The Wasp Woman

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.

Cast

Susan Cabot

as Janice Starlin

Anthony Eisley

as Bill Lane

Michael Mark

as Dr. Eric Zinthrop

Barboura Morris

as Mary Dennison

William Roerick

as Arthur Cooper

Frank Gerstle

as Les Hellman

Bruno VeSota

as Night Watchman

Roy Gordon

as Paul Thompson

Carolyn Hughes

as Jean Carson

Lynn Cartwright

as Maureen Reardon

Reviews

John Chard

This Queen plans to stay young. The Wasp Woman is directed by Jack Hill and Roger Corman and written by Leo Gordon and Kinta Zertuche. A Roger Corman production, it stars Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark and Barboura Morris. Music is by Fred Katz and photography by Harry Neumann. Jani...

hand2a

The SFX are so bad it goes beyond charming but they’re only present for like 5 minutes so it doesn’t matter. The rest of the film is actually pretty good or at least was better than I was expecting. Has an ace plot, though similar to The Fly admittedly, but not so similar it copies. My first Corman ...

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