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• Amazon Sales Rank: #40028 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-12

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A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.

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All the Honey Edited Out of this DVD
Maybe somebody can invent a word for a movie that has "scenes too shocking to be shown in theaters", but yet the scenes are shown in theaters when the movie was originally released; but when the DVD of the movie comes out all the "scenes too shocking to be shown in theaters" are edited out of the DVD. This is the second DVD that I bought (The Mad Bomber being the other) where what you get in the theater is the unedited, uncut version, but what you get on the DVD has all the good & most memorable stuff (think sex & nudity, with perhaps some violence and so-called disturbing images) edited out.
A nationally known reviewer (aka Roger Ebert) listed Invasion of the Bee Girls (along with Emmanuelle and other movies that I forgot) on his list of Guilty Pleasures, but I'm sure that he saw a very different Bee Girls. I don't know for certain that all the good stuff was edited out of the DVD, because I never saw the original Invasion of the Bee Girls when it first came out in theaters in '74, but my 6th sense tells me that all the honey and all the honeys have been edited out of the Bee Girls on the DVD.

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"Invasion of the Bee Girls" is one of the strangest science fiction films from the 1970s. A small town with a government scientific installation has a rash of mysterious deaths, mostly of scientists with security clearances. They are all male, and from all indications they all appear to have died of heart attacks due to exhaustion while in the company of strange women. The State Department sends Agent Neil Agar (William Smith) to investigate. As he probes the deaths, more mysterious events unfold: another scientist is killed in an intentional hit and run by a female driver, and ever more residents drop like flies. The army quarantines the town until the killing stops.

Agent Agar has a suspicion that some genetic experiment has gone awry and is causing whatever is going on, and how right he is! Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford) is running the laboratory, and is secretly the queen bee. She is recruiting women to be bee girls, and the process of conversion is highly amusing in that it involves a certain degree of immodesty, a radioactive honeycomb, and an enormous amount of emollients and moisturizers; I also love the bee-eye contact lenses.

Ultimately Agent Agar manages to destroy the malignant hive, and persuades a non-bee scientist to cozy up to him while the credits roll and "Also Sprach Zarathustra" plays as honeybees pollinate some flowers suggestively.

This movie is one of the most amusing examples of 1970s camp, and can be enjoyed by any audience that enjoys laughable plots, substandard acting, and a hilarious nemesis. There are several revealing scenes as the bee girls perform their dastardly deeds, but with those exceptions it's a totally inoffensive camp classic and is, as Roger Ebert says, a "guilty pleasure."

Poor print quality
This movie was selected by Siskel and Ebert as one of their "guilty pleasures". However, this print is very poor quality, worse than the VHS I have seen.