The Wasp Woman

Bees!  I hate Bees.  Anything that can sting really.  And oh god, its a Roger Corman movie.  If you've never seen one of his films before...well its an experience to say the least.  He makes his movies the way some people like their women...fast and cheap.  Anyway, our movie begins with forced bee relocation.  A man relocates some bees and we see him interact with his beekeeper friends.  So this scientist has been experimenting with royal jelly from queen wasps and has basically made a youth serum.  Bees make honey, wasps make jelly...who knew?

When Bee Man tells his boss about what he discovered he's fired for being crazy.  Well, to be fair Bee Man does seem to sit around and talk to his bees quite a bit.  We jump to the Big City and a thrilling board meeting.  More like bored meeting!  So fifteen minutes in and the best thing so far was the Bee Man talking to his bees...its not looking good for this movie.  Well, to be fair we were warned it was a Roger Corman film.

The Bee Man shows up after the bored meeting with a convienent solution to their problems.  Office Woman use to be the spokesman for womens cosmetics but had to retire from that because she was starting to show her age.  He displays what his serum can do by turning old gerbils into...young rats.  They work out some silly deal and he sets up shop to continue his experiments.

We get a weird montage of the bored meet inter-cut with Bee Man doing SCIENCE!  After some pointless chit chat by secretaries the Bee Man is ready to experiment on the Office Woman.  I dunno if its my insomnia or the bad audio...or both, but I can hardly understand what Bee Man is saying half the time.  Not satisfied with the progress of the youth serum Office Woman takes moar.  It works...or does it?

In the lab Bee Man struggles with...a deadly cat!  Later, acting like a zombie, he walks into traffic and is ran over.  The police begin a search...which drags on for far too long.  Bee Man is still alive and in a coma.  Office Woman keeps taking more shots, even thought its giving her headaches.  And we know she has headaches cause she keeps touching her head.  I know when I get a headache I walk around touching and rubbing my noggin. 

While office worker Snooty Pipe Smoker is snooping around he is attacked.  Office Woman has, finally, mutated into...The Wasp Woman.  She struggles with Snooty and bites his face off!  Well, near enough anyway.  At the very least he's now all covered in chocolate syrup.  Later, she is seemingly back to normal.  Bee Man gets better and they move him into the office.  Later, Teddy Roosevelt is attacked and killed by Wasp Woman...though sadly this happens off screen.

Two office workers make a leap in logic and conclude the missing staff are dead.  Office Woman turns into Wasp Woman and kills Bee Man's nurse, acting more like a vampire than a mutant wasp.  She then struggles with her annoying secretary and runs amok in the office building.  Bee Man hits Wasp Woman with a bottle of acid and she falls out a window.  Bee Man dies and we have...

If I had to sum up the movie with a single word it would be...AVOID!  While this isn't the worst movie ever its certainly no fun to watch.  View only if you are intoxicated or as a cure for insomnia.  As someone who struggles with insomnia, I can tell you it works!

If Bee Man or rather actor Michael Mark looks familiar it's because he has been in several Universal Frankenstein films.  He was Ewald Neumüller in Son of Frankenstein and he was also in several other B-Movies such as Attack of the Puppet People.

Finally, just for giggles and kicks, i leave you with this...