Top-shelf exploitation!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: When you don’t have a strong script or a big budget, an excessive amount of gore or nudity will at least make your film watchable. Invasion of the Bee Girls goes with excessive nudity, and it’s not only watchable but a damn fun flick to view.
As I eluded to, the script is nothing special. Men in a small town are dying at an alarming rate, almost solely whilst having sex. The reason, according to doctors, is blood clotting and “extreme exhaustion.” Silly, I know. Because the first man to die under mysterious circumstances is a scientist at a government research center, an investigator from the State Department, or some such government organization, is sent in to check things out.
It’s a simplistic narrative. The entire movie is a series of scenes depicting men being seduced and killed by the bee girls, with frequent cuts to the investigator, Neil (played by William Smith), doing some pretty poor investigating. Here is a topless lady laying the moves on a surprised old chap—cut to Neil having a beer with some scientists, asking questions that aren’t very helpful. Here is a lady, her eyes all black, riding a dude just before he kills over—cut to Neil watching a movie about the mating rituals of bugs.
It is pretty damn goofy. Neither Neil nor the police chief seem interested in figuring out who these men are fucking before they kill over. Instead, they have a little press conference and try to convince fellas to stop fucking. Good luck with that one. All the women are hot young ladies, while all the men are middle-aged loser types. At one point the army shows up to blockade a road—the reasoning is never sufficiently explained—and the soldiers are guarding the roadblock with bolt action rifles. This was made in 1973. The last time a bolt action rifle was the standard weapon of the US military was during World War One.
All that being said, it was a lot of fun. I really want to know the details about how the bee girls were killing guys, though. It’s not fully explained. They’re fucking the guys, then they’re dead. Here’s how I see it: the bee girls have stinger type things in there pussies, and when a guy sticks his dick in there, the stinger injects a blood clot-promoting chemical into the dude’s pee hole, after which the chemical makes its way into the blood stream and—voila!—the guy dies.
PC3’s Horror and Exploitation Movie Scale of Awesomeness!
Gore - 2
Special Effects - 4
Nudity/Sexuality - 10 (lots of titties!)
Wow Factor - 4
Acting - 4
Fear Factor - 1
Story/Plot/Originality - 3
Cinematography/Atmosphere - 5
Sound/Music - 6 (the music is funky!)
Fun Factor - 8
Invasion of the Bee Girls gets a respectable 47 on the PHEMSA. If nothing else, you’ll meet your boob-viewing quota for the week in under ninety minutes. If you want to check it out, you can find it on Tubi.