Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) User Reviews (87)

Hey as far as I'm concerned, these bee babes sting

[macabro357 · 6/10 · 23 September 2003]

And yeah, I do happen to like big, natural tits so there's no problem in that department here. And I don't think it takes itself too seriously, not like some of you reviewers below. This was a B picture for the drive-ins (remember those?) so don't take it too seriously, people.

William Smith plays Neil Agar, a State Department investigator looking into the suspicious death of a top government scientist. Of course the scientist isn't the only one turning up dead. Others in the area who are seemingly healthy are suddenly dropping dead from coronaries.

After a local cop turns up dead, the coroner determines that the victims are dying from "sexual exhaustion". In other words, they are literally being screwed to death. Some clues (which I won't go into) lead Agar to believe that there is some kind pattern that is forming concerning the mating habits of insects, specifically bees. The men are literally "dropping like flies" so he enlists the help of Julie Zorn (Victoria Vetri) who works at the local government lab in order to find out what's going on.

The first one he interviews is the head of the local insect department, Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford) about the mating habits of insects. Dr. Harris always seems to have her sunglasses on, even indoors. What Agar doesn't seem to realize is that Dr. Harris has a secret lab hidden in the basement of the government facility where she 'converts' the dead men's wives into Bee Girls using a combination of radiation and bee venom. They are put into a machine naked, covered in a white cream and zapped with invisible rays.

When Dr. Harris finds out that Julie Zorn is helping Agar, she almost converts her into a Bee Girl herself, but Agar finds out about it in time and rushes into the lab and shoots up Harris' lab equipment and saves Zorn. All the Bee Girls die of electrocution or smoke inhalation and in a cool scene, Dr. Harris' face starts to rot and bleed.

This is a great B film from the 70s that is pure exploitation and a cheesy delight to watch, especially with all the naked females that appear (including Vetri and Ford) with natural breasts that seem to be a thing of the past in this age of silicone. It also looks like it was filmed in Simi Valley or Fountain Valley before all the land developers turned the place into a parking lot.

Also notable for being having 70s porn star Rene Bond in one of her few straight roles as an extra. They don't make 'em like this anymore.

6 out of 10

"They're Dropping Like Flies'

[BaronBl00d · 6/10 · 20 September 2009]

Yes, this is quintessential 70's B movie stuff that has it all: bad acting, crazy plot strands, a far-out story about girls becoming human bees and killing men with over-exhaustion in the sexual act, and lots of pretty, bosomy girls not afraid to keep you abreast of their physical attributes. Government agent Will Smith goes to Peckham, California, to look into the death of a researcher at Brandt Research. He comes in the midst of a huge death tally as in one day or soon the number of men that have died from over-exhaustion rises to 10. We get to see some of these deaths and there is absolutely nothing scary about them. The whole film seems to have a very campy edge to it. That is a credit to first time screenwriter Nicholas Meyer who wrote The Seven-Percent Solution and the scripts for several Star Trek movies as well as directed many good films later on. Meyer's script is absurd at times but he along with the director are able to keep it not quite real - if you know what I mean. The budget is a bit higher than many films of this era but has obvious constraints. The bee hive room was impressive as are many of the female leads. Anitra Ford is gorgeous with her long legs and playful eyes, but she is nothing next to Victoria Vetri who fills a blouse beautifully. Both women are adequate thespians as well(I'm sure this is of a grave concern for viewers of films like this). Invasion of the Bee Girls is one of those really fun movies from the seventies that mixes just enough sleaze with other elements like science fiction to come up with a viewing pleasure despite its obvious shortcomings.

Silly and Funny B-Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 7 October 2006]

In the small town of Peckham, California, many men die for excessive effort during sexual intercourse. When a scientist from the Brandt research laboratory is found dead in a motel, the government sends Agent Neil Agar (William Smith) to investigate the mysterious deaths. He suspects that the deaths may be related to some experiments of Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford), who is researching bees in the Brandt facility.

