The Wasp Woman

1959, regia di Roger Corman, Jack Hill

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Film Group Feature, Santa Cruz Productions - Distribuzione: Something Weird Video, Allied Artists Television, Sinister Cinema, The Filmgroup - Soggetto: Kinta Zertuche - Sceneggiatura: Leo Gordon - Fotografia: Harry Neumann - Montaggio: Carlo Lodato - Art Direction: Daniel Haller - Musiche: Fred Katz - Darrell Pritchett - Formato: B.N. - Durata: 73'.

Cast: Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick, Michael Mark, Frank Gerstle, Bruno VeSota, Roy Gordon, Carolyn Hughes, Lynn Cartwright, Frank Wolff, Lani Mars, Phillip Barry, Roger Corman.

Trama e commenti: exxagon.it - fantafilm.it: «Janice, direttrice di una casa di cosmetici, bella ma non pił giovanissima, decide di sperimentare sulla propria persona un cosmetico di nuova produzione che promette miracoli. La donna dopo averlo provato sembra davvero ringiovanire: la sua pelle si fa pił morbida, le rughe scompaiono, lei stessa si fa pił bella ... Il prodotto - ricavato da enzimi di vespa - trasforma ben presto Janice in uno spaventoso mutante: una donna/vespa assetata di sangue che fa strage dei maschi...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - en.wikipedia.org - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - roogulator.esmartweb.com - rottentomatoes.com: «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».

Approfondimenti: Movie Review

Conosciuto anche con i titoli: The Bee Girl; Insect Woman.

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