The Wasp Woman (1960)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1959
Running Times: 66 mins     73 mins     77 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: A Film Group Feature
Copyright: MCMLIX by Santa Cruz Productions Inc
Produced by: Roger Corman
Production Manager: Jack Bohrer

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Leo Gordon
From a Story by: Kinta Zertuche

DIRECTION
Directed by: Roger Corman, Jack Hill (uncredited (added television version footage))

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Harry C. Newman

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Carlo Lodato

MUSIC
Music by: Fred Katz

SOUND
Sound: Philip Mitchell
Recorded By: Ryder Sound Service

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Makeup: Grant R. Keats

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Dan Haller
Property Master: Carl Brainard

CAST
Susan Cabot (Janice Starlin)
Fred Eisley (real name: Anthony Eisley) (Bill Lane)
Barboura Morris (Mary Dennison)
William Roerick (Arthur Cooper)
Michael Mark (Eric Zinthrop)
Frank Gerstle (Les Hellman)
Bruno Ve Sota (nightwatchman)
Roy Gordon (Paul Thompson)
Carolyn Hughes (Jean Carson)
Lynn Cartwright (Maureen Reardon)
Frank Wolff (man)
Lani Mars (secretary)
Phillip Barry (man)
Roger Corman (doctor in hospital (uncredited))

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributors: The Horror Channel

USA
Theatrical Distributors: The Filmgroup Inc
Television Distributors: Allied Artists Television Corp
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video
DVD Distributors: Sinister Cinema

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: unrated

TIMELINE

1960
February
12: USA - theatrical release

2005
December
10: UK - television broadcast (on The Horror Channel)

2007
January
5: UK - television broadcast (on Zone Horror)

POSTER TAGS

A beautiful woman by day - a lusting queen wasp by night.

Strong men forced to satisfy a passion no human knows.

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Bee Girl
La donna vespa - Italian title
Insect Woman
La mujer insecto - Venezuelan title
Die Wespenfrau - West German title

LINKS

REMAKES
Evil Spawn (1987)
Rejuvenatrix (1988)
The Wasp Woman (1995)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Eye of the Beholder (1999)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Video Watchdog no.15 pp.4-5
illustrated article

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

cosmetics, scientists, wasps

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009