‘From Beauty to BEAST!’
She Demons is a sleazy 1958 American horror film directed by Richard E. Cunha (Missile to the Moon; Frankenstein’s Daughter) from a screenplay co-written with H.E. Barrie. The movie stars Irish McCalla (Hands of a Stranger), Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung (TV’s Night Gallery), Rudolph Anders (The Snow Creature; Frankenstein 1970) and Gene Roth (Attack of the Giant Leeches).
Plot:
During a tropical storm, a pleasure boat is shipwrecked on an uncharted island and presumed sunk with all hands. The radio possessed by the four survivors can only receive but not transmit and they discover the island will soon be used by naval aircraft as a bombing target.
Finding strange human footprints and hearing the sound of drums, three of the party explore the island that they discover is populated by deformed humanoids who are the product of scientific experiments by a mad scientist war criminal who rules the island…
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“Slow pacing intrudes during the final third … but don’t let that keep you from the many highlights, including scantily-clad dancing jungle girls, stock footage of every possible natural disaster you can think of, a “stone” wall that shakes when somebody slams into it, an obvious stunt double, a disappearing/reappearing bikini top on a torture victim, and, of course, the ridiculously disgusting-looking “demons”. David Ellroy Goldweber, Claws & Saucers book
The film was distributed by Astor Pictures as a double feature with Cunha’s Giant from the Unknown.
Choice dialogue:
“These footprints go in a circle — maybe the natives down here are getting onto this rock ‘n’ roll kick?”
“That was your fatal mistake, American swine!”
“Who’d want a wife with your face?”
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Trailer:
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Cast and characters:
Irish McCalla … Jerrie Turner; Tod Griffin … Fred Maklin; Victor Sen Yung … Sammy Ching; Rudolph Anders … Colonel Karl Osler; Gene Roth … Igor; Leni Tana … Mona Osler; Charles Opunui … Kris Kamana; The Diane Nellis Dancers … The She Demons
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