44:56 that's one of the most original cuts I've seen in 1950s movies the way the camera focuses in on the background, slightly shifts angle, and then her head just comes flying into frame.. that looked awesome
Ironically I have the roger corman amc monsters collection, And this edit is much cleaner. The version I have you can hardly see this effect along with some other issues
I was born in 1959 and thoroughly enjoy seeing films made that year. Gives me a sense of the world into which I was born….a far cry from the world today.
Me too, 65 next month. These old films explain why I'm so out of sync with younger people, it was a completely different age. And when I watch films from the 20's and 30's I better understand my grandparents.
Fred Katz REALLY outdid himself scoring this film. 📽️🎥 it's a campy, contempo/mid-century masterpiece, specifically because of the Filmgroup's thematic consistency in the music backdrops for the 5 year or so span of monster mill releases. This was a wise, and probably economical decision in feasibility, and substance identity coverage, simultaneously. The ultimate CAMP experience for the Bohemian, hip, film buffs of the era, with just the right touch of Beatnikish charm. For some reason, a rainy, snowy night watching Corman's 'Little Shop of Horrors, at the age of 5 or 6 on my Grandma's 1952 RCA, falling asleep, and then my dad picking me up to carry me upstairs to the huge bed already half asleep, is something I still remember. I think it was during the holidays. I also am able to recollect my mindset at the time, and compare it to the now. It was a sort of hieroglyphic moment that I could always refer back to, with affection for acquiring a taste for the artsy, long before my mind had a definition for what was going on in there. The Katz music overdubs will forever evoke a sixth sense for the ribald, and the surreal aspects pf Jazz music and films from a special time. That kernel for music also led me to understand the blooms and indispensable importance of music in film or stage productions.
Yes. This was the era when LA’s finest jazz musicians were writing scores for movies. This is a bygone era. But the music they left behind is fabulous.
Though probably considered a B movie nowadays, I find this as thoroughly enjoyable as it must’ve appeared in theaters long ago. Old doesn’t mean bad! And long live black and white cinema!
The script is surprisingly intelligent for a B-movie made in 1959. Usually, the opening exposition scenes are boring and somewhat cringeworthy. But this was actually engaging.
Aside from the ridiculous wasp helmet and mittens, this was a good movie. Enjoyable characters, a plausible story, good actors, all a round fun. Thanks CCC.
Yes, not too bad. Nice to see a good print of this. Better music would've helped. This music was used repeatedly in Roger's FilmGroup productions, and generally cheapens them.
I was about 10 years old when I saw this movie, one night, on TV. The wasp woman caused an enormous fear in me. Today it's funny to think that anyone can be scared but back then, for a child, it was really terrifying.
@@melodiefrances3898 OUR MINDS ARE DIFFFERENT WHEN WE ARE CHILDREN. I CAN REMEMBER BEING TERRIFIED OF A MOVIE CALLED THE DEVIL DOLL WITH KAREN BLACK. TODAY IT MAY NOT COME ACROSS SO SCARY. EVEN AS A YOUNG ADULT THE DEVIL DOLL WAS A SCARY MOVIE. TODAY PPL WOULD CLASS IT AS TAME COMPARED TO SOME HORROR MOVIES OF TODAY WHICH I WONT WATCH NOW. I USED TO LIKE HORROR MOVIES BUT NOT NOW I AM OLD.
Roger Corman was a master of making a production dollar go further, in the tradition of the old Republic Pictures movie serials. Modern filmmakers could learn a lot from the Master.
Oh...But, so many "modern' filmmakers DO owe their chops to this man! Coppola, Scorsese, Bogdonaviche, Demme, Ron Howard, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and Jack Nicholson. Actors weren't just sticks of furniture in his films. They learned EVERYTHING. Camera work, lighting, production and direction. His method of operation was the most amount or production in the least amount of time allowed everyone involved to learn everything involved. He did other genres beside B-horror movies, (think "Wild Ones"); But, seems to only be remembered for these campy but fun "horror" films. I saw most of these as a kid at drive-in theaters - shows my age! My favorites are the ORIGINAL "Little Shop of Horrors" with Jack Nicholson and "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes". That last one was fun until Ray Milland tore out his own eyes at the end. That creeped me out! Anyway, that's my two cents about Corman. But, I think I would also add Harryhousen to the list "masters" in filmmaking before CGI became the mainstream of everything.
@@vampthat Ray Harryhausen could do more with a modest budget, miniatures and modeling clay back then than most modern SFX artists can do with megabudgets and CGI these days. As Ernest Rutherford said, "We don't have any money, so we have to THINK!" Which Harryhausen did, and he did it very well. These days, they do have money, but you have to wonder what (or if) thinking is going on in a lot of cases.
It’s not that modern efx artists aren’t imaginative, it’s that the process has become so open to non-stop meddling by anyone and everyone. It’s the beauty and curse of CGI that it can be done and redone ad nauseum.
