Wild World of Batwoman, The (1966) * 1/2 (out of 4) Infamous film from director Warren had the man sued by Marvel and this film, at one time, re-released as SHE WAS A HIPPIE VAMPIRE but it's the title here and the clear rip-off of Batman that has made this thing live for so long. The story is all over the place but we've basically got Batwoman (Katherine Victor) going after the evil Rat Fink (Richard Banks) who also had a nutty scientist (George Mitchell) working for him. I was somewhat shocked to see that this movie was ranked in the Bottom 100 at IMDb for several reasons. One is that this is the only Warren movie there. The second reason is that there are so many more movies out there worse than this one. I'm really not sure why this film has gotten so much special attention but I'm going to guess it's because Batman fans are checking this thing out and seeing a pure "Z" grade picture. I can understand someone familiar with "A" pictures to hate this. It does contain horrible acting, horrible direction, horrible outfits, a horrible plot and any other job title could have horrible before it. However, as someone who has seen many Warren film, this one contains something the others don't and that's an attempt at telling a story. Yes, the story is all over the place, makes no sense and at times will have you lost but at least it tries, which is a lot more than you can say for the director's other films. This one here also has more than just one long dialogue sequence after another. We've actually got quite a bit of action ranging from fights to some silly guns being waived around. Again, this isn't too common for a Warren picture. One of the silliest things here is the scientist who has created a "happy" pill that his girls to girls so that they will dance and do a few other things. These dances are so crazy that you can't help but laugh and the music they're dancing to certainly wasn't rock 'n roll from 1966 but seems to be about fifteen years late from its target audience. What's even sillier is the scientist who has an assistant who is mildly retarded due to an experiment that went wrong. The politically incorrect role was silly but at the same time it had me laughing. Again, all of these things make for an awful movie but at the same time they keep the film moving and make it rather fun to watch. If you're a fan of bad cinema then this here is certainly one of the all-time great bad movies. Warren would take a fourteen year break from filmmaking before jumping back onto the scene with the downright horrid FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND. It's really too bad he didn't go out with this sucker as it pretty much contains everything bad you'd expect from a movie like this. Just don't take it too serious, sit back and laugh.

This movie is now the new winner on my list of "worst film ever made." Yes, it's that bad. At least Plan 9 had some heart, and Manos had hands of fate. This movie has nothing. Well, it does have jiggling go-go girls, but somehow, they made that boring. I'd write more, but I can't. Since there is a minimum number of lines though, I could just duplicate this paragraph again. Or maybe just add parts of reviews from other movies, something they did in WWOB too. So… I didn't think Iron Man was as good as everyone else did, but I still liked it. Have you seen the movie "The World's Fastest Indian"? Now there is a great little movie. Oh, and if you want to see wacky German type characters running around acting silly, don't watch WWOB, watch Amadeus! That's a quality film. And that's 10 lines, so "There it is."

What the...? This is one dreadful film. I watched it but there absolutely nothing that made any sense. I saw the MST3K version after watching "Manos" the Hands of Fate a night earlier. That movie is obviously worse than Batwoman but has a fairly straight forward narrative. Batwoman has none. What is the deal with this bunch of garbage? There is this old gal that wears a mask for no good reason and leads a bunch of dancing broads.After this all is up for grabs. The film goes every direction while making no sense at all, if it was to confuse it's audience at all times. Although the handling isn't as bad as Manos there is no redeeming quality to this picture. The comments on the MST3K version are priceless though, from quoting Doors and Who songs to rants on dreadful scenes, this version is amusing although the movie is a disaster.And what is the story about vampires that starts the picture? There is reference on vampires what so ever in the continuum of the film. A true travesty, this excuse for a film. I thought it might be a wise decision to see this film being not that sober, but it didn't help that much. It is really beyond help!

Even the "MST 3k" treatment could not make this movie enjoyable. The movie truly had no plot. It has various filmed sequences strung together, but not a plot.The "Boatwoman" inductees have got to be the most clueless, talentless bimbos that I have ever seen. when not failing miserable at vague crime fighting, they do odd, jerky dancing.The acting and costumes are equally horrible. I also couldn't figure out how a mood-altering beverage, an unusual hearing aid, and a radioactive element was going to give some masked villain control of the world. Then the masked terrorist somehow made a bunch of copies of himself that got chased around a chemistry lab for several minutes. During this time, Batwonar simply pointed some kind of ray gun at him and put all the copies back into one body - with ZERO special effects whatsoever.Oh, and did I mention how BAD the audio quality was? The mst3K bots joked about the microphone being in the phony ray gun, but that may have actually been true. The film quality was of very low quality as well.the ending didn't make anymore sense than the beginning or middle. There CAN'T be a spoiler on this film, Since I have no clue what actually happened.