人鱼怪兽 (1956)
The She-Creature
卡洛·隆巴迪博士声称，通过催眠，他可以让他的病人恢复前世的记忆，从而证明轮回的存在。他还声称这些前世的灵魂可以被带出体外，获得肉体形式。一个似乎消失在海里的生物所实施的一系列暴力谋杀表明，隆巴迪的说法可能是正确的。医学界和科学界认为他是一个彻头彻尾的骗子，但一位商人却看到了利用隆巴迪的能力发大财的机会。
- 上映日期
- 1956-08-01
- TMDB
- 4.1 / 10 (37)
- 片长（分钟）
- 1小时17分钟
- 类型
- 科幻, 恐怖
- 导演
- Edward L. Cahn
演员阵容
- Chester Morris — Dr. Carlo Lombardi
- Marla English — Andrea Talbott / Elizabeth Wetherby
- 汤姆·康威 — Timothy Chappel
- Cathy Downs — Dorothy Chappel
- Lance Fuller — Dr. Ted Erickson
- Ron Randell — Police Lt. Ed James
- Frieda Inescort — Mrs. Chappel
- 弗兰克·詹克斯 — Plainclothes Sgt. with Lt James
- El Brendel — Olaf, the butler
- Paul Dubov — Johnny, the barker
- William Hudson — Bob, the ex-fiancé
- Flo Bert — Marta, the Maid
趣闻
The She-Creature is a 1956 American black-and-white science fiction horror film, released by American International Pictures (AIP) from a script by Lou Rusoff. It was produced by Alex Gordon, directed by Edward L. Cahn, and stars Chester Morris, Marla English, and Tom Conway, with Frieda Inescort and El Brendel in smaller roles. The producers hired Marla English because they thought she bore a strong resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor.
Production
The story was inspired by the success of the best-selling Morey Bernstein book The Search for Bridey Murphy, which concerned hypnotism and reincarnation. Exhibitor Jerry Zigmond suggested this subject might make a good film, and AIP commissioned Lou Rusoff to write a script.
AIP did not have enough money to entirely finance the film, so the company asked producer Alex Gordon if he could contribute the remainder. Israel Berman, a colleague of Gordon's brother Richard, knew financier Jack Doppelt, who agreed to provide $40,000 of the film's $104,000 budget.
Edward L. Cahn persuaded his old actor friend Edward Arnold to star for $3,000 for one week's work, and also cast Peter Lorre as the hypnotist. Arnold died two days before production began, while Peter Lorre read the script after which he immediately pulled out of the film and fired his agent for committing him to the project without consulting him first.
The monster costume was created by master make-up artist Paul Blaisdell and is considered one of his best. Parts of the costume were re-used in three later AIP films. Blaisdell nicknamed the monster "Cuddles". The costume was eventually destroyed in a flood that hit his Topanga Canyon home in 1979.
As usual, Blaisdell played the monster in every scene. Blaisdell nearly got injured when the director instructed him to smash his way through a wooden door in one of the film's action sequences, without realizing the door had been reinforced with plywood. Also in the beach scenes where the creature had to be seen emerging from the surf, Blaisdell was told to wade in up to his waist instead of his knees.
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