Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

davidcarniglia Like another reviewer said, this movie is bad, but still worth making fun of. The premise actually is pretty good: mad scientist mutates crawly things in an underground lab in the Mexican desert. Mixing hot babes with dwarves is weird; but given the ersatz-logic of the evil scientist's experiments, it makes just a bit of sense. The device of dying people wandering in the desert isn't a bad idea either; it sets up an expectation that they'll have a tale to tell.Instead the obnoxious narrator tells us what we can easily see, or subsequently hear from the surviving pilot. And, as we eventually discover, the actual science fiction here is a sort of parallel consciousness allowing one guy to know what two or three have experienced individually. Maybe the real nemesis is the folk music that bites into half of the scenes. The cantina scene took on a life of its own. Dancing that's somehow both erotic and robotic, combined with the lobotomized Dr. Masterson terrorizing the place, is too cruel a spectacle for the viewer to endure for very long.But then we not only get a change of scene, we're literally fly into a different sort of movie. The pilot becomes the lead, as the kidnapped gang has to camp out, conveniently for the plot, on the dreaded mesa. The plane crash itself was fairly well done. But the expendable Asian servant is sent to his doom on a stupid errand. "There is a day to be born, and a day to die" he stoically remarks. Fortunately, the doctor recovers his senses in time to destroy the nasty nut scientist and his lab. But then we end up with the narrator again. Yes, we know that the beanbag spiders are still out in the desert, so don't tell us...What I expect in a monster movie is something menacing. Even a guy in a rubber suit, the Creature From the Black Lagoon, or James Arness's otherworldly Frankenstein-monster from The Thing, can sustain suspension of disbelief with their palpable terror. But Mesa of Lost Women doesn't give us anything extraordinary, except the pleasure of its unintended mash-ups.

azathothpwiggins Opening w/ the music that blares throughout the film, MESA OF LOST WOMEN unfolds. Said music sounds as if a guitar-playing Sasquatch and a piano-pounding, hammer-handed baboon formed a band. The nonsensical narration is provided by Lyle Talbot (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE). It seems that mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan) is performing unnatural experiments in his hidden laboratory. He's discovered the need for human females to be... improved. Aranya is creating an army of super-women, by merging them w/ spiders! Witness Tarantella (Tandra Quinn), Aranya's mute assistant. Indeed, her arachnid ways aid in her performing the beguiling Tarantella dance! In fact, her writhing -accompanied by the Sasquatch / baboon combo, w/ added bongo drums!- is the best part of this glorious masterpiece! The rest is mostly about a group of people trying to find Aranya's hideout. Far too little spider-women action makes for one talky adventure. All while that impossible music plays on, having nothing to do w/ anything on the screen! Thank god, there's a giant, stuffed spider that bobbles along! In the Limburger-laden annals of hyper-schlock, THIS! IS! LEGEND!... EXTRA POINTS: For Dr. Fester's deadpan delivery!...

Adam Like other movies, old B movies can still stand out for one reason or another. Maybe there are some unique special effects. Maybe the story is actually rather engaging. Or maybe everything that could go wrong did, and the movie was still released.This movie seems to fall into the latter category. As I watched it, I thought it seemed as though ideas were thought up and squeezed in somehow to make themselves fit and to justify other parts of the movie. It turns out I was right. If the trivia listed on IMDb is correct, the original concept was abandoned and the original movie had footage added to give us what we have now. A meaningless, senseless, illogical rambler of a movie.As the narrator sets the stage, we're introduced to a some individuals who wind up becoming an unlikely group. It's hard to explain exactly how they come together only because the pieces don't quite fit. Let's just say it was a matter of convenience. A short plane trip turns into a scary night on the mesa, made scarier by dwarfs and women who seem to only communicate with glances. It's downright peculiar that not a single one of them ever spoke. Throw in a trip into the forest on the mesa and a finale in the doctors laboratory, and you have about an hour or so that you'll never get back.In short, if you need something on in the background as white noise, this would do nicely. If you want a sensible, well assembled movie, move on. This ain't it.

verbusen Anyone who is rating this higher then a Francis Coleman film (a ONE) is rating it on it's horribly fun factor. This is one of the worst films of all time and it took me literally 7 hours to finally make it to the ending. Thankfully I watched the rifftrax version (now available on Hulu) and so they took the really bad funny movie factor and multiplied it by 10. All in all, this deserves to be in bottom 100 film land straight up, but as a Rifftrax product it's at least an 8 or 9. It is hilarious but also an insult to the theater goers of the day that actually paid money to watch this. The whole thing is one big sack of feces, but funny as hell because it's so bad. ONE STAR. The rewatchability of this is very suspect also unlike a Coleman Francis film like Beast Of Yucca Flats or Red Zone Cuba which I have watched at least 5 times each. This thing is funny but also very painful. ONE STAR.