‘They’ll love the very life out of your physique!’
Invasion of the Bee Women is a 1973 sci-fi horror movie directed by Denis Sanders from a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer (later director of Star Trek II and VI and Time After Time).
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The Sequoia Photos manufacturing stars William Smith (Grave of the Vampire, Moon in Scorpio), Anitra Ford (Messiah of Evil), Victoria Vetri (Rosemary’s Child, When Dinosaurs Dominated the Earth), Cliff Osmond, Wright King, Ben Hammer, Anna Aries (The Ωmega Man), Beverly Powers (The Comedy of Terrors, Brides of Blood, Jaws), Cliff Emmich (Halloween II). Rene Bond (Please Don’t Eat My Mom!; Necromania) performs one of many Bee Women.
Veteran Gary Graver (Deep House; et al) dealt with the cinematography and Charles Bernstein (Daddy’s Lethal Darling, The Entity, A Nightmare on Elm Avenue), supplied the groovy ’70s rating, apart from the top credit which is accompanied by Johan Strauss’ Additionally Sprach Zarathustra’ (famously utilized in 2001: A House Odyssey).
Plot:
Physician Susan Harris, a mad scientist (Anitra Ford), has created a military of feminine beauties who seduce males to dying. One after the other the male victims are killed earlier than the native police catch on to the plans of the contaminated females.
Neil Agar (William Smith), a safety agent with the State Division, is dispatched to Peckham, California to research the dying of John Grubowsky, a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Analysis.
Swiftly making the acquaintance of the laboratory’s head librarian, Julie Zorn, he begins interviewing the agency’s main scientists, a lot of whom have reputations as sexual gamers. His investigation is quickly difficult by a rising variety of deaths, all males who died of congestive coronary heart failure brought on by sexual exhaustion.
Confronted with a quickly escalating physique rely, the native sheriff, Captain Peters, holds a city assembly at which the laboratory’s main relationship researcher, Henry Murger, urges the city populace to observe coitus abstinence – an thought greeted with derision by the locals.
Neil and Julie organize a gathering with Murger afterwards to debate his theories as to the reason for his dying, solely to see him chased down and run over by a automotive with an unseen driver. Later, Neil discovers a secret room concealing naughty paraphernalia and Murger’s secret lover, Joe, who informs Neil that he noticed Murger driving off with an unknown girl previous to his dying.
Regardless of a curfew and the institution of a navy quarantine, the scientists proceed their carnal video games. Considered one of them, Herb Kline, is approached by Susan Harris, a lovely entomologist engaged on bees. Although described by the lads as an “iceberg,” she flirts with Kline and invitations him over for dinner.
That night time, as they get frisky, Kline suffers a deadly thrombosis and Harris reveals black compound eyes suggesting that she is greater than she seems…
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“The movie tempts and admonishes us without delay. We get gratuitous boobs and butts, but simply once we suppose sizzling motion is coming our manner, it cuts to a face of a corpse. Additionally it is a trendy, cogently directed movie with a energetic script and a cool wa-wa-wa-wa la-la-la-la theme tune which remembers Ennio Morricone’s rating for Fowl with the Crystal Plumage. B-movie large William Smith […] is ideal because the square-jawed agent on the bee ladies’ path. Anitra Ford […] is ravishing and fearsome because the queen bee.” David Elroy Goldweber, Claws & Saucers
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Trailer [720p]:
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Movie info:
Within the US, the movie was misleadingly re-released as Graveyard Tramps
