Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 14, 2013 20:53:06 GMT -5
...then you're just out of it, man.
OK, I put it off for a year and a half, but dammit, I finally got around to it and, at a mere ten bucks, it'd be a bargain at twice the price.
Mesa Of Lost Women has some interesting connections to the Ed Wood Universe. It was released by Howco Productions -- the studio that also produced Ed Wood's fumbling attempt at film noir, Jailbait, in 1954; it features Ed Wood's famous girlfriend Delores Fuller in a bit part (she's one of the titular Lost Women) and, most notoriously, like Wood's Jailbait, it features the very same nerve-jangling, annoying faux flamenco music (with random piano banging) and the same chintzy music in the bar scenes... and when I say the same music, I mean the same damn' music. Add to this the inept monster effects, lame acting, and a plot with holes big enough to drive a giant spider through, and you've got what I like to call The Greatest Ed Wood Movie Not Actually Made By Ed Wood.
I first came to love Mesa Of Lost Women in the early '70s, as a young teenager, when I spent my late Saturday nights watching the old Count Gore DeVol "Creature Feature" on DC local TV, the same show that introduced me to Roger Corman, Bert I. Gordon, Robert Lippert, Gamera, Godzilla, Mothra, and Jan In The Pan. After thirty-odd years, I rediscovered this flick in the public-domain archives at archive.org (along with a lot of my old Saturday night "B" horror fare) and found that it was just as godawful -- which is to say "awesome" -- as I remember it being when I first saw it at sixteen.
According to the ACEG, Mesa Of Lost Women had been pitched for MST3K Season 7 (as it was several times for earlier seasons). In my opinion, they missed a bet by passing on it ("No, no, and again, no." writes Mary Jo in the ACEG). Still, as with Plan 9 From Outer Space, the artists formerly known as Mike, Servo and Crow have righted this years-old wrong by finally bringing us a riffed version of Mesa Of Lost Women, and imho it's one humdinger of a doozy.
I'll add no more paint to this picture to avoid spoiling it for you, other than to say that the guys totally killed on this one. For those of you who not only haven't seen the RiffTrax version of Mesa Of Lost Women but haven't seen the original either, do yourselves a treat by viewing and downloading a copy from archive.org:
archive.org/details/MesaOfLostWomen
...and if you're interested in seeing what Ed Wood did with film noir, as well as hearing that brain-crushing music in an entirely different context, you can view and download Jailbait at archive.org also:
archive.org/details/JailBait
OK, I put it off for a year and a half, but dammit, I finally got around to it and, at a mere ten bucks, it'd be a bargain at twice the price.
Mesa Of Lost Women has some interesting connections to the Ed Wood Universe. It was released by Howco Productions -- the studio that also produced Ed Wood's fumbling attempt at film noir, Jailbait, in 1954; it features Ed Wood's famous girlfriend Delores Fuller in a bit part (she's one of the titular Lost Women) and, most notoriously, like Wood's Jailbait, it features the very same nerve-jangling, annoying faux flamenco music (with random piano banging) and the same chintzy music in the bar scenes... and when I say the same music, I mean the same damn' music. Add to this the inept monster effects, lame acting, and a plot with holes big enough to drive a giant spider through, and you've got what I like to call The Greatest Ed Wood Movie Not Actually Made By Ed Wood.
I first came to love Mesa Of Lost Women in the early '70s, as a young teenager, when I spent my late Saturday nights watching the old Count Gore DeVol "Creature Feature" on DC local TV, the same show that introduced me to Roger Corman, Bert I. Gordon, Robert Lippert, Gamera, Godzilla, Mothra, and Jan In The Pan. After thirty-odd years, I rediscovered this flick in the public-domain archives at archive.org (along with a lot of my old Saturday night "B" horror fare) and found that it was just as godawful -- which is to say "awesome" -- as I remember it being when I first saw it at sixteen.
According to the ACEG, Mesa Of Lost Women had been pitched for MST3K Season 7 (as it was several times for earlier seasons). In my opinion, they missed a bet by passing on it ("No, no, and again, no." writes Mary Jo in the ACEG). Still, as with Plan 9 From Outer Space, the artists formerly known as Mike, Servo and Crow have righted this years-old wrong by finally bringing us a riffed version of Mesa Of Lost Women, and imho it's one humdinger of a doozy.
I'll add no more paint to this picture to avoid spoiling it for you, other than to say that the guys totally killed on this one. For those of you who not only haven't seen the RiffTrax version of Mesa Of Lost Women but haven't seen the original either, do yourselves a treat by viewing and downloading a copy from archive.org:
archive.org/details/MesaOfLostWomen
...and if you're interested in seeing what Ed Wood did with film noir, as well as hearing that brain-crushing music in an entirely different context, you can view and download Jailbait at archive.org also:
archive.org/details/JailBait