Sorry, this movie sucks

Perfect cast and a good story

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is not has scarier has The March of 1931 version of Dracula. But still pretty good. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. It is scarier then the April of 1931 version of Dracula. But not has scarier has the 1931 version of Frankenstein. But it is scarier then Friday the 13th. It is scarier then the 1910 version of Frankenstein could ever be. But it not has scary has The wolf man. But it is still pretty scary. This is scarier then The Exorcist of Halloween. This one of the best horror movie from the 60's. See it. It is a great movie.

She Beast was directed by Michael Reeves, who would go on to helm historical horror Witchfinder General, although at times it's hard to believe that the two films could have come from the same man. Witchfinder General was a truly chilling study of the evil in man, a genuine classic of the genre with a brilliant central performance from Vincent Price; She Beast, on the other hand, is an embarrassingly bad tongue-in cheek horror with a risible plot, stilted dialogue, weak comedy, and dreadful turns from its stars, Ian Ogilvy and Barbara Steele.Ogilvy and Steele play honeymooners Philip and Veronica, who are travelling through Transylvania when they crash their car into a lake where, centuries earlier, butt-ugly witch Vardella (Joe 'Flash' Riley) met her fate at the hands of an angry mob. Possessing Veronica, Vardella proceeds to make good on her dying words, a curse on the descendants of those responsible for her death.Cruddy low-lights of Reeve's lamentable feature-length debut include Philip and Veronica's dull-as-ditch-water stay at a hotel where the perverted owner, Ladislav Groper (Mel Welles), likes to peep on his guests, and a terrible car chase scene that sees Philip and local witch expert Count von Helsing (John Karlsen) pursued by three bumbling policemen, the action sped up for comic effect (with the cars inexplicably passing the same motorcyclist several times).Thankfully, Reeves got much better at his job before dying from an accidental overdose at the age of 25, meaning that horror fans can remember him for his one great movie and forget all about this hopeless mess.

Veronica and Phillip are a young English couple enjoying a holiday in Transylvania now part of modern day Romania . Actually "modern day" is in fact 1966 the year this was made and right away the logic alarm bells start ringing as to why anyone would want to visit the Stalinist regime of Romania ? Despite Nicolae Ceausescu coming to power the previous year and later being seen as a liberal in the West Ceausescu was no different from the previous regime which almost resembled a vicious parody of Orwell's 1984 . Is this the type of country dependent on Western tourists ? It's certainly not Yugoslavia Since THE SHE BEAST is a horror film I suppose you are meant to ignore logic and this might have possibly worked if the antagonist was a vampire directly related to Dracula but the story has nothing to do with Vamps and everything to do with a Witch . In other words the story could be set in any foreign country . Directed by 23 year old Michael Reeves who a couple of years later was being touted as "The wunderkid of British cinema" there's nothing here that indicates brilliant potential though to be fair you could say the same with Coppola's early work . THE SHE BEAST has a cheap , almost amateurish feel to it and shooting it in black and white adds to the cheap feel . It also has a strange tone where the film can't make u t mind if it's trying to be a straight horror or an innocents abroad black comedy . To give it some credit the make up on the witch is grotesquely impressive but nothing else is and you can never escape from the lack of logic of holidaying in a paranoid communist regime . More so when characters are constantly pointing out Romania is a hardline Marxist state

This film suffers from a case of not knowing what it wants to be. It starts off as a horror film about a murderous witch and continues in that mode by utilizing one of the best horror actresses of the time in Barbara Steele (as "Veronica"). Unfortunately, rather than using her talents to any great extent the director (Michael Reeves) completely omits her character for almost half of the film and decides to focus more on her husband "Phillip" (Ian Ogilvy), the innkeeper "Ladislav Groper" (Mel Welles) and "Count von Helsing" (John Karlsen) instead. And while they all performed adequately there seemed to be a noticeable void without her presence. To make matters even more strange, the movie then detours from being a horror film to a comedy with the local Transylvanian police bumbling around like the Keystone Cops. And then at the very end, Barbara Steele is reintroduced and immediately brings back a bit of horror into the production. Now, it's okay to have a little humor in a horror film. However, too much humor (as in this case) tends to water down whatever tension has been built up and generally creates an uneven feel to a movie. And I think that is what happened to this film.