Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is not has scarier has The March of 1931 version of Dracula. But still pretty good. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. It is scarier then the April of 1931 version of Dracula. But not has scarier has the 1931 version of Frankenstein. But it is scarier then Friday the 13th. It is scarier then the 1910 version of Frankenstein could ever be. But it not has scary has The wolf man. But it is still pretty scary. This is scarier then The Exorcist of Halloween. This one of the best horror movie from the 60's. See it. It is a great movie.

Bezenby Notable actors: Barbara Steele! Ian Ogilvy! Mel Welles!This is the least serious Barbara Steele sixties horror film you'll sit through, and I'll tell you right now that if you are a Barbara Steele fan be warned as she disappears halfway through the film. I thought I was getting some sort of deal where Babs was possessed by some undead witch, but the witch is played by someone else! I want my money back...I'd be saying if I'd actually paid to watch this.Babs and her equally snidey, sarcastic husband are on holiday in Romania, clearly there just to make fun of the locals and the communist regime everyone is under (over and over again, throughout the film). They end up at some terrible hotel in the middle of nowhere and meet "Ex" Count Van Helsing, descendant of the famous vampire killer, who tells them the story of a witch who cursed the area before she was drowned in a lake. Not interested, the couple retire to bed for some filthy squeezy, only to find that the hotel owner is watching them. One serious assault later, the couple head off, crashing into the aforementioned witch/lake. A truck driver fishes the two out of the lake and drives back to the hotel, which had me guessing rightly that this must be a very low budget film. Turns out that the guy is okay, but Babs seems to have been replaced by that horrible witch we saw being killed at the start of the film. The rest of the film details the husband and Van Helsing's attempt to get rid of the witch's spirit and bring back Babs...and (sigh), this involves a lot of slapstick comedy. That's the thing with this film. It whips from out and out horror, like the witch rather bloodily killing a guy with a sickle, to Keystone Cops type car chases and for me doesn't gel too well. It's almost got the same atmosphere as the Fearless Vampire Killers, which isn't a good thing in my book. I know Michael Reeves has got a cult following for The Witchfinder General (and for dying so young I guess), and as a first film a lot of it works, but the comedy seems too forced for me. Nice Italian cinematography, mind you.

Theo Robertson Veronica and Phillip are a young English couple enjoying a holiday in Transylvania now part of modern day Romania . Actually "modern day" is in fact 1966 the year this was made and right away the logic alarm bells start ringing as to why anyone would want to visit the Stalinist regime of Romania ? Despite Nicolae Ceausescu coming to power the previous year and later being seen as a liberal in the West Ceausescu was no different from the previous regime which almost resembled a vicious parody of Orwell's 1984 . Is this the type of country dependent on Western tourists ? It's certainly not Yugoslavia Since THE SHE BEAST is a horror film I suppose you are meant to ignore logic and this might have possibly worked if the antagonist was a vampire directly related to Dracula but the story has nothing to do with Vamps and everything to do with a Witch . In other words the story could be set in any foreign country . Directed by 23 year old Michael Reeves who a couple of years later was being touted as "The wunderkid of British cinema" there's nothing here that indicates brilliant potential though to be fair you could say the same with Coppola's early work . THE SHE BEAST has a cheap , almost amateurish feel to it and shooting it in black and white adds to the cheap feel . It also has a strange tone where the film can't make u t mind if it's trying to be a straight horror or an innocents abroad black comedy . To give it some credit the make up on the witch is grotesquely impressive but nothing else is and you can never escape from the lack of logic of holidaying in a paranoid communist regime . More so when characters are constantly pointing out Romania is a hardline Marxist state

Jonathon Dabell Much has been made of young film-maker Michael Reeves, especially what great heights he might have achieved in his career had he not died so tragically young (25 to be precise). Most of this mouth-watering yet unfulfilled expectation hinges upon the brilliance of his third and final film, the Vincent Price classic Witchfinder General. Having said that, Reeves' second film – The Sorcerers, starring Boris Karloff and Catherine Lacey - is also an adeptly crafted bloodcurdler, greatly admired by critics and genre addicts alike. Since he attained such an esteemed reputation in his brief lifetime, one would assume that Reeves' first film must also be a cracker… perhaps not up to the heights of his 2nd and 3rd films, but certainly a superior offering showcasing the young director's budding brilliance and mastery. A good, interesting little debut at the very least, surely? Wrong! The She-Beast is a largely terrible horror entry, very muddled in conception and clumsily put together, with almost none of what would become the director's trademark skilfulness and artistry. If he'd died after this film it's unlikely anyone would have remembered him at all.In modern-day Transylvania, elderly recluse Von Helsing (John Karlsen) lives in a cave where he spends half his time drinking himself into a stupor and the other half re-reading accounts of legendary past events in the neighbourhood. He is particularly interested in one terrible incident from 200 years previous, the capture and drowning of a local witch in the neighbouring lake. At the point of death, the witch placed a curse on the entire village and promised that one day she'd return and have her vengeance. Back in the present, British couple Veronica (Barbara Steele) and Philip (Ian Ogilvy) end up in the village whilst on a tour of eastern Europe. Following a bust-up with a drunken innkeeper, they make a hurried getaway but, as they pass the lake, a mysterious force affects the steering on their car and they crash into the water. To Philip's horror, his wife doesn't make it out of the lake… instead, her unconscious body is possessed by the long-dormant spirit of the witch, transforming Veronica from an attractive young woman into a hideous monster with murderous vengeance on its mind. Philip and Von Helsing race against time to find a way to exorcise Veronica and return her to her natural state before she is lost forever.There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the plot other than a reliance on derivative ingredients – witch's curses, village mobs, the possession of a pretty young innocent, etc. (all things that have been over-used in terror pictures of its era). At the very least, however, The She-Beast should have enough mileage in it to be a semi-enjoyable horror movie in the familiar old style. Unfortunately, it simply doesn't work… it is awkwardly structured, woodenly acted, wildly overplotted and – worst of all – massively disorganised in terms of style and purpose. Disparate elements are thrown in for no good reason, such as touches of political commentary about the nature of eastern bloc existence and ill-fitting flashes of comedy (including a truly bizarre Keystone Cops-style car chase near the climax). These jumbled elements simply bring a sense of confusion and incohesion to the film, distracting the audience from what ought to be the central storyline. It wouldn't matter if they worked, if they added a worthwhile extra dimension to the film, but they don't… meaning that, as a result, everything comes across as muddled and incoherent. A couple of effective jumps remain, plus the odd memorable scene amid the chaos, but overall The She-Beast is a huge let-down from its wunderkind director.