Matrixston
Wow! Such a good movie.
RyothChatty
ridiculous rating
Thehibikiew
Not even bad in a good way
Tyreece Hulme
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Leofwine_draca
INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS feels like a 1950s B-movie monster flick transported to the 1970s, where it receives a dash of cheesy fashions and a whole helping of female nudity to bring it up to date with film standards from that decade. It's undoubtedly a cheap and trashy movie, very poorly made and acted, although B-movie lovers will probably get a kick out of it anyway.Cult movie actor William Smith (he of the numerous biker movies) plays a government agent investigating a string of murders where the guys have all died during sex. It turns out that a sinister government experiment is behind these deaths, alongside a horde of killer women who literally strip and kill. The special effects are limited to some cool contact lenses and a few scenes of 'bee vision' while the acting is of the standard of a normal softcore flick. Former Hammer starlet Victoria Vetri (WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH) supplies some of the glamour. The whole thing descends into plot less inanity around the halfway mark, with one sex scene that goes on for ten interminable minutes before something finally happens. The cheesy climax is hardly worth the wait, either.
Uriah43
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.
JoeB131
Between the demise of the Hayes Code and the rise of the MPAA where directors fooled with nudity and sexuality in otherwise "mainstream" films.They finally got to show breasts, and darn it, we were going to see breasts.The plot is that men are dying of sudden heart attacks immediately after sexual intercourse, usually with women they aren't married to. Meanwhile, the women are being inducted into this creepy bee cult which uses a rather "interesting" way to convert members.The movie is just plain silly and it didn't look like it had much of a budget. It's also in the days before you could digitally put an actresses head on a body double hot, sexy torso. Some of these women had no business doing nude scenes.But it's fun, corny cheese, enjoy it for what it is. Perhaps with a bit of honey.
Witchfinder General 666
INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (aka. "Graveyard Tramps") of 1973 is a low-budget B-Movie which is primarily memorable for pursuing one of the most insanely grotesque ideas in 70's Exploitation cinema, which, as any fellow fan of 70's Exploitation cinema should know, is quite an accomplishment. In a California small-town, men drop dead 'like flies', in what seems to be an epidemic that has men of all ages die without reason during sexual intercourse. In the meanwhile, the bored women of this small-town become increasingly horny and sexy vixens, which subsequently results in more dead men. FBI agent Neil Agar (William Smith) comes to help the clumsy Sheriff investigate. Might the whole epidemic have something to do with the hot, insect-obsessed female scientist who is conducting some mysterious experiments near town???The film is mainly worth watching for its weird premise, and its textbook low-budget execution. In an enjoyable, typically 70s American B-Movie manner, INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS combines absurd and impossible-to-take-serious Horror/Sci-Fi ideas with mild sleaze (over-promiscuous women and gratuitous female nudity), including humorous undertones and not taking itself too seriously. The female cast members (including Anitra Ford) are entirely hot; for whatever reason, most of the hot female characters are married to fat, bald men, who are subsequently sexed to kingdom come. B-movie legend William Smith (whose impressive filmography includes almost 300 movies) will probably never get a life-achievement award for the most subtle character acting, but he is the perfect leading-man for a grotesque low-budget flick like this one. I own this film as part of a 100-Movie-Horror-Classics DVD-Box, and had seen the trailer some weeks before first watching the movie. My expectations were met: See the trailer, and you have basically seen the whole film. The performances are as bad as one has to expect, of course, and in-between the bizarre moments and the sleaze, the film tends to have its lengths. The makers obviously were perfectly aware however, that this film wasn't a masterpiece, and the film does not take itself too seriously. In terms of camp charm, INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS is almost unsurpassable. A definite must-see for lovers of B-Movies, and people who can enjoy inept grotesqueness. Others beware.