Movies and Film

Should Have Stayed Lost – Mesa of Lost Women (1953)

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If you watch this movie you will know the horror of Spanish guitar.

After twenty minutes you will find your insides start to twist and your mind start to wander.

With each pluck of the strings you will know fear, with every passing note, insanity will take hold and you will wonder why you ever decided to watch this film.

mesa of lost women14In all seriousness, this little science-fiction movie is a disaster on all fronts but most especially the soundtrack which is just an endless loop of a Spanish guitar playing the same piece of music over and over and over and over and over.  It becomes so bad that you have to turn the film off halfway through just to retain any semblance of sanity, much less watch the rest of it.

mesa of lost women12If you concentrate long enough, the story finds a doctor trying to combine parts of various insects, including a tarantula with that of various women.  He also happens to have the telepathic ability to control said tarantulas and thus the women as well.  There are some other men and women and other things that happen, though in the end, who really cares, as well as a woman who likes to smoke a lot and can only complain about getting her next cigarette which is almost as annoying as the guitar music.  Almost.

The story is your average science-fiction fare, but the script is horrible.  The direction, the editing and cinematography is worse.  The acting is probably the worst of it all and makes this film virtually unwatchable, not that the rest of what went in it did not already do that.

Yet… you do watch it.  Like some horrible avalanche that buries the town beneath it.  You watch and cannot turn away until it is too late and have seen it all.

And by then it is too late.

Skip this trash for your own good.

0.5 out of 5
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