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Mesa of Lost Women

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USA  •    •  70m  •    •  Directed by: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos.  •  Starring: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot, Paula Hill, Robert Knapp, Tandra Quinn, Chris-Pin Martin, Harmon Stevens, Nico Lek, Kelly Drake, John Martin, George Barrows.  •  Music by: Hoyt Curtin.
       A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.

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Image from: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Image from: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Image from: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Image from: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Image from: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Image from: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
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One of the best of the so-bad-it's-beautiful movies. MESA OF LOST WOMEN tells the story of a mad scientist (Jackie Coogan with a wart the size of a Roosevelt dime!) who creates beautiful dancing girls out of spiders. (most likely to help out the struggling Rockette industry!) I absolutely loved the scene with the mad doc's victim, a scientist driven insane by a spider-woman encounter. He goes around bars, quoting something close to the Bible, in a silly Elmer Fudd voice.

What I really loved about this movie was Tandra Quinn, as Tarantella, the mad doc's best spider to mucha-cha creation. She's something like a brunette Jayne Mansfield with a little bit of Vampirella thrown in. Ms. Quinn, you made film history with your really strange spider dance.


Review by Glenn Andreiev from the Internet Movie Database.