I like to watch old black and white movies and I don't even know why. My mom told me I shouldn't remember a lot of things because I was too young. I do and I love it. I remember when I had a crib and I'm 59 yrs of age. It's a lot and I can't write everything right now but I am writing my book. Hope people enjoy it when I'm finish with it.
Otho I am only 54. I like a lot of the older black and white movies. Acting was better, most had a message to the film if you really paid attention to it. Sad things a lot of new kids will not watch a movie that does not have color. Old sitcoms like I love Lucy, The honeymooners are classic. And its a shame that a lot of great movies and sitcoms will never be seen. This movie is a classic.
I found it slow and boring because all the action was towards the end of the movie.I am 55 and I like black and white movies.I watch the Rifle Man, Highway Patrol,and The Alfred Hitchcock hour on UTube.I also listen to Podcasts of Dragnet.I had no idea it was a radio program before it was a television program.
This print and its resolution, aspect ratio, and clarity is presented as NEW, making for a true retro experience spectacular, not dated, choppy, and grainy, as it was for so many years on analog OTA TV generated probably from 35mm celluloid projection equipment for earlier TV rebroadcast. Excellent! Even the broadcasts in recent years have been upgraded substantially here! I guess this and a few other Corman Classics have enjoyed modern digital remastering. OMG!
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I watched this movie on Amazon Prime thinking I could sit there and laugh or make fun of it but I became absorbed in the plot and now must recommend it to others 😂
That poster had to be the inspiration for the look of the monsters in The Outer Limits episode of "The Zanti Misfits." Check it out. The resemblance is uncanny.
Okay so I'm not proud of this story, but when back in like, 2003 maybe, I was 5-6 and this movie came on at midnight. Being a sassy little rebel I decided to stay up and watch it. The wasp mask scenes genuinely scared me. Looking back on it, zoo wee I must've been a dumb child
Such a fun horror B movie. Brilliant acting, beautiful costumes even despite the budget constraints. Despite all of this, the Guinea-pig de-aging into a mouse is my favourite part of the film, honestly.
@@geroldgrimel4811 Yes, the Guinea.Pig turned into a white lab rat. Honestly, I would not use such a substance on me what is doing such a thing on an animal. But well, in horror movies they do things you can't measure with logic.
I've only just reached that point in this, so far, fab film(!) & wanted to see what the comments were about that, a Guinea-pig de-aging into a mouse (yes, rat actually) - brilliant! I'm inspired!
The Wasp Woman is the bees' knees, and she's up to her proboscis in jelly. I started buzzing the moment this movie took off. The old guy was crushed by his dismissal, at the hands of a hivemind martinet. The will-be Wasp Woman is everything a horror movie needs. She's so vain! This movie is a stinging rebuke to all who watch it. All MUST watch it, queen's orders!!
The Billboard is the star/great artists painted the ads for the 50s and early 60s movie posters exaggerating the characters/for example, the ad for Wasp Woman is Janet Starling with the body of a wasp and a human head, but actually in the movie she has a human body and a cheesy paper mache wasp head! Lol!
Based on animal pituitary glands. Unless you are RC, you can't make this stuff up. King Hussien of Jordan son. She had a hard life mostly though. Thank you for posting this.
The way Susan Cabot died in real life was pretty horrific. Living her final days as a shut in/hoarder with her dwarf son. She was taking his vosoritide dwarfism medication as she believed it was keeping her young. Her son said the meds made her delusional & violent. One day he claimed she had been attacking him with a scalpel so he snapped & bludgeoned her to death with a barbell.
@@rogerrendzak8055 Wow OP, thank you for that information. How sad. Roger: Doctors have developed a drug to promote growth in dwarfs however it is met w/controversy, namely by some of those w/the condition who find some people would prefer dwarfs take drugs to eradicate a part of their identity rather than to eradicate their prejudices.
"I think that was the most fun part I've ever had. To be able to go from a forty-year old character to a twenty-two year old one was a challenge. Then, to be a monster, one of the very few female beasties in movies was great fun. The Wasp Woman is very special." -- Susan Cabot.
Cómo es posible la ignorancia Norte-America : cambiar dos cuyes peruanos adultos (conocidos en el mundo por "coballas" o conejillos de indias ) por una rata blanca grande ; falta de presupuesto o menosprecio a la cultura del expectador...?? !!
@@dontaylor7315 Guinea pigs are very expensive! To work w/anyway and this is according to the producers of "South Park" who used them when they took over the world and wouldn't budge, once they were dressed up in their costumes and caused all sorts of production delays.🐹⌛
@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname Yeah, I kinda mentally blocked that one out. Roger Corman asks for way too much suspension of disbelief, more than what is possible.
@@kofimoseley9296 I think in those days with small budget they worked with what they could. But i did have a giggle over that. That cat fight scene was amusing. Poor cat was probably wondering WTF was going on.
