... and She Demons shows why quite quickly. Her range of onscreen expressions ranges from slightly bored to mildly perturbed, until, after being menaced by mutant natives and Nazis for the first third of the movie, Irish nearly gets upset enough to grind her teeth a little bit. Best known for playing Sheena in a very cheap TV series, the tall athletic blonde only appeared a few times on screen afterwards. Despite her limitations, Irish is far from the worst element in this movie.
She Demons is a buffet of incompetence and poor planning. Fight choreography straight out of a Three Stooges short. An underground laboratory with a window view of the outside jungle. A blond stunt double for a brown haired man. Captured native girls (who according to the Commandant have been there for ten years!) stage an escape, but interrupt it for a long and terrible dance sequence, allowing themselves to be recaptured. A long lecture by the Commandant about alternative energy, while Irish and her lackeys lounge around casually, with no guards to keep them from overpowering him while he goes on and on about extracting electricity from lava. (That does not work, BTW. No credit for dumb science.) Everything feels like it was improvised on the spot to pad out the runtime with no thought as to how any of it would play when assembled together. The result is a staggering mess, which cannot even manage to make half-dressed native dancers and Nazis with whips watchable!
If this sounds like perfect fodder for Rifftrax, it was. It was one of their funniest episodes. Hilarious and highly recommended. The movie itself is garbage.
She Demons is a buffet of incompetence and poor planning. Fight choreography straight out of a Three Stooges short. An underground laboratory with a window view of the outside jungle. A blond stunt double for a brown haired man. Captured native girls (who according to the Commandant have been there for ten years!) stage an escape, but interrupt it for a long and terrible dance sequence, allowing themselves to be recaptured. A long lecture by the Commandant about alternative energy, while Irish and her lackeys lounge around casually, with no guards to keep them from overpowering him while he goes on and on about extracting electricity from lava. (That does not work, BTW. No credit for dumb science.) Everything feels like it was improvised on the spot to pad out the runtime with no thought as to how any of it would play when assembled together. The result is a staggering mess, which cannot even manage to make half-dressed native dancers and Nazis with whips watchable!
If this sounds like perfect fodder for Rifftrax, it was. It was one of their funniest episodes. Hilarious and highly recommended. The movie itself is garbage.