Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

writtenbymkm-583-902097 I'm writing this in 2018. I'm a Roger Corman fan but somehow I missed this one. Turner Classics showed it today and I started watching it but missed the opening credits. Partway into the movie I recognized some of the music, it reminded me of the jazz score in Corman's Little Shop of Horrors, and as various things happened in Wasp Woman I started to think that this just had to be a Roger Corman movie. I was too hooked to check then, but after the movie ended I looked it up and, sure enough, Roger Corman directed. I really liked this movie. The acting was very good and convincing, the story was interesting, the suspense mounted, and there just the right amount of humor (another Roger Corman specialty). Sure, the wasp monster was a little hokey, but even that was well done. I felt sorry for the woman trying to save her youth, and her company, the eccentric scientist was perfect, and I enjoyed the two romantic leads, especially Barboura Morris. A very entertaining movie.

O2D The first time I saw a Roger Corman movie I swore I would never watch another one but for some reason I can't seem to avoid them.I chose this movie based solely on the title, which seemed far too average to be a Corman title.I guess this was one of his earlier works and the hard to see black and white is Corman's best friend.The plot summary is wrong.A scientist develops the "youth formula",not the cosmetics queen.We don't see the wasp woman until the last half hour and it's just a woman in a crappy mask.The camera shakes wildly so you can't see how truly lame she is.If you saw the cover before you watched this,you will be even more disappointed. On top of all the bad stuff,at 73 minutes this movies is 25 minutes too long.How can that be?Corman spends countless minutes on driving and walking scenes that have no dialogue or purpose,as usual. Don't watch this movie.

Rainey Dawn 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

Red-Barracuda For many years I had been aware of The Wasp Woman from its iconic poster, which showed a gigantic wasp with a seductive woman's head, attacking an unfortunate man. In keeping the best traditions of 50's exploitation cinema, this poster looks great while reflecting the content of the actual film in no way whatsoever! The wasp woman of the title is, unfortunately, no more than a lady in what amounts to a Halloween mask. So from that perspective The Wasp Woman is a little disappointing. But no matter because, overall, this one actually turns out to be one of the better sci-fi horror cheapies from the late 50's. Its story has a crazed scientist developing an enzyme derived from wasps which when used on a subject, makes them look much more youthful. He sells his idea to a female cosmetics magnate who insists on testing it out on herself first. All begins well but things deteriorate and she turns into the killer creature known as the wasp woman.What this one has on its side is entertaining and fast-paced direction from Roger Corman and a very good central performance from Susan Cabot. Her character is a little more interesting and believable than you normally get in these types of pics. She is a woman who fears the ageing process and seeks eternal youth; so her concerns are quite universal and it adds a welcome human dimension to a monster movie. As I said before, the make-up really is cheap-jack and unimpressive but the overall production is put together with some care otherwise, with some interesting characters and a decent enough script. Of additional value was the soundtrack, which consisted of some really great, manic music which accompanied proceedings very well. All-in-all, this is a bit of a favourite of mine when it comes to low-budget 50's creature features. Great fun.