HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND (1962) B&W 73 MINS
The film begins with a scene in the talent office in New York City, where girls try out for a job in a nightclub in Singapore by dancing for Gary (Alexander D'Arcy), the manager. Some are chosen (including one who strips in the office), and others rejected before they start their journey to Singapore with Gary. While flying over the Pacific Ocean, they are involved in a horrific plane crash subsequent to their plane spontaneously splitting in half and falling into the sea while spewing fire. Miraculously, all but the pilot survive and get in a life raft.
After five days at sea with no food and little water, they spot land. Soon after they find a cabin, and inside is a man hanging from a gigantic spider web. Gary proceeds out onto the island where he is bitten by the giant spider, turning himself into some type of spider-man beast and flees into the woods. The next day, Gary kills one of the girls. Shortly after the girl's death, two male research assistants show up on the island in a small rowboat to help the now-deceased professor with research. Discovering that the professor is dead, the two men promise to take the girls back to civilization with them. Before leaving the island, Gary returns and kills one of the men and another girl. The group then has to figure out how to stop Gary before he kills again.
THE WASP WOMAN (1960) B&W 73 MINS.
The founder and owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is disturbed when her firm's sales begin to drop after it becomes apparent to her customer base that she is aging. Scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) has been able to extract enzymes from the royal jelly of the queen wasp that can reverse the aging process. Starlin agrees to fund further research, at great cost, provided she can serve as his human subject. Displeased with the slowness of the results she breaks into the scientist's laboratory after hours and injects herself with extra doses of the formula. Zinthrop becomes aware that some of the test creatures are becoming violent and goes to warn Janice but before he can reach anyone he gets into a car accident. He is thus temporarily missing and Janice goes through great trouble to find him, eventually managing and then transferring his care to herself. Janice continues her clandestine use of the serum and sheds twenty years' in a single weekend, but soon discovers that she is periodically transformed into a murderous queen wasp.
Director Corman was clearly influenced by Kurt Neumann's 1958 film The Fly. The Wasp Woman has the head and hands of a wasp but the body of a woman¿exactly the opposite of the creature shown in the film's poster. In Jack Hill's prologue, we see a slightly mad Dr. Zinthrop fired from his job at a honey farm for experimenting with wasps.
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