Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Shipwrecked on an uncharted island, beautiful, bratty socialite, Jerrie Turner (Irish McCalla) is miffed by the sudden end of her sightseeing tour. With only the tour guide, Fred Maklin (Tod Griffin) and his two comrades for company, Jerrie has a difficult time adjusting to her new surroundings. She soon realizes that they are not the only ones on the island. Death ensues, and the remaining trio ventures forth into the heart of the jungle. Then, Bongo drums! It's time for the She Demons (aka: The Diane Nellis Dancers) to dance the forbidden dance! Then, Nazis show up to spoil the show! Yep, those old troublemakers are up to no good once more! Jerrie and company have entered the belly of the beast, witnessing the nasty Nazi, Igor (Gene Roth- THE SPIDER, ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES) torturing a she demon / dancer! Also, inhuman experiments are being carried out by the eeevil Col. Karl Osler (Rudolph Anders- PHANTOM FROM SPACE, THE SNOW CREATURE)! Oh! The hellishness of it all! SHE DEMONS is about as big a hunk of lunkheaded nonsense as is allowed by law. The loveliness of Ms. McCalla does little to dull this thudding pain...

Richard E. Cunha made few good low budget B movies. This movie otherwise could have been utterly forgettable, isn't due to his ability to select actors who could act, and his ability to keep the story going without falling apart.While not at the success level of Roger Corman's B movies, Cunha's movies has similar quality that keeps them from being an utter schlock. This movie is about the same level of story as Roger Corman's "Wasp Woman". Both focus' on intrigue of beautiful woman turning into a monster.This movie stayed with me since I saw it as a child because of the transformance scene of the above mentioned beautiful woman. Three characters that told most of the stories to this movie, namely the blond girl, the main character, and the Nazi captain could all act. This kept the story together and didn't go the way of other similarly budgeted movies.They could have inserted another 10 minutes of skin exposures by the girls, and tormenting of the girl that was on the operating table, and the movie could have been twice as good, but if they did that they might have blown the budget or ran overtime against the double feature movie that these movies were usually shown in theaters.One of the hidden classic amongst the truly low budget movies from the '50s. If you're a fan of Roger Corman's earlier movies, this movie might be for you.

Fans of badfilm will want to check this one out. This schlock horror-comedy-burlesque hybrid doesn't take itself too seriously, although hero Tod Griffin appears to be taking himself too seriously. It is fascinating to hear his deep and earnest voice, resonating as it does from his skinny chest, as his skinny arms gesticulate.For counter-point to our under-whelming and over-acting hero, we are treated to the spectacular physical endowments of Irish McCalla, whose performance does not resemble thespian-ism in even the most theoretical sense.The most likable of our 3 heroes is comic-relief Sammy, played ably by Victor Sen Young, a veteran of many B-films and a former screen son of Charlie Chan. Shortly after this film, Young took the role of Hop Sing in Bonanza, playing a very distasteful stereotype...Young fares better in this film, as there is only one obligatory Chinese joke...the rest being non-denominational wise-cracks and general goofiness. He is a an early version of the Hipster Doofus...alongside Maynard G Krebs and Jughead Jones, paving the way for Cosmo Kramer.The Mad Nazi Scientist Commandant is fun to watch...very evil, very nuts, very lecherous...and the actor appears to have been drunk during most of the filming...good stuff all around.There's some fun cheap monster make-up, and for good measure it's worn by a bunch of burlesque dancers wearing grass skirts and bikini tops. Got to love that. The burlesque dancers are billed in the credits as the Diane Nellis dancers, and most of them thankfully are not wearing the monster make-up, so we see their lovely faces as well as their lovely bodies.Now here's a couple questions for the scholars: Who were the Diane Nellis Dancers and what became of them? Who was Diane Nellis and what became of her? They probably had interesting lives, all of them.The dancers play some kind of strange pale-skinned primitive women, and they perform a sleazy nightclub type 'jungle dance.' This dance lasts for several minutes and is the highlight of the film...this type of cheesecake stuff is incredibly tame compared to what our 12-year-old children can watch on MTV. The dance is a good thing because pretty girls in bikini tops and grass skirts will always be needed by our world.I have seen plenty of schlock-horror films from this era, and this is the only one I know of that contains an actual cheese-cake burlesque club type dance. It is this innovation to the genre, plus Irish McCalla's endowments and her very brief semi-striptease (a tease striptease, if you will) that she performs early in the pic, that distinguish this film. For surely the infusion of burlesque elements into this epic foreshadows the nudie-horror films that came in the 1960's.

I like to sometimes think of myself that I've seen a large share of horror, cult, Sci-Fi and exploitation movies from all eras and from all over the world, but the truth is that these genres are simply an inexhaustible source of material. I never even heard of "She Demons" before, for example, even though it sounds right up my alley with crazed monsters, cuckoo scientists and bizarre make-up effects! Not that this film is a great discovery or anything, but it's interesting and ahead-of-its-time 50's shlock. "She Demons" is more or less a trashy variation on H.G. Wells' classic tale "The Island of Dr. Moreau", albeit expanded with malignant Nazi doctors and their relentless experiments as well as some really weird but typically 50's environmental research regarding new energy sources. Following a devastating hurricane at sea, four castaways (the spoiled daughter of a wealthy industrialist and three of her employees) wash ashore a tropical and seemingly uninhabited island. However, the place soon turns out to be the private resort of an escaped Nazi doctor and a handful of his soldiers. Unaware that the Third Reich doesn't exist anymore since more than 10 years, the doctor continues his work and even invented a super intelligent new way to generate energy by extracting heat from the volcano underneath the island. This discovery would pretty much make him the most genius and celebrated man on earth, but he's a Nazi and – on top of that – also a dangerous psychopath who replaces the beautiful faces of kidnapped women with animal DNA in order to attempt saving his own horribly mutilated wife. It's up to the courageous shipwrecked to stop the doctor's vile experiments and at the same time not to fall victim to the soldiers and/or creepy female mutations. This all may sound like a lot of potentially fascinating story lines and more than enough excitement for a relatively short (slightly under 80min) movie, and than I haven't even mentioned the obligatory and totally implausible developing love-story between the lead characters yet, but "She Demons" is actually a rather boring viewing experience with far too many 'nothing going on' moments. The plot ideas are effective and the make-up effects are definitely quite nasty considering the time of release and the lack of budget, but the pacing is just intolerably slow. The dialogs seem to last forever – particularly the Nazi dude's explanation regarding what he does on the island – whereas other extended parts a little too obviously serve as time-filler, like the She-Demons ritual dance act. What is up with that? Did filmmakers back in the fifties automatically assumed that ridiculous ritual dances were obligatory in movies that are set on tropical islands? The cast is terrible and lead starlet Irish McCalla is hugely annoying and unattractive despite her extremely positive and promoting self-image. One to avoid if you have good taste, but worth a look if you like silly demonic masks, demented speeches and messed up science guys with hideous German accents.