SHE-BEAST

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Foreign; Horror
• Plot: A small town in 18th century Transylvania is being terrorized by an evil witch. When a child is brutally attacked, the villagers capture the fiend and sentence her to death by dunking chair, but not before she casts a curse on them and their descendants. Two hundred years later, young newlyweds Veronica (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday) and Philip (Ian Ogilvy, And Now the Screaming Starts) pass through the town on a tour of the Carpathians, only to have their car pulled into a lake by an unseen force. A passing truck driver quickly rescues two bodies from the wreck. One is Philip, battered but alive, and the other is... the witch, back from the dead to wreak havoc on the town once again! Can Philip and his newfound friend, the great grandson of Professor Van Helsing, capture the witch and bring back Veronica?; ; The She-Beast aka Revenge of the Blood Beast was the feature film debut of director Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General, The Sorcerers), and is presented here with a new transfer in its original 'Scope aspect ratio from extremely rare 35mm vault materials.
• Cast: Barbara Steele; John Karlsen; Ian Ogilvy; Mel Welles; Jay Riley; Richard Watson; Edward B. Randolph; Peter Grippe; Lucretia Love; Tony Antonelli; Kevin Welles; Woody Welles; Michael Reeves; Paul Maslansky; Gioacchino Gengarelli; Nira Omri; Ralph Ferraro; Lars Bloch
• Director: Michael Reeves
• Runtime: 1:19
• Company: Leith Films, Yugoslavia/UK/Italy, Dark Sky Films
• Media Format: Movie