The Wasp Woman (English Subtitled)

Science-fiction, Horror

In Hill's prologue, a scientist, Dr. Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark), is fired from his job at a honey farm for experimenting with wasps.

The founder and owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is disturbed when her firm's sales begin to drop after it becomes apparent to her customer base that she is aging.

Zinthrop has been able to extract enzymes from the royal jelly of the queen wasp that can reverse the aging process. Janice agrees to fund further research, at great cost, provided she can serve as his human subject.

Displeased with the slowness of the results, she breaks into the scientist's laboratory after hours and injects herself with extra doses of the formula.

Zinthrop becomes aware that some of the test creatures are becoming violent and goes to warn Janice, but before he can reach anyone, he gets into a car accident. He is thus temporarily missing and Janice goes through great trouble to find him, eventually taking over his care.

Janice continues her clandestine use of the serum and sheds 20 years in a single weekend, but soon discovers that she is periodically transformed into a murderous, wasp-like creature.

Eventually, Zinthrop throws a jar of carbolic acid at her face, and another character, using a chair, pushes her out of a high window, and falls to her death.{Wikipedia}

Movie Info

Directed by: Roger Corman
Screenplay by: Leo Gordon
Story by: Kinta Zertuche
Produced by: Roger Corman

Starring: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris
Cinematography: Harry Neumann
Edited by: Carlo Lodato
Music by: Fred Katz

Production companies: The Filmgroup, Santa Cruz Productions
Distributed by: Allied Artists
Release date: October 30, 1959 (United States)

Running time: 66 minutes (theatrical), 73 minutes (TV)
Country: United States
Language: English

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

The Little Shop of Horrors (English Subtitled)

The film is a farce about an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood.

The Thirteenth Guest (English Subtitled)

Thirteen years ago, a mysterious murder took place at a dinner party. The guests from that event reunite to figure out who inherited the victim's estate.

Spring in a Small Town (English Subtitled)

Spring in a Small Town was declared the greatest Chinese film ever made by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (English Subtitled)

Based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis, the film was shot on location in 1958 with some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department.

The Last Man on Earth (English Subtitled)

When a scientist finds himself the only survivor of an epidemic, he manages to overcome his fears in order to save humanity.

Killer Diller

Dusty Fletcher plays a comic, tap dancer and bad magician. While practicing his routine for that evening's variety show, he accidentally vanishes Lola, the girlfriend of the show's manager Baltimore Dumdone. Comedy, Drama, Musical.