"Invasion of the Bee Girls" is a delightful and enjoyable B-movie. The dark cinematography is awful with very bad lighting and horrible direction; the flawed screenplay and dialogs are silly and very funny; most of the actors and actresses are ham, with terrible acting and ridiculous dialogs (when one of the guys, referring to his friend that has just died in a motel, says to his colleagues in the bar "- Imagine, coming and going at the same time", I laughed a lot) ; there are many beautiful naked women, free nudity with lots of breasts and hilarious scenes, like, for example, the unique shot of the hero along the whole story is in a lever of a computer that provokes fire and lethal smoke everywhere in the room where the bee girls are gathered together. The actresses undress practically in every scene, without any motive, being a film of soft sexploitation. If you like trash-movies and beautiful nude women, see this flick. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Invasão das Mulheres Abelhas" ("Invasion of the Bee Women")

The quintessential B movie (Bee movie?)

[lawfella · 24 July 2004]

I was first turned on to this film by Siskel & Ebert a zillion years ago on a program they ran featuring their choices for the best "bad" movies. They were sure right about this one. The plot is so ridiculous it doesn't bear mentioning -- the magic is all in the execution, e.g., Anitra Ford stripping and writhing to the strains of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherezade", a secret laboratory in which women are transformed into seductive automatons by a procedure involving their being bathed in honey and then exposed to bees -- lot's of that kind of thing here. And what's this? The film has the US government sending out an agent to investigate the death of a guy who suffered a heart attack during strenuous sex. Is that where our intelligence agencies put their energies? No wonder they were so clueless about 9/11 and Iraq. Now for some inane reason, this film got reissued on DVD under the tile "Graveyard Tramps". It's true, there is at least one scene in a cemetery, and as to the female characters being tramps . . . no argument. Nevertheless, what kind of moron would throw away a great title like "Bee Girls" for something so prosaic? Oh, and the DVD cover for some reason identifies the female lead as the late Claudia Jennings, who is not even in the film (the lead is her fellow Playmate Victoria Vetri). Go figure. Here's another thing I love about this film -- although it is completely about sex, albeit sex in the context of some loony incomprehensible plot involving a world takeover, and although there is plenty of nudity and seduction, this film from the early 70's is rated PG. Teens could see it without a chaperone. Yep, back when I was a boy, we didn't suffer from the same neurotic fears we now have about adolescents being permanently damaged by the sight of a female breast. Seems we were relatively hardy in those days, although on the other hand, we didn't have to deal with news reports of beheadings and the like. But I digress. There will always be a special place in my heart for Invasion of the Bee Girls, the sine qua non of its genre. And a heck of a lot of fun.

May contain minor spoiler comments

[keel131 · 5/10 · 31 July 2005]

I saw this film in 1974 in Japan while in the US Navy and went as a group of guys and had a ball watching this but went away frustrated as you often do in a sexual exploitation B-film. The Beegirls have invaded Earth and are having sex with every man they can get their hands on and no one seems to object at first and they are slowly wiping out mankind. Finally people are realizing what's happening and a number of men get together and talk. Yes, there were lots of busty, good-looking women as eye-candy but one line in this film has stood out for me over the decades which has never let me forget the film and it occurs just after men begin to wonder...and the line is: 'Just think of it....Cumming and going at the same time!' It was uproarious!

For a "Bee-Movie" This Wasn't That Bad.

[Uriah43 · 5/10 · 18 May 2013]

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.

Stupid but entertaining.

[soulexpress · 5/10 · 19 August 2017]

This is a great example of why I watch B movies—or is that, "bee movies?" It's stupid as hell but quite entertaining.

In the small town of Peckham, California, middle-aged men are serially dropping dead during the sex act. So, it happens while they peck 'em. (Hey, at least I didn't say, "They came and they went.") As some of the dead men were scientists at a federally-funded laboratory, the State Department sends Agent Neil Agar (William Smith) to investigate the matter. As he tells the town sheriff, "They sent me down on this one. It looks like an easy one after that last one." (Don't ask me what the hell he's talking about.)

With the help of one Julie Zorn (Victoria Vetri), Agar discovers that the culprits are women who have been genetically modified with the DNA of honey bees. The queen bee is Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford), a researcher at the lab. All it takes is a single gunshot from Agar to destroy Harris' lab, electrocuting all the bee women in the process and neutralizing the threat to the balding, doughy men of Peckham.

