THE WASP WOMAN (1960) *1/2 I dunno, when I think Wasp Woman, I want some chick who's goin' crazy stinging people. Instead we get this proto-corporate sludge. Actually Roger Corman's prototype is highly preferable to the model they settled on; at least she retains some femininity. Also: a clue to future film-makers: when you do an experiment-gone-wrong tale, make sure that the experiment goes wrong at some point during the first half of the film. Otherwise you end up with a film of experiments and, as you know, it's never really caught on as a genre. Special effects, they have none but a mask with antennae. The acting is surprisingly good for this sort of thing, all around, but that's not why anyone watches this stuff. We watch it for the action, or repulsing plot, or gnarly effects, or sheer misery. I have no idea why we watch it, maybe for the stock wasp footage, or maybe because we want to see what invariably happens when the squares don't listen to the mad scientist.
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