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Invasion of the Bee Girls
USA 1973
produced by
Sequoia Pictures
directed by Denis Sanders
starring William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond, Wright King, Ben Hammer, anna Aries, Andre Philippe, Sid Kaiser, Katie Saylor, Beverly Powers, Tom Pittman, William Keller, Cliff 'Fatty'Emmich, Al Bordighi, Jack Perkins, Susan Player
written by Nicholas Meyer, Sylvia Schnebele, music by Charles Bernstein
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Because several men in a small town are killed in a state of sexual
arousal and it all has to do with the Brandt Research Institute that does
top secret research on biological warfare, the gouvernment sends agent
Neal Agar to insextigate, but at first, the only thing he and scientist
doc Murgo (Wright King) can come up with to protect civilian lives is to
suggest that all the small town's citizens, at least the men, stay
celibate for the duration of the investigations ... much to the dismay of
the citizens !
Of course, Agar himself pays little heed to his own warnings as he soon
starts an affair with one of the scientists of the institute, Julie
(Victoria Vetri). Doc Murgo meanwhile is killed, but not in a state of
sexual arousal, but he's run over by a car ... soon it becomes clear why:
Doc Murgo was gay, and obviously the killer is a man-murdering woman,
a bit like a black widow, or maybe ... a bee.
As a matter of fact, the audience soon learns there is not just one
killer but quite a group of women, led by scientist Susan Harris (Anitra
Ford), who was teh first to be turned into a bee in Brandt research
institute ... and soon she got herself company by turning other women into
bees as well (you recognize them by the enormous sunglasses they are
wearing to hide their completely black eyes).
When agar finally finds out the truth about Doc Harris and her stable
of bees it's almost too late, because they have already kidnapped Julie
and are in the process of turning her into one of them ... But of course,
in the end, Agar destroys all the bee-making machines, takes care of the
bee girls and takes home not-yet-infected Julie.
All's well that ends well, only the last shot shows a bee (a real one)
sitting on a flower ...
The rather silly sci-fi-story of this film is of course little more
than a pretense to show quite some nudity ... which in itself I would find
quite hilarious. Unfortunately neither the actors nor the director nor the
screenwriter seem to get the joke, & the whole movie is played
straight ... which could still be hilarious. Unfortunately this film is
not, mainly because despite silly story, despite nudity, it is rather dull
and devoid of any real climkaxes (sexual or otherwise). Pity, it sounds so
great ...
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