Very well executed

Beautiful, moving film.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I saw this movie - for free, thank heavens - at my timeshare on Kauai. This was one of many films shot on Kauai, more movies were shot here than any other island in the Hawaiian chain. Since I normally like Corman's movies, and many scenes were shot at places I've been on the island, most obviously Hanalei pier, I thought, "How bad could it be?" You know you're in trouble when you have trouble getting through half of a very short movie. My friends and I continually looked at each other as if to say, "Are you enjoying any of this?" Bad cinematography made it hard to recognize places I was at only hours before! Whoever did the transfer to DVD - and why?? - either found the worst print available, or used an ancient duplicator. There is one plus I can give this film, I now can say I saw a movie that rates lower than Plan 9 from Outer Space. OK, half a movie. Do not see this movie if you like Roger Corman's movies, you'll change your mind.

1956 was an extraordinarily prolific year for director Roger Corman. It saw the filmmaker complete no less than eight (8!) pictures, including four that would prove among his most popular: "It Conquered the World," "Attack of the Crab Monsters," "Not of This Earth" and "The Undead." Toward the end of the year, Corman & Co. repaired to the Hawaiian island of Kauai and shot two films simultaneously: "Thunder Over Hawaii" and "She Gods of Shark Reef." Hardly on the same level as those other four films, the first was a tale of modern-day pirates, and the latter a story about two brothers, one a murderer on the lam, who are stranded on an island (in the Philippines or Indonesia, the viewer must infer) that is populated solely by pearl-diving women. These gals are ruled by a shrill-voiced termagant in a muumuu, and worship the sharks that infest the local reef. (No viewer, apparently, has ever been able to figure out who the titular "she gods" are!) Ultimately released in 1958, the film is a fun little "B picture" that, at 63 minutes, flies by fairly quickly. Corman has since been quoted as saying, in reference to these Hawaiian productions, "Visually, these two movies are probably the most beautiful I've ever shot." Sadly, you'd never know it by looking at this DVD from the never-dependable Alpha Video. Colors look completely washed out and blurry (although not quite as egregiously as on this company's DVD of Corman's "Swamp Women"!) and the sound is horrendous, often buried under the crash of perpetually booming surf. Indeed, this DVD looks so very crummy that it is almost impossible for a viewer to imagine "She Gods" in a "beautiful" pristine state, as theatre goers must have seen it 50 years ago. I cannot conceive of anyone but a die-hard Corman completist finding any satisfaction from this dismal-looking product. Thanks again, Alpha Video!

What exactly is the genre of SHE GODS? Not Sci-Fi; not horror...but, Corman. Director Roger Corman has two brothers, one dodging a murder warrant, shipwrecked on an island paradise inhabited by luscious beauties who dive for valuable pearls. The brothers are stranded for ten days which during they find out that they landed in the middle of a cult that needs to sacrifice a virgin to the sharks among the coral. The likable brother tries to keep his new heartthrob from being shark dinner, while his criminal brother is stealing the cache of pearls. Cast of characters include: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell, Ed Nelson and Jeanne Gerson.

This is not a science fiction movie as the collection states. It begins with a theft of some guns. It looks promising. Who are these people the men are stealing from? How will they retaliate. They do their deed and off they go. The next thing, they are washed ashore on an island full of Polynesian women (well, most of them are). They are welcomed in and given some pretty cool swim suits. The hang around but realize that when "the boat" comes, one of them is going to have to face the music for his checkered past. The good brother falls in love with a young woman when he realizes she is going to be sacrificed to the shark god. He rescues her and then kidnaps the old lady who runs a pearl diving business on the island. She obviously does business with non-islanders but also continues to do these ritual sacrifices. Apparently, the population of the island is getting smaller. The young women seem to go willingly. The movie ends about as suspected. It's just an endless, talky, somewhat pointless piece of seaweed. Now where can I get one of those swimsuits?