THE WILD WORLD OF BAT-WOMAN-1966-Poor Jerry Warren! What was he thinking when he decided to become a director?
After spending most of the ‘50’s “Americanizing” Mexican and Japanese horror films, Warren (who had occasionally made his own messes like THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD) thought the time was right for a parody of the Super-Hero genre (The Bat-Man TV show was very popular at the time).
Katherine Victor (from several other Warren productions including TEENAGE ZOMBIES) plays the lead role, a masked crime fighter with a large bat adhered to her chest. She commands a bevy of Go-Go dancing cuties that go into action when her arch-nemesis Rat Fink steals some kind of atomic hearing aid. Washed up actor Steve Brody (later in Warren’s last film FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND) is the head of security at the company that made the stolen device. A nutty professor (who looks a lot like the Dr. Forrester character from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 2000; they used it in an episode too) keeps talking about the monsters he created that live in a cave. When they finally show them it's scenes of the creatures from 1956 ‘s THE MOLE MEN (an American movie directed by Virgil Vogel; I guess no Mexican movie was available!). Bruno Ve Sota shows up in a wacky scene involving a séance in Chinese! Everything in this movie is very dumb and pretty boring but the bad actors seem to be having a good time!
The strangest part however is the fact that DC Comics actually sued Warren to keep BAT-WOMAN from being released!!
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