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Post by RedKing on Jan 13, 2007 17:31:15 GMT -8
Here's a cool, fun 50s flick. Directed by Ronnie Ashcroft with some dialogue written by the incomparable Ed Wood and featuring Bob Clarke and Shirley Kilpatrick as the sexy alien invader. Her costume is skin tight and frankly makes her look naked! The original title for this movie was in fact going to be THE NAKED INVADER. The spandex type suit was so tight in fact, Ms Kilpatrick couldn't sit down with it on and had o have a specially constructed platform to lean against, much like they used to have for Karloff when he played the Monster in the Frankenstein films. The narrator is hilarious, he sounds very bored and above all the proceedings he's commenting on. A rich young socialite is kidnapped by 2 gangsters and their moll to be held for ransom. They head into the mountains and wind up at geoligist Bob Clarke's cabin when a strange light in the sky knocks their car out. The light is actually a UFO delivering our astounding she monster. The glowing alien gal wanders around the woods near the cabin killing anything she touches because, of course, she's highly radioactive. Eventually, she kills both the gangsters and the moll and is advancing on Bob and the kidnapped girl when he throws acid on her(used in his rock examinations) which kills the space babe. Examining a locket from her neck it turns out she wasn't an invader at all, she was coming to offer the earth membership in the Council of Planets-oops!! She only killed when she was attacked first, as Bob realizes after reading the note. The movie ends on a somber note as they wonder if we will still be welcome in the Council of Planets once they discover we killed their representative! I watched this on the Image Wade Williams Collection. The print is very nice and there ar some informative liner notes by Tom Weaver. The disc also includes a nice sampling of other B movies in the Wade Williams Collection as well as the trailer for the movie itself.
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Post by amphiboid on Jan 16, 2007 8:00:49 GMT -8
This movie is great. I love the sexy alien girl and the deadpan narrator. All the opening narration is especially hilarious. I have tried to recommend this to people but have not gotten anyone to sit through more than the first minute! Well, I guess that's no surprise.
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Post by RedKing on Jan 16, 2007 10:45:30 GMT -8
Obviously they can't appreciate good cinema! ;D Personally i'd much rather watch this movie and ones like it than anything current from the Hollywood crap factory! At least filmamkers had some imagination back then and didn't rely on zillion dollar budgets and in your face CGI for everything!
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Post by amphiboid on Jan 17, 2007 9:37:26 GMT -8
In Ed Naha's book "Horrors from Screen to Scream" his capsule review says: "Great stuff, this trash." I agree!
I rented this a couple of years back but I should have bought the copy from the store because I often have a hankering to see it. Someone else grabbed that copy for themselves. Well, it can be found on Ebay...I just looked...
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Post by RedKing on Jan 17, 2007 9:53:58 GMT -8
I got my disc from eBay too, about 3 years ago and it was very cheap and packaged with another movie-SHE DEMONS I believe. Image started packing their B-Movies in 2 packs around that time and I got 4 or 5 2 packs-great stuff too-PLAN 9, ROBOT MONSTER(my all time favorite bad movie),BEGINNING OF THE END,THE UNEARTHLY,CRAWLING EYE,BRIDE OF THE MONSTER.
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Post by amphiboid on Jan 17, 2007 17:56:40 GMT -8
One of my strange fascinations when I watch old films is trying to find out where the exterior scenes were shot. I'm in the Los Angeles area, where a lot of films are made, and when an old film appears to be of the local-made variety I am always looking at the street scenes.
The weird narrator of "She Monster" says something about us being "in the San Gabriel mountains" or something like that. I can't help thinking that they may have filmed some of the street scenes in the beginning on some streets in the hillier areas of Altadena (just north of Pasadena). The hills certainly look familiar to me. I have no idea where the house is in the very beginning (the one the "socialite" is seen leaving) but I figure that may be somewhere in Hollywood. Maybe.
It's so weird. On the rare occasion I have been able to find out exactly where some scene was filmed, I will try to go there and look around and duplicate the camera angles and take note of whatever has changed in the area. I am still trying to locate a certain suburban street where scenes from "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" were shot. I would love to go there and dance around in the middle of the street for a few seconds.
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