Unlike a lot of B movies, the night scenes here were actually shot at night. But the lighting is so bad, you hardly see what's happening on screen. On the other hand, a protracted scene in which the hot young Dr. Harris beds and kills a 50-year-old doughy guy made me glad about the awful lighting.

As a sci-fi movie, this one really doesn't pass muster. But who cares with all the boobs and butts on display? And the scene in which the modification process is shown from start to finish really is something to see.

Item: The sheriff's station is obviously someone's house. It even has a car port.

Item: The coroner's lab is the size of a GP's exam room and has a disturbingly low ceiling.

Item: Some of the cinematography shows cleverness and imagination, particularly as involves the bee women's points of view.

Item: In one brutal scene, three hoodlums attempt to rape Ms. Zorn. Luckily, Agar is right around the corner and pounds the bastards senseless. However, neither Julie nor Agar sees a need to call the cops on these punks. And the young lady bounces back from this traumatic experience with remarkable speed.

Item: Anitra Ford's best scenes are without dialogue. She really couldn't act.

Item: Anitra Ford was one of the first "showgirls" on CBS-TV's "The Price is Right."

This movie is just cool.

[KennethEagleSpirit · 7/10 · 11 January 2007]

William Smith is just as cool in his role. The Bee girls? WAY cool. This is a fun movie with a fun plot. For a B movie its put together pretty good. It comes off well. And the players? Well, a couple could've used at least one more semester in acting school, but for the most part they do okay. One in particular. If you're a fan of James Bond movies see if you can pick out the actor in THIS flick who had an on going return role in the 007 flicks. Tripped me out when I spotted him. The "Invasion of the Bee Girls" is good sci-fi entertainment. Action, foxy ladies, death, foxy ladies, destruction, foxy ladies, bee jelly, and foxy ladies. "Bee Girls" is a B movie that rates a B+.

Surprisingly Interesting

[Rainey-Dawn · 5/10 · 27 October 2015]

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

Bee B-movie

[movieman_kev · 7/10 · 15 October 2003]

Men just keep dying from sex. It's up to Agent Neil Agar (B-movie great, William Smith) to root out the cause of the deaths. This early '70's exploitation flick, in all likelihood, has to right to be good. The acting is horrible, the special effects are ghastly, the lighting too dark. I should dislike this film, but i don't. It's a worthy enough time waister apart from one attempted rape scene that has nothing to do with the plot in the least. Goes good with another kind of B (Beer)

where i saw it: Showtime Beyond (BEEyond?)

My Grade: 3 out of 5 slices of cheese

Eye Candy: Breasts like nobodies BEESness courtesy of the majority of the female cast (funny enough no B's..a few C's & D's tho)

"Bee" Movie ZZZZs

[KDWms · 3/10 · 28 March 2003]

This can justifiably be called a "Bee" movie. But I'll be hard-pressed to find anything else justifiable about it. OK - there are a few boob shots to keep you awake. And well into the film, an ugly union guy delivers all of the film's memorable lines - in rapid succession. But first, the superficial plot: Somehow, a bunch of females (who all wear sunglasses) have bee-like tendancies when it comes to sex; i. e., while tripping the triggers of their mates, they kill them. That's pretty much it. Usually, the queen bee can make whoopie only once; but, we learn at the movie's end that these gals can do it repeatedly because of mutation resulting from radiation. Sounds like distaff Viagra. Much of the flick portrays the various, effortless ways that the male victims are lured and participate without second thought. I should have concluded right there, but, here comes that dialogue: Not one to practice the recommended abstinence, the character declares, "I'm not gonna give up what little pleasure I get from screwin' my ol' lady." (I bet SHE gets even less.) And, "They froze our wages. Let's not let 'em freeze anything else." After "eight guys are dead from ballin'", he wonders what it would be like "cummin' and goin'." The latter is the direction for most viewers. Only the fan of really bad cinema will tolerate this one.

Always "bee" yourself!

[lee_eisenberg · 10/10 · 10 May 2006]

That's 10/10 if you like campy '70s schlock, 0/10 for everyone else. In this case, woman in a small California town are turning into queen bees and screwing their husbands to death! You read that right. Needless to say, there's everything that we expect in a campy '70s flick: big-breasted babes, men wearing ugly ties, and old-style computers.

