The Wasp Woman (Blu-ray)

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 3 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: October 30, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1959
  • Label: Shout Factory

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User Ratings: 1,581
Rating: 2.5/4 -- a campy creature feature that also has some interesting themes regarding science run amok and the fruitless human search for eternal youth (as an added bonus, the acting is pretty good, too)
Q Network Film Desk
Sep 15, 2002
Rating: 4/5 -- From the perspective of a 21st Century ... The Wasp Woman is a downright revolutionary act of scathing commentary. Full Review
Suite101.com
Oct 21, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- One of Corman's better films, aided by Susan Cabot's sharp presence.
San Francisco Examiner
Mar 5, 2003
It's poorly written, cheesily acted, low-budget, and completely camp, but because it's Corman it's a touch ahead of its ilk thanks to some clever lines and flavorful directing. Utterly ridiculous but lovable. Full Review
DVDJournal.com
Sep 18, 2007
A cheesy 1950s Black & White horror movie, which is prime MST3K fodder. However, it needn't have been this way since actress Susan Cabot sure is one classy dame . . . Full Review
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Oct 12, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- Silly, campy, entertaining.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Aug 24, 2003
Rating: 2/5 -- Definitely a 1950's style horror flick, yet released in 1960. Surely the last of its hive.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Apr 30, 2007

Product Description:

This fun, intelligent cheapie from King of the B's Roger Corman ranks as the first feminist horror film. Susan Cabot stars as aging cosmetics mogul Janice Starlin, who injects herself with an experimental wasp enzyme in order to restore her fading youth and save her company from going broke. Eccentric scientist Dr. Zinthrop (Michael Mark) first tries the serum on cats, but when they later sprout wings and stingers, he realizes the formula might not be market ready. Unfortunately, he winds up in a coma before he's able to warn Starlin of the ghastly side effects, and before long she's buzzing around the building at night, attacking and devouring her enemies. What's admirably feminist about the film is how Starlin is portrayed as intelligent, powerful, and sympathetic while her male underlings are condescending buffoons who first dismiss her serum as mere wishful vanity and later find themselves smitten by her newly restored beauty (and later bitten by her wasp alter ego). Barboura Morris plays Starlin's worried secretary, and Bruno Ve Sota is an unlucky night watchman. Cabot is splendid in the title role, reverse-aging beautifully. Carolyn Hughes and Lynn Cartwright add comic relief as a pair of gossipy receptionists.

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