She Demons

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Not to be confused with Demona, She Demons of the Swamp, She devil, or Devil Woman (disambiguation).
She Demons
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Theatrical release half-sheet display poster
Directed byRichard E. Cunha
Written by
Richard E. Cunha
Produced by
StarringIrish McCalla

Victor Sen Yung
CinematographyMeredith M. Nicholson
Edited byWilliam Shea
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byAstor Pictures
Release date
March 1958[1]
Running time
77 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65,000 (estimated)

She Demons is a 1958 independently made black-and-white science fiction film, produced by and , directed and co-written by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Irish McCalla, , and Victor Sen Yung. Made in the tongue-in-cheek style of Men's adventure magazines, Nazisploitation, and The Island of Lost Souls, the film was distributed by Astor Pictures in March, 1958 as a double feature with Cunha's Giant from the Unknown.[2]

Plot[]

During a tropical storm, a pleasure boat is shipwrecked on an uncharted island and is presumed lost with all hands after the storm clears. The four survivors' shipboard radio can only receive but not transmit, and they hear that their castaway island will soon be used by U.S. Navy aircraft as a bombing target.

Finding strange-looking human footprints and hearing the sound of jungle drums, three of the party explore the island. They soon discover the island is populated by deformed, fanged women who are the product of scientific experiments of Nazis led by a mad scientist and war criminal, who rules the island with an iron swastika.

The survivors eventually manage to blow up the island before the Navy jets can do so.

Cast[]

Production[]

After completing Giant from the Unknown, Astor Pictures told Richard Cunha that the film would only be accepted if he made another co-feature, to be released by Astor on a double bill. This led Cunha to make She Demons. Astor advanced $80,000, with Cunha completing the film for $65,000.[3] Filming locations for She Demons were at Ferndale, California, Griffith Park, and Paradise Cove Pier in Malibu, California.[4] David Koehler handled the special effects.[5] H.E. Barrie, who co-wrote the screenplay, also wrote the scripts for two of Cunha's other 1950s films, Missile to the Moon and Frankenstein's Daughter.[6]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-89950-170-2. Page 766
  2. ^ Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-89950-170-2. Page 766
  3. ^ p.113-115 Weaver, Tom Richard Cunha & Arthur Jacobs Interview in Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes: The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Classic Interviews McFarland, 2000
  4. ^ "She Demons (1958) - Filming Locations - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  5. ^ Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-89950-170-2. Page 765
  6. ^ Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-89950-170-2. Pages 742, 756, 765.

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