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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1959 drive-in sci-fi horror movie, The Wasp Woman, starring Susan Cabot, directed by Roger Corman.

It is a tale of beauty, vanity, mortal anxiety, and science gone wrong, shot in two weeks for under $50,000.

And this one is classic late 50s, Corman.

It is lean, mean, funny, weird, stupid, and smart at the same time.

It's barely over 70 minutes runtime in the longest cut.

I think there are shorter cuts that are sub-70.

I don't know which one you watch.

I watch the theatrical cut, which is the shorter.

I believe we'll get into this later, but I think you watch the TV cut.

Okay, so I got some stuff you didn't see, I guess.

Right, right.

Namely the intro.

Okay.

So we'll get into some of those differences as we proceed.

Yeah.

I think it's funny that like some of these late 50s, Corman movies, it is extremely short and quite brisk in the storytelling and yet still feels like it has significant

padding uh like all of the beekeeping footage at the beginning that feels like they're patting

that thing out well yeah i mean literally was um yeah because it's not present in the theatrical uh and

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