The small town of Peckham is having a rash of men who died from sex...."coming and going at the same time" they joke. But is no laughing matter as Captain Peters (Cliff Osmond) with a Ron Jeremy mustache, investigates with a whack-a-da sound track. Okay, maybe it is camp enough to be a laughing matter...especially the classic love scene of a naked couple rolling down a hill. This was an era where the movie telephone number didn't have a "555" in it and TV stations signed off the air. Oh yes, not to give away a 40 year old plot, but the film was about gene splicing which was centuries away.Guide: No swearing. Sex, rape, nudity (Anitra Ford-"Price is Right" model, Julie Zorn, Sharon Kelly, Susan Player, Beverly Powers, Rene Bond, Anna Aries)

I got this film in the Drive-in 50-pack collection. I thought I would hate this film but it turned out to be surprisingly interesting and a decent sci-fi horror flick. The movie sorta straddles the Z and B grade films yet it's worth watching if you are into to sci-fi horrors.When I first popped this film into the player I thought "this is going to be a real eye-roller. A terrible film." but the more I watched the film, the more I became engrossed in it.... it only took about 10 or 15 minutes to grab my attention.Yea if you ever come across this film it's worth watching. It's not a film to "seek out" but one that if you happen to stumble on it it's worth watching if you like the Z to B grade sci-fi flicks. It's one of the better ones.5/10

An agent for the State Department named "Neil Agar" (William Smith) is sent to Peckham, California to determine if there is any connection between the death of a man and a local top secret government research facility called "Brandt Industries". Not long after his arrival, other men begin dying at an alarming rate. The cause of death is sexual exhaustion in almost all of the cases. Now, as one might expect from a B-movie this one has some typical flaws. First, the lighting in several scenes was clearly inadequate. Likewise, the special effects were somewhat basic as well. In addition to that, there was quite a bit of nudity. Some of it enhanced a particular scene but at other times it didn't seem necessary or even that remarkable. However, what I did find rather remarkable was that, minus the nudity, this is the type of film one might expect to see back in the 1950's. It has that type of a plot. Be that as it may, for a "Bee-movie" this wasn't that bad.

How can you really go wrong with "Invasion of the Bee Girls"? Even critics like Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert have given this one their seal of approval, and it truly is a model B / bee movie. It has the requisite amount of female flesh that trash lovers desire as well as a wonderfully wacky far fetched plot.B movie icon William Smith stars as Neil Agar, a government agent called in to help solve the problem when men in a small California town begin to die off. Well, at least they're dying HAPPY, if you get my drift...Could the answer be found in the laboratories of the nearby Brandt scientific institute? You'll just have to watch and find out.This was the brainchild of screenwriter and future director Nicholas Meyer, who went on to do things like "The Seven Per Cent Solution", 'The Day After', and two of the "Star Trek" feature films, although he'd be dismayed at the way it ultimately turned out and seriously consider taking his name off the picture. The director is Denis Sanders, who handles the material with style, maintaining a sense of humour about the premise, while having the actors play it straight. The movie also has some seriously sexy moments and scenes, with the seduction of one of the scientists rating as a definite highlight.The actors are all fun to watch, starting with tough guy Smith. 'The Price is Right' model Anitra Ford is a delicious villainess while Playboy Playmate Victoria Vetri is irresistibly cute as the bookish woman who gives Smith an assist in his investigation. Cliff Osmond is the perplexed local sheriff, Wright King, Ben Hammer, Andre Philippe, and Sid Kaiser play various scientists, soft core starlet Colleen Brennan has an uncredited role as a nude motorcyclist, and Cliff Emmich appears as the coroner. Professionals behind the camera include talented composer Charles Bernstein whose music score is quite infectious, and cinematographer Gary Graver, a man who's shot countless low budget pictures.All of them help to make "Invasion of the Bee Girls" a high old time for the schlock film fan. It certainly gets down to business quickly and wraps itself up in record time, including much exposition (you do get a little education into the sex life of bees) but remaining quite watchable for the duration.Eight out of 10.