The Wasp Woman (1959)

Review by Mari Lynne Rupp



This is one fun movie. It’s set in 1959, and the summary is , Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is concerned with the dropping sale results of her company and in losing her own looks and marketability. The scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) offers to her his research with wasp enzymes that makes animals younger, and she immediately accepts to hire him, provided she becomes his human subject. She decides by her own to accelerate the treatment injecting additional serum trying to see earlier results, becoming the lethal "Wasp Woman".

This Roger Corman offering has all the great developments of a classic low-budget film. Sketchy dialogue, dated character development and copy-pasted scenery. Add the cheesy effects after Cabot turns into the Wasp/Woman hybrid and you’ve got yourself a fun Saturday night! This is the perfect popcorn movie with a bunch of the girls and a couple of bottles of chianti, the perfect weekend-getaway movie after a hard week at the office.
9/10 (for sheer entertainment)
6/10 on Technical merit