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Nice effects though.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

****SPOILERS**** With bad movie director Ed Wood as the behind the scene consultant the film "The Astounding She-Monster" ends up a slight cut above most of the like-wise cheaply made bad films of the 1950's. This meteor lands on earth as this alien woman dressed in a skin tight silver jump-suite materializes killing anyone , human or animal, that she touches. It just happens that a kidnapping took place and the kidnappers Nat Burdell Brad Conley & the booze guzzling Jeanne Tatum end up taking their victim socialite Margaret Chaffee to this cabin in the woods right where the meteor landed not quite realizing what their in for. It the cabin lives geologist Dick Cluter and his faithful companion his dog Egan who together with Margaret are held hostage by the trio of kidnappers.It's when the alien woman starts to run amok and starts doing her "thing" in radiating anyone that she touches that the kidnappers start to lose interest in Margaret and start to try to figure out ways to escape before they themselves end up getting radiated to death by her. It's when everything seems lost that Cluter finds a way to destroy, with a platinum based solution, this alien woman from outer space before she does any more damage. And when he does Cutler as well as Margaret find out, from a note she left, that she was mankind's last hope in surviving the destruction that's soon to come. A destruction that mankind, with the use of nuclear weapons, is soon to make upon itself.***SPOILERS*** The depressing ending in the movie was repeated in both Ed Wood's bad movie classic "Plan Nine from Outer Space" as well as the 1962 "Twilight Zone" episode "The Gift" with mankind not realizing that the alien whom they fear is in fact trying to help them in saving them from their own self destruction. The difference here is that the space woman instead of trying to save the human race was doing her best to destroy it herself which didn't make her any friends on earth.

Gangster: "Shut up, you lousy drunk!" Floozy: "I prefer to be referred to as an alcoholic!" If you view this as a sci-fi movie, it doesn't rate. As existentialist film noir, it's off the scale. Two aging gangsters and their gin-soaked moll kidnap a Beverly Hills socialite who looks like the cadaverous victim of a 1930's vampire movie. Through a series of misadventures, they end up in a remote geologist's cabin being stalked by an iridescent stripper from outer space. Every time the alien enters the cabin, they run outside and get in the jeep. Then she corners them on the road and they run into the woods. Then she finds them in the woods and they go back into the cabin. This sequence is repeated three or four times as characters are killed one by one. Imagine "Ten Little Indians" if it had been written by Sartre instead of Agatha Christie. The socialite gets lines like, "But, Dick, isn't radium in solid form a metal?" and my favorite, "I had no idea that a geologist used so many acids in his work." The hyper dramatic voice-over for several long sequences reinforces the idea that the plot for the film was actually developed in post-production. But then, existentialist film noir should be improv, shouldn't it?

In my opinion, the "bad" movie lover has to show some discernment. Not all bad sci fi and horror movies are all that much fun to watch. For every campy gem like 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' or 'Teenagers From Outer Space' there are dozens of truly awful low (and no) budget films that are a chore to sit through. 'The Astounding She-Monster' is somewhere in between good bad and bad bad. Director Ronald Ashcroft was actually a colleague of Ed Wood and was assistant director on 'Night Of The Ghouls', but he is neither as inept nor as unintentionally hilarious as his mentor. The very slim plot concerns a good guy geologist (Robert Clarke) who finds his remote cabin invaded by some hoods who have kidnapped a rich society dame, and are planning on holding her to ransom. Pretty soon all are at the mercy of the shimmering she-monster, a glowing visitor from outer space who can kill with one touch. The monster is played by one Shirley Kilpatrick who many cult movie fans insist is actually Shirley Stoler of 'The Honeymoon Killers' fame. If this is true it is a wonderful bit of trivia, but even so the monster is an unforgettable bit of no-budget invention. Kilpatrick basically walks around in a glittery jump suit and is shown out of focus. The movie goes for just over an hour but that is long enough. More than that it would out stay its welcome. Fans of goofy 1950s SF will probably enjoy this one more than disinterested viewers. I have seen better, but I have also seen MUCH worse. I would file 'The Astounding She-Monster' under "reasonably amusing low budget sci fi schlock", and give it a half-hearted recommendation.

This is the type of movie that if you were watching it when it first came out in 1957, you probably would have had the pants scared off you.Looking at it today, this is a movie that you can sit and watch with a bunch of friends and laugh. It's so ludicrous!!The 'special effects' surrounding our monster heroine are so bad and very erratic. Sometimes you see them and sometimes you don't.It's supposed to be night time, so how come when they are driving the jeep to try to escape, there is sunlight on the surrounding hills and sometimes our friends are driving right through the sunlight.My favorite character in this movie is the head thug, Nat Burdell. He's so 'tough', he's almost lovable. Looking at the list of movies that he has participated in since the early 1940's, he seems to be an accomplished actor. Things really must have been very bad in his personal life to wind up in a film like this. Who said that good acting was a requirement for this film???But all in all, if you're looking for some light-hearted movie to enjoy (don't expect anything great), either by yourself or with some friends, and you're just passing the time, RENT THIS MOVIE!!!!! YOU WON"T BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!!