I liked the film much more than the narrative prose that Lihiri tries to convey her intentions through.

Not too hot, and the pic on the cover is extremely misleading. I’ve actually heard of this “classic” before seeing it, and was looking forward to watching it even more when I saw it was an early Roger Corman flick. Man! This was a very long 73 minutes – talk about boring. I almost fell asleep three or four times.

The aging owner of a cosmetics company was working with a questionable scientist on a beauty formula based on queen bee secretions. Insisting that she be the first to try this formula (of course…), she is transformed into a remarkably younger and more vibrant young woman. Unfortunately the formula has side effects that cause her to eventually transform into a human wasp (in, like the last three minutes of the movie…) that preys upon its victims at night.

The best character in this movie is the serious male character, whose name I don’t think was ever mentioned though he was a primary protagonist, who is constantly smoking a pipe. Constantly. The worst character is everybody else. I suppose the rip-off of Bela Lugosi as the scientist could be the worst, but he’s in a tight race with everybody else.

Definitely a contestant for anybody’s stupid movie night, though I’d advise you waste your 73 minutes with something a little more worth watching – like Battlefield Earth or something.

A bit difficult to get through, and though it’s touted as a “sci-fi classic” I don’t think I would label it that way myself.

An airplane en route to Singapore carries with it a group of female dancers and their manager, but unfortunately crash lands in the ocean somewhere in the South Pacific. Having survived the crash, the dancers and their manager make their way to an uncharted island where they set up residence and spend their days lounging around and skinny dipping. When the manager is bitten by a strange spider, he is transformed into a spider-like man beast and begins stalking the dancers.

“Hey Billy – Let’s go somewhere alone…”

I am really really starting to like Hemingway.

I liked it ok, but it wasn’t any Kavalier and Clay.

This was much better than I thought it would be. I never read the books, but my wife and two older daughers did. The movie was adequate. It made me dream a crazy dream though.

It was alright, but the Shadow in these radio shows is markedly different in ability that that of the pulps that these stories came out of. Maybe they wanted to tone down the whole anti-hero aspect of his character. You can definitely see where batman comes from after reading some Shadow stuff.

This wasn’t anywhere near as good as his Dante Club, which was mediocre at best in itself. Probably nice for big poe fans, though even that starts grating after a bit. The main protagonist, who purportedly holds a better than average intelligence, was a raving buffoon throught the majority of this thing. I don’t know if this is because the writer wanted the “genius” character of Dupin to look better or what. It was Extremely painful at times to get through the various facets of this guy’s pages long episodes of buffoonery. Painful.

This was absolutely effing awesome. If ever you feel the urge to listen to some old radio shows – do it! And if whilst in the midst of such feeling you wish for a bit of old-school sci-fi, then this set of discs is the one for you. I’m really genuinely happy that I happened across these.

A quick read. It reminded me a lot of Pearl Buck’s “Good Earth”, though much shorter. There are some nice lines and observations by the author in here.