La femme guêpe

Original title: The Wasp Woman

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4.8/10

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Roger Corman, Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Leo Gordon, and Barboura Morris in La femme guêpe (1959)

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The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

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IMDb RATING

4.8/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

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Bill Lane
(as Fred Eisley)

Barboura Morris

Mary Dennison

William Roerick

Arthur Cooper

Michael Mark

Eric Zinthrop

Frank Gerstle

Les Hellman

Bruno VeSota

Night Watchman
(as Bruno Ve Sota)

Roy Gordon

Paul Thompson

Carolyn Hughes

Jean Carson

Lynn Cartwright

Maureen Reardon

Frank Wolff

First Delivery Man

Lani Mars

Nurse

Philip Barry

Second Delivery Man
(as Phillip Barry)

Gene Corman

Bit
(uncredited)

Roger Corman

Doctor in the Hospital
(uncredited)

Aron Kincaid

Renfrew - Beekeeper
(uncredited)

Karl Schanzer

Mr. Barker - Front Office Executive
(uncredited)

Director
- Roger Corman
Writers
- Leo Gordon
- Kinta Zertuche
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Trivia
Susan Cabot'x character plays a woman who takes wasp "royal jelly enzyme" to stay younger. In real life, Cabot suffered from mental illness. She reportedly tried to treat it with human growth hormone, which her son took for dwarfism, but it may have exacerbated her illness. Her son later killed her, reportedly in self-defense after she attacked him during a mental breakdown.

Goofs
When the Doctor makes the guinea pigs younger, the supposedly younger, smaller guinea pigs are in fact lab rats.

Quotes
First Delivery Man: Hi, pretty puss! You know where, um... Miss Starlin's office is?
Maureen Reardon: [aloof] Suite number one.
First Delivery Man: [giggles] La-di-dah! The Duchess of Flatbush, herself.
Maureen Reardon: How'd you like to have this phone wrapped around your ear? Wiseguy.
First Delivery Man: That's more like it, sister.
[to his colleague]
First Delivery Man: Suite number one.

Alternate versions
When the film was sold to television in 1962 it featured additional footage featuring Michael Mark that was not in the original theatrical release.

Connections
Edited into Haunted Hollywood: The Wasp Woman (2016)

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Featured review

6/10

Good stuff from Roger Corman

THE WASP WOMAN is certainly not a film to be taken very seriously as it details the hideous and unexpected transformation of a woman looking for the fountain of youth into a rather nasty flesh-eating monster instead...an unforeseen side effect of Dr. Zinthrop's wasp enzyme treatments. The common be wary of science theme is certainly in full force here and it does feel comfortable in this low budget environment.

The best thing about this film is it has a great pace as it keeps moving along nicely and is consistently entertaining. The worst is the low budget look of the monster and the awful music.