ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

MartinHafer This is a very bad low-budget film, but at least it can brag that there are indeed worse films out there. Not many, of course, but films like THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, MANOS HANDS OF FATE and DIE-HARD Dracula are just few films that managed to be significantly worse than THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER--though this isn't saying much! The film begins with a radioactive killing machine being sent to Earth from a nearby galaxy. At the same time back on Earth, a rich lady is kidnapped by a really stupid gang. When the radioactive lady arrives, she just happens to arrive at the same isolated cabin when the kidnappers are holed up--forcing nice guy Robert Clarke to do what they say or die. However, when the kidnappers discover the radioactive lady, she begins killing them off one by one until it's just Clarke and the kidnapped lady. Will they be able to defeat the radioactive lady or will they, too, soon assume room temperature? Tune in...if you really care.This is a really cheesy film. As for the 'she-monster', she's a lady in a sexy spandex-style jumpsuit with cool alien eyebrows (sort of like Spock). To make her look even more alien, they decided in a brilliant move to make her blurry all the time. A lousy special effect but it managed to make her look not quite like she really was--just some untalented lady in a silver leotard-like outfit--which isn't exactly scary. It's all rather dumb and has absolutely no depth, but worth seeing for bad movie lovers like myself.By the way, there really is such a thing called Aqua Regia and Clarke apparently did have the correct recipe in the film. Yikes!

bensonmum2 The Astounding She-Monster is a creature from outer space who has come to Earth to check things out. I'm not sure what makes her so astounding and she's about the least frightening monster I've seen. Let' see, she has blond hair, wears a spandex bodysuit, and has some of the funkiest eyebrows I've ever seen. Oh, and there's that whole thing about how she can kill with her touch. But I'm not sure how anyone is stupid enough to let her get close enough. She does this walk like she's modeling and about as fast as a snail.Ed Wood was an uncredited adviser on this movie - and it shows. Dialogue and special effects are straight from the Ed Wood school of movie making. Oh, and what dialogue it is. Characters with little or no scientific training babble on and on about theories involving space travel and radium poisoning. Once the She-Monster is dead, you would expect the remaining characters to seek help or just get out of there. But no, this couple stands around to trade scientific lectures.A better name for the movie might be The Ridiculous She-Monster.

tamstrat This is one of those so horrible they are awesome horror/scifi movies from the late 50's. I remember watching this on the Friday night Horror movie "Dimension 16", 10:30 Friday nights based out of Joplin, Missouri-"Do you know where your children are....HA HA HA" (scary laughter) anyway, this movie as a child scared the pants off of me, the sight of the glowing She Monster from outer space lurking around in the woods was pretty heady stuff when you are 6 years old. I was able to get it when it came out on DVD and while as an adult I can see how thin the plot is, how bad the acting is and how low budget and the sets are, it still brought back wonderful memories of hiding under the blankets with my sister after watching the eerily sexy She Monster. I read somewhere that the female lead was actually a stripper and the reason you always see her backing away from the camera (no ass shots) is that the costume was so tight she split the rear end out and the budget was so low they couldn't or wouldn't repair the costume. Don't know if that's a true story but I hope it is as it makes this campy little classic even campier.

Eegah Guy 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.