Just what I expected

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Notable actors: Barbara Steele! Ian Ogilvy! Mel Welles!This is the least serious Barbara Steele sixties horror film you'll sit through, and I'll tell you right now that if you are a Barbara Steele fan be warned as she disappears halfway through the film. I thought I was getting some sort of deal where Babs was possessed by some undead witch, but the witch is played by someone else! I want my money back...I'd be saying if I'd actually paid to watch this.Babs and her equally snidey, sarcastic husband are on holiday in Romania, clearly there just to make fun of the locals and the communist regime everyone is under (over and over again, throughout the film). They end up at some terrible hotel in the middle of nowhere and meet "Ex" Count Van Helsing, descendant of the famous vampire killer, who tells them the story of a witch who cursed the area before she was drowned in a lake. Not interested, the couple retire to bed for some filthy squeezy, only to find that the hotel owner is watching them. One serious assault later, the couple head off, crashing into the aforementioned witch/lake. A truck driver fishes the two out of the lake and drives back to the hotel, which had me guessing rightly that this must be a very low budget film. Turns out that the guy is okay, but Babs seems to have been replaced by that horrible witch we saw being killed at the start of the film. The rest of the film details the husband and Van Helsing's attempt to get rid of the witch's spirit and bring back Babs...and (sigh), this involves a lot of slapstick comedy. That's the thing with this film. It whips from out and out horror, like the witch rather bloodily killing a guy with a sickle, to Keystone Cops type car chases and for me doesn't gel too well. It's almost got the same atmosphere as the Fearless Vampire Killers, which isn't a good thing in my book. I know Michael Reeves has got a cult following for The Witchfinder General (and for dying so young I guess), and as a first film a lot of it works, but the comedy seems too forced for me. Nice Italian cinematography, mind you.

first off I actually liked this movie,, very quaint nice countryside scenery , decent characters, plus Barbara Steele always a joy to look at. a woman get's into an accident and the car goes into a lake,, the husband,, or boyfriend,, survives,, the woman is dead.. or is she really dead.. apparently the woman inherits the soul of a witch who was drowned in some kind of dunking machine, hundreds of years ago by the natives. there is a lot of comedy and laughs in this one, as it is fun to watch some of the characters try to hide the body, and to circumvent the husband from finding out if his wife is dead or alive.. this is a hard one to explain, because it was a little confusing I grant everyone that much,, I guess you will have to sit down and watch it for yourself and see what you think . personally I thought it was decent,, average "b" movie.

Michael Reeves is the man who left the horror-loving universe baffled with one pondering question: what if … ? Would this young and obviously multi-talented genre director would have delivered many more horror classics if he hadn't passed away at the age of 25? He probably would have. His last film, "Witchfinder General" starring Vincent Price, is widely and righteously considered as one of the greatest period pieces ever accomplished. Anyone who directs such a film at the relatively tender age of 25 is bound to deliver several more masterworks. Reeves' other film "The Sorcerers" is perhaps slightly less memorable and overwhelming, but nevertheless a modest little gem for horror fans to discover. "She Beast" was his first achievement as a director. Quite frankly, this isn't a good film at all… "She Beast" tells a typically Gothic horror tale that starts in the 18th century, in a small Transylvanian village terrorized by a hideous witch that kills little children. After yet another vile murder, the villagers organize a lynching mob and drown her in the town's lake. Two hundred years later, the British lad Philip and his lovely wife Veronica are driving through the Transylvanian countryside on their honeymoon. Nearby the lake, Philip loses control over the steering wheel and crashes the car into the water. He manages to save himself quite quickly but, instead of the lovely Veronique, the hideous witch emerges from the lake with a vengeance. Philip, with the help of a descendant of Dr. Van Helsing, must find a method to exorcise the witch's evil spirit without killing the body of his beloved wife. The plot of "She Beast" is very routine and derivative, which is exactly what Michael Reeves must have thought as well, as he tried to flavor it with misplaced comedy. Especially during the final act of the film, when Philip and Van Helsing are confronted with the dimwits from the local police, the film is stuffed with dumb slapstick situations and wannabe humorous interludes. The chase sequence, for example, is extremely overlong and actually belongs more in a Benny Hill sketch. Barbara Steele, already a couple of years passed the high point of her career, is scandalously underused! She's only in the film for a good 15 minutes, albeit with a glorious almost nude scene, but then she gets replaced by an anonymous actress wearing the – hands down – ugliest make up in history of horror cinema. As illustrated on the DVD cover, the hag has a swollen face and terrible dental hygiene, and the weird thing is that she already looked like that before she was killed by villagers in the 1800's! Reeves' regular Ian Ogilvy is decent enough as the worried husband and there's an interesting role for genre veteran Mel Welles as a voyeuristic innkeeper. Not very recommended, except of course if you want to see everything Barbara Steele has ever starred in and/or you want to see the other work from the director of "Witchfinder General"

In the '60s, a zany oldster (an aristocrat, a Count Van Helsing, the senile descendant of the exorcist whose deeds had been chronicled by Stoker) reads violent histories of medieval Transylvania, where witch—hunts were business as usual, the casual hobby of the backward natives headed by a grim cleric. When a Western young couple arrives in those remote Transylvanian lands, stamped by the Bolshevik rule, Count Van Helsing approaches them, like all these exorcists do, and he begins talking about witches. The young couple takes a room at an inn.Mrs. Steele plays a young English wife, 'Veronica'.One doesn't need to know beforehand about Mrs. Steele, in order to notice her in a movie. She can speak for herself. She deserves her considerable fame. In the bed scene, we see no more than a bit of Mrs. Steele's nice tits.The innkeeper is a libidinous, a voyeur, he spies on the English couple, Mrs. Steele and her lover, while they are doing a love scene. So, the innkeeper is a voyeur; in fact, so is the director—and the viewer. The innkeeper almost finds thus his death, being beaten atrociously and severely punished for his indiscretion by the slick lover of Mrs. Steele; but he recovers, of course. You see, they used to beat people for spying on Mrs. Steele.A monument of bad directing, bad writing and bad acting, LA SORELLA ... is a violent comedy, also a movie from the nice Mrs. Steele's youth.