The She-Creature [1956]

It's been a while since we watched a film this old but the title was pretty hard to resist. The film is about a hypnotist who controls a woman who hates him. He makes the woman enter into the lives of people in the past in the least impression parlor trick ever (she lies down and talks about who she is now; often with a very fake British accent). There are also a bunch of murders going on and people suspect that the hypnotist has something to do with it, but can't prove it. We have a whole side cast of characters including a scientist who's bad at sciencing, a detective, and a rich guy who lets the hypnotist live in his house because his wife is really into his show. The hypnotist makes a ton of money on the story but still refuses to leave the rich guy's house. It turns out that the hypnotist is using the woman to summon a primitive sea creature to carry out murders. The scientist falls for the woman and hypnotist tries to sick the creature on him but she manages to get control of the creature and kill the hypnotist with it.

Overall, there were a few funny moments with the unimpressive hypnotism shows, bad science, and the creature's costume but it wasn't really funny enough to recommend.

Spoon Rating: 3