A beautiful female extraterrestrial (Shirley Kilpatrick) – dressed in a skintight metallic suit with high heels, lipstick, and jet-propelled eyebrows – lands in the Sierra Madre mountains and goes around killing by touch and glowing mysteriously (thanks to her “deadly radium ray”).
Throw in a couple of wiseguy gangsters (Kenne Duncan and Ewing Brown), an alcoholic gun moll (Jeanne Tatum), a rich kidnapped heiress (Marilyn Harvey), and a lonely bachelor geologist (Robert Clarke) who lives in a remote cabin and talks to his dog, and you get the picture.
It turns out (after the geologist finally kills the She-Monster) that she was actually a peaceful emissary from the “Master of the Council of Planets of the Galaxy” with an invitation for Earth to join the Council.
She had killed only in self-defence. Oops!
Producer/director Ronnie Ashcroft used his wife, Lorraine, as Shirley Kilpatrick’s stunt double to keep expenses down (the entire movie cost just $18,000).
Released in the UK as The Mysterious Invader, the movie – which screened in many US cinemas as a double feature with Viking Women and the Sea Serpent – is listed among “The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made” in The Official Razzie Movie Guide.
Dick Cutler
Robert Clarke Nat Burdell
Kenne Duncan Margaret Chaffee
Marilyn Harvey Esther Malone
Jeanne Tatum The She-Monster
Shirley Kilpatrick Brad Conley
Ewing Brown
Director
Ronnie Ashcroft
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Throw in a couple of wiseguy gangsters (Kenne Duncan and Ewing Brown), an alcoholic gun moll (Jeanne Tatum), a rich kidnapped heiress (Marilyn Harvey), and a lonely bachelor geologist (Robert Clarke) who lives in a remote cabin and talks to his dog, and you get the picture.
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