{"id":24650,"date":"2018-11-13T02:56:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T07:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=24650"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:18","slug":"the-astounding-she-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/11\/13\/the-astounding-she-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Astounding She-Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"…and I am astounded at what I will sit through.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amazon’s Prime Video<\/em> appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. They seem to be topping off their video offerings with a lot of classic movies that I was wishing that Netflix<\/em> would add until I gave up caring about Netflix<\/em><\/a>. They are also overstocking their bargain basement with some remarkable schlock that I haven’t seen since the late, great Doctor Shock<\/em><\/a> ruled Saturday afternoons in the broadcast regions around Philadelphia, PA. Such is the case with The Astounding She-Monster.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Astounding She-Monster<\/em><\/a> is a terrible movie that looks like it was shot on a budget of $27. It involves an affable geologist running afoul of a trio of ruthless kidnappers and their victim. The crooks hole up in the geologist’s cabin and try to figure out how to extract a ransom out of the victim’s old man. That’s when the buxom alien lady wearing a skin tight outfit shows up and starts to kill the cast off one by one with a radioactive touch. They didn’t spend much on effects. The she-monster<\/em> glows and shimmers as if vaseline was smeared on the lens, and her victims simply scream and die when touched. It doesn’t matter. I love these poverty row movies. They always feel as if they were made by people who couldn’t possibly hold down a regular job and the casts are usually rounded out by has-beens, junkies, strippers and communists. Cheesecake model\u00a0Shirley Kilpatrick<\/em><\/a> is terrific as the alien.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I captured the image of the lovely Miss Kilpatrick<\/em> above and played around a bit with Photoshop. The original is in black and white, but a colorized version would be very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and I am astounded at what I will sit through. Amazon’s Prime Video appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. They seem to be topping off their video offerings with a lot of classic movies that I was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3456],"tags":[208,4262,185,4569,4098,4570],"class_list":["post-24650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-1950s","tag-4262","tag-roku","tag-shirley-kilpatrick","tag-streaming","tag-the-astounding-she-monster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6pA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25185,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/04\/11\/pill-poppin-truckers-and-frankenstein-monsters\/","url_meta":{"origin":24650,"position":0},"title":"Pill Poppin’ Truckers and Frankenstein Monsters","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been sitting on the couch lately, doodling while watching trash on my Roku streaming box. 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