Comments on: The She-Creature (1956) http://www.monstershack.net/sp/index.php/the-she-creature-1956/ Bravely watching the movies that others don't dare... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:44:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Charles http://www.monstershack.net/sp/index.php/the-she-creature-1956/comment-page-1/#comment-6074 Charles Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:03:03 +0000 http://www.monstershack.net/sp/?p=646#comment-6074 I have to admit, I watched this recently and the first several minutes really were quite effective. It was a combination of darkness, mystery, shabbiness, desperation and foreboding that worked. You had Lombardi looking out the window at the violent surf from his rundown carnival venue and it was easy to imagine him as someone who would summon a malevolent spirit to murder his enemies. It was easy for me to picture him as resentful, desperate and altogether angry enough to do that, since he had the power, and using the helpless and fallen-through-the-cracks Andrea to accomplish it. (Man, could her vague alluded-to history as a carnival follower make her sound any more lost and degraded?) But then we got to Chappel moving the action to his mansion, the stupid Swedish comic relief, Lance Fuller being terrible, and those bizarrely inert performances by Lombardi and all that effective mood vanished. I have to admit, I watched this recently and the first several minutes really were quite effective. It was a combination of darkness, mystery, shabbiness, desperation and foreboding that worked. You had Lombardi looking out the window at the violent surf from his rundown carnival venue and it was easy to imagine him as someone who would summon a malevolent spirit to murder his enemies. It was easy for me to picture him as resentful, desperate and altogether angry enough to do that, since he had the power, and using the helpless and fallen-through-the-cracks Andrea to accomplish it. (Man, could her vague alluded-to history as a carnival follower make her sound any more lost and degraded?)

But then we got to Chappel moving the action to his mansion, the stupid Swedish comic relief, Lance Fuller being terrible, and those bizarrely inert performances by Lombardi and all that effective mood vanished.

]]> By: jim bennet http://www.monstershack.net/sp/index.php/the-she-creature-1956/comment-page-1/#comment-3986 jim bennet Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:19:54 +0000 http://www.monstershack.net/sp/?p=646#comment-3986 really funny - keep up the excellent work. it was paul blaisdell's costume that attracted me, but now - I don't know. really funny – keep up the excellent work.
it was paul blaisdell’s costume that attracted me, but now – I don’t know.

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