She Creature

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Summary: Jaws ... with Siren's Awesome Beauty Blessed!
Review: This may be my first DVD purchase from Sony Pictures "Creature Feature" collection but, if there are others with the same cynical tongue-in-cheek humor, imaginative twist of storyline, and horror- drama thrills, it will be the first of many! Thoroughly enjoyable! Who would have ever thought that the mysteries of the deep could be so deliciously dangerous!
Rya Kihlstedt plays the She Creature (the word "mermaid" lacks the depth and dimension to describe her) while Rufus Sewell and Carla Gugino (as Angus and Lillie) play an exploitative carnival-sideshow couple whose sense of humanity is sufficiently diverse to be exploited by a more subtle, more ruthless mind! Together they play an interesting variation on the menage-a-trois theme. The supporting cast does a praiseworthy job too! They magnificently keep the movie sailing on above the dramatic limitations of filming 95% of a story on board a poorly-lit wooden ship!
However, there's plenty of color added to the story by greed, sensuality, antagonism, distrust, patience, lies, seduction, past histories, propriety, humor, etc. Excellent sound effects and music help emphasize moments of possible telepathic communication and psychic possession (even impregnation of female by female!); also, precognitive dreams in restless sleep heighten the suspense and help define what dreadful fate awaits ... unless ...!
Anyhow, an atmosphere as dreadful as a mysterious Marie Celeste tale is created, then, with tensions heightened, tightened ... agonizingly tightened ... ah! But, you'd best view this movie yourself to know what happens next! If you enjoy horror-thrillers, you won't mind the suspense of the wait! And the movie? Well, you may even love it!

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Summary: CREATURE FEATURES bites again!!
Review: Yet another CREATURE FEATURE presentation, SHE-CREATURE is a remake of a 1957 sci-fi flick.
The plot centers around a conman (Rufus Sewell) running a bogus circus sideshow featuring his wife (Carla Gugino) playing a mermaid. But one day Sewell stumbles across a REAL mermaid (Rya Kihlstedt) who has enormous sex appeal, as well as a lust for human blood. Predictably, Sewell seizes this once in a lifetime opportunity and steals the mermaid and places it in a tank aboard a ship bound for America, but soon it becomes apparent that the creature is messing with Gugino's head, and the ships crew learn about the mermaid's diet preferences the hard way.
SHE CREATURE has good performances by Sewell and Gugino, but the movie is a bit too talky for its own good and there's no real suspense to speak of, but there are a couple of gory scenes and a VERY low key sex scene in which sexy Gugino is briefly possessed by the She-Creature's savage libido.