Janice Starling Industries is a cosmetics company formed by Janice Starling( Susan Cabot), in her early twenties. Now in her forties she has noticed her company sales have fallen. In the board meeting she explains that sales have fallen 14.5 % since the last fiscal quarter. A couple of board members Arthur Cooper( William Roerick) & Bill Lane ( Anthony Eisley) tell her that the company needs something new. A new spokeswoman perhaps, because users have lost faith in her brand. Starling Cosmetics represent youthfulness, but when buyer she Janice now her appearance is no longer youthful. According to Lane and Cooper the buyer feels like they have been cheated. When Janice hears this she realizes she needs to do something, before her company loses anymore money. One of Janice's secretaries, Mary( Barbara Morris) informs her a Dr. Zinthrop( Michael Roerick) is there to see her. Before Zinthrop's appointment she needs to talk with Arthur.She calls Arthur in to ask him about Wasp Jelly. She wants his opinion on the enzymes extracted from the wasp; and what they might do to preserve beauty. She is looking for that wonder product of youth, a so called miracle beauty cream. She brings in Mr. Zinthrop, where he shows her a formula that makes animals young again. When she sees this she can't believe it. Janice insists that she become his first human test subject. Zinthrop is nothing more than a con-artist and mad scientist. She is excited he he agrees and works out a contract with him. When Bill Lane comes in he talks to Mary, one of her secretaries. He wants Mary to spy on her; because he believes Zinthrop is dangerous.The next morning Janice comes in and finds Zinthrop working in the lab. He has decided it's time to give her her first injection. He injects her with the wasp enzyme, and this is the first in a series of injections. Mary is snooping around her desk and notices something. It is a check from Starling Industries to Zinthrop for wasp enzymes. While Mary is doing her P.I. work, Janice is undergoing her treatments. When Zinthorp looks at her, he tells her she looks 5 years younger. In the meantime Mary meets up with Arthur and Lane for Lunch. She explains whats going on in the office, and believe Janice is being taken. The three of them believe what he is doing is dangerous; but finding a way to break the news to her will be difficult. When Janice hears the news from Zinthrop she starts to seek into to the lab and inject herself.The next morning when Janice arrives for work, her other secretary Maureen notices a massive change in her appearance. Maureen can't believe it, Janice looks 25 years younger. Janice is so enthused by this she can't wait to tell Zinthrop what his treatments have done.Zinthrop returns to his lab and notices an awful reaction from the enzymes have changed his cat into something vicious. He realizes that he needs to stop his reckless experiments. When he leaves he is accidentally struck by a car. By this time Janice has notices some strange effects, but brushes them off at first. Then Janice's finds out the Mary has been spying on her. She realizes Mary has been talking to Lane and Cooper about Zinthrop. The Janice finds out Zinthorp has been in critical condition from being hit by a car. She tell Cooper he can run the Lab while Zinthorp is recovering. That night Cooper finds Zinthorp's work, his papers, and he is fascinated. That night in the lab Cooper is attacked by Janice. She has turms into a Wasp Woman due to this treatment. It is something she cannot control, anytime she can turn into a killer wasp. She kills Cooper, the nightwatchman, and Zinthorpe's nurse. Janice is now fully transformed into a Wasp. When Lane and Mary discover Zinthorpe, he tells Lane not to let Janice take anymore injections. He discovered a bad reaction with his cat, that turned it into a vicious monster.Janice finds out that Mary and Lane are still in the building. Mary goes to look for her, unaware of her transformations. When Lane finds out Mary has gone to look for Janice alone. Lane and Zinthorpe rush up to the lab only to find out Janice is fully transformed. A fight ensues with Lane fighting Janice off and Zinthorps throwing acid on her, eventually killing her.In conclusion, it's not a bad film. It is one of those classic 50's Sy-Fy films that's kind of cheesy, but fun.

Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) is the owner of a cosmetics company whose prices are falling. Executive Bill Lane (Fred Eisley) tells her this is because of her aging looks...because that's how you get a bonus at Christmas, right? Anyhow, at the same time this is going on a scientist named Dr. Eric Zinthrop has been working on a serum which reverses the aging process. Might this be the ideal solution? Janice helps fund Zinthrop's efforts to perfect his work, then uses herself as a human test subject. It works, and she easily sheds 20 years. Unfortunately it has a side effect. It turns her into a woman with a wasp's head...exactly twice. Then she dies after falling out a window. Ironically The Wasp Woman has little or no wasp woman it. This might be excused if the characters or story were interesting, but most of the movie is just executives talking about things that we don't really care about. I don't really recommend it because it's pretty boring and doesn't even get the benefit of enjoyably bad.

Did Roger Corman do the original "Little Shop of Horrors"? I'll have to check. As predictable as a soap opera. A bumbling (not quite mad) scientist invents a youth serum that turns test animals and people into giant fuzzy mutant wasps that buzz. Cabot wears a hairy fright mask with curly "antennae" and sucks several victims dry. It's supposed to eat 'em too which saves a ton on special effects.A shameless steal from "The Fly". A human with an unintentionally funny face. Giant claws like a lobster. It could have been much more horrible if the results had been shown on camera. A flattened dead body in a web or rolled up like old toothpaste. It evokes memories of every awful-stupid horror movie from Gabor's "Queen of Outer Space" to the more recent "Cat Woman". Women seeking the fountain of youth always turn left at the wrong exit. Fun but not really that wonderful. Hardly worth viewing twice. When I was a kid, this actually scared me to death on the big screen. Remade at least twice by other studios and many variations on TV as well. (Remember the "Outer Limits" episode where a pretty girl is actually a transformed queen bee and wants to "mate" with a human male?)

Long before Olivia de Havilland warned us that a swarm of killer bees were coming our way, and a few years after the public at large fled from "The Deadly Mantis", the staff of a beauty supply company must deal with "The Wasp Woman", unknowingly their big boss, who has been surprising them recently with her sudden youth-creating beauty. Actress Susan Cabot is made to look "old" (sans make-up and with large framed glasses) as the creator of a line of beauty products which no longer work for her. She decides to be the human experiment of a scientist obsessed with wasp jelly which makes an old lab mouse young and turns an old cat back into a kitten. Unfortuanately, thanks to the sudden attack of the no longer friendly kitty, the scientist learns that his wasp jelly has serious side effects, turning the creature who takes it into a wasp-like creature, attacking the nearest victim and literally eating them from inside out. But before he can warn Cabot, he is hit by a car, and pretty soon, she is having flashes of the demon inside her, all the while desperate to take more youth-creating jelly in order to remain youthful.A combination of genuine horror and camp, this is also a very moralistic tale of how the obsession with youth can literally destroy one's soul. Cabot's loveliness in real life isn't hidden by the dowdy way she is clothed and made up in the open scenes (it's funny how lack of make-up and ugly glasses are always used in movies and on T.V. to indicate plainness), and she is publicly humiliated in a meeting with fellow executives and her secretary of how by remaining cover girl for her own product, she has caused the sales of the product to go down. It doesn't help that she's surrounded by younger secretaries and clerks who are quite voluptuous and often comment behind her back (which she somehow manages to overhear) on her looks.While it is insinuated by the bee keepers in the very first scene that scientist Michael Mark is quite mad, he never really shows serious signs of that, although his obsession with angry wasps over the usually man friendly bees is quite odd. His performance is basically very subtle, especially in the scenes following his accident. Other good performances come from William Roerick as one of Cabot's executives, Anthony Eisley as another employee and Barboura Morris as Cabot's devoted secretary. The film really doesn't explode into horror until the final quarter, but it is still interesting to see how it develops.