Starring: Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick, Michael Mark, Frank Gerstle, Bruno VeSota, Roy Gordon, Carolyn Hughes, Lynn Cartwright, Frank Wolff, Lani Mars, Phillip Barry
Synopsis: This fun, intelligent cheapie from King of the B's Roger Corman ranks as the first feminist horror film. Susan Cabot stars as aging cosmetics mogul Janice Starlin, who injects herself with an experimental wasp enzyme in order to restore her fading youth and save her company from going broke. Eccentric scientist Dr. Zinthrop (Michael Mark) first tries the serum on cats, but when they later sprout wings and stingers, he realizes the formula might not be market ready. Unfortunately, he winds up in a coma before he’s able to warn Starlin of the ghastly side effects, and before long she's buzzing around the building at night, attacking and devouring her enemies. What's admirably feminist about the film is how Starlin is portrayed as intelligent, powerful, and sympathetic while her male underlings are condescending buffoons who first dismiss her serum as mere wishful vanity and later find themselves smitten by her newly restored beauty (and later bitten by her wasp alter ego). Barboura Morris plays Starlin's worried secretary, and Bruno Ve Sota is an unlucky night watchman. Cabot is splendid in the title role, reverse-aging beautifully. Carolyn Hughes and Lynn Cartwright add comic relief as a pair of gossipy receptionists.
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WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY
(1962 - B&W - 83 min)
Director: Paolo Heusch
Starring: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens, Maurice O'Connor, Mary McNeeran, Grace Neame, Luciano Pigozzi, Anni Steinert, Joseph Mercer, Anne Marie Avis, Lucy Derleth, Herbert Diamonds, Martha Marker, Patricia Meeker, Elizabeth Patrick
Synopsis: The girls in a creepy, isolated reform school wonder if the cute new teacher is the werewolf terrorizing campus.
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WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON
(1973 - COLOR - 90 min)
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Henry Ferrentino, Despo Diamantidou, Thayer David, Nancy Andrews, Clifton James, Biff McGuire, Jack Waltzer, Ben Yaffee, Jane House, Beeson Carroll, Jacqueline Brookes, Barbara Spiegel, Thurman Scott
Synopsis: A horrible monster roams the streets of the nation's capitol every night when there is a full moon.
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The Witch's Curse (1962/B&W/79min.)
Director: Ricardo Freda
Starring: Kirk Morris, Helene Chanel, Vira Silenti, Andrea Bosic, Remo De Angelis, Angelo Zanolli, Charles Fawcett.
Synopsis: Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
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WHITE ZOMBIE
(1932 - B&W - 74 min)
Director: Victor Halperin
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, George Burr Macannan, Frederick Peters, Annette Stone, John Printz, Dan Crimmins, Claude Morgan, John Fergusson, Velma Gresham, Hans Joby
Synopsis: After arriving in Haiti to meet her fiance, a blushing bride-to-be is quickly transformed into a pallid, soulless body by creepy voodoo master Bela Lugosi, at the behest of a jealous rival who desires her. Made for $50,000 in 11 days in 1932, this interesting horror film relies more on visuals and atmosphere than dialogue, and remains one of Lugosi's best films from the classic era of horror.
