Horrorfest 2017: Invasion of the Bee Girls

Here's another Jarmusch favorite, INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS, a 1973 film directed by Denis Sanders. I wanted to check this movie out a couple years ago after I read Nicholas Meyer's autobiography. Meyer is most famous for directing the two best STAR TREK movies, parts II and VI, but his first writing credit was INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS. He's a pretty smart guy so I was expecting a pretty smart movie. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.

Basically, dudes start turning up dead and it's fairly clear they're having heart attacks in the middle of sex. Neil Agar plays an agent sent to investigate these deaths, and things seem to revolve around a government research facility in which a bunch of the scientists are all sexed up.

About halfway through the flick we get to witness an entomologist (Susan Harris) actually kill on of the scientists during a tryst, accompanied with buzzing sound effects and revealing strange eyes, reminiscent of an insect. Here comes the bee girls.

A movie called INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS shouldn't be boring, but this one is. I started to zone out but I guess the entomologist played by Harris is using mutation and radiation to create  a race of bee-women.

I think the movie is supposed to be a satire about the sexual revolution vs. sexism – men being sexed to death, etc. But, then throw in a bunch of gratuitous nudity and you get mixed results.