Wasp Woman+Attack of the Giant

I bought this DVD based on the one previous review here and I have to say I'm disappointed still. In my opinion the prints used do not merit "pretty good" status. Maybe The Giant Leeches; certainly not The Wasp Woman. Compared to my taped-off-TV print, The Giant Leeches appears brighter at first, till you notice that it's only because the print is far too contrasty. The lighter areas of the picture don't look too bad, but the shadow detail is completely filled in. The detail of my VHS TV print is actually quite a bit better. The DVD print also shows the usual speckling and minor wear, but no major damage. I could almost live with this disc if the Wasp Woman print was as barely passable as The Giant Leeches, but it's actually far worse. Besides the usual wear and speckling, the print has this ugly greenish tint to it, besides being quite soft and also very contrasty. At times, areas of white "bloom," creating annoying visual artifacts. (I cued up my VHS copy, taped off TNT years ago, and it blew the DVD print away in every category.) Besides the lousy prints used, the final indignity is having the beginning of both features shrunk down inside a stupid cartoon graphic of a drive-in screen. How disrespectful of both the film and intended audience. The cynicism of some of these low-budget DVD producers seems to know no bounds. The other annoying aspect of this disc is that although it is set up to replicate the whole "two features, cartoons, trailers, etc." aspect of a drive-in show, I was unable to get the disc to play the whole program straight through (it stopped and returned to the menu right before the second feature) and it appears impossible to get the feature films to play from the beginning without their accompanying trailers playing first (or having to skip through them). All in all, a travesty of the potential of the medium and a waste of money, even at the low price. I have learned my lesson: avoid all Madacy discs like the plague until they get their act together. Even though I gave this only one star, from what I've read some Madacy DVDs are even worse! (Does anyone know if Elite's print of The Wasp Woman is any better?)

The Wasp Woman:

Maintaining that wasp waist

Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) head of a cosmetics company was told the she needs to stay young to promote the product. What can she do? Enter garage scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) with a dubious formula made from wasp royal jelly. He explains that "just a little dab will do you." She gets greedy and shoots up with the extra strong stuff. This gives her a BUZZ and can have biting consequences.

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Giant Gila Monster:

A huge slithery tongue

This is a picture of life before CGI. The contrived dialog is part of the mystique. You get to see hotrods and large lizards (every thing is bigger in Texas.) The blob it is not; but it is a necessary addition to any 50' collection.

A teenage boy and a teenage girl disappear together and the law is getting suspicious.

I want to ask the monster if teenagers taste like chicken?

It was a real treat watching this DVD! I enjoyed the authentic drive-in setting, although they could have thrown in some refreshment stand ads that would have completed the experience. The only thing I found annoying was the starting of the movies on that animated drive-in screen. I could have done without that. The movie prints themselves are in decent shape, or at least par with other copies I have seen of these movies. The only other beef I have is the green tint of the wasp woman. For ten bucks I thought this was quite a steal, and I will definitely investigate other titles in this series, however good or bad they may be!