EDITOR’S NOTE: She Devil was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, March 22, 1964 at 11:10 p.m., Sunday, August 30, 1964 at 11:10 p.m., Saturday, February 3, 1973 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, March 9, 1974 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, January 11, 1975 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, March 13, 1976 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, March 28, 1978 at 11:30 p.m.

Based on the short story “The Adaptive Ultimate” by Stanley G. Weinbaum, She Devil played double features with Kronos.

Dr. Dan Scott (Jack Kelly) has created a serum that goes into the pineal gland — the part of the body that changes people for science fiction movies — and creates a way for the body to fight off any illness and injury. It’s worked in animals of all shapes and sizes, so Dr. Scott wants to give it to a human, something his mentor Dr. Richard Bach (Albert Dekker) keeps warning him about.

Kyla Zeelas (Mari Blanchard) is dying of tuberculosis when she’s given the unproven formula and before you know it, she’s beating up men, stealing dresses and changing her hair to blonde just by thinking about it. Scott is, by now, in love with her, even when she tries to sleep with a man named Barton Kendall (John Archer) at a party and then kills his wife Evelyn (Fay Baker). The doctors even try to drug her in her sleep to fix that pesky gland and she ends up running away.

After she marries Kendall, she starts to abuse him, even forcing him to shoot her. As he watches, she heals and he still tries to take her to the hospital, where she wrecks their car and kills him. When the doctors catch up to her, they finally gas her and do the surgery against her will, which seems like something that in 2024 could happen again. Kyra goes back to her old self, dying of a disease, but hey, maybe Scott has a chance with her now.

This movie was directed by Kurt Neumann (Rocketship X-M, The Fly), who wrote it with Carroll Young, It looks better than it should, as it was shot by Karl Struss and steals a car crash from Preminger’s Angel Face.

Gorgeous demon! They created an inhuman being who destroyed everything she touched! The woman they couldn’t kill! Man, what a tagline.

You can watch this on YouTube.