Mesa of Lost Women Movie Review

A madder-than-usual mad scientist, played by none other than Addams Family regular Jackie “Uncle Fester” Coogan, cloisters himself on a remote Mexican mesa. Here he creates a giant tarantula and a brave new race of vicious women with long fingernails…and that's pretty much it. This is one of those “bad” films that's SO bad it can't even properly be called a B picture; a “wanna-B” is more like it. Trailers for the film showed one of the “Lost Women” glowering with psychotic sultriness at the camera, while a voice asks the puzzling question “Have you ever been kissed by a woman like this"? AKA: Lost Women; Lost Women of Zarpa.

1952 70m/B Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill, Robert Knapp, Tandra Quinn, Lyle Talbot, Katherine Victor, Angelo Rossitto; D: Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond; W: Herbert Tevos; C: Gilbert Warrenton, Karl Struss. VHS NOS, MRV, SNC