THE SHE BEAST 1966 Horror Film the film stars Barbara Steele, John Karlsen and Ian Ogilvy. Ogilvy is best known as the star of the television series Return of the Saint (1978–79), in which he assumed the role of Simon Templar from Roger Moore (1962–69).

The film starts in Transylvania with an alcoholic, Count Von Helsing (Karlsen), reading from a text, which begins a historical narrative of the witch, Bardella. The film flashes back roughly 200 years to a religious service during the reading, where a child shows up and reports Bardella's location. Hysteria breaks out because of the pastor's leadership, and the congregation sets out to find and kill the witch. However, one of the villagers warns the others against killing her, as he explains the Count must exorcise the witch first, lest she will not die and will linger on as a curse for generations to come. Nevertheless, the congregation sets out and finds the witch. Upon finding her, the pastor directs the crowd to take her to the lake, where she will be impaled and dunked. As Bardella is tied into the chair, she curses the people and their descendants for what they are doing and threatens she will return. The Count and his attendant secretly watch the execution from a distance upon a hilltop and seemingly purposely do not intervene. Then the story returns to the reflective Von Helsing.

I found this to be an average film with an average storyline. A witch is put to death and curses the townsfolk, years later she is brought back and possesses a tourists body Veronica (Barbara Steele), to do her bidding. The film has comic, horror, gothic overtones but ends up a bit of a mish-mash.