Complete credited cast: | |||
Susan Cabot | ... | Janice Starlin | |
Anthony Eisley | ... | Bill Lane (as Fred Eisley) | |
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Barboura Morris | ... | Mary Dennison |
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William Roerick | ... | Arthur Cooper |
Michael Mark | ... | Eric Zinthrop | |
Frank Gerstle | ... | Les Hellman | |
Bruno VeSota | ... | Night Watchman (as Bruno Ve Sota) | |
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Roy Gordon | ... | Paul Thompson |
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Carolyn Hughes | ... | Jean Carson |
Lynn Cartwright | ... | Maureen Reardon | |
Frank Wolff | ... | First Delivery Man | |
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Lani Mars | ... | Nurse |
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Philip Barry | ... | Second Delivery Man (as Phillip Barry) |
Janice Starlin, the owner of a cosmetics firm, sees that her fading beauty is not only causing waves in her personal life but causing some prestige problems for her also-fading business. She becomes an easy mark for a pseudo-scientist, Eric Zinthrop, who claims to have developed a serum from the enzymes of wasps that will turn aging skin to youthful-looking skin. The second-best thing to a time machine. She, without any hesitation, agrees to be the first human to try the Zinthro injections. But, as her beauty returns, her secretary, Mary Dennison, and her advertising executive, Bill Lane, notices she is also having a personality change and it isn't for the better, albeit she was no Miss Congegeniality to begin with. Then, Zinthrop gets hit by an automobile, for plot-development purposes, and is somewhat incapacitated and not in any shape to be whipping up any new batches of Zinthrop's Wasp Enzyme Injection Serum and, without her enzyme injections, Janice turns into a wasp-like woman ... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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.