I gotta admit, I wouldn't mind mating with some of those bee girls! There are some hot ones there! Of course, in keeping with decency, I would have to avoid the old woman walking around in her bra and panties. I know, it makes me a chauvinist pig for liking a movie full of buxom women. Well, at least these women look like real people. All in all, a real treat for B-movie fetishists.

50s horror meets 70s exploitation

[fryguy-88668 · 7/10 · 6 February 2019]

I'm on a tear of watching low budget 70s and 80s movies and came across this gem. It is listed by its alternate title "Graveyard Tramps" on Amazon, though that title really doesn't make sense. The basic premise is that women in a small town are having sex with the men that leaves them dead. You can see the details in other reviews. I found it highly entertaining. Much better than other films I've watched so far in this general style. Has a moderate amount of nudity but no genital nudity or explicit sex scenes. Too silly to really be scary and no graphic violence but obviously not appropriate for younger viewers.

What a lousy film!

[preppy-3 · 1/10 · 22 May 2000]

Some cosmic force is turning nice suburban women into "bee" women. To survive that must have sex...and end up "exhausting" men to death! Naturally all the women are young and have great bodies.

Interesting idea very badly executed. This movie cries for camp, but it takes itself very seriously...TOO seriously! There's bad acting, needless nudity (esecially in a sequence where we see a woman "changed" into a bee woman), lousy color, bad sound and scenes shot at night are so dark I couldn't make out what was going on. There's also a very cruel and tasteless attempted rape in the movie. Also there seems to be a message here--all sexually aggressive women should be destroyed. That's misogynist and disturbing.

This was rediscovered on video in the early 80s, and Siskel & Ebert listed it as one of their "guilty favorites". This caused some excitement over it but it died down pretty quickly (probably because people actually saw the movie). A boring, disturbing and sick motion picture. A must miss at all costs.

Boring Bee Bimbos from the Cheesy 70's!! :=8P

[MooCowMo · 2/10 · 12 September 1999]

Ok, I admit that the idea of a moovie showing nubile bee cuties milkin' the honey outta a bunch of dopey guys to take over the world is quite tempting. Just goes to show you shouldn't judge a trash flic by its premise. A fiendishly sluggish and dull moovie, even the mooch anticipated t&a parts are sooo dark and murkily shot its like watching an abstract shadow puppet show. The one scene that is watchably lit, the chicky-poo covered in honey-scene, is silly and oddly antiseptic. The special effects boil down to black contact lenses, sunglasses, blinking lights, and the bee girls'...er...um...hives. The audio sounds like its coming from out of your shoe. This probably would have made an ok porn moovie for the hairsuit 70's, and the production levels are about the same, but as a trash/horror moovie the only buzzing you'll her is your own snoring. MooCow says tell these boring bumblers to buzz off. :=8P

One of the worst ever...

[Thorsten-Krings · 1/10 · 31 October 2007]

This has to be one of the worst films ever. The story is ludicrous: women shag men to death(come on- how long would that take, 5 days of non stop action?) and turn into bees from outer space although they still look like women and use the same methods of sexual intercourse as human beings. Never mind the fact that bees don't actually kill male bees by sex... The acting is mostly pathetic, some of the film is reasonably funny but all in all like most cheapies the film is actually pretty boring most of the time. However, whenever I had reached the decision to switch off one of the admittedly gorgeous babes took of her sweater- and it was in the "burn your bra" era. I think you really have to be pretty drunk and half asleep to get any sort of satisfaction from this turkey.

Who would have thought to combine horror with 70s soft-core porn?

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 13 December 2006]

The plot involves women who somehow are part bee. They are sexually insatiable and when they mate with unsuspecting men, they cause their hearts to explode.

This was a pretty creative but incredibly crappy movie. The production values are nil and the film really shows it, but there is also a cheesy quality that may appeal to some bad movie fans. I am definitely a bad movie fan (loving such horrid films as PLAN9 FROM OUTER SPACE, THE APPLE and TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE), but I really got bored with the whole mess. Some of it might have been all the nudity--I couldn't watch it with the family (and it's fun to do this with a bad film) and for lovers of skin, the ladies were often pretty skanky-looking--as if they hired prostitutes or women they picked up at bus stations.

