She Creature (2001)
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20% of critics liked it
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40% of users liked it
(2,311 ratings)
A couple running a rideshow discover the find of a lifetime, only to realize it could well be the death of them in this horror story. Angus Shaw (Rufus Sewell) and his wife, Lillian (Carla Gugino), run a travelling carnival which barnstorms the countryside in the early 1900s. The Shaws' circus… More A couple running a rideshow discover the find of a lifetime, only to realize it could well be the death of them in this horror story. Angus Shaw (Rufus Sewell) and his wife, Lillian (Carla Gugino), run a travelling carnival which barnstorms the countryside in the early 1900s. The Shaws' circus includes a sideshow which promises much in the way of monsters and human oddities, but for the most part delivers second-rate actors dressed up in costumes or using smoke-and-mirrors effects to fool the customers. Lillian herself offers the most spectacular illusion, posing as a fake mermaid. One night, Angus offers a helping hand to an aging sailor (Aubrey Morris), and the old salt offers to show Angus and Lillian something truly amazing -- a real, honest-to-Pete mermaid (Rya Kihlstedt). Astounded by what he's seen, Angus decides the fortune he could make exhibiting a real mermaid is too great to resist, and he steals the creature from the sailor. Angus and Lillian waste no time booking passage to the United States with their find, but en route to America they discover this mermaid is hardly a benign creature -- she has a taste for human blood, and soon the ship's crew is shrinking at an alarming rate. Lillian also finds herself developing a strange psychological bond with the mermaid, a connection more powerful than her vows to her husband. She Creature was produced for the Cinemax premium cable service as part of a series of "Creature Features" produced by special effects wizard Stan Winston and former American International Pictures head Samuel Z. Arkoff, most of which were inspired by horror films AIP made in the 1950s. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sebastian Gutierrez
- Written By
- Sebastian Gutierrez
- Genres
- Television, Horror
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 2001 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Mark Bourne, DVDJournal.com
If the sailing ship had as many holes as the script it could never leave port, but She Creature is sufficiently fun hokum splashing around in atmospheric, albeit familiar, territory.
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Mark Bourne, DVDJournal.com
Columbia TriStar's She Creature DVD offers both widescreen (1.78:1 anamorphic) and full-frame (1.33:1) transfers, which look as good as you would expect from a recent TV movie.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...all we really want out of this movie is a bad-*** mermaid killin' lots of folks. But we don't get that until the final 15 minutes.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Because Bram Stoker's Dracula was published seven years prior to the events of She Creature, Angus and his merry crew have no excuse for not foreseeing their inevitable fates.
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Cast
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Rufus Sewell
as Angus Shaw
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Carla Gugino
as Lillian
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Rya Kihlstedt
as Mermaid
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Jim Piddock
as Capt. Dunn
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Gil Bellows
as Miles
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Reno Wilson
as Bailey
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Mark Aiken
as Gifford
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Aubrey Morris
as Woolrich
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Fintan McKeown
as Skelly
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Jon Sklaroff
as Russian Eddie
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Matthew J. Roseman
as Jenkins
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Brian Sieve
as Dixon
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Hannah Sim
as The She Creature
