FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Wizard-8 This movie came out the same year as the Roger Corman production THE WASP WOMAN, which was also a movie concerning an aged woman discovering a secret procedure to make her younger, but with deadly consequences. I don't know if the similarities of the two movies was a coincidence, but the similarities are the only interest one can possibly find from this cinematic yawn. Though the movie is only seventy-seven minutes long, it soon becomes painfully clear that there is only enough story for maybe one of the stories in a multi-part horror anthology; this story is ridiculously stretched out. And there is nothing particularly interesting along the way; the story is very predictable, and the so- called horror is flat. Is there any unintentional camp? Maybe in a few places, but it's not aggressive or plentiful enough to make the movie entertaining on a so-bad-it's-good level. This movie will make you feel your alertness leeched out enough to quickly put you to sleep.

Spikeopath What do you expect from a film called The Leech Woman? It is by definition one of those sci-fi "B" movies strung together as a support feature that played whilst theatre patrons were still necking, chatting and eating etc.Plot follows in the tradition of something like The Wasp Woman (1959), that plays on the theme of a woman striving to stay young as the advent of time catches up with her. Cue bonkers science, where here it involves a trek to the jungles of Africa to unearth the secret of eternal youth. Naturally things get very bent out of shape and pain and misery are sure to follow.Thematically it has mixed messages, on one hand it dares to say, unappealingly so, that a woman is only viable for love and happiness by being young and beautiful. On the other hand it is possibly having caustic observations on the dangers of vanity? The makers intentions are not clear so really the viewers are left to their own devices on that one.It's never scary and some of the latex effects work is poor and befitting the minuscule budget. While the first half hour feels awfully padded out. But all things considered it's not a bottom feeder of the genre, and actually would make a nice companion piece with The Wasp Woman. 5/10

retrorocketx Okay, This is a cheezy low budget movie. That comment needs to be stated up front so that unrealistic expectations are brushed aside.This is a fun movie! An aging woman, June Talbot, is abhorred by her successful doctor husband and has to deal with her fear of aging, loss of love, and alcohol abuse - while somehow she must navigate her soul past a lecherous husband, a predatory hunter, and a slimy lawyer. She fails, and turns to the dark side, attempting to destroy these men to maintain her youth and beauty. An old African woman holds the key to youth - juice from a rare orchid combined with a sacrificed male's pineal gland fluid. The husband takes the wife into the 'heart of darkness' (Africa) to meet with the old woman, learn the secret of youth, and experiment on his wife! Um, what is not to like about this? The dialog is snappy, no one pulls any punches, emotions are worn right on the shirt sleeves. Plus there's plenty of stock footage of African animals doing their thing (a cheezy but cool bonus to any film), a bunch of murders, and a hoot of an old woman. All this in about an hour. Coleen Gray, the lead in this film, does a reasonable job in portraying a once wholesome girl, now aging and neglected, transforming herself into a predatory, sexy, man-hunter. My only complaint is that the movie was too short, I really wanted June to run roughshod over 1950s suburbia. Too bad her new way of life was cut short...

Seb I sat down to watch this movie expecting to see a woman with a big rubber leech head chasing people around but it turns out Leech Woman offers something slightly more sophisticated. The story is that a scientist and his estranged wife head off to Africa to search for the fabled elixir of hokum which turns women young again. Obviously these days it would be a waste of time because every second advert I see for toothpaste or shampoo offers time renewal, time protection and suchlike whatever that means.One thing I liked about this movie was the way that every single character is awful in some way. There's a good story though it is a bit slow to start with. Some viewers have moaned about the rather obvious stock footage but anyone who is a fan of movies of this era will recognise it as just par for the course on a quick cheapie like this.Give it a try, despite the tacky name it's quite a good story and worth a watch.