mike48128 Review of The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman (1959)

It's more fun because it's not graphic by today's standards?

[5/10 · 18 July 2017]

Did Roger Corman do the original "Little Shop of Horrors"? I'll have to check. As predictable as a soap opera. A bumbling (not quite mad) scientist invents a youth serum that turns test animals and people into giant fuzzy mutant wasps that buzz. Cabot wears a hairy fright mask with curly "antennae" and sucks several victims dry. It's supposed to eat 'em too which saves a ton on special effects.A shameless steal from "The Fly". A human with an unintentionally funny face. Giant claws like a lobster. It could have been much more horrible if the results had been shown on camera. A flattened dead body in a web or rolled up like old toothpaste. It evokes memories of every awful-stupid horror movie from Gabor's "Queen of Outer Space" to the more recent "Cat Woman". Women seeking the fountain of youth always turn left at the wrong exit. Fun but not really that wonderful. Hardly worth viewing twice. When I was a kid, this actually scared me to death on the big screen. Remade at least twice by other studios and many variations on TV as well. (Remember the "Outer Limits" episode where a pretty girl is actually a transformed queen bee and wants to "mate" with a human male?)