About the only "astounding" thing that you're bound to see in this film is the astounding incompetence that prevails.Well, OK, sexy Shirley Kilpatrick as the "She-Monster" was pretty astounding, too. Especially in that skintight, metallic spacesuit of hers. Yeah. It looked like that she-monster had literally been poured into her outfit. Zowie! And, actually, another astounding thing about this dumb Z-Grader was that Director Ronald Ashcroft filmed the frickin' thing in a record 8 days on an $18,000 budget. And, believe me, every single one of those dollars shows quite conspicuously in this particular production.As the story goes - Nat and Esther, a pair of Hollywood kidnappers, abduct heiress Margaret Chaffee and then take over the country home of geologist, Dick Cutler, where they plan to hold Margaret until her ransom money is collected.In the midst of all the commotion at Cutler's place, an alien spacecraft crash-lands in the woods nearby. From the burning wreckage emerges a seductive, blond, alien-beauty in a glowing spandex outfit, high-heels, fresh lipstick and incredible eyebrows.As it is soon discovered by the occupants of the Cutler home, this "she-monster's" touch is deadly (in the strictest sense of the word).The Astounding She-Monster is "bottom-of-the-barrel" Z-Grade movie-making all the way, featuring an alien who not once utters a single, solitary sound, or word, throughout the entire course of the story.Trivia notes - During filming, Shirley Kilpatrick's costume ripped, and since the film was done on such a low budget and on a tight schedule, she couldn't get a new one - This is why she walks backwards as she leaves the room.This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made.

Gangster: "Shut up, you lousy drunk!" Floozy: "I prefer to be referred to as an alcoholic!" If you view this as a sci-fi movie, it doesn't rate. As existentialist film noir, it's off the scale. Two aging gangsters and their gin-soaked moll kidnap a Beverly Hills socialite who looks like the cadaverous victim of a 1930's vampire movie. Through a series of misadventures, they end up in a remote geologist's cabin being stalked by an iridescent stripper from outer space. Every time the alien enters the cabin, they run outside and get in the jeep. Then she corners them on the road and they run into the woods. Then she finds them in the woods and they go back into the cabin. This sequence is repeated three or four times as characters are killed one by one. Imagine "Ten Little Indians" if it had been written by Sartre instead of Agatha Christie. The socialite gets lines like, "But, Dick, isn't radium in solid form a metal?" and my favorite, "I had no idea that a geologist used so many acids in his work." The hyper dramatic voice-over for several long sequences reinforces the idea that the plot for the film was actually developed in post-production. But then, existentialist film noir should be improv, shouldn't it?

Back in the late 70s a local TV station (in MA) used to show this constantly on Saturday afternoons. It's about a tall glowing woman from another world who wanders around aimlessly in the woods. She's photographed with lights on her and in sort of a "wavy" way--it's hard to describe. She runs into some gangsters, their "moll" and two people they're holding hostage. The rest of the film involves them running from her (bullets don't hurt her) and her touching them and (inadvertently) killing them (she's radioactive). It all leads up to a totally ridiculous finale--with a moronic "twist".I found this fascinating in high school...but not because it was good. It was LOUSY...but in a really interesting way. There's a narrator that sounds like he's drugged out, the special effects aren't special at all and the dialogue and story are predictable. The acting is as good as it can be (i.e. not very). Still, it IS interesting but I can only truthfully give it a 1. Still....try catching it. There's NOTHING like it.Also your only chance to see Shirley Stoler as the alien in her first movie (she's billed as Shirley Kilpatrick). She's tall, young and SLIM!!!

The Astounding She Monster isn't exactly the scariest alien monster I've ever seen. The monster consists of an attractive woman in a one piece skin tight costume that glows. In addition to the glow, she constantly goes in and out of focus to make her look more alien in appearance. This is another low budget movie from the 50s that isn't very good and isn't so bad that it falls under the category of "It's so bad it's good". It's a 62 minute film and that's about as long as it should be. If it were drawn out any longer, it could only get worse. I'm not sorry I watched it and I know I'll not forget the movie, but I am hard pressed to recommend it to anyone except those wanting to see a cheap, low budget 50s Sci-Fi movie. Actually there are plenty of people out there that want to see just that. To get a complete taste of 50s Sci-Fi genre movies, you should see a couple movies such as this. This is an example of what was out there at the theaters and drive ins. It's not a good classic movie but it sure isn't anywhere near the worst.