The She Beast

Rating:
Summary: Unwatchable Transfer Looks Like MUD!!
Review: I wonder why any movie with BARBARA STEELE on DVD (with the exception of SYNAPSE'S stunning CASTLE OF BLOOD) has to look like crap? I mean this one takes the cake...of course it is only $, but I found it unwatchable.
And the truly bad pan and scanning treats you over and over to BARBARA STEELE'S amazing talking nose. I guess they did not think in anyway about the framing.
Also the sound is hideous, the print is completely faded to the point of almost black and white at parts. And it looks like swamp mud, what can I say. It really is not worth the bucks...wait until someone puts out a decent copy.
A lot of ALPHA'S releases are fine but this one is just really horrendous. The print quality is much scarier than the witch in the movie.

Rating:
Summary: Not Enough Barbara Steele!!
Review: OK, I bought this for the sake of adding another Barbara Steele epic to my collection. It starts out great. A hideous witch, whose face looks like burnt mashed potatoes is hunted and impaled, then drowned by a vengeful mob, led by the local priest. This all happened 200 years ago. It seems she was killing children in the neighborhood. She curses the decendants of the townsfolk, and croaks. This is OK by me, as I grew tired of "her" tree-like man-legs! Now, fast forward to swingin' 1966, and here come Barbara Steele and her male model boyfriend, tooling down the road in their VW beetle. They are in beautiful Transylvania looking for a hotel. They end up in a scummy dive, run by a fat, drunk, psychotic, sex maniac! The couple flee after said maniac is caught peeking in their window, and gets beaten up by the boyfriend. Their car is sabotaged by the lunatic and causes them to crash into the lake (yepper, same one ol' witchypoo was dumped in). Somehow, the witch trades places with Barbara Steele. This s[tink]s, because it means that Ms. Steele is not even in about two thirds of the movie!! Oh well, the witch goes on the rampage, killing the fat psycho at the hotel, and getting knocked out and carried around several times by the boyfriend and a decendant of Dr. Van Helsing (remember, this IS in Transylvania after all). The state police get involved and a goofy bunch they are! They are basically the transylvanian keystone cops, bumbling along, trying desperately to make the last part of the movie interesting. They fail. By the time Barbara returned, I was no longer interested. Still worth seeing just to hear the witch's scream. It's like a tornado siren...