WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Stevieboy666 Apparently filmed in colour but the print that I just had the misfortune to sit through was in black and white, though I doubt that had it been in colour that it would have been any better. I just found it pretty inept and boring. The microphone makes several appearances, acting is as wooden as the boats in the film and a few of the supposedly Pacific islanders are obviously western women. Some nice scenes of Hawaii though.

Jonathon Dabell 'Beautiful Maidens Ruled By A Hideous Stone God!' screamed the poster for this Roger Corman quickie from 1958. Such claims make the film sound half-enjoyable, even if only on a kitsch level. Sadly, it's all rather misleading and the true fact of the matter is that She-Gods Of Shark Reef is a woeful piece of idiocy, directed in a fortnight or so by Corman while he was already on location on Kaua'i, Hawaii, for the making of the similarly-plotted and similarly terrible Naked Paradise.Young gun-runner Jim (Don Durant) is on the lam after killing a couple of guards at a dockside arms depot. His brother Chris (Bill Cord) offers to take him to safety aboard his boat. However, their boat gets washed onto a reef during a storm and the brothers survive only because they are rescued from drowning by the women of a strange, secretive, all-female colony of pearl divers. While waiting for a ship to come along, Chris falls in love with one of the island girls, Mahia (Lisa Montell), much to the annoyance of the island elder Queen Pua (Jeanne Gearson). Meanwhile, Jim starts to get nervous that word about his crime will spread and he will be arrested once the ship arrives, so he starts planning an early escape from the island by repairing an abandoned canoe. Unfortunately, the 'criminal' in him can't resist pocketing a few of the girls' pearls before he leaves, a foolish little crime which brings about complications to his getaway… Shot against beautiful backdrops with a good-looking cast, She-Gods Of Shark Reef offers absolutely nothing beyond these attractive trimmings. Yes, the Hawaiian islands look lovely. Yes, the male leads are muscular, handsome types. Yes, the pearl diving girls are pretty little things. But when it comes to the important things – plot, pace, dialogue, narrative interest, tension, characterisation, conflict – the film has NOTHING to offer. It's a hopeless bore which somehow conspires to make its 63 minute running time seem three times longer than it really is. 63 minutes is roughly how long it would take a snail to slide across a decent-sized back yard – and, believe me, you'd have infinitely more fun watching the snail for the duration of its progress than spending the same 63 minutes sitting through this film!

drystyx What will stick out most in this low budget affair is that it truly is low budget. You can tell not much is spent in this story of a prison escape of two men, aided by the brother of one, to meet with a hurricane, and get stranded on an island of beautiful women who fish for pearls in shark infested waters.But Corman does a good job of keeping things fresh. This is a "cheese" film, make no mistake, and was meant to showcase a pair of hunks and a few gorgeous gals.You can tell no money is wasted. But we don't mind that we don't see a ship torn apart by a hurricane. Only the most hopeless of dorks would complain about the lack of special effects, so long as the story is told.There could have been more organization, however. The credits I saw on utube don't even begin to match the names of the characters. If you look at the credits while watching the movie, you'll go "Huh?".And the bad brother is a bit cliché in his consistent evil doings. May as well let him muse over taking over the world with James Bond as a nemesis.Still, the ending is totally unpredictable, particularly for Corman, and particularly for modern audiences. One has to be fairly impressed that Corman can at least keep from giving us a cliché to end this one.

mstomaso Since the early 1950s, Roger Corman has been directing and releasing films at a break-neck pace. Typically, he tosses four or five into the arena per year. This explosive productivity, of course, limits the range of quality (and budgets) for his productions. However, Corman has only occasionally released really truly bad films. This is an example.Corman used the lovely islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago as a setting for this early color flatliner. If you have seen a few of his films, you know how important setting is to Corman. First - he never seems to have an adequate budget for his most ambitious projects, so he makes sure he films in visually interesting settings. Second - Corman often uses over-long and somewhat tedious pans ("Corman pans"). With nice scenery in the background, or a well designed set, the tedium factor for these shots is reduced. Corman's films are loaded with people moving from place to place, and "She Gods" is no exception.The film is about a pair of vaguely likable brothers. Chris (Bill Cord) is a fairly normal, if not particularly bright, young man. Lee (Don Durant) is his evil, and only slightly less intelligent, brother. Lee is a fugitive from the law. They find themselves shipwrecked on an island inhabited by a tribe of Polynesian Amazons lead by the not-very-creepy but still rather annoying Queen Pua (Jeanne Gerson). Lisa Montell plays Mahia (Lisa Montell), who fairly quickly becomes romantically entangled with Chris, but the gods of the shark reef have apparently made it clear that both men are taboo. Chris and Lee plot to escape, and decide to take Mahia along with them, but the shark gods have other plans.The acting is OK (with mediocre camera-work occasionally making the actors appear to be over-acting), the pace is as good as some of Corman's better works, the script is thankfully spartan, and the plot is as thin as a fish scale. The Hawaiian dancing and singing, underwater swimming scenes, shark-fight action and lovely costumes don't really succeed in making up for the virtually nonexistent story-line, middling cinematography and weakly developed main characters. Plus, some of the shark scenes (I believe one is repeated twice in the film) are laughable.Can't really recommend this.