The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman (1959)

Horror Of The Winged Menace!

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.

Date of release
1959-10-30
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (127)
Runtime
1h 1m
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Director
Roger Corman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Wasp Woman is a 1959 American independent science-fiction horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark, Bruno VeSota and Barboura Morris. The film was originally released by Filmgroup on June 10, 1959 as a double feature with Beast from Haunted Cave (1959). To pad out the film's running time when it was released to television two years later, a new prologue was added by director Jack Hill.

Production

The film was originally known as Insect Woman.

According to Roger Corman, he suggested the idea of a wasp serum to writer Leo Gordon because "that sounded more exciting" than using the royal jelly from bees.

The film was made for an estimated budget of $50,000 in less than two weeks.

Corman said that the prosthetic mask used for the Wasp Woman was "rather primitive." He noted that this was the first movie he had financed and directed for The Filmgroup, his production and distribution company.

In 1962, director Hill added 11 minutes to the film for its eventual television syndication release.

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