Looking for a copy...
on any format. Please contact me if you have a good or information. Thanks!
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Hey, I want in on this too!
I once had a copy taped off of TV when it aired back in the 80s some time. God only knows where that tape is now (and, unfortunately, he's not telling). I may have lost it in a move from apartment to apartment, or loaned it out to someone (NEVER AGAIN).
Does anyone else out there have this on tape???? It's a honey of a bee movie.
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It's funny... I logged onto imdb for the first time in 1.5 years and looked at your reply and looked at your other posts....
The Killer bees... is it the really awful B-movie about women with strange powers? Because I may have that on DVD from a $6.99 special from Sam Goody (if I can find it) compilation of 6 B-movies.
Well, that's a good question -- Thanks, btw, for taking the time to post.
"Killer Bees" stars Gloria Swanson as the queen bee (so to speak) of a certain household on a prestigious estate (where she keeps bees as a perverse sort of hobby). I forget exactly why Kate Jackson happens to come stay there (a relative, no doubt, brought into the picture when someone dies). In any case, by the end of the short TV-movie Gloria and Kate have a kind of powerstruggle as to who is going to continue being the queen bee of the estate (and Kate wins). This one is pure gothic (not very supernatural). If I'm not mistaken (and I might be) it was filmed at the old mansion that was eventually used in the TV series "Falcon Crest" (before an extensive renovation). The old house should stick out in your mind if you've ever seen the movie as the locales add a lot of atmosphere to the goings-on. And then there are those scenes of Gloria with hair done-up in Princess Leia-styled "buns", all decked out in her bee-keeping finery, covered with bees as she coos to her minions...pretty weird -- and wonderful!
The movie you're referring to from the bargain bin is most likely "Invasion of the Bee Girls" which is an outrageous quasi sci-fi spectacle about a number of small-town desperate housewives who are recruited to be "Bee Girls" by a scientist-cum-mutant-bee-woman (Anitra Ford, former prize-teaser on The Price Is Right). The females who fall under Anitra's spell "love" to death various hapless males with whom they come in contact. Therein lies the gag of this whole movie (the bee girls kill their mates via sexual exhaustion). The men die with smiles on their faces, though (part of the in-joke).
This saucy softcore suspenser stars former "Hammer Glamour" gal Victoria Vetri ("When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth", "Rosemary's Baby" under her real name Angela Dorian) who deserves major points not only for gettin' nekkid and bein' a good sport but also because she shows up at one point wearing her hair in Princess Leia-styled hair "buns" (just like Gloria Swanson did in "Killer Bees"). Why this particular hair style is favored in movies about bees I have no idea, but I guess it's part of the formula (Quentin Tarentino, take note!). William Smith is the hunky hero in this film and he looks mighty embarrassed by what's going on (well, so does everybody, for that matter). Even still, "Invasion of the Bee Girls" is a lotta cheezy fun; it's on my shelf (on a "Midnight Movies" DVD paired with "The Star Maidens" which itself has nothing to do with bees).
Whichever of the two films it is that you rescued from the bargain bin, I suggest you dust it off and give it a watch. :-)
If it turns out you have the Gloria Swanson/Kate jackson pic, I would be very interested to know which boxed set it was you found it on. Thanks in advance!
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