Best movie of this year hands down!

It is a performances centric movie

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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.

Woo hoo this movie is so horrible it's not even "good" bad, it's just...BAD! I'm a great fan of bad movies but seriously this one just does not work for me. In fact watching this was an almost painful ordeal because of the really bad acting, the lousy dialog, the lame attempts at humor and the incoherent plot! In my opinion this is definitely Director Richard Cunha's poorest movie especially in comparison with his other movies "Missile to the Moon" and "Frankenstein's Daughter". And watch for those 2 Nazi soldiers whose helmets look a couple sizes too large...or maybe their heads were a couple sizes too small?!? LOL

There is nothing good about this movie at all, not plot, dialogue, acting, directing- nothing. Set on a volcanic island in the Caribbean (which just happens to have a Nazi group sent there in the closing days of WWII), we quickly descend into a maelstrom of bad acting, overacting and non-acting- and the acting is the best part of the film! Just let me give a few examples: in the big fight scene between the brown-haired hero and the 250 pound head Nazi bully boy (not, I must add, the head scientist Nazi), the double for the hero is blonde and the double for the brute weighs about 170. The brute Nazi is searching for the three castaways (for castaways they are) in the mad Nazi scientist's laboratory with a torch, obviously having a hard time seeing- because the overhead light which is illuminating the room is TOO BRIGHT, no doubt. The hero is "hiding" behind a shelf- an OPEN-BACKED shelf which is located almost in the middle of the room. Another good guy is hiding around a corner. The corner is one foot wide and the hidee is two feet wide. In fact, the bad searcher Nazi guy ALMOST BUMPS INTO HIM. I mean, the searcher guy is like a WWF ref, for Pete's sake. The "scientist" has harnessed the power of lava to make women beautiful, apparently, a high priority project of the master race (Gee, why haven't our modern scientists thought of this?), and states that the lava is 65,000 degrees, about TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN THE SURFACE OF THE SUN. The teeth of the title She Demons ARE PART OF THE MASK!- they didn't even get separate teeth for this movie!Pure schlock, and not funny schlock either. However, if you are into bad movies, catch it... at your own peril.

1958's She Demons is a fine example of late 1950's schlock horror. Those of you that have read other reviews of mine are familiar with my admonition not to take films such as these too seriously and appreciate them for what they are: Escapism and not-too-high quality fun.Several persons are shipwrecked on an uncharted island a dozen years after World War Two's end. Unbeknownst to them a group Nazis are conducting medical experiments on attractive young women in order to find a way to restore the appearance of the commander's wife who was horribly disfigured in an accident. The shipwrecked survivors include the spoiled brat daughter (Irish McCalla) of the man who sponsored the trip; the others are males in his employ. While fighting the Nazis as they wait to be rescued, McCalla and male lead Tod Griffin fall in love as she overcomes her youthful callousness.The very blonde and attractive, but not overly talented, McCalla should have had a more substantial career in B-films. I enjoyed her in this one very much. But I am getting ahead of myself. The camp commander/head research doctor, played in a very over-the-top fashion by Rudolph Anders, develops a romantic interest in the leggy McCalla, which of course his wife finds out about and does not appreciate. Around this are exotic dances by curvy women with ugly (the She Demons!) faces, made so by the brutality of the doc, and torture sequences that, although obviously phony, are a bit much even by today's standards.(Even the poorest quality films have poignant moments). The film ends when the Americans shoot up the island during target practice, conveniently allowing our heroes to escape. She Demons works, but only because it is schlock horror. The film's sets are laughable, the plot very thin and requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief, even for a film such as this. The Nazis are portrayed in the cheesiest fashion I have ever seen, and I have seen many Nazis in film during the post war era. Anders is a delight as the head Nazi. His affectations are so pronounced that one cannot possibly take this film seriously. But, now is a good time to remind that there was a time when this sort of film was taken more seriously than today's more jaded and sophisticated viewers. I am certain that in 1958, some viewers were disturbed and frightened by this story as they sat in the theater or outdoor drive-in and munched popcorn.Director Richard Cunya was responsible for another film such as this in 1958. Giant From the Unknown appears with She Demons on a Sinister Cinema Drive-In double feature I purchased from them several years ago. This one is best viewed late on a weekend night after long, tough week. It is of interest only to those with a passion in films of this genre, made in this era.