The Worst Film Ever

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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Janice Starling Industries is a cosmetics company formed by Janice Starling( Susan Cabot), in her early twenties. Now in her forties she has noticed her company sales have fallen. In the board meeting she explains that sales have fallen 14.5 % since the last fiscal quarter. A couple of board members Arthur Cooper( William Roerick) & Bill Lane ( Anthony Eisley) tell her that the company needs something new. A new spokeswoman perhaps, because users have lost faith in her brand. Starling Cosmetics represent youthfulness, but when buyer she Janice now her appearance is no longer youthful. According to Lane and Cooper the buyer feels like they have been cheated. When Janice hears this she realizes she needs to do something, before her company loses anymore money. One of Janice's secretaries, Mary( Barbara Morris) informs her a Dr. Zinthrop( Michael Roerick) is there to see her. Before Zinthrop's appointment she needs to talk with Arthur.She calls Arthur in to ask him about Wasp Jelly. She wants his opinion on the enzymes extracted from the wasp; and what they might do to preserve beauty. She is looking for that wonder product of youth, a so called miracle beauty cream. She brings in Mr. Zinthrop, where he shows her a formula that makes animals young again. When she sees this she can't believe it. Janice insists that she become his first human test subject. Zinthrop is nothing more than a con-artist and mad scientist. She is excited he he agrees and works out a contract with him. When Bill Lane comes in he talks to Mary, one of her secretaries. He wants Mary to spy on her; because he believes Zinthrop is dangerous.The next morning Janice comes in and finds Zinthrop working in the lab. He has decided it's time to give her her first injection. He injects her with the wasp enzyme, and this is the first in a series of injections. Mary is snooping around her desk and notices something. It is a check from Starling Industries to Zinthrop for wasp enzymes. While Mary is doing her P.I. work, Janice is undergoing her treatments. When Zinthorp looks at her, he tells her she looks 5 years younger. In the meantime Mary meets up with Arthur and Lane for Lunch. She explains whats going on in the office, and believe Janice is being taken. The three of them believe what he is doing is dangerous; but finding a way to break the news to her will be difficult. When Janice hears the news from Zinthrop she starts to seek into to the lab and inject herself.The next morning when Janice arrives for work, her other secretary Maureen notices a massive change in her appearance. Maureen can't believe it, Janice looks 25 years younger. Janice is so enthused by this she can't wait to tell Zinthrop what his treatments have done.Zinthrop returns to his lab and notices an awful reaction from the enzymes have changed his cat into something vicious. He realizes that he needs to stop his reckless experiments. When he leaves he is accidentally struck by a car. By this time Janice has notices some strange effects, but brushes them off at first. Then Janice's finds out the Mary has been spying on her. She realizes Mary has been talking to Lane and Cooper about Zinthrop. The Janice finds out Zinthorp has been in critical condition from being hit by a car. She tell Cooper he can run the Lab while Zinthorp is recovering. That night Cooper finds Zinthorp's work, his papers, and he is fascinated. That night in the lab Cooper is attacked by Janice. She has turms into a Wasp Woman due to this treatment. It is something she cannot control, anytime she can turn into a killer wasp. She kills Cooper, the nightwatchman, and Zinthorpe's nurse. Janice is now fully transformed into a Wasp. When Lane and Mary discover Zinthorpe, he tells Lane not to let Janice take anymore injections. He discovered a bad reaction with his cat, that turned it into a vicious monster.Janice finds out that Mary and Lane are still in the building. Mary goes to look for her, unaware of her transformations. When Lane finds out Mary has gone to look for Janice alone. Lane and Zinthorpe rush up to the lab only to find out Janice is fully transformed. A fight ensues with Lane fighting Janice off and Zinthorps throwing acid on her, eventually killing her.In conclusion, it's not a bad film. It is one of those classic 50's Sy-Fy films that's kind of cheesy, but fun.

Genre-addicts are and still will be happy enough to find treasures as well as garbage on the search for all kind of horror-, scifi- and fantasy-pics in our time - thanks to the 1950ies and the following decades having produced enough material to satisfy the fans. Corman's "The Wasp Woman" can undoubtedly be regarded as one of the worst movies of the decade and of the genre as well. Guinea Pigs turning into rats, bees appearing as wasps or vice versa, terrible performances of actors and actresses in even more terrible set designs. Annoying for all people with a lack of good humour, still entertaining for an open-minded audience.

Janice Starlin is a cosmetics queen but is about to loose her empire. Her company has been using her face to promote the bee products made from a queen bee serum but Ms. Starlin is getting older. One of the beekeeper (pseudo) scientists believes he has found the fountain of youth through the queen wasps and develops an anti-aging product for the Starlin company but Ms Starlin insists that she is to be the one to test the product first before it is marketed. The new product has a strange effect on Ms Starlin - it causes her to become The Wasp Woman.Not a bad film. Most of the film is about the development of the product and Ms Starlin in human form. Very little do we see Starlin as The Wasp Woman - and I find the film better that way than to constantly see her attacking people which can get old fast.6/10

Kooky Dr. Zinthrop (Michael Mark) has created a formula that will reverse the effects of aging using wasp enzymes. Middle-aged cosmetics company owner Janice Starling (Susan Cabot) is anxious to try it and insists on being Zinthrop's first human test subject. Well, it works fine and Janice looks younger but then there's that pesky side effect of turning her into a blood-sucking wasp woman! One of the better low-budget horror flicks Roger Corman made during the era before he struck pay dirt with his Poe movies at AIP. Yes, it's cheesy and campy. Yes, the wasp woman costume is a joke. But it's also a very fun movie. Susan Cabot, in her final and most memorable film role, is excellent. Michael Mark plays the "not quite mad" scientist very well. Anthony (Fred) Eisley and pretty Barboura Morris make rather unlikable protagonists. Particularly Eisley. There are also a couple of cuties playing secretaries who have a funny scene that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.