The Wasp Woman
Release: 1959 Director: Roger Corman Company: The Filmgroup Notable Cast: Susan Cabot as Janice Starlin Anthony Eisley as Bill Lane Michael Mark as Eric Zinthrop Frank Gerstle as Les Hellman Roy Gordon as Paul Thompson Bruno VeSota as Night Watchman Plot: Janice Starlin is the owner of a large cosmetics company. Sales have been dropping and the theory is that it is due to Starlin's aging appearance. A doctor has been able to extract enzymes for wasp queen royal jelly. He begins to experiment with this new drug on animals. Janice becomes impatient with the slowness of the experiments and begins taking the drug behind the doctors back. The drug has an immediate impact as Janice becomes much younger almost overnight. Not all is well as the test animals begin to become uncontrollably violent. This of course leads to Janice transforming into The Wasp Woman! The Monster: There was some false advertising going on here as the creature i...