She Gods of Shark Reef
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Movie Reviews of She Gods of Shark Reef
Movie Review: Love And Danger In Hawai'i
Summary: 5 Stars
She-Gods Of Shark Reef was one of the many films directed by Roger Corman. It is about two brothers who stow away on a ship and after a violent tropical storm, they maroon on a island in the South Pacific inhabited by only females. One of the brothers right away falls in love with a Polynesian maiden despite the objections of her stern and strict mistress. The other brother was planning to steal the pearls from the female islanders but not before he met his fate with the sharks. Among the classic films of the late 1950's, this would place as my personal favorites.Movie Review: What A Good Video!
Summary: 5 Stars
My Grandma likes old movies, so we rented "House of Secrets", "The General", and "She Gods of Shark Reef"
This video is a classic low-budget adventure beach movie that everyone will enjoy!
Movie Review: I saw this movie with my best pal Mickey!
Summary: 5 Stars
It was great! It would've liked it more if the boy's pulled the girl's bras off! 00Movie Review: Money well spent
Summary: 4 Stars
I've started buying stacks of dollar DVD's at my gas station, and this was in there.
First, I'm tired of blockbusters. You know the type... "explosion!!!!!, plot directed by___, and oh- I didn't realize THAT was going on until the last 2 minutes...." and so forth.
I like these. `Sit back' and make fun of these old gems. But don't get excited about the `babe factor' in this one. Mahia is, of course, amazing, and she reminds me of a girl I knew in school. But we don't see enough of her...
Skin? Yeah, you get skin. The brother's skin.
"Dude. You're wearin' a skirt."
"Dude, so are you..."
It's like a built-in fail safe to make everything they say pointless. Pants always triumph.
Anyway, this was part of a double feature, sharing a disc with another Corman flick: The Creature From the Haunted Sea." I loved that one (golden jokes), and I'll definitely be checking out more of his material....
In closing, if you want to escape the modern big-screen tripe, invest $1 at your local gas station and get ready for a mild ride...
Movie Review: Roger Corman strikes again - strikes out, that is
Summary: 2 Stars
Virginal sacrifices to awesome shark gods. An island full of beautiful, scantily-clad women. Filmed on location in Hawaii. Sounds like something worth watching, doesn't it? Unfortunately, only the Hawaii thing applies to Roger Corman's She Gods of Shark Reef. I can confirm no virgin sacrifices (although a couple of the local pearl-diving females are MIA), there is not the first instance of blood in the water, the shark god himself would easily fit in your bathtub (and, to tell the truth, I'm not completely convinced it was even a shark), and I spotted only one attractive female on the island. And the scantily-clad business applies only to the two men who wash up on the shores of the island in question. Having had their own clothes ripped to shreds when their boat struck a reef and went down, they are forced to don miniskirts that are entirely too small. I mean, there's a serious Buffalo Shot Warning in effect for this entire film. Apparently, Corman was having so much fun on his Hawaiian vacation (uh, I mean two-for-one film shoot on location) that he quite forgot that an exploitation film is supposed to feature scantily-clad women, not dangerously under clothed men.
There's not a lot to this film, which plays as if it were thought up on the spur of the moment while Corman was shooting Naked Paradise in 1957 (it would not appear until some 18 months later, alongside Night of the Blood Beast). The movie starts out with some guy apparently stealing something and killing a guy in the process (but who knows, thanks to the dark print we're stuck with?), then we see him and his brother being rescued from certain death by the pearl diving females of the little island off of Shark Reef's. It looks like they'll be stuck there for ten days, but the criminal fellow can't wait that long because he knows the cops are after him. His brother is fairly content, however, which has a lot to do with the island's only attractive inhabitant, Mahia (Lisa Montell). The hag running the show, who huffs and puffs over the men's presence and the anger it is causing the shark god, keeps sending out messages via semaphore - to whom, heaven only knows, since the supply boat is still several days out. Then a sacrifice is arranged in order to placate the angry god, and that's when our shipwrecked duo decides it's time to steal a boat and make a run for it - with Mahia in tow, of course. What about the shark, you ask? Surely there's a good old-fashioned shark attack in here somewhere? Well, not exactly. And don't even talk to me about any she gods; let's just say that Shark Reef is the only thing the film's title came close to getting right.
You don't expect any Roger Corman film to be good, but this one is even more disappointing than most. The movie looks awful, it's sometimes difficult to make out what the characters are saying, there's only one remotely interesting character in the whole film, and the shark god is so small that Barney Fife could take him in a fight. Thank heavens for Lisa Montell, as she is the only thing this movie has going for it.