MST3K Episode #808 - The She-Creature

Wow, talk about a re-hash of The Undead. This movie is basically based on the same premise. Someone can use psychosis to bring a hypnotized person back in time.

Hmm.... where to begin with this one. Well, The She-Creature doesn't really star anyone worth mentioning besides Elizabeth Taylor look-a-like, Marla English, who was actually in one of the greatest films ever made, Rear Window. All she had was a small role though, she walked into a room in one shot and that was pretty much it. The only other actors of note are Lance Fuller who played Brack in the MST3K movie, This Island Earth, and Tom Conway, who narrated Walt Disney's Peter Pan.

So this movie is slow. And I mean SLOW slow. Basically, a hypnotist named Carlo Lombardi has some type of psychic hold on Andrea Talbott, played by English. Meanwhile, Ted Erickson, played by Fuller, is dating a girl named Dorothy Chapell. Her father, Timothy Chapell, played by Conway, takes an interest in Dr. Carlo Lombardi because he figures he can make a lot of money off of his hypnosis and psychic powers.

So mysteriously, there have been a lot of murders just off the coast. Teenagers (who are often making out) are killed by some kind of monster. Erickson, along with his detective friend, start to investigate Lombardi because they believe he has something to do with the murders, as he has predicted each death. Erickson is a long-time critic of Lombardi, but witnesses him doing his hypnosis on Andrea Talbott, whom he instantly falls in love with (and out of love with Dorothy Chapell), and starts to believe Lombardi has some type of power. Lombardi reveals to him that through hypnosis, he can bring Andrea back to any one of her previous incarnations through an unconscious link in her psyche. He then tells Erickson that he can even bring her back to the dawn of creation (she's a reincarnated sea monster, ha!).

Together, Erickson and Talbott work together to find some sort of mental strength that can keep Andrea from being put under Lombardi's control. They fight back against Lombardi and he eventually dies, regretting his powers that he used for evil. Andrea is saved and Erickson and Andrea live peacefully ever after.

Or do they!? The movie ends with a giant question mark, which is just awesome. It was supposed to allude to alleged sequel, which I don't think ever happened. The jokes in this episode are top-notch, as Bill Corbett had just started his role as Crow T. Robot in this season (Season 8) and they were all trying to make the episodes as funny as they could to keep up with previous level of comedy when Trace Beaulieu was Crow. At one point, when the monster is walking around on the beach invisible and leaving it's tracks in the sand, Crow says "Donald Duck has the ring of power!" I laughed my ass off.

The comedy is good in this episode, although the movie is so bad you may not be able to handle it.