Good start, but then it gets ruined

Good movie but grossly overrated

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Opening w/ the music that blares throughout the film, MESA OF LOST WOMEN unfolds. Said music sounds as if a guitar-playing Sasquatch and a piano-pounding, hammer-handed baboon formed a band. The nonsensical narration is provided by Lyle Talbot (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE). It seems that mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan) is performing unnatural experiments in his hidden laboratory. He's discovered the need for human females to be... improved. Aranya is creating an army of super-women, by merging them w/ spiders! Witness Tarantella (Tandra Quinn), Aranya's mute assistant. Indeed, her arachnid ways aid in her performing the beguiling Tarantella dance! In fact, her writhing -accompanied by the Sasquatch / baboon combo, w/ added bongo drums!- is the best part of this glorious masterpiece! The rest is mostly about a group of people trying to find Aranya's hideout. Far too little spider-women action makes for one talky adventure. All while that impossible music plays on, having nothing to do w/ anything on the screen! Thank god, there's a giant, stuffed spider that bobbles along! In the Limburger-laden annals of hyper-schlock, THIS! IS! LEGEND!... EXTRA POINTS: For Dr. Fester's deadpan delivery!...

NO, this is not a good film, yes it's funny! This is one of those films that you'll laugh at some of the cheesy dialogue and dumb stuff the characters do. If you watch this alone as I did then you might find yourself wishing you watched it with someone, I know I did, because you just want to discuss some of the stupid things going on with someone! Ha ha ha! A dude gets it by the spider women, the group hears him scream and stands around discussing who's going and who's staying at the camp. Then they all decide to go together, the group leader tells them it's better if we all hold hands and of course that takes up more time. ---> Why didn't they all just take off immediately since they heard him scream and knew he was in trouble instead of all this jabber-jawing?! LMBO! Dorky as all get outs. It hits a couple of lulls but just wait a couple of minutes because it'll get funny again. lol!!4/10

MESA OF LOST WOMEN is a legendarily bad B-movie that would make Ed Wood proud. It's a tacky science fiction epic about a mad scientist and his sinister plan for world domination which involves injecting a bevy of women with spider venom in order to turn them into an army of femme fatales. Of course it's up to the good guys to thwart his nefarious plans and restore peace and order to the world.While the plot sounds fantastic, in reality MESA OF LOST WOMEN is pretty disappointing. It raises a few laughs here and there but overall the effect is subdued. One of the reasons for this is the lack of budget which means there are hardly any special effects to enjoy, just endless talk and back-and-forth stuff. Some evil dwarfs are the best the film has to offer. Jackie Coogan has fun in his mad scientist role but this is an example of so-bad-it's-average rather than so-bad-it's-good entertainment.

Anyone expecting a film Terrence Malick or Mike Figgis might make has stumbled over the wrong toadstool. Hijacked and mutated by Ron Ormond, the crazy man's Kubrick, this is 68 minutes of just plain wrong. Cult movie precious dialog reciters have a goldmine here. This amalgam of beautiful, dangerous women, evil dwarfs, unnerving soundtrack music, bizarre images and "huh?" dialog are too reminiscent of David Lynch to be a coincidence. Just the scenes with Tandra Quinn as "Tarantella" are enough to make this a must see, especially the extended Mexican cantina scene where "Tarantella" dances "The Tarantella." Also notable are Jackie Coogan and Harmon Stevens who play, respectively, a mad scientist and a scientist who's been driven mad. Stevens plays his character tweaked and bug-eyed, like W.C. Fields traded booze for methamphetamine.