Wasp Woman
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Directed by Roger Corman | 61 mins | 1959
Corman’s lo-fi corporate twist on "The Fly"–style metamorphosis shifts the focus to the beauty standards inflicted on women with this tale of a cosmetics company executive desperate to stay on top. Susan Cabot plays the steely exec who experiments with a new youth serum that has vampiric side effects and gets a buzzy transformative makeover (depicted with a snazzy masked costume).
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