****SPOILERS**** With bad movie director Ed Wood as the behind the scene consultant the film "The Astounding She-Monster" ends up a slight cut above most of the like-wise cheaply made bad films of the 1950's. This meteor lands on earth as this alien woman dressed in a skin tight silver jump-suite materializes killing anyone , human or animal, that she touches. It just happens that a kidnapping took place and the kidnappers Nat Burdell Brad Conley & the booze guzzling Jeanne Tatum end up taking their victim socialite Margaret Chaffee to this cabin in the woods right where the meteor landed not quite realizing what their in for. It the cabin lives geologist Dick Cluter and his faithful companion his dog Egan who together with Margaret are held hostage by the trio of kidnappers.
It's when the alien woman starts to run amok and starts doing her "thing" in radiating anyone that she touches that the kidnappers start to lose interest in Margaret and start to try to figure out ways to escape before they themselves end up getting radiated to death by her. It's when everything seems lost that Cluter finds a way to destroy, with a platinum based solution, this alien woman from outer space before she does any more damage. And when he does Cutler as well as Margaret find out, from a note she left, that she was mankind's last hope in surviving the destruction that's soon to come. A destruction that mankind, with the use of nuclear weapons, is soon to make upon itself.
***SPOILERS*** The depressing ending in the movie was repeated in both Ed Wood's bad movie classic "Plan Nine from Outer Space" as well as the 1962 "Twilight Zone" episode "The Gift" with mankind not realizing that the alien whom they fear is in fact trying to help them in saving them from their own self destruction. The difference here is that the space woman instead of trying to save the human race was doing her best to destroy it herself which didn't make her any friends on earth.
It's when the alien woman starts to run amok and starts doing her "thing" in radiating anyone that she touches that the kidnappers start to lose interest in Margaret and start to try to figure out ways to escape before they themselves end up getting radiated to death by her. It's when everything seems lost that Cluter finds a way to destroy, with a platinum based solution, this alien woman from outer space before she does any more damage. And when he does Cutler as well as Margaret find out, from a note she left, that she was mankind's last hope in surviving the destruction that's soon to come. A destruction that mankind, with the use of nuclear weapons, is soon to make upon itself.
***SPOILERS*** The depressing ending in the movie was repeated in both Ed Wood's bad movie classic "Plan Nine from Outer Space" as well as the 1962 "Twilight Zone" episode "The Gift" with mankind not realizing that the alien whom they fear is in fact trying to help them in saving them from their own self destruction. The difference here is that the space woman instead of trying to save the human race was doing her best to destroy it herself which didn't make her any friends on earth.