@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname I don't think it was that hard to find a Doberman puppy or a juvenile guinea pig. It just looks Corman wanted to be done shooting as fast as possible and to cut as many corners as possible to save money with no concern as to how it affected the final product. With Corman I'm just not seeing the same artistic merit that I see with Russ Meyer.
*_A couple of years ago I already watched this film and it seemed interesting to me, so today I decided to watch it again._* *_Il y a quelques années, j'ai déjà regardé ce film et il me semblait intéressant, alors aujourd'hui j'ai décidé de le revoir._*
I think this film is younger than indicated here (1959) and in the opening credits (MCMLIX) same year. Indeed, the release month of the film is stated as July, 1959. I questioned it a little at the beginning with the '60 Ford Ranchero, and still wondered at 47:17 when I saw a '60 Plymouth Valiant next to the '59 Impala convertible, but at 47:20 spotted a '61 Buick Skylark coupe, 47:54 a '63 Chevy sedan and '63 Buick convertible, 47:56 a '62 Buick coupe going around the corner, 48:22 a '62 or 3 Ford Fairlane mid-sized coupe and at 48:28 a '63 Impala coupe (back end). Cars were VERY model year specific back then, not like the past 40+ years. Having noticed this, and the newest cars being '63's which weren't even out until October '62, I would say this movie is actually from 1963. It has to be.
She was a very good actress. Would've been nice had she been able to do more major films and achieved more recognition. (Was killed by her own son, tragically, sadly)
I noticed an actor " William Roerick" especially because I just watched "not of this earth" (1957) where he played a doctor who gives a blood transfusion to an alien that looks like a human man-in-black. Another Corman movie. Thanks for the upload. Entertaining stuff!
The better days of Hollywood. Black & white cheesy, rubber monsters, outer space, horror movies from just after WWII through about 1966. How many? I don't know...maybe 300. When I was about 7 years old, our Dad would not let us watch "The Outer Limits" because as was mentioned in that shows intro, they were taking over your television set. Control of the horizontal, control of the vertical... Dad thought the show was too way out.
As a kid it was one of my favorite horror movies. Coming from a kid who was afraid of the dark, basement, seeing one scary thing in a movie and being afraid for weeks after….. I was a wearied kid.
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Another deep Corman film about how human vanity will combine with scientific arrogance and lead to our downfall. Plus it has a kitty-cat that mutates into a killer monster. Thanks @CCC! ;)
See how that guinea pig is (@19:48), after it's rejuvenated?? See how it becomes a rat, even!! I guess they figured, we wouldn't 😁!!! …………BUT, I did 😉!!!
@grouchosays her son beaten her up to death with a,baseball bat because she deformed him with injections (the kid was a dwarf) Google ir. It's an amazing story
I watched this movie on late night Saturday television during my high school years. Funny but boy, I did not like bees after that movie.....funny its called the Wasp movie.
An excellent late night B movie, and it has that touch of quality that means it is clearly not a TV movie but a real cinema movie from the great age of the double bill. Low budget yes, but made with care and a real love of pulp fiction. Susan Cabot deserved a better career in the movies. I would add that the ;picture does give a real whiff of the l950s.
Well said, my good Man. Made at the end of the golden age, in1959. A wanna-be cosmetics queen is transformed into a murderous monster after she uses an insect chemical to preserve her beauty. Now today they have surgery and end up looking like manakins!
Ya la había visto de chico. Un grande R. Cormann, ahora: ¿Por qué no mató a Mary? ¿Cómo hizo el Dr. Zinthrop para llegar tan rápido? Para estar medio groggy le acertó bien con el ácido y si era medio avispa ¿por qué gritó como humano al caer?
Roger William Corman is an American director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Born: April 5, 1926 (age 94 years), Detroit, MI
@@gregedgerton3390 A very good thought. Look at his library of films someday. Some lost gems in there but many have very good writing despite the cheesezy effects. 96 now.
I remember being really scared seeing this movie on the Saturday morning creature feature, just regular average wasps still scare me. ( Not necessarily white, Anglo Saxon People).
Same here. Watched it when I was about seven years old, and it scared the hell out of me. Had nightmares for weeks, and had to sleep with a light on for awhile. Now, it's hard to believe. But at the time, I found it really scary.
I saw this movie when i was around 9 or 10 Scared me so bad. For years. I bought my own DVD now when i show it to my little Grandsons we just laugh. REALLY ??? Those little dillybobs on her head😂😂😂😂I'm sure that they were Styrofoam
😂😂oh my goodness, that’s my story too; my Grandson and I watched this too on DVD ( I bought just to see why I was so scared as a kid) 😂😂 We laughed so much
44:56 that's one of the most original cuts I've seen in 1950s movies
the way the camera focuses in on the background, slightly shifts angle, and then her head just comes flying into frame.. that looked awesome
I likely would've never noticed this - but you're absolutely right!
