jamesgandrew Mesa of Lost Women follows a scientist who creates spiders and dwarfs at his secret lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He also plans on injecting women with spider venom to potentially turn them into female super spiders to fulfill his plan of world domination.The pacing is dreadful. It's so bad that it makes a 68-minute film feel like 3 hours or an eternity for that matter.Not to mention this has quite possibly the worst soundtrack in film history. It repeats the same flamenco guitar music throughout most of the film and combined with the terrible pacing it's just horrible.Well at least it's not as bad as Manos but it's close... very close!

dougdoepke I've got a suggestion