Bug Off!

I know I missed a day, but summertime colds are a bitch.  I still have this problem, but I have something to write about.  The Friday and Saturday events of ProgPower VIII autobiography will wait until tomorrow so that I may bring you a really old movie.

The Wasp Woman was a Roger Corman movie that featured some incredibly lo-fi effects and was one of the first B-movies made.  The basic story: a scientist offers an aging cosmetics president a serum that would make her look younger.  The serum? Something taken from the wasps that he collected.  The serum works, but it also turns her into a hideous wasp-like creature.

The movie is in black and white, which covers up some flaws within the movie.  The "wasp woman" looks more like a third grader's project of Cat Woman.

In addition, there isn't much in the way of either actual horror or for that matter, science fiction.  It plays out more like a 50's television show, which is one of the charms of the movie.  Overall, The Wasp Woman is the definition of B-movie, but not a total waste of 73 minutes.