I suppose it's a pretty damning indictment of my ambition and work ethic that I set out to write a blog entry every day for a month and have already missed 3 days. Oh well.
Anyway, a couple of months back, I bought a box of 50 movies on DVD for 20 bucks. (Bargain!). They're called Drive-In Classics, but of course they're mostly Incredible Steaming Piles of Crap. I expected nothing less at less than fifty cents a movie.
Still, the other day I caught one of these movies that I really enjoyed. 1973's Inavasion of the Bee Girls. It's about evil Bee Girls who cause men to die of "sexual exhaustion". Like so very many horror movies, it's about the fear of female sexuality. (and, I mean, yes, men who created this movie, I get it, female sexuality is both scary and alluring, but did you have to punish the non-bee woman with the gross attempted rape scene? Geez.) It's a bit light on the gore but certainly delivers on the gratuitous nudity.
Best of all, there's one classic comic scene. There's been a town meeting at which a scientist recommends that everyone abstain from sex just to be on the safe side. (He's ridiculed by a truck driver who stands up and says "What am I supposed to do when I get home? Crawl into bed and go to sleep?"). We cut to a middle aged couple getting into bed. He starts reading the paper as she applies her cold cream. "Abstinence is nothing new around here," he says, resentfully. The wife fixes him with a cold stare and says, "If I could be sure it'd kill you, I'd do it!"
Anyway, definitely a cut above the normal 70's exploitation flick. Written by Nicholas (the 7 Per Cent Solution) Meyer, who would go on to direct Wrath of Khan!
