'She will come out of the lake again, and she must kill.'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World
‘Hiya beautiful’
We’ve always said that if you’re gonna do remakes,
pick a bad film with a good premise that got screwed up 1st time round
‘The prognostication is...
...murder’
1956’s The She Creature is about a hypnotist predicting murders
then using the monstrous physical manifestation of a woman’s past life to commit them.
‘Well now there’s a brilliant idea’
Unfortunately the remake, Creature of Destruction, was directed by Larry Buchanan
‘You’re not serious?’
Need I say more?
‘Why are you wasting your time on me?’
Doreena’s relationship is in trouble.
‘You’ve had me in deep hypnosis and I’ve asked you not to do that’
Every couple has their problems
and Doreena’s is that her partner, Dr Basso keeps regressing her to a past life.
'Where were you born?'
in which she was apparently the prehistoric ancestor of Kermit the Frog.
Why the physical manifestation of this past life seems to live in the nearby lake is never explained.
‘That’s a lotta help.’
Which is odd because this movie puts a lot of stress on science.
‘As a scientist, I keep an open mind.’
Very laudable.
‘We merely try to explain the unexplainable’
Clearly a proper scientist.
‘Research has proven that some people have the ability to see into the future.
’ Or not. But what’s your psychological analysis of the killer?
‘I saw those bodies and whoever mutilated them has a very special problem’
How insightful.
‘All this hocus pocus is supposed to be scientific?’
It really is.
The problem with our hero here is that he’s a scientist who, in general, believes in occult phenomena.
‘My mind is open.’
Empty I think is the word you’re looking for.
‘It’s possible’
But he doesn’t believe in these particular phenomena.
‘Impressive, but hardly convincing’
and these ones are real!
‘In that case I’d rank right along with the village idiot’
He’s also engaged to one girl
‘Hello darling,’
'Hell-o'
But messes around with Doreena.
‘You certainly picked a hot spot for our first session’
Obviously this is cheap and badly made.
‘Tell me something new.’
But there’s other issues too:
why does this man ride up on his motorbike...
sing a song
singing - I dont feel alone'
and ride off again, leaving his guitar behind, without any further interaction.
How does being mutilated by a sea moster leave you like this?
And at what point do you admit that this might not be a patch of fog.
‘Possibly fear of the unknown coupled with some strange sound made him think he saw that thing,
all he really saw was a patch of fog’
But the real question has to be: why is Dr Basso, doing this?
‘You will find this most interesting’
At first it might seem to be money.
‘I think it’s time we split 60/40 in my favour’
but actually it’s love
‘You will love me as I love you’
Some men send flowers, others chocolates, some buy expensive jewellery,
Dr Basso prefers to repeatedly hypnotise a girl against her will
to inhabit the body of a prehistoric sea monster
and murder people in the hope of winning a lucrative stage contract.
‘Just brilliant’
I’m not saying it definitely wouldn’t work,
but maybe try flowers and chocolates first.
.‘Was that supposed to be a joke?’
In the end, Doreena is killed, taking the creature with her.
While Dr Basso
‘Soon we will be together in spirit’
Boy, that girl just can’t catch a break.
Which B-movie deserves a better remake than this?
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'Thank you Ladies and Gentleman.'