The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman

1959 "Horror Of The Winged Menace!"
The Wasp Woman
The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman

4.8 | 1h1m | NR | en | Horror

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

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4.8 | 1h1m | NR | en | Horror , Science Fiction | More Info
Released: October. 30,1959 | Released Producted By: The Filmgroup , Santa Cruz Productions Inc. Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

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Cast

Susan Cabot , Anthony Eisley , Michael Mark

Director

Daniel Haller

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The Filmgroup , Santa Cruz Productions Inc.

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azathothpwiggins Poor Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot- WAR OF THE SATELLITES). In spite of being the head of a cosmetics empire, she finds her company's sales plummeting, when she commits the unforgivable sin of getting older! Looking almost forty, Ms. Starlin must face the facts of her own plunge into the abyss of middle age! But wait! It just so happens that a certain beekeeper / scientist, named Dr. Zinthrop has been experimenting w/ the rejuvenating effects of royal jelly from queen wasps. His beekeeping buddies are perplexed to say the least! So much so, that Zinthrop is banished from his bevy of beehives. Serendipity intervenes, and Zinthrop sets up shop in Starlin's building. Soon enough, he's whipped up a batch of his secret formula. In no time, Janice is no longer her old self, but there's something amiss. Something buzz-y and homicidal! THE WASP WOMAN is one of schlock omni-god, Roger Corman's greatest contributions! EXTRA POINTS: For the fuzzy wasp mask and gloves that go w/ whatever Janice wears! Watch for Bruno VeSota (ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES) as the night watchman, Frank Gerstle (THE ATOMIC BRAIN) as a detective, Frank Wolff (BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE) as a delivery man, and Corman himself as a doctor!...
hrkepler 'The Wasp Woman' is another Roger Corman's talky monster movie on low budget and with lousy special effects and lots of (pseudo)scientific talk, but with some good ideas and meaning. The film stars Susan Cabot (in her last film role) as Janice Starlin, a founder and a head of cosmetics company, in search of eternal youth. When a mad scientist Dr. Zinthrop (Michael Mark) contacts with Starlin to introduce her his new scientific breakthrough - a miracle cure against aging. The research reaches to the point where Starlin herself become human guinea pig and tries the new medicine. Results are amazing - Janice Starling starts to look younger. But search for eternal youth always end up with devilish results with Janice turning into bloodsucking wasp (from human guinea pig).The film, although quite fun for all the obvious reasons, is pretty terrible besides acting. The writing is tedious and first part of the film is quite boring actually. Susan Cabot seems too classy and too good of an actress to run around in ludicrous wasp costume that bears no similarities with wasps. Not even with the one portrayed on the poster.
Leofwine_draca An entertaining, if not exactly good, quickie from exploitation king Roger Corman at the tail-end of the 1950s, and one which has a nice concept behind it: an anti-ageing serum made from wasp jelly has the unfortunate side-effect of turning its user into a hideous monster periodically. Like a lot of Corman's early efforts, the director cuts corners by using only a couple of sets and redressing them and padding out the fairly minimal action with lots of talk and dialogue. Despite the padding, the movie is well-paced and offers up what fans want on a poverty-row budget: screaming heroines, a (briefly) rampaging monster, and a heroic leading character.The set-up of the story is quite interesting and features a nice supporting turn from Michael Mark as the eccentric scientist, Eric Zinthrop (gotta love those weird-sounding names in Corman's films). Susan Cabot handles the leading role of the inherently good woman turned bad through the side-effects of the wrinkle cream she uses and gives a commanding turn; in fact most of the cast are pretty good, as per usual for Corman, and put in solid if not remarkable performances. The only exception being the laughable comic-relief janitor and Barboura Morris' irritating secretary-in-distress. Here, the leading man is played by later exploitation stalwart Anthony Eisley, looking very young and fresh-faced compared to ten years later on in his career.The creature of the title is barely seen and perhaps this is thankful, because Corman's budget obviously didn't stretch to much in the way of make-up effects - the creation is simply a woman with a joke-shop fright mask on! Still, it's pretty funny. Although the themes, fashions, and characters have dated like in pretty much every '50s contemporary-set movie, THE WASP WOMAN is lively and entertaining fare which overcomes its budget limitations and is pretty good, if you view it kindly as I did. A cheesy remake with one-time screen queen Bobbie Bresee in the leading role was made in 1987, called METAMORPHOSIS for its video release in the UK.
SanteeFats This movie is really long on plot development and relationships. The acting wasn't really that bad but the whole film was lame. You have the board member, the one with some science background, running around with a pipe in his mouth most of the time. I guess that was to make him seem smarter. You have the female company owner in search of youth. Some side show secretaries that really are not germane to the movie at all. It takes a long time for this film to get to the so called horror part. When it gets there it is bad, bad, bad. The owner has been taking royal jelly injections from queen wasps. So guess what she turns in to a hybrid human/wasp. Kills a few people and gets killed in the end. Not a good movie.