Nicely spotted and timestamped @cinema Obsura! CCC loves timestamped comments! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
If you ever want to make a film or video invest in a Roger Corman box set and learn.
Ironically I have the roger corman amc monsters collection, And this edit is much cleaner. The version I have you can hardly see this effect along with some other issues
I always love when they play happy music during fight scenes.
I was born in 1959 and thoroughly enjoy seeing films made that year. Gives me a sense of the world into which I was born….a far cry from the world today.
And not in a good way!
Me too, 65 next month. These old films explain why I'm so out of sync with younger people, it was a completely different age. And when I watch films from the 20's and 30's I better understand my grandparents.
It's a bee movie
Clever, lol. Have a great life.
I would say a B Plus Movie
B ware
@@waynejohanson1083 😁
Omg
Cabot brings more dignity to this than the material really deserves. Good little movie.
And giggity.
Fred Katz REALLY outdid himself scoring this film.
📽️🎥 it's a campy, contempo/mid-century masterpiece, specifically because of the Filmgroup's thematic consistency in the music backdrops for the 5 year or so span of monster mill releases. This was a wise, and probably economical decision in feasibility, and substance identity coverage, simultaneously. The ultimate CAMP experience for the Bohemian, hip, film buffs of the era, with just the right touch of Beatnikish charm. For some reason, a rainy, snowy night watching Corman's 'Little Shop of Horrors, at the age of 5 or 6 on my Grandma's 1952 RCA, falling asleep, and then my dad picking me up to carry me upstairs to the huge bed already half asleep, is something I still remember. I think it was during the holidays. I also am able to recollect my mindset at the time, and compare it to the now. It was a sort of hieroglyphic moment that I could always refer back to, with affection for acquiring a taste for the artsy, long before my mind had a definition for what was going on in there. The Katz music overdubs will forever evoke a sixth sense for the ribald, and the surreal aspects pf Jazz music and films from a special time. That kernel for music also led me to understand the blooms and indispensable importance of music in film or stage productions.
Yes. This was the era when LA’s finest jazz musicians were writing scores for movies. This is a bygone era. But the music they left behind is fabulous.
Though probably considered a B movie nowadays, I find this as thoroughly enjoyable as it must’ve appeared in theaters long ago. Old doesn’t mean bad! And long live black and white cinema!
Amen to that!!!
However, not all B&W movies are _pièces de résistance_ in American cinema. There are old turkeys, too 😂
@@Hellraiser0601 No damn it! You WILL see “Invasion of the Neptune Men” as pure artistic genius!
😉
Totally agree
The script is surprisingly intelligent for a B-movie made in 1959. Usually, the opening exposition scenes are boring and somewhat cringeworthy. But this was actually engaging.
Listening Misfits band and watching all these old school horror movies and just you can make your life easier and interesting like that
I watched this and then noticed I could have watched it colorised. Well thought out script with great acting.
Women were so beautiful back then
Aside from the ridiculous wasp helmet and mittens, this was a good movie. Enjoyable characters, a plausible story, good actors, all a round fun. Thanks CCC.
Yes, not too bad. Nice to see a good print of this.
Better music would've helped. This music was used repeatedly in Roger's FilmGroup productions, and generally cheapens them.
😂
Strange that the WASP WOMAN starts by showing a BEEHIVE.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Guinea pigs changed into rats.. instead of baby guinea pigs..
I was about 10 years old when I saw this movie, one night, on TV. The wasp woman caused an enormous fear in me. Today it's funny to think that anyone can be scared but back then, for a child, it was really terrifying.
That Falcon pick up would be worth a few bucks now days.
Oh God, me too. I would lay in bed at night, too terrified to go to sleep 😂❤
@@melodiefrances3898 OUR MINDS ARE DIFFFERENT WHEN WE ARE CHILDREN. I CAN REMEMBER BEING TERRIFIED OF A MOVIE CALLED THE DEVIL DOLL WITH KAREN BLACK. TODAY IT MAY NOT COME ACROSS SO SCARY. EVEN AS A YOUNG ADULT THE DEVIL DOLL WAS A SCARY MOVIE. TODAY PPL WOULD CLASS IT AS TAME COMPARED TO SOME HORROR MOVIES OF TODAY WHICH I WONT WATCH NOW. I USED TO LIKE HORROR MOVIES BUT NOT NOW I AM OLD.
@@zennabella1676was ha ben Horrorfilme mir "alt sein " zu tun ?? 😊😊😊 LG ❤
@@gst8108 If you live to be old, you’ve already seen all the horror you can take! Just my opinion! Does that help! Btw, not watching!
Roger Corman was a master of making a production dollar go further, in the tradition of the old Republic Pictures movie serials. Modern filmmakers could learn a lot from the Master.
