Friday, September 15, 2017

The Wasp Woman

Actors: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick, Michael Mark, Frank Gerstle
Rating: 2 out of 10 The next in my exploration of Bad Cinema and not breathtakingly bad as some of its predecessors. A scientist fired from his job at a honey farm for experimenting with wasps. We next see him in NYC attached to the owner of a large cosmetics company whose firm's sales o drop after it becomes apparent to her customers that she is aging. The scientist uses enzymes from the royal jelly of the queen wasp that can reverse the aging process. The boss decides to use the jelly ahead of schedule and sheds 20 years in a single weekend. Of course she also occasionally turns into a murderous, wasp-like creature with the attendant hijinks. This as a Roger Corman delivery so there was lots of dialogue and the campy bad special effects he is justifiably famous for. The special effects consisted of a cheap Halloween mask but the acting was amazingly superior to the material.

MVP: Susan Cabot as Janice Starlin the wasp woman herself

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