B- MOVIE ‘Bee Bey’ invasion of a sexual epidemic »Popmatters
Something funny for science fiction B-Movie The invasion of the bee girls On his way to the garbage pile of cinematic ambiguity. In seizures and start, it has become a movie B of some reputation, the latest resurrection or the appearance of larvae is the new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. How did this happen, and what is the bee girl?
It was written by Nicholas Mayer and directed by Dennis Sanders, The invasion of the bee girls It was produced in 1973 by an expected company called Sequoia Pictures and issued by a mysterious distributor on an equal foot called Centaur Tree-Ensuping, and we will explore there in Nuk there. In its release, critics made a predictive jokes about “Bee movies”.
By the end of the contract, two critics of the Chicago movie called Roger Ebert and Jin Sisgel became media stars by hosting the called PBS series Imp offsWhere they reviewed many new films a week. Sometimes they hosted programs of a title under the title, and some episodes shed light on their concept of “guilty pleasures”.
One of Ebert options in a 1981 batch He was The invasion of the bee girlsIt has been called “Best Sclock SoftCore Science Ficting, perhaps Revenge is In 1967, “he added:” She has beautiful women, strong stupid men, a conspiracy to rule the world, and a secret laboratory with many elegant machines with flashing lights. What do you want with a guilty pleasure? “It also summarizes it as” for women who use radioactive activity to convert the bees into Queen, then go out, organize workers and make them come down like flies. “
Perhaps this was the moment in popular culture when strange films amateurs began to search for this strange B movies on VHS, and she has gone through several video embodiment since then. While the EBERT response is a camp and a superficial, The invasion of the bee girls At least reward a little deeper analysis. Do not get the idea that we are talking about an aesthetic or intellectual masterpiece. The scenario of Nicholas Mayer is fast but random, pushes the plot from death to the bees to death (we will try to see the pun) without making a lot of meaningful meaning.
William Smith is playing a federal agent named Neil Ajar, whose name may be a wink for John Arar, a prolific star of the low budget, well, well, Schlocky Sci-Fi-Movies. Ajar reaches the town of California called Beckham, a name that is supposed to be hesitant in echo in words such as “Baker”, “Hentepick” and “Arrangement”. There is because one of the male scientists in a government -funded facility entitled Brandt Research was found dead from “severe sexual exhaustion” in a motor room while his wife sat at home wearing her hands.
Before we can breathe in this B movies, nude dead men are found all over the scene within a few days. We glimpse some mysterious incidents that involve naked women and a brief voice. We feel that they were all seduced by honey. (We will stop, we promise, before you get a lot of tune.)
The well -known police (Cleep Osmond) was poor in conducting the investigation, such as Beckham’s men, poor in keeping them in their pants after hearing that men “fall like flies.” (They are, there is another punishing there.
One of Buffin, Dr. Henry Morger (Wright King), makes a mistake in pronouncing public places that he has a foolish theory that he cannot mention yet, and after five minutes, he runs a car. In a truly interesting revelation, Ajar knows that Morger was a gay man who lived with a truck driver called Herm’s Bar (or Hermes?). There are no non -influential stereotypes and Ajar does not express any heterogeneous urgency in information. Keep in mind that Murger has a delightful secret room with the unicorn statue and some whip. In other words, Murger is not trapped at the danger of the city, except for cars.
We quickly learn what was clear. “Iceberg”, Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford), an unprecedented Soleil bomb without giving enormous sunglasses at home. She systematically wanders in the widows of science and is forcefully subject to a bee -covered shift, from which it appears with long, long mascara eyelashes, huge black eyes, and composite bees archers, which the camera adopts from time to time for drugs’ for.
Meanwhile, Smith activated the Secretary of a young library named Jolie Zoren (Victoria Vitry), who has not yet undergone the bees but hardly escape from the attempt to rape by three thugs. It is good for Smith to be promoting them to the pulp. Beckham has already been described as “just like anywhere else” and said that people are bored, waking up to the wife’s epilepsy and all kinds of associates. In fact, we have seen more than the informal sexual discrimination of every man in the city, not to mention the sexual frustration of their wives. This is a bleak picture of small America.
In other words, B-MOVIE The invasion of the bee girls It is the famous “gender war” of the famous “Snatcher Body” concept in which people are replaced by Dopelgangers or brainwashing themselves. This concept was useful for everything from vampires to strange invasions. More importantly, it applies this idea to the sexual revolution and what is now called “feminism at the second wave”, and it is hidden in many horror and science fiction projects in the early seventies.
For example, selling in Era Levin in 1972 Steford wives I assumed that women who are not calm and rebels can become ideal like the Lord in the fifties if they are only converted into literal robots. The film version will not be released until 1975, according to the directions of Brian Forbes and William Goldman, but it is interesting that StepFord – soft leather icons, large dead eyes, CoogeFure – are also pictures of homes that have turned into bee girls. The side effect of bees, we learn, is infertility caused by radiation, and this leads to sexual appetite that is not explained by the size of death.
B-MOVIE The invasion of the bee girls The Tropy is increasing because it imagines the victory of what is more or the lean cadres of Women Super who receive a kiss from Dr. Harris after peeling the face honey cocoon, which is similar to the treatment of beauty. Sex sabotage put Mayer’s scenario in the vicinity Harvest1973, selling former actor Thomas Treon (a gay, close sex, by coincidence? The dark secret of the house (1978). In that and another television production, The last bride Salem (1974), women make up a mind that dominates the men of the city.
Bert E. Gordon necromancy (1972), which was co -written by Gail March, also includes an isolated city in California, which is trying to recruit the heroine in magic. These ideas were leaking in the B movies and novels that bother the audience with promises with a new sexual arrangement for a variety or another. In some cases, it yearns for reactionary idealism. In other cases, the revolution is a disturbing the status quo of power and must be suppressed.
Or not. The last bold scene The invasion of the bee girls Dares to reconcile Richard Strauss Also spray ZarathustraInfinitely linked to the evolutionary shift at the end of Stanley Kubrick 2001: Odysse Space (1968). After AGAR emphasizes his male superiority over a thunderbolt, the music begins as the camera cuts increasing numbers of bees that appear to have sex with flowers. This amazing moment expects one of my favorite having tendency in the 1970s, Saul Bass. Fourth stage (1974).
Mayer was at the beginning of his career. The following year The invasion of the bee girlsHe became a selling novelist with the story of Sherlock Holmes, The solution is seven percentWhich he adapted to Herbert Ross’ 1976 Film version. Then he successfully directed many science fiction films: Once again (1979), Star Trek II: Khan’s anger (1982), and the nuclear TV movie War The next day (1983). In the story and the budget, this is a leap or two quantum jumps behind its text around the daughters of the bees, but one has to start somewhere.
Mayer is well known, while director Dennis Sanders is not. However, Sanders won two Oscars during his very interesting career. When he is a student at the University of California in Los Angeles, he drew attention with a time of war (1954), a civil war story that won Oscar and other awards and was formulated in National films record. Short documentary film Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969) Another Oscar won.
His other films as a director includes War chase (1962), he was appointed to one of the ten best of the National Review Council; The path of one man (1963), a biography starring Don Murray Norman Vincent Bell; Horror Shock (1964), which is also about the medical transfer of annoying people; And two concert films, Elvis: This is the way (1970) and Ghana-Filmed The soul of the soul (1971). He spent the rest of his career at San Diego State University.
Here is a little trivia worth knowing. Sanders’s mother was a prominent American artist Tina Shinasi. Among other things, the Harlequin Eyeglass framework is famous for the most known as Cat-Eye glasses. The invasion of the bee girls Her women have the transformers wearing giant grants in the nursery everywhere. I assumed that Sanders did not seem participating in the material, but we have to rethink it.
I promised to tendency. In a scene in which Ajar wants to know if it is possible to paste human and animal genes, he first asks whether a man can be crossed with a horse. We have no idea why his ideas tend in this direction, but he was said to be Senthor. Either by chance or coincidence, the launch of Centau is the distributor.
B-MOVIE The invasion of the bee girls It has a great degree with an abstract female singing written by Charles Bernstein. The film is Gary Grafir, who was working in many horror movies, and most importantly, a long association with Orson Welles in his last years. This is probably what is preferred to be remembered, although he was also honored in the Hall of Celebrity Video News for adults (such as Robert McClicoom) for pornographic contributions.
Kino’s Blu-ray features a comment path by Alexandra movie historians Hiller Nicholas (called “Glely Horny”) and Josh Nelson. They point out The invasion of the bee girlsAmong the champions Andrew Saris and Jim Garmoush and that Mayer complained about rewriting his text. The comment expands on many of the ideas that I touched here, so I want it to be recorded that I wrote this entire review (save this paragraph) in a feverish rush before listening to it. The great minds work on the same channel. Please pardon this bees in the hood.