Oh...But, so many "modern' filmmakers DO owe their chops to this man! Coppola, Scorsese, Bogdonaviche, Demme, Ron Howard, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and Jack Nicholson. Actors weren't just sticks of furniture in his films. They learned EVERYTHING. Camera work, lighting, production and direction. His method of operation was the most amount or production in the least amount of time allowed everyone involved to learn everything involved. He did other genres beside B-horror movies, (think "Wild Ones"); But, seems to only be remembered for these campy but fun "horror" films. I saw most of these as a kid at drive-in theaters - shows my age! My favorites are the ORIGINAL "Little Shop of Horrors" with Jack Nicholson and "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes". That last one was fun until Ray Milland tore out his own eyes at the end. That creeped me out!
Anyway, that's my two cents about Corman. But, I think I would also add Harryhousen to the list "masters" in filmmaking before CGI became the mainstream of everything.
@@vampthat Ray Harryhausen could do more with a modest budget, miniatures and modeling clay back then than most modern SFX artists can do with megabudgets and CGI these days. As Ernest Rutherford said, "We don't have any money, so we have to THINK!" Which Harryhausen did, and he did it very well. These days, they do have money, but you have to wonder what (or if) thinking is going on in a lot of cases.
@@silverhammer7779 AGREED!!
He said he never lost a penny on any of his movies.
It’s not that modern efx artists aren’t imaginative, it’s that the process has become so open to non-stop meddling by anyone and everyone. It’s the beauty and curse of CGI that it can be done and redone ad nauseum.
I like to watch old black and white movies and I don't even know why. My mom told me I shouldn't remember a lot of things because I was too young. I do and I love it. I remember when I had a crib and I'm 59 yrs of age. It's a lot and I can't write everything right now but I am writing my book. Hope people enjoy it when I'm finish with it.
Best of luck in the Book 🍀
Cause they always have pretty women all dressed up. That’s why I like em
Otho I am only 54. I like a lot of the older black and white movies. Acting was better, most had a message to the film if you really paid attention to it. Sad things a lot of new kids will not watch a movie that does not have color. Old sitcoms like I love Lucy, The honeymooners are classic. And its a shame that a lot of great movies and sitcoms will never be seen. This movie is a classic.
I found it slow and boring because all the action was towards the end of the movie.I am 55 and I like black and white movies.I watch the Rifle Man, Highway Patrol,and The Alfred Hitchcock hour on UTube.I also listen to Podcasts of Dragnet.I had no idea it was a radio program before it was a television program.
The Red Skelton show was a favorite of mine. I will introduce those shows to my granddaughters some day soon.
Beware of giant wasps with a woman's head albeit pretty. I am now fore warned. Many thanks. ..bzzzzzzz.. bzzzzzzz.. Arghhhh.
Funny when Mary is asked to open the bed: “Oh, sure.. I’ve seen lots of these.” 😅
This print and its resolution, aspect ratio, and clarity is presented as NEW, making for a true retro experience spectacular, not dated, choppy, and grainy, as it was for so many years on analog OTA TV generated probably from 35mm celluloid projection equipment for earlier TV rebroadcast. Excellent! Even the broadcasts in recent years have been upgraded substantially here! I guess this and a few other Corman Classics have enjoyed modern digital remastering. OMG!
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Susan Cabot appeared in other Roger Corman movies. She does a really good job in this picture.
I watched this movie on Amazon Prime thinking I could sit there and laugh or make fun of it but I became absorbed in the plot and now must recommend it to others 😂
I don't know if it's because I've seen this film, but I keep looking around me for wasps and I keep my insecticide spray on.😮💨
she's white, she's rich, she lives in Connecticut, she's...The Wasp Woman
Amazing that in those old movies people were already obsessed with staying and looking young.
Since Gilgamesh
I wonder how Corman will pull off a twelve-foot wasp with a three-foot lady's head.
Surely the poster art wouldn't lie would it?
Heck no!
@@crankenstein70 lol!
Posters never lie; never. I swear!
Great artwork.
That poster had to be the inspiration for the look of the monsters in The Outer Limits episode of "The Zanti Misfits." Check it out. The resemblance is uncanny.
Okay so I'm not proud of this story, but when back in like, 2003 maybe, I was 5-6 and this movie came on at midnight. Being a sassy little rebel I decided to stay up and watch it. The wasp mask scenes genuinely scared me. Looking back on it, zoo wee I must've been a dumb child
Such a fun horror B movie. Brilliant acting, beautiful costumes even despite the budget constraints. Despite all of this, the Guinea-pig de-aging into a mouse is my favourite part of the film, honestly.
I think it was a rat, actually. Now I don't know anything anymore. lol
Fun? Nothing happens for 50 mins
@@xshadowscreamx then go watch some mindless action film, it’s a B movie from the 50’s, not sure what TF you expect?
@@geroldgrimel4811 Yes, the Guinea.Pig turned into a white lab rat. Honestly, I would not use such a substance on me what is doing such a thing on an animal. But well, in horror movies they do things you can't measure with logic.
