The Wasp Woman
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Movie Reviews of The Wasp Woman
Movie Review: Maintaining that wasp waist
Summary: 3 Stars
Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) head of a cosmetics company was told the she needs to stay young to promote the product. What can she do? Enter garage scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) with a dubious formula made from wasp royal jelly. He explains that "just a little dab will do you." She gets greedy and shoots up with the extra strong stuff. This gives her a BUZZ and can have biting consequences.
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Movie Review: Wasp Woman Has no Sting
Summary: 2 Stars
I have watched some pretty bad science fiction and horror movies, and actually enjoyed them. Some of them were so bad they were funny. "Wasp Woman" is just bad. Even those cheery lads at "Mystery Science Theater 3000" might have had trouble coaxing laughs from this thing.
We see scenes of bees at the start of this movie, and then a scientist-looking character, Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark), captures a wasp nest. The excitement is so intense you can just feel it. Our scientist is fooling around with wasps while he is supposed to be working on royal jelly. Royal jelly is a secreted from the salivary glands of bees and is used to raise young bees. Because people are gullible, many believe royal jelly has all sorts of health benefits. However, except in Roger Corman movies, royal jelly has yet to have any proven health benefits, can cause severe allergic reactions, and in the case of this movie, seems capable of turning some women into cheesy wasps.
After Mr. Zinthrop is fired, he encounters Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot in her last movie role; apparently "Wasp Woman" was the kiss of death for her movie career), the aging head of a cosmetics company. When I say aging, I mean she is in her 40s. She is very attractive, but apparently insufficiently attractive to sell cosmetics. Mr. Zinthrop convinces Janice that he can make her young by making a guinea pig young.
This movie drags along quite a while. We keep seeing bees instead of wasps. Indeed, there is nary a wasp to be found in this movie except for the wasp woman, and she looks like a "professional" wrestler when she is wearing her cheesy wasp woman outfit.
Finally, Mr. Zinthrop is involved in an accident and ends up being stuck in bed. Janice decides to start taking shots of royal jelly a bit quicker than Mr. Zinthrop had been giving them to her. Janice gets young really quick, but occasionally she gains a black face, claws and a nasty buzz in her voice. When this occurs, she tends to kill people and eat them, which most people would likely consider a serious side effect of Mr. Zinthrop's shots.
I would like to tell you that there are redeeming characteristics to this movie, but unless you are a hard-core Roger Corman fan, you should probably avoid this movie. The movie waits too long for the wasp woman to show up. When she does show up, Corman made up for the cheesy costume by using out-of-focus photography and brief flashes of the wasp woman. The ending was unsatisfying also. The wasp woman put up a really poor fight. After the big husky guys she killed and ate, you would have thought she could have put up a bigger fight at the end. Oh well. Just remember, there are lots of other cheesy movies waiting for you to watch.
Movie Review: LOGO WARNING!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
All I can say is the 1-star is for the Good Times DVD. They have their logo throughout the film, thereby ruining it for the viewer and rendering the DVD useless.
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