5/10
What kind of injections do you need to get through a movie like this?
27 May 2016
Cheapjack thriller from director Roger Corman is kind of fun, if you're not too demanding. Female CEO of a cosmetics firm, concerned about her fading looks, turns to an erstwhile professor to help restore her youth through injections filled with the enzymes found in wasps (he's just been fired from his work on a bee farm, where he was caught going rogue!). Corman-quickie (distributed theatrically by "The Filmgroup") is operating on perhaps one cylinder due mostly to a stock screenplay by Leo Gordon, working from an original treatment by Kinta Zertuche. Our heroine has been given no personality or dimensions; as portrayed by the wooden Susan Cabot, she doesn't even have any sympathetic qualities. Eager to be beautiful again (and ditch those homely glasses!), the impatient businesswoman begins injecting the enzymes herself after hours--but what is she to do when the serum runs out? She can't call the professor--he's been sideswiped by a car and now lies in a coma! Second-feature has a silly-looking monster and hilarious attempts at 'natural' water cooler chit-chat, but B-movie addicts might find this shamefacedly irresistible. ** from ****
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