mark.waltz Deliciously campy island adventure, this colorful tale of an alleged curse on an island of women is a hoot. A wanted killer and his pal (Bill Cord and Don Durant) are shipwrecked on the isle of beauty where the suspicious den-mother like queen (Jeanne Gerson) warns them of impending revenge by the shark god if they remain. Romance erupts between one of the girls (Lisa Montell) and the pal, leading the crone to drastic measures which comes to a possible tragic end. Complete with a lush theme song sung by Sylvia Syms, the film grabs at you like shark's teeth and never lets go. The scantily clad men leave little to the imagination, their loin cloths barely covering the flesh underneath. Impressive underwater photography also aids in making this rise above its low-budget status.

MartinHafer This is a very early Roger Corman film, though it bears little similarity to most his brilliant films. While this is a low-budget film, the dialog, acting and direction are so lackluster that it's hard sticking with the film.The dull mess begins with a couple crooks doing bad things (such as bashing a guy over the head). Eventually, their boat is wrecked and they find themselves on a Polynesian island (actually one of the Hawaiian ones) populated with only women. Apparently some company owns the place and the women spend their time working for the pearl diving industry. The crooked guys want in on the action and the ladies are amazingly dull and listless--so it's easy to understand that they seem somewhat immune to their charms. There's more to the film than this, but who cares?! The film lacks the cheesy charm you'd find in a Corman film like "Wasp Women" or the humor of "Bucket of Blood" or the creepiness of his Poe-like tales. Instead, it looks like it was just an excuse to go on location for a working vacation.Dull and pointless.

Kitten-eating-ATM One way of looking at this movie is that it's one of the worst to come from its time and place. In this context, we see two young, good-looking hunks, both outlaws, who end up stranded on a tropical island inhabited by primitive hot white women who all speak broken English and cling to weird taboos and traditions, such as believing the sharks are gods, or some such nonsense.Another way of looking at this movie is that clever editing could have turned it into a touching story about two men who, while vacationing in Hawaii near the Hospital for Brain Damaged Women, discover just how attracted they are to each other soon after one of them tries to stop being gay by dating one of the native women. In this sense, one could consider this movie a well done piece of cinema history, especially since it was ahead of its time on the topic of civil rights.It is by imagining the latter scenario that this movie can be made entertaining enough to sit though. If you watch this by taking everything at face value, this flick is way too boring to finish. I'd say the only major motivation anyone would have to watch this movie is if they'd purchased some sort of boxed set that includes this, which is, incidentally, the only reason I watched it.The full synopsis goes like this: Two young, well-built dudes end up stranded on a Hawaiian beach and decide to never wear shirts again. They encounter a civilization of aforementioned broken English-speaking women led by a psychotic mother matron character who is obsessed with local tradition, which involves human sacrifice to appease the shark god. This means feeding a few of the young hotties to a mid-sized shark that may or may not be alive.One of the guys, Chris (Bill Cord) eventually falls in love with one of the native babes, Mahia (Lisa Montell), much to the irritation of Chris's ambiguously gay partner, Jim (Don Durant). Since the mother matron (Jeanne Gerson) is a nasty old woman who hates men, she decides to have Mahia sacrificed to the shark god to make herself feel better about neither Chris nor Jim finding her attractive.SHE GODS OF SHARK REEF: it's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it's far from the best. The good news is that this sucker is, I do believe, public domain. Those who might search for it could possibly locate it online for free.

Michael O'Keefe 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.