Rainey Dawn Dr. Carlo Lombardi is a hypnotist and claims to be able to help people with regression and to prove reincarnation. Dr. Ted Erickson call's Dr. Lombardi a fraud and wants to prove it. What happens next is horrifying for Andrea Talbott / Elizabeth Wetherby and others... Andrea/Elizabeth regresses back, way back to her first incarnation: a She-Beast! Don't take this one seriously - just watch this one as a fun piece of cinema and you might enjoy it (to a degree at least). I personally like this film - it's not perfect, it's entertainment.Not a bad B-film but it's not the best of the 1950s B sci-fi horror films but it is entertaining in it's way.Someone said this film is (Creature from the Black Lagoon) Gill-man's girlfriend - and I will have to agree. LOL.6/10

Michael_Elliott She Creature, The (1956) * 1/2 (out of 4) An evil hypnotist (Chester Morris) puts his assistant under a trance but she just happens to be the reincarnation of a 300-year-old sea creature who returns to start killing. The basic premise of this film is fairly interesting but the thing doesn't have an ounce of life to it. There's way too much talk and when the monster is on screen not too much happens. The look of the creature is very good but that's about all this film has to offer. Some might remember Morris from Columbia's Boston Black series as well as several other high profile titles but this is certainly his worst outing.

bkoganbing If you take a look at the credits of Chester Morris's career, you'll note he did a lot of television in the Fifties and Sixties after his Boston Blackie series came to an end. Morris was one of those players who found a lot of work in the new medium as their screen careers dried up. One of his few unfortunate ventures back to the big screen was The She-Creature.Morris is in a cast with a whole lot of players like Cathy Downs, Tom Conway, El Brendel, and Frieda Inescourt whose careers had evaporated in film, due to blacklist and other problems. It's sad, but this sometimes was the best work they could get. Morris is a Svengali like hypnotist who's gone beyond anything that Messmer ever dreamed possible. His Trilby is Marla English whose bosoms excited many a pubescent male in the drive-ins. Most of the film she's in a trance and at a certain point in the trance, she dreams up from her past life a long extinct sea creature who looks like The Creature from the Black Lagoon's bride. You can tell by the rack the makeup people provide so we know it's the dreaming Marla.This She-Creature is Morrris's personal hit squad, killing both skeptics of his hypnotic abilities to bring out past lives and anyone else who looks longingly at English. In Lance Fuller's case he's both a rival and a skeptic.What's scary about this movie is not the content which today could be released as a comedy. The scary part is that the players I named all were in quality A films at one point in their career. Fortunately Morris got to appear in The Great White Hope before he died as a farewell performance. And I do remember him from the Fifties and Sixties showing a lot of quality acting in various television series.Maybe the guy from The Black Lagoon might like this film.

lqueral Acting is hokey, but it was fun to watch anyway. I really thought Marla English, who plays Andrea, was an extremely attractive woman. She reminded me a LOT of an old girlfriend. The creature is really funny looking, as were a lot of other creatures of the era (The Day The World Ended, Horror of Party Beach, etc.). The guy that plays the hypnotist I've seen around in quite a few of these older movies, and overacts in this one. What's really funny is how I was actually spooked when I saw these films as a kid, and now they're a riot to watch. That's what 40 years later will do for you (grin). Remember, don't look for Academy Award performances here, but it will entertain.