He’s not fun in any traditional mad scientist way … and, then, he’s ran over by a car and subsequently bed ridden for most of the rest of the picture … of course, his accident happened before he could warn our protagonist Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) of some of the unfortunate side effects found in the other non-human test subjects. We have a crusty old scientist named Zinthrop (Michael Mark). THE WASP WOMAN itself could make one feel appreciably older, rather than younger, because it’s extremely dull for the first hour. In the film, it’s flipped and she resembles a distant cousin of the title character in the much, much better THE FLY from 1958. The poster “Wasp Woman” has a woman’s head and a wasp’s body. Unfortunate side effect that even more unfortunately only kicks in during the film’s last 20 minutes: It turns her into the title character or “A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN BY DAY - A LUSTING QUEEN WASP BY NIGHT.”Īnyway, the poster for THE WASP WOMAN, it lies. Instead, in this one, our protagonist takes, no, abuses an experimental potion made from the royal jelly of wasps that can apparently reverse the aging progress.
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Today, we return to that beat with Roger Corman’s 1959 wasploitation “non-classic” THE WASP WOMAN - do not fear, it’s not another movie about yet another “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant” woman. Seems like only yesterday - time’s such an elusive concept during quarantine - that I highlighted the deceptive print ads and posters for THE GIANT CLAW.