What Are You Watching?

[r_z]

I watched a movie called She-Creature the other day. It's basically a b-movie, but it's made to look like a classic horror movie, features Rufus Sewell and Carla Gugino in leading roles and has involvement from Stan Winston of some sort, probably creature design. The effects are mostly practical with the "endboss" creature looking like a combination of the alien queen from Aliens and some sort of evil Gremlin.

The story goes like this: a showman couple (Sewell and Gugino) are presented with a real mermaid that is held in a closed tank for killing the wife of a seaman. For whatever reason they take her on a cruise (we're talking early 20th century here), where everything goes downhill in typical horror movie fashion. A few seamen disappear or get killed by the creature one after the other, Sewell won't kill her tho, because she'll earn them money as an attraction later and so on. Until they eventually realize where they're going is exactly where the creature wanted them to. So...

Gugino is the real star here, her performance was great. Sewell was also very entertaining.
I'm glad I gave it a chance. The setting isn't something you see very often and the sometimes laughable effects I was able to ignore. Good flick.

[eversonpoe]

I watched a movie called She-Creature the other day. It's basically a b-movie, but it's made to look like a classic horror movie, features Rufus Sewell and Carla Gugino in leading roles and has involvement from Stan Winston of some sort, probably creature design. The effects are mostly practical with the "endboss" creature looking like a combination of the alien queen from Aliens and some sort of evil Gremlin.

The story goes like this: a showman couple (Sewell and Gugino) are presented with a real mermaid that is held in a closed tank for killing the wife of a seaman. For whatever reason they take her on a cruise (we're talking early 20th century here), where everything goes downhill in typical horror movie fashion. A few seamen disappear or get killed by the creature one after the other, Sewell won't kill her tho, because she'll earn them money as an attraction later and so on. Until they eventually realize where they're going is exactly where the creature wanted them to. So...

Gugino is the real star here, her performance was great. Sewell was also very entertaining.
I'm glad I gave it a chance. The setting isn't something you see very often and the sometimes laughable effects I was able to ignore. Good flick.

for real, though, that sounds awesome and VERY up my alley!