The Astounding She-Monster
by Ronald V. Ashcroft
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Actor: Jeanne Tatum, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Robert Clarke, Shirley KilpatrickDirector: Ronald V. Ashcroft
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 62 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Astounding She-Monster
Movie Review: Avoid
Summary: 1 Stars
I like 50's Sci Fi B movies. I really do. The genre so often has an earnest, unashamed, love-me-in-spite-of-my many-flaws quality that makes it mockable at worst, entertaining at best. I've sat through Plan 9 for fun. I watched Manos on a dare and got all the way through it. I have a high tolerance for cheese products.
So believe me when I tell you that you can skip this one. The acting was awful to put it mildly, with the best performance turned in by the dog. (Second best was the gangster moll, when she was drunk.) The science was laughable even by the standards of the early 50's. The voice over narration during too much of the film - any is too much in this case - is literally embarrassing to listen to, an unworldly, painful mixture of grotesquely melodramatic words, read by someone who should not have been given a microphone.
Ah, you'll say, but it has a hot girl monster, the curvaceous Shirley Kilpatrick in it. Let me dash your hopes: they filmed her so out of focus, as part of some desperate attempt at special effects, that there's no joy to be had in looking at her. The few times you get any kind of a look at her, she's striking such absurd poses and making such shambling movements that you'll look away out of embarrassment, and if there's a pretty face under that makeup, you'll never know it. I seriously suspect the only reason this movie got made was that the producer/director wanted to bed the actress, and making this movie was his only hope. Nothing else explains the forced dialogue, awful-in-a-bad-way moldy swiss-cheese of a plot, Ed Woods style filming techniques, or continuity errors. As for the ending... no, I can't. Enough to say that there's no reward for sitting though this, just an insult to your intelligence waiting at the end. I paid $3 for the rental and I want my money back.
Summary of The Astounding She-Monster
Hollywood gangsters kidnap a Beverly Hills socialite in her Cadillac convertible and whisk her off to a remote mountain cabin where a curvy "starlet" in a spandex spacesuit lands in her "white light' spaceship to bring handsome leading man Robert Clarke a message and to heat up his hormones. One problem with this cosmic encounter--her touch is deadly! An Atomic Age cult classic that could have only come out of the Hollywood B-movie factory of the 1950s. If tough gangster dialogue, sleazy dames, petty crooks, rubber snakes, and Ed Wood films speak to you, this is the one!Hollywood gangsters, a kidnapped socialite, and leading man Robert Clarke encounter a curvy "starlet" from space in a spandex spacesuit. But beware--her touch is deadly in this Atomic Age B-movie classic.
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