By the way, William Smith, who stars in the film, (and looks kind of like a guy just out of rehab) is the same guy who later replaced Danny on HAWAII 5-0. No wonder the show was soon canceled!

Bee! Bee! Bee! La la la la la la la, la la la la la la la. Bee! Bee! Bee!

[Son_of_Mansfield · 7/10 · 29 June 2005]

That is the song that plays over the opening credits. If you can get past the too dark scenery and the super seventies feel, complete with hamburger bun size sunglasses, you will love this movie. If you have the right sense of humor. The big joke is that sex is killing men and the living are lining up. The town hall sequence is good, where the scientist talks about "the swelling of STDs" as people giggle. This was after all, the seventies, when sex was like saying hello. It was good manners. How could it ever be bad for you? How about your wife has been seduced by a queen bee and the slightest touch of little john results in death! There is a whole lot boobies going on in this movie too. The best is Anitra Ford, bearer of the finger friendly size. William Smith(Conan's father!) becomes more and more tiresome with his macho posing, but that adds to the seventies feel. This one is perfect for a late night party.

No buzz and all bore....

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 18 July 2019]

I seriously had no idea what I was in for when I sat down to watch "Invasion of the Bee Girls", but the movie had such a goofy title that I thought it might be a fun movie to watch, being all campy and spoofy.

Turns out that this 1973 movie was not that at all. I don't really know how to explain this movie, because it was downright odd. The movie was actually trying to be serious while having such a ludicrous storyline and plot, which most of the time just seemed like showing off naked ladies and men dying at random.

I managed to endure an hour of this movie from writer Nicholas Meyer and director Denis Sanders before I had my share of boredom. I was ready to call it quits after 30 minutes, but opted to give the movie a chance, in the hopes of it would catching on and becoming interesting. That just never happened.

This movie just didn't really have any appeal to me. The lack of a proper plot and storyline was just what killed it for me. And I can honestly say that I am not going to return to watch the rest of the movie, because there simply is no point in wasting more time on "Invasion of the Bee Girls".

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as this. I just wasn't part of the target audience. Given the ludicrous feel to the movie and the lack of a proper storyline, my rating of "Invasion of the Bee Girls", sadly ends on a mere two out of ten stars.

Classic '70s exploitation.

[BA_Harrison · 7/10 · 14 August 2018]

How to create a bee girl: 1) Abduct a woman (preferably a sexy housewife with big boobs). 2) Strip her naked. 3) Plaster her all over in white goop (liquid latex?). 4) Put her in a radiation chamber and zap her while covering her from head to toe with bees. 5) Remove her latex cocoon and snog her while other bee women fondle their tits.

How to avoid becoming a bee girl's victim: 1) Keep it in your pants - like a lot of insects, bee girls kill the male after mating.

How to identify a bee girl: 1) Oversized pupils 2) Oversized dark glasses 3) Oversized breasts 4) Forward in initiating sexual intercourse with total strangers, no matter how unattractive.

Invasion of the Bee Girls stars B-movie regular William Smith as State Department investigator Neil Agar, who travels to the town of Peckham where men have been turning up dead, having suffered from coronary thrombosis and exhaustion during sex. Leggy babe Anitra Ford plays scientist Dr. Susan Harris who is trying to take over the world with an army of bee girls who seduce and kill their male victims. Victoria Vetri is Julie Zorn, the one woman Agar can trust (not to kill him when he sleeps with her!).

With such a silly premise and lots and lots of large, natural breasts (and a couple of small ones too), Invasion of the Bee Girls is enjoyable exploitation nonsense, perfect viewing for fans of trashy schlock sci-fi/horror. The science is of your standard hokey B-movie variety, and there are no special effects (barring some compound bee vision and the use of black contact lenses), but the whole thing buzzes along quite nicely and is never boring thanks to a likeable lead performance from Smith, and all of those sexy ladies.

