veteran Rudolph Anders as the sinister German surgeon conducting experiments on the native girls. Sadly, too much of this film is filler – the German's explanations go on for an age, for instance – and it lacks the serial atmosphere that would have made it a classic. Nonetheless, aside from the somewhat insipid direction this delivers a few vicarious thrills for fans of such fare.
ebiros2
Richard E. Cunha made few good low budget B movies. This movie otherwise could have been utterly forgettable, isn't due to his ability to select actors who could act, and his ability to keep the story going without falling apart.While not at the success level of Roger Corman's B movies, Cunha's movies has similar quality that keeps them from being an utter schlock. This movie is about the same level of story as Roger Corman's "Wasp Woman". Both focus' on intrigue of beautiful woman turning into a monster.This movie stayed with me since I saw it as a child because of the transformance scene of the above mentioned beautiful woman. Three characters that told most of the stories to this movie, namely the blond girl, the main character, and the Nazi captain could all act. This kept the story together and didn't go the way of other similarly budgeted movies.They could have inserted another 10 minutes of skin exposures by the girls, and tormenting of the girl that was on the operating table, and the movie could have been twice as good, but if they did that they might have blown the budget or ran overtime against the double feature movie that these movies were usually shown in theaters.One of the hidden classic amongst the truly low budget movies from the '50s. If you're a fan of Roger Corman's earlier movies, this movie might be for you.
bean-d
"She Demons" (1958) just might give Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1956) a run for its money as worst movie of all time--although in the final analysis "Plan 9" is more fun. "She Demons" tells the story of a rich girl and her two male helpers stranded on a supposedly deserted island. The island, however, is inhabited by an evil Nazi scientist who uses nubile young girls for his insidious experiments. At the precise point that he attempts to "operate" on the beautiful rich girl, planes bomb the island and a volcanic explosion destroys the Nazi and his evil lab. (Gee, what timing!) Perhaps the one thing that elevates this film from true Ed Woodian wretchedness is the occasional shock, which, admittedly, probably would have frightened a ten-year-old kid in the Fifties.
winner55
All right, it's cheese; add a little ham on white bread, and you got a sandwich with filling, if not much spice.Very loosely based on "The Island of Dr. Moreau," this silly '50s drive-in aimed horror movie moves too well to be as bad as critics say. Nothing here makes any sense, but it's really background for pop-corn (and for that old '50s drive-in mating behavior, 'necking'). Making the villains fugitives from Nazi Germany is definitely a plus, because it adds to the senselessness of the mad doctor's 'experiments.' The 'dance of the natives' is stupid but enjoyably choreographed, and the babes are hot for their day.Light-weight and generally inoffensive exploitation. Again, the pacing is the surprise - put your brain on hold and let it go through its B-movie paces, this won't bore you.