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Title: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Andrew on March 25, 2008, 05:29:22 PM
A scientist creates women that are half spider, half human.  *Yawn*  The real horror is the soundtrack, because the film makers recorded fifteen seconds of music, then looped it.

Click here to go to the Review (http://www.badmovies.org/capsules/m/mesalost/)


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 26, 2008, 09:38:48 AM
"Something that puzzles me is that the people who are kidnapped pass up multiple prime opportunities to overpower the crazy scientist. Yes, he has a pistol, but his attention often seems to wander."

yeah i noticed that too.  jackie coogan wasa child star whose  parents stole all his money from him probably why he had to star in dreck like this


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Jim on March 26, 2008, 10:50:16 AM
What bugged me was: if Aranya's lab is located on top of a mesa that's so inaccessible, how does Tarantella get into town to dance every night?


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Jordan on March 26, 2008, 12:31:50 PM
Well she is part spider. She probably just climbs down the mesa Spider-Man style.... or spins a parachute out of some webbing and sails down from the top of the mesa. My money is on the latter.  :wink:


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: bobbynyc on March 26, 2008, 03:58:59 PM
what? no memtion of the horrible sound track - a 3-4 note riff played on a classicall guitar over and over again punchuated at times by what sounds like some heavily drugged with bandages on both hands banging on an out of tune piano. I was haunted for days by that.


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Andrew on March 26, 2008, 04:31:17 PM
what? no memtion of the horrible sound track - a 3-4 note riff played on a classicall guitar over and over again punchuated at times by what sounds like some heavily drugged with bandages on both hands banging on an out of tune piano. I was haunted for days by that.

I mention it in the front page blurb, and the movie listing entry - just not in the review itself.  Perhaps I should.  That 10 second music clip gets on your nerves, and stays on your nerves, because they never stop playing it.


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Shadow on March 26, 2008, 09:55:56 PM
I contemplated reviewing this one for the graveyard, but I usually end up watching a film about 5 or 6 times when I review it...and I don't think my sanity could take hearing that music that much.


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: dreibel on March 27, 2008, 07:40:37 PM
two stars of note in Mesa Of Lost Women - Dr. Aranya is played by Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester himself!), and one of the Spider Women is Dolores Fuller (Bride Of The Monster, and former girlfriend of Ed Wood).


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: mrgb47 on March 29, 2008, 04:12:00 PM
I can see why MST3K passed on this one during Season 7..God-awful! And that never ending soundtrack!!! Very grating!!! Very painful!!!


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Tim on March 30, 2008, 04:18:01 PM
OMG!  I've got this movie on DVD!  Yeah, it *is* pretty bad...  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Mesa of Lost Women
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 06, 2013, 05:26:45 PM
Yeah, the avant-garde flamenco guitar gets pretty grating.

This is one of those THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN style hybrid movies. The stuff in the cantina was shot for a movie with a different plot that was abandoned. Ron Ormond created the mesa/mad doctor/spider stuff to pad it out to feature length.