The ridiculous ending sees Agar defeat the bee girls by shooting their computer as he rescues Julie from their conversion process, thereby causing the machinery to short circuit and electrocute the women.

6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

Invasion of the Bee Girls

[Scarecrow-88 · 8/10 · 27 December 2009]

A genetic breakthrough in merging woman and bee has devastating consequences on the male race.."bee girls", with "androgynous" chromosomes, are driven to constantly mate, killing their male targets during the sexual act, due to radiation use causing them to become sterile. I'll spare the scientific mumbo jumbo, but will say that the clever, tongue-in-cheek script from Nicholas Meyer fuses science with fiction, incorporating exploitation elements with witty, sexually frank dialogue that makes this quite a fun little cocktail. Sexy women, some steamy seduction(..or attempted seduction)scenes, and lots of nudity. Really surreal methods in how the female victims are transformed into "bee girls" I won't soon forget anytime soon(..if anything one major transformation sequence, and the sultry Anitra Ford's lengthly seduction of a scientist, will linger in memory for sometime to come). Setting the movie in and around a government research institute means Meyer could explain what was taking place in elaborative detail so that the invasion might contain certain scientific merit. Good cast with the handsome William Smith as a government officer sent down from Washington, Victoria Vetri(..as a stunning woman disguised as a nerd)as a brainy assistant to a scientist whose death was the catalyst for the ongoing investigation, and Cliff Osmond as weary Captain Peters, needing some sort of resolution regarding the growing number of strange heart attacks occurring to men, both young and old. Anitra Ford's mere presence had my heart skipping a beat. With so many beautiful women, this should be an exploitation fan's dream come true, even if the sex isn't explicit, to successfully make a sci-fi flick sexy I consider quite admirable.

The other "Sting" movie of 1973

[Chase_Witherspoon · 7/10 · 10 July 2010]

Inspired 70's b-movie about a colony of bees that manage to infiltrate the minds and bodies of glamorous women, and use them as vessels for a takeover of mankind. Here's the rub, so to speak: they 'sting' their prey during copulation with the male species. Hence the 'R' rating. A bevy of buxom b-movie starlets (and loops, e.g. Rene Bond, Kathy Hilton), work their way around the campus of a university under the watchful eye of the sultry Anitra Ford, as she pilots their take-over of the town of Peckham. Alarmed at the increasing rate of stiffs being wheeled into the morgue, local police captain (Osmond) welcomes Federal agent William Smith (in fine, fighting form) along with bimbo sidekick Victoria Vetri, sent to investigate the strange phenomena.

Witty dialogue (courtesy of noted word-smith and director Nicholas Meyer) sets this cult sci-fi apart; Denis Sanders' direction isn't especially taut and momentum does tend to sag, but the constant influx of quirky characters and situations is irresistibly entertaining. Some of the special effects used to depict the bee-vision isn't bad either, considering its vintage. The cast is an interesting assembly of talent, with experience (Smith, Hammer, Osmond, King in particular) offset by rank amateurism. Anitra Ford is a beguiling woman, but her acting talents here are lamentable. Fortunately, her looks do tend to compensate.

Don't be mislead by some of the associated press and commentary concerning this film: while it isn't soft porn, nor is it "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in narrative or technical standard. Disbelief aside, if you can appreciate the dry humour and lusty amateurs who adorn the screen (sometimes being smothered in bee wax for good measure) you should enjoy this, one-of-a-kind movie experience.

It's probably not as bad as you've heard

[bensonmum2 · 4/10 · 3 April 2005]

• Healthy men in a California town are dropping dead from coronary arrest. All died while having sex. A government investigator notices a resemblance between the men's deaths during sex and the sexual habits of bees. It's not long before he discovers that the town's women are being turned into bee-human hybrids.

• There is enough goofiness to save this one from the bottom of the heap. Sure, it's got all the hallmarks of a bad movie – bad acting, weak effects, silly story – but there is a certain level of fun to be had. The absolute worst part of the movie, however, is a rape scene that's so "mean" it just doesn't fit with the rest of the silliness.

• For those of you looking for nudity with your bad horror, there's quite a bit here to recommend. Look for "The Price is Right" model Anitra Ford.