Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Leofwine_draca MESA OF LOST WOMEN is a legendarily bad B-movie that would make Ed Wood proud. It's a tacky science fiction epic about a mad scientist and his sinister plan for world domination which involves injecting a bevy of women with spider venom in order to turn them into an army of femme fatales. Of course it's up to the good guys to thwart his nefarious plans and restore peace and order to the world.While the plot sounds fantastic, in reality MESA OF LOST WOMEN is pretty disappointing. It raises a few laughs here and there but overall the effect is subdued. One of the reasons for this is the lack of budget which means there are hardly any special effects to enjoy, just endless talk and back-and-forth stuff. Some evil dwarfs are the best the film has to offer. Jackie Coogan has fun in his mad scientist role but this is an example of so-bad-it's-average rather than so-bad-it's-good entertainment.

mark.waltz It's not just the wretched title or the ridiculous storyline, but the way this stink bomb unfolds. Over-use of flamenco guitar music (appropriate in small doses) increases your change of a migraine in a major way. Of course, this wasn't meant to be a blockbuster, but it takes the old mad scientist story to the depths of insipidness.None other than "Uncle Fester" (Jackie Coogan) plays the mad Dr. Arana who turns tarantula into human-sized creatures, then transfers the female of the species into insane looking women. They say the female spider sometimes either eats their young or their mates, but it is a shame that they couldn't do that with the master print of this schlock.Of course, there's a blonde heroine to off-set the coldly brunette spider women who don't speak, and the typically stupid male characters who have the brain the size of a small harmless barn spider. Wretched narration by Lyle Talbot takes this even further into the depths of the huge "P.O.C." this seems to be striving to being remembered as. Topping that off are several veterans of Ed Wood epics that seem masterpieces when compared to this.

MarplotRedux Thanks to IMDb's kindness, I watched this for free. Thank you, IMDb!!! I watched it after spending most of a day doing family bookkeeping on my laptop. This may have left me in an especially appropriate mood. I'm 80 years old. Truly inept, minimal-budget movies are a new experience for me, and I love them. I sit back speculating how they could have built their sets and animated their monsters at the least possible expense.Despite what other reviewers have written, the actor who portrays the visiting scientist and who is transformed into a ... well, to avoid any spoiler, make it "a different sort of person" does a lovely job. I mean that seriously. The brunette who dances seductively does so well --- though even in my long-vanished youth she'd have terrified me, and the (admittedly repetitive)loud guitar music is generally superior to the dialog. The blonde who serves as Heroine is perhaps the nastiest person in the film, though this doesn't seem to be intentional. And actually the admittedly inexpensive monster was pretty good in its brief, brief appearances. So, in their brief appearances, were the dwarfs, midgets and poor scantily-attired young ladies.Logic? Sensible behavior in dangerous situations? Competent acting by all but one of the cast? Of course not: that's part of the fun.

wes-connors High on a mesa in Mexico, mad scientist Jackie Coogan (as Aranya) turns spiders into people. The females become voluptuous beauties, and the males become ugly dwarfs. It is explained that this parallels the insect world's gender inequality. One example of a "spider woman" is voluptuous Tandra Quinn (as Tarantella). She is shot after a sexy dance, by wide-eyed doctor Harmon Stevens (as Leland Masterson). He tries hard to give the film's most awful performance. But, Mr. Stevens receives stiff competition.Mr. Coogan, who became a big star as "The Kid" (1921), was popular again as Charles Addams' "Uncle Fester" on TV's "The Addams Family" (1964). Lyle Talbot provides useless and tedious narration. The soundtrack, by Hoyt S. Curtin, is among the worst ever composed for a motion picture. It's nice to see cast and crew have a good grasp on the poor material. The film is enjoyably bad some of the time, but long stretches of boredom and the incessant soundtrack music could cause physical pain.* Mesa of Lost Women (6/17/53) Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond ~ Jackie Coogan, Harmon Stevens, Robert Knapp, Paula Hill