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Movie Reviews of The Wasp Woman
Movie Review: Feminist Sci-Fi from 1960?
Summary: 4 Stars
I was expecting a typical Roger Corman movie when I caught this on an obscure DirecTV channel.
Imagine, in 1960, a movie about a female CEO who clearly wears all the pants at her successful company, plus she is bright as heck. Now there's a fantasy premise for the year 1960!
As the other reviewers have commented, the special effects are weak, and the monster doesn't even become visible until 80% of the way through the movie.
However, the premise is so unique for the time, I was more than willing to stick with it. And I found the protagonist to be an interesting character. You won't see another sci-fi movie with a strong female CEO as the protagonist.
Movie Review: Roger Corman Was A Master Comic Director
Summary: 4 Stars
Face it, some of Corman's films are so over-the-top, you know he had to be milking them for a few laughs. ("Bucket of Blood" comes to mind, as does "Humanoids that went deep"...er, I mean "From the deep.")
Still, he keeps you entertained. much in the vein of William Castle ("Homicidal," "The Tingler".) The quality is quite fine and while the special effects are laughable by today's standards (a fifth grade drama class could produce the same thing), the film still delivers a pretty sharp message: That "It's not nice to fool (with) Mother Nature."
Movie Review: An Old Favorite
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie on a late-night creature feature when I was a young girl. Scared me to death! I enjoyed seeing it again after all those years. Still a scary movie. Great therimin music to bring out the creepiness! This was a blast from the past for me.Movie Review: the wasp woman
Summary: 4 Stars
i saw this movie a long time ago and i just got a kick out of it.Movie Review: Buzz Off
Summary: 3 Stars
No one watches a Roger Corman film with the expectation that it will have a coherent script, solid production values, or memorable performances. Done on the cheap, his films were calculated to draw a teenage audience with clever titles and flashy posters that inevitably promised more than they delivered. Some are better, some are worse, and some are mildly amusing due to their commonplace nature. THE WASP WOMAN falls in the latter category.
The plot is part FRANKENSTEIN, part DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and part THE INVISIBLE MAN. Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) is a scientist who finds that "Queen Wasp Royal Jelly" has a youthening effect; Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) is an aging beauty whose cosmetic company is in a slump. Unfortunately, Janice grows impatient and overdoses on wasp extract. She not only drops about a decade of wrinkles, she also turns into a wasp and takes to sucking the blood of her unfortunate employees.
There's nothing spit-shined about the story or script, but the cast is surprisingly competent for this sort of thing. Susan Cabot was one of many young actresses who had the misfortune to receive a film contract from a major studio at almost the precise moment the studio system began to fade; although she was smart, prettier than many, and more talented than most, her film career quickly stalled. Her association with Corman (she did five films for him) was actually the high point of her career. Her turn in THE WASP WOMAN, complete with silly mask and awkward gloves, was her final big screen fling, and as the result isn't too bad as these things go. Others in the cast worth noting are Barboura Morris, who did several Corman films, and Anthony Eisley, who went on to a significant television career.
I'm not wild about Corman movies. They always seem slow to me, and THE WASP WOMAN is no exception. Still, it has its moments--as when Zinthrop demonstrates his wonder drug by injecting it into guinea pigs that somehow "youthen" into lab rats or when Janice's age is erradicated by simply wiping off some crudely done make-up wrinkles. The big pay off, of course, is the sight of Cabot in her silly wasp woman costume, which looks nothing whatsoever like a wasp. But do these moments make it all worth the effort? Well... I'm not going to watch it again, but it's better than such Corman debacles as ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS or CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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