I've only just reached that point in this, so far, fab film(!) & wanted to see what the comments were about that, a Guinea-pig de-aging into a mouse (yes, rat actually) - brilliant! I'm inspired!
I really enjoy these old movies 🎥 & there is nothing better on a rainy evening
The Wasp Woman is the bees' knees, and she's up to her proboscis in jelly. I started buzzing the moment this movie took off. The old guy was crushed by his dismissal, at the hands of a hivemind martinet. The will-be Wasp Woman is everything a horror movie needs. She's so vain! This movie is a stinging rebuke to all who watch it. All MUST watch it, queen's orders!!
55:25 These two are the real monsters of this movie, they are so common!
The Billboard is the star/great artists painted the ads for the 50s and early 60s movie posters exaggerating the characters/for example, the ad for Wasp Woman is Janet Starling with the body of a wasp and a human head, but actually in the movie she has a human body and a cheesy paper mache wasp head! Lol!
She should of been some kind of sexy wasp woman
Good little film and Susan gives a very good performance. She make this fun film work.
Another Roger Corman wonders! A movie from a much simpler time.
What a fantastic flick! Great script, superb cinematography, quality acting! Thank you for sharing
Best horror movie I've seen in years 😂😂😂😂😂
Google how Susan Cabot died - it is an amazing story, not unlike this very movie... her last.
Super fun movie. I love this old school vibe.
I love watching b&w movies. Feels dreamlike.
Susan Cabot is good in every movie she was in!
RIP sad death😮
Interesting to note that the actress who played Maureen, also played the Older Dottie in “A league of their own”
This movie is very interesting considering Susan Cabot,the lead, was murdered by her son after he received experimental treatment for his dwarfism. 🐝
Based on animal pituitary glands. Unless you are RC, you can't make this stuff up. King Hussien of Jordan son. She had a hard life mostly though. Thank you for posting this.
Thank u for these. Im extremely ill and they help with the pain and anxiety.
Lordy lordy.haven't seen this movie in years.got my popcorn warm blanket.and a cool jug of red wine.
Robert Corman scared me half to death when I was young. Love anything he did ❤❤❤❤
The way Susan Cabot died in real life was pretty horrific. Living her final days as a shut in/hoarder with her dwarf son. She was taking his vosoritide dwarfism medication as she believed it was keeping her young.
Her son said the meds made her delusional & violent.
One day he claimed she had been attacking him with a scalpel so he snapped & bludgeoned her to death with a barbell.
Dwarfism medication?? Huhhh🤔? Ok, what would that, be for? To keep him a 'dwarf', or to make him, big? Just kidding 😉!!
WOW
@@rogerrendzak8055 Wow OP, thank you for that information. How sad. Roger: Doctors have developed a drug to promote growth in dwarfs however it is met w/controversy, namely by some of those w/the condition who find some people would prefer dwarfs take drugs to eradicate a part of their identity rather than to eradicate their prejudices.
Holy SHIT!
Mitch, this is indeed a tragic story for Ms Cabot and her son.
One of Corman's most fun films. RIP to the legend!
"I think that was the most fun part I've ever had. To be able to go from a forty-year old character to a twenty-two year old one was a challenge. Then, to be a monster, one of the very few female beasties in movies was great fun. The Wasp Woman is very special." -- Susan Cabot.
Cómo es posible la ignorancia Norte-America : cambiar dos cuyes peruanos adultos (conocidos en el mundo por "coballas" o conejillos de indias ) por una rata blanca grande ; falta de presupuesto o menosprecio a la cultura del expectador...?? !!
@@juanfaustochavezpostigo2972 it's just a movie...smart ass
@@rogerioseabra1420 "It's just a movie" so they couldn't be bothered to buy a couple of guinea pigs? How expensive could they be?
L💙ve You Susan!! L💙ve Wasp Woman!!💙🐝💙💙💙🌛🐝💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
@@dontaylor7315 Guinea pigs are very expensive! To work w/anyway and this is according to the producers of "South Park" who used them when they took over the world and wouldn't budge, once they were dressed up in their costumes and caused all sorts of production delays.🐹⌛
The wasp was a pain in the neck. She kept taking people out by putting them out of their misery.
I was 12 years old when this movie came out it scared the hell out of me. Any kids today watching this movie it wouldn’t phase them One bit
After being injected with the anti-aging serum, the adult guinea pig was replaced with an adult rat. Come on, Roger.
no different to the Dach and the Rott dogs haha
@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname Yeah, I kinda mentally blocked that one out. Roger Corman asks for way too much suspension of disbelief, more than what is possible.
@@kofimoseley9296 I think in those days with small budget they worked with what they could. But i did have a giggle over that. That cat fight scene was amusing. Poor cat was probably wondering WTF was going on.
