Good movie but grossly overrated

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER is an amusingly bad B-movie of the 1950s, set in a cabin in a remote rural landscape where a bunch of kidnappers are holding on to a heiress and hoping to make themselves rich. Unfortunately for them, their plans are thwarted by the intervention of a female alien who arrives and proceeds to wreak havoc by bumping off the assembled one at a time. This is short and simple stuff, with some amusing 'fuzzy vision' effects used to depict the female alien who is dressed in the usual skin-tight costume. Hardly a great film, but B-movie fans will enjoy it anyway.

A svelte alien space-babe with alarming eyebrows and a sprayed on silver body stocking threatens Robert Clarke, a bunch of gangsters, and a bimbo in this awful 1957 sci-fi clunker. Almost unbelievably cheap (the movie only has one set), loaded with pointless running around in the woods, pointless running in and out of Clarke's mountain cabin, and one not so special effect, this has got to be the longest 61-minute movie ever filmed, and makes Clarke's next film, "The Hideous Sun Demon", play like "The Tragedy of Hamlet". Stunningly bad. Even when I first saw this movie as a kid, I thought: "This movie is stupid". Chances are, you will, too.

Back in the late 70s a local TV station (in MA) used to show this constantly on Saturday afternoons. It's about a tall glowing woman from another world who wanders around aimlessly in the woods. She's photographed with lights on her and in sort of a "wavy" way--it's hard to describe. She runs into some gangsters, their "moll" and two people they're holding hostage. The rest of the film involves them running from her (bullets don't hurt her) and her touching them and (inadvertently) killing them (she's radioactive). It all leads up to a totally ridiculous finale--with a moronic "twist".I found this fascinating in high school...but not because it was good. It was LOUSY...but in a really interesting way. There's a narrator that sounds like he's drugged out, the special effects aren't special at all and the dialogue and story are predictable. The acting is as good as it can be (i.e. not very). Still, it IS interesting but I can only truthfully give it a 1. Still....try catching it. There's NOTHING like it.Also your only chance to see Shirley Stoler as the alien in her first movie (she's billed as Shirley Kilpatrick). She's tall, young and SLIM!!!

Only an hour long with a paper-thin plot, this piece of 50s sci-fi cheese is the kind of inept classic that Ed Wood has become famous for. Lots of time is taken up with random footage of the She-Monster (Shirley Kilpatrick in a skintight glitter suit) wandering around in the woods. Four people in a cabin fight and get killed off by the lethal touch of this alien gal. Given that she doesn't say a thing, Kilpatrick really does carry this amateurish film with her menacing look and sexy outfit with a camera blur added to make her look out of this world. Lead actor Robert Clarke was so impressed with the money this film made that he went out and made his own monster movie, THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON. Rumor has it that Shirley Kilpatrick gained a lot of weight in later years and became character actress Shirley Stoler of THE HONEYMOON KILLERS and PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE.