Mesa of Lost Women
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Director: Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond
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Released: 2003-02-18
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Jackie Coogan as a mad scientist? You mean Uncle Fester? Of course, why not? As the mad scientist in Mesa of Lost Women, Coogan has assembled a race of scantily clad superwomen, "spider women" with long fingernails, led by an enormous tarantula. Deep in the Mexican interior, a researcher (Robert Knapp) tries to get to the bottom of things, but winds up under the spider women's spell, and puts in a weird, lobotomized goody-two-shoes performance for the rest of the film. Anyone who's a fan of Ed Wood's celluloid atrocities The Giant Leeches, The Giant Gila Monster, or countless other examples of '50s sci-fi junk should love the almost incomprehensible Mesa of Lost Women. In fact, Ed Wood fans should recognize this movie's incredibly irritating classical guitar and piano score from Wood's stinker Jailbait. From the first clumsy dance number in a Mexican bar to the movie's high-tension finale, this is jaw-dropping stuff. --Jerry Renshaw
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Mesa of Lost Women
- DVD: 0 pages (2003-02-18)
- Publisher: Alpha Video
- Label: Alpha Video
- Starring: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot, Paula Hill
- Director: Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond
- Encoding: Region 1
- Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1,
- Rated: NR (Not Rated)
- Studio: Alpha Video
- DVD Release Date: 2003-02-18
- Run Time: 70
- Average Customer Review: based on 27 reviews
- Sales Rank in DVD: #58144
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Summary: Aye, caramba.... 2009-12-14
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Summary: A Rodger Corman want-a-be 2009-12-06
Comment: Two people are found wandering in the desert. They are brought back to a local clinic where upon recovering from sun stroke the man wants to immediately burn "it." "Burn what?" you say. Well He slows down to tell the tale of a Doctor on a remote mesa that is a little ahead of his time working with you guessed it Lost Women and things best left to nature. We are now in for a 70 minute flash back.
With great actors as Jackie Coogan (you can tell he must be the bad guy with a huge mole on his face), Allan Nixon, Tandra Quinn and Delores Fuller, You know it can not go wrong. Yeah, sure.
The dialog gets a little boring and some of the screen play (by Herbert Tevos) is a little disoriented. I suspect that much was cut out for brevity; so we must make great leaps and assume we just missed something.
There is a great dance scene by Tarantella (Tandra Quinn) that would subdue Captain Kirk had he been there.
Do not worry though we have wonderful background music by Hoyt Curtin that consists of an off key flamingo guitar and a spinet that won't spin; I think they are trying to sound Spanish; you get to hear it during the beginning credits; You get to hear it during the narration (by Lyle Talbot); you get to hear it every time a suspenseful scene appears; You get to hear it every time one does not; you still hear it when the DVD is safely packed away.
With great actors as Jackie Coogan (you can tell he must be the bad guy with a huge mole on his face), Allan Nixon, Tandra Quinn and Delores Fuller, You know it can not go wrong. Yeah, sure.
The dialog gets a little boring and some of the screen play (by Herbert Tevos) is a little disoriented. I suspect that much was cut out for brevity; so we must make great leaps and assume we just missed something.
There is a great dance scene by Tarantella (Tandra Quinn) that would subdue Captain Kirk had he been there.
Do not worry though we have wonderful background music by Hoyt Curtin that consists of an off key flamingo guitar and a spinet that won't spin; I think they are trying to sound Spanish; you get to hear it during the beginning credits; You get to hear it during the narration (by Lyle Talbot); you get to hear it every time a suspenseful scene appears; You get to hear it every time one does not; you still hear it when the DVD is safely packed away.
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Summary: Entertaining and watchable 2009-10-20
Comment: Tandra Quinn (former "Perfect Baby of America")makes this movie. What a great combination of brains, beauty, and tarantula instincts! The many strange head-shots of grinning dwarfs are also endearing.
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Summary: One of the Worst Movies Ever Made! 2009-06-18
Comment: Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" has nothing on this amateurish attempt at science fiction. Widely available in the public domain, "Mesa of Lost Women" (1953) isn't even good for laughs. However, it does offer the most grating score in film history. Recommended for viewers dying to see Jackie Coogan as a mad scientist.
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Summary: How do you rate something like this? 2009-06-14
Comment: Bad wigs, a completely absurd plot, and a voice-over narration that rivals even the Astounding She Monster in over-the-top, rancid melodrama. And the unending guitar...
And yet, there were highlights. The engaging escaped lunatic managed to be fun to watch. Tarntella's dance was, well, something to see, even if it won't win any awards. As Z grade movies go, this one offered a few giggles, and in a 3$ rental, that's what I look for.
And yet, there were highlights. The engaging escaped lunatic managed to be fun to watch. Tarntella's dance was, well, something to see, even if it won't win any awards. As Z grade movies go, this one offered a few giggles, and in a 3$ rental, that's what I look for.
The real "star" of this flick is Tandra Quinn who played the seductive spider woman Tarantella. Everyone else including Jackie Coogan, who was clearly just scrapping to keep a roof over his head at this point, was supporting cast for her. Whatever happened to her anyway? What legs she had, that "stare" of hers, and that titillating "dance" of hers in the border town dive of a bar. What was she doing hanging out in that bar in the first place?? Being snared in HER spider web and being taken advantage of is one of my favorite rape fantasies.
I gave the movie four stars because it is certainly better than "The Beast of Yucca Flats" and I gave it three. It really does not deserve five though, in spite of the fact that Ed Wood simply MUST have at least been watching this production from the sidelines.
P.S. This review is for the Alpha Video version, I have not seen the Image Entertainment version. But how can it be any different?? It's not like there are going to be any pristeen master prints of this one sitting in a secret vault somewhere. Or are there?? (theremin playing in the background)