Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

westerfield There is only one reason to watch this really bad film: hunchbacked dwarf John George. George worked in films from the late 'teens to the early 1960s. He had some nice roles in silents but his heavy accent limited him in sound. He usually played news vendors and the like. As such he appeared in many big films: Picture of Dorian Gray, Bride of Frankenstein, The Killing, A Streetcar Named Desire, Around the World in Eighty Days and Ocean's Eleven. In each of these his appearance can be measured in seconds. It's a treat then to see him in Mesa of Lost Women where he gets a number of glowering close-ups. Once you've noticed him you'll see him everywhere: Mark of the Vampire, The Black Room, Tower of London, The Black Cat, Man of a Thousand Faces and so on. Keep looking for him but look fast!

dougdoepke I've got a suggestion for the CIA. Are you having trouble breaking down terrorist suspects at Guantanamo? Then, just make them watch this hour of movie loony tunes, and I guarantee they'll confess to anything. If the surreal story doesn't get them, that crazed guitar strumming will. I still can't figure out how anyone outside an institution can plunk the same note over and over and over. At one point, the movie's mad scientist insists "… their nerves will soon break". Now I know he meant the audience, not the movie.The cast is an all-star line-up of bad movie vets— especially, Talbot, Fuller, and Nixon. And I love the way Knapp keeps looking skyward as he recites his dreadful lines. It's like he's expecting the wrath of god at any moment. And what's with dancer Tarentella whose horizontal squirming turns her into a human floor mop, even if she does look like Liz Taylor's older sister. However, for sheer weirdness, nothing beats Dr. Masterson. He just stands there grinning idiotically the whole time. It's like giving Mr. Rogers a gun to make nice with his neighborhood. Happily, it's an easy payday for Hollywood's plucky dwarf colony. All they have to do is leer into the camera, laughing at us I guess for maybe paying actual money to see this mess.Still, watching this hour of sheer goofiness is a lot more perverse fun than 90% of old Hollywood's prestige productions. You know, the kind with Liz and Dick that are faster acting than a load of Sominex. No chance of that here as we wait for the next slice of serious silliness. Here's a big load of Golden Turkeys to Tevos and Ormond for a truly inspired bad movie.

jds_revenge_redux Anyone expecting a film Terrence Malick or Mike Figgis might make has stumbled over the wrong toadstool. Hijacked and mutated by Ron Ormond, the crazy man's Kubrick, this is 68 minutes of just plain wrong. Cult movie precious dialog reciters have a goldmine here. This amalgam of beautiful, dangerous women, evil dwarfs, unnerving soundtrack music, bizarre images and "huh?" dialog are too reminiscent of David Lynch to be a coincidence. Just the scenes with Tandra Quinn as "Tarantella" are enough to make this a must see, especially the extended Mexican cantina scene where "Tarantella" dances "The Tarantella." Also notable are Jackie Coogan and Harmon Stevens who play, respectively, a mad scientist and a scientist who's been driven mad. Stevens plays his character tweaked and bug-eyed, like W.C. Fields traded booze for methamphetamine.

wes-connors High on a mesa in Mexico, mad scientist Jackie Coogan (as Aranya) turns spiders into people. The females become voluptuous beauties, and the males become ugly dwarfs. It is explained that this parallels the insect world's gender inequality. One example of a "spider woman" is voluptuous Tandra Quinn (as Tarantella). She is shot after a sexy dance, by wide-eyed doctor Harmon Stevens (as Leland Masterson). He tries hard to give the film's most awful performance. But, Mr. Stevens receives stiff competition.Mr. Coogan, who became a big star as "The Kid" (1921), was popular again as Charles Addams' "Uncle Fester" on TV's "The Addams Family" (1964). Lyle Talbot provides useless and tedious narration. The soundtrack, by Hoyt S. Curtin, is among the worst ever composed for a motion picture. It's nice to see cast and crew have a good grasp on the poor material. The film is enjoyably bad some of the time, but long stretches of boredom and the incessant soundtrack music could cause physical pain.* Mesa of Lost Women (6/17/53) Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond ~ Jackie Coogan, Harmon Stevens, Robert Knapp, Paula Hill