The Wasp Woman (1959)

Description

Do not be put off by the IMDB rating. If you like B Movies this cult footage is a delightfully kitsch example from schlock horror meister Roger Corman! The Wasp Woman has been known by a variety of different titles such as “The Bee Girl”, and originally started out as “Insect Woman”. Janice Starlin, the owner of a cosmetics firm, sees that her fading beauty is not only causing waves in her personal life but also causing some prestige problems for her also-fading business. She becomes an easy mark for a pseudo-scientist, Eric Zinthrop, who claims to have developed a serum from the enzymes of wasps that will turn aging skin to youthful-looking skin. The second-best thing to a time machine. Without any hesitation, she agrees to be the first human to try the Zinthrop injections. However, as her beauty returns, her secretary, Mary Dennison, and her advertising executive, Bill Lane, notices she is also having a personality change and it is not for the better, albeit she was no Miss Congeniality to begin with. Then, Zinthrop is hit by an automobile and is somewhat incapacitated and not in any shape to be whipping up any new batches of Zinthrop’s Wasp Enzyme Injection Serum and, without her enzyme injections, Janice turns into a wasp-like woman. Note: This is the full-length version that was padded out several years after its theatrical release for television release.