@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname I don't think it was that hard to find a Doberman puppy or a juvenile guinea pig. It just looks Corman wanted to be done shooting as fast as possible and to cut as many corners as possible to save money with no concern as to how it affected the final product. With Corman I'm just not seeing the same artistic merit that I see with Russ Meyer.
It's just a typical sci-fi movie.. you need to shut off 1/2 your brain and just enjoy it..
Me encanta el cine "Serie B", nada importa la precariedad de sus efectos visuales, muy entretenido. Gracias por subir la película.
No es cine b,es muy vieja.al igual que muchas películas de ese tiempo...pero son muy buenas y no hay precariedad.
So... Baby guinea pigs are in fact rats!! Who knew..? 😃 Fun little film, quite enjoyable.
0:05 WHAT? "The Wasp Woman" and they show bees? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They turned the guinea pigs into white lab rats - why not wasps into bees?
Wasp's are hard to direct !!
What an opening track id love to hear it in a club
Looks like Eartha Kitt as the Cat Woman
I love this movie! I hadn't seen it in years and I didn't know it was a Roger Corman movie. Glad I got to see it again.
Oh.
L💙ve this film also!💙💙🐝
RIP Roger Corman. 1926-2024. He was the king of B-movies!
He hated that moniker.
Vejo estes filmes e da uma saudades de minha infância!
Eu sei como é
Michael Mark played the father of the little girl accidentally drowned by the monster in Frankenstein,1931.
Roger Corman always made great movies even though they were on a budget, the story in this is brilliant even if the mask is unconvincing.
and it has some true Horror.
Hahahahhaha garbage film but still kinda spoopy
It's right up there w/"The Giant Claw" (although not a Corman flick who was brilliant). I can't forget that giant bird's googly eyes!
*_A couple of years ago I already watched this film and it seemed interesting to me, so today I decided to watch it again._*
*_Il y a quelques années, j'ai déjà regardé ce film et il me semblait intéressant, alors aujourd'hui j'ai décidé de le revoir._*
I think this film is younger than indicated here (1959) and in the opening credits (MCMLIX) same year. Indeed, the release month of the film is stated as July, 1959. I questioned it a little at the beginning with the '60 Ford Ranchero, and still wondered at 47:17 when I saw a '60 Plymouth Valiant next to the '59 Impala convertible, but at 47:20 spotted a '61 Buick Skylark coupe, 47:54 a '63 Chevy sedan and '63 Buick convertible, 47:56 a '62 Buick coupe going around the corner, 48:22 a '62 or 3 Ford Fairlane mid-sized coupe and at 48:28 a '63 Impala coupe (back end). Cars were VERY model year specific back then, not like the past 40+ years. Having noticed this, and the newest cars being '63's which weren't even out until October '62, I would say this movie is actually from 1963. It has to be.
Susan Cabot is GREAT in this film!!!
Great movie
Yes! Great actress!
She was a very good actress. Would've been nice had she been able to do more major films and achieved more recognition. (Was killed by her own son, tragically, sadly)
@@RSEFX good actress......bad mother
@@helbitkelbit1790 Bad son
That was pretty amazing how those guinea pigs were turned into rats.
The "LEO GORDON" BAD GUY ACTOR WROTE THE SCREENPLAY 🤯 ? !
When the two guys are driving around looking for the missing doctor? I didn't realize just how much New York City looked like L.A.
wow what a movie it worth seeing and having on your shelf 9 stars thank you for sharing have a great afternoon🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🍿
Labeled on card "WHASP WOMAN". 'WHASP'? This is why staying in school, is VERY important 😉!!
I noticed an actor " William Roerick" especially because I just watched "not of this earth" (1957) where he played a doctor who gives a blood transfusion to an alien that looks like a human man-in-black. Another Corman movie.
Thanks for the upload. Entertaining stuff!
The better days of Hollywood. Black & white cheesy, rubber monsters, outer space, horror movies from just after WWII through about 1966. How many? I don't know...maybe 300. When I was about 7 years old, our Dad would not let us watch "The Outer Limits" because as was mentioned in that shows intro, they were taking over your television set. Control of the horizontal, control of the vertical... Dad thought the show was too way out.
Filme até bonzinho,tem uma dose de suspense e terror legalzinho..
As a kid it was one of my favorite horror movies. Coming from a kid who was afraid of the dark, basement, seeing one scary thing in a movie and being afraid for weeks after….. I was a wearied kid.
This cosmetic drug has lots of bee-effects.
There is a great color remake out there if you can find it.
1:09:35 Courage the cowardly dog introduced me to this movie 😂
First saw this while attending high school 1970's.....🐝🐝🐝🐝the bees ruled
its a great movie fun to watch but it shows you that you dont mess with mother nature
If only ,'hoomans'could let that lesson about Nature & act on it.
Love this movie puts the buzz in the movie.
You amaze me turning a Guinea Pig into a Rat
Right!!!!
