Apatros Review Ep-0043: The She Beast [1966]

AR-0043: For a time in the 1960s, young British director Michael Reeves was a rising star. He made a total of three films [not including his breakout job stepping in to do a James Cameron-in-Piranha 2 finishing job on an Italian horror film that had the original director leave production halfway through] & was doing pre-production work on what was going to be his fourth when he overdosed on barbys, going on his way to Saint Peter's talent scouting call. Hope he's doing well over there...

This subject of review was the first of the Reeves Trilogy of Anglo-horror - a somewhat cheesy Italian-English co-production horror comedy where an aging Von Helsing [yes, it is Von here, not Van] helps out a young English newlywed couple from the effects of an EVIL old witch who bodyjacks the young wifey in order to get revenge on the descendants of the angry mob who forced her to take a bath in the local lake centuries before...

...The whole story taking place in Communist Romania in the late 1960s, of course, so plenty of jokes about clumsy pinkos.

Pretty much a joke of a film, although if you're a Bad Movie Masochist like I am, this will be good for a nice derisive laugh when you're feeling the blues...

My Grade: D [Bad]

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