Details

Release year: 1959

Storyline

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

Top credits

Directors

Roger Corman

Writers

Cast

Susan Cabot — Janice Starlin
Anthony Eisley — Bill Lane
Barboura Morris — Mary Dennison
William Roerick — Arthur Cooper

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Did you know

• Susan Cabot'x character plays a woman who takes wasp "royal jelly enzyme" to stay younger. In real life, Cabot suffered from mental illness. She reportedly tried to treat it with human growth hormone, which her son took for dwarfism, but it may have exacerbated her illness. Her son later killed her, reportedly in self-defense after she attacked him during a mental breakdown.

• In one of the final scenes, a bottle of acid is thrown at Susan Cabot, but she isn't acting when she throws her hands up after it strikes her. Someone had filled the "breakaway" bottle with water, and it was so heavy that when it struck her she said, "I thought my teeth had been knocked through my nose!" The fake smoke used to simulate the acid also choked her; after falling through the window, unable to breathe, she tore some skin off along with her monster makeup, leaving a huge purple mark on her neck.

• Roger Corman: Doctor in the hospital.