Try to explain that mess to the police.Bad guy actor leo Gordon wrote this and his wife lynn Cartwright played a receptionist.
Not bad. It's worth an hour of your time. The wasp suit is definitely funny. The women are good looking. Nice 50's looking sets with decent music.
The brunette receptionist, Lynn Cartwright, is beautiful.
Sexist pig !
@@dvdextras-byvincentcorani9136 Ha!!
sonum
She was bloody gorgeous
How do you know she was a brunette? Its showing in black and white.
Great Movie 😍 I Love Barboura Morris 😄 She plays in "A Bucket of Blood" with Dick Miller 😍I have this Movie on DVD & the remake with Jennifer Rubin😄 Thumbs Up for You 😄 Thanks💓 Stay Well 🎶🎼 🐒
Another deep Corman film about how human vanity will combine with scientific arrogance and lead to our downfall.
Plus it has a kitty-cat that mutates into a killer monster.
Thanks @CCC! ;)
I don't think this picture was that deep.
lets hope not!!
@@unclecolt it is deeper then you think.
@@BrianCarnevaleB26 Zionist. They compares bees whit humans and they're gonna open the gate for the arabs. Cause they want to extend their territory.
See how that guinea pig is (@19:48), after it's rejuvenated?? See how it becomes a rat, even!! I guess they figured, we wouldn't 😁!!!
…………BUT, I did 😉!!!
Roger Corman made many great films. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed watching The wasp woman. 👍.
So sad about Susan Cabot almost like what happened to her character here. May she rest in peace.
What happened to her?
@grouchosays her son beaten her up to death with a,baseball bat because she deformed him with injections (the kid was a dwarf) Google ir. It's an amazing story
I watched this movie on late night Saturday television during my high school years. Funny but boy, I did not like bees after that movie.....funny its called the Wasp movie.
An excellent late night B movie, and it has that touch of quality that means it is clearly not a TV movie but a real cinema movie from the great age of the double bill. Low budget yes, but made with care and a real love of pulp fiction. Susan Cabot deserved a better career in the movies. I would add that the ;picture does give a real whiff of the l950s.
Well said, my good Man. Made at the end of the golden age, in1959. A wanna-be cosmetics queen is transformed into a murderous monster after she uses an insect chemical to preserve her beauty.
Now today they have surgery and end up looking like manakins!
Great movie ❤
Ya la había visto de chico. Un grande R. Cormann, ahora:
¿Por qué no mató a Mary?
¿Cómo hizo el Dr. Zinthrop para llegar tan rápido?
Para estar medio groggy le acertó bien con el ácido y
si era medio avispa ¿por qué gritó como humano al caer?
such magic! He turns two old Guinea pigs into two white mice!!! Wow, no baby guinea pigs available?
Muito obrigado pela postagem. Ótimo filme . Melhor ainda é quê têm legenda . Basta ativar . 👏👏👏👏
Yo también ví en la televisión, ésta belleza del cine clase B. Sólo que en ésa época yo tenía 11 años,y para mí era una película de terror.
What a great score!!!
Roger William Corman is an American director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
Born: April 5, 1926 (age 94 years), Detroit, MI
He should have a statue.
@@gregedgerton3390 HE IS 95 NOW!
@@gregedgerton3390 A very good thought. Look at his library of films someday. Some lost gems in there but many have very good writing despite the cheesezy effects.
96 now.
Unknowingly, one of my directorial hero's, as a kid 👍!!
IF SHE'S A WASP WOMAN. WHERE HER WINGS&STRINGER.😂😂😂
I remember being really scared seeing this movie on the Saturday morning creature feature, just regular average wasps still scare me. ( Not necessarily white, Anglo Saxon People).
Same here. Watched it when I was about seven years old, and it scared the hell out of me. Had nightmares for weeks, and had to sleep with a light on for awhile. Now, it's hard to believe. But at the time, I found it really scary.
Paul ... First off LOL .. 2nd. Not even the ones from Seattle ???
Wow hard to believe anyone can find this scary! Even children
It was on a Saturday program called "creature feature" on channel 56 back in the day. Watched it as a kid, and now we relive it Corman style!
Just an fyi the P is for Protestant
This is a riot rubber head mask with horns....a cone bra and high heels running after workers in an office building.
I saw this movie when i was around 9 or 10
Scared me so bad. For years. I bought my own DVD now when i show it to my little Grandsons we just laugh. REALLY ??? Those little dillybobs on her head😂😂😂😂I'm sure that they were Styrofoam
me too!
😂😂oh my goodness, that’s my story too; my Grandson and I watched this too on DVD ( I bought just to see why I was so scared as a kid) 😂😂 We laughed so much
Great Classic - Thanks for the upload
I would have questioned any outcome after the injection turned the old guinea pig into a young rat.
and the Dachshund and Rottweiler ? at the beginning wasn't a hint