{"id":11174,"date":"2010-06-16T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2020-12-01T22:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:18:15","slug":"invasion-of-the-bee-girls-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=11174","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re dropping like flies, Agar &#8212; they&#8217;re dropping like flies.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-55913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster-714x1024.png 714w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster-89x128.png 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster-188x270.png 188w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Invasion-of-the-Bee-Girls-Poster.png 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn FBI agent (William Smith) enlists the help of a beautiful scientist (Victoria Vetri) while investigating a rash of mysterious deaths in a small California town.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Femmes Fatales<\/li>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Insects<\/li>\n<li>Scientists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis B-level serio-comic horror flick about a government agent (William Smith) sent to investigate &#8220;the deaths of several male scientists at [a] California institute conducting radiation experimentation&#8221; &#8212; all of whom &#8220;die from coronaries while having sexual intercourse&#8221; &#8212; is, as Peary notes, not quite as campy or &#8220;as much fun as its reputation would have you believe&#8221;. Nicholas Meyer&#8217;s script &#8212; while meant to be &#8220;tongue in cheek&#8221; &#8212; is taken far too seriously, instead merely providing a platform for exploiting female nudity (including a disturbingly gratuitous near-rape scene), and tapping into men&#8217;s fears about the destructive powers of sex. However, the film is somewhat redeemed by its utterly ludicrous premise, its eerie low-budget &#8220;special effects&#8221; (dark contacts transform the Bee Girls&#8217; eyes into freaky black pits), a catchy score by Charles Bernstein, and &#8220;a memorably bizarre sequence in which thousands of bees encase a nude woman in a cocoon&#8221; as she transforms into a Bee Girl. Ew!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campy but effective low-budget visuals<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/invasion-bee-girls-eyes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/invasion-bee-girls-eyes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11179\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/invasion-bee-girls-vision.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/invasion-bee-girls-vision.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11181\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The trippy &#8220;transformation&#8221; scene<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/invasion-bee-girls-transformation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/invasion-bee-girls-transformation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11178\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Charles Bernstein&#8217;s score<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but you may be curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070222\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/invasion-of-the-bee-girls-1973#:~:text=%22Invasion%20of%20the%20Bee%20Girls,strange%20buzzing%20in%20her%20ears.\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeforfilm.co.uk\/reviews.php?id=7900\">Eye for Film Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3982&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/sciencefiction\/invasion-of-the-bee-girls-1973.htm\">SF, Fantasy, and Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re dropping like flies, Agar &#8212; they&#8217;re dropping like flies.&#8221; Synopsis: An FBI agent (William Smith) enlists the help of a beautiful scientist (Victoria Vetri) while investigating a rash of mysterious deaths in a small California town. Genres: Femmes Fatales Horror Insects Scientists Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: This B-level serio-comic horror flick about a government agent (William Smith) sent to investigate &#8220;the deaths of several male scientists at [a] California institute conducting radiation experimentation&#8221; &#8212; all of whom &#8220;die from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=11174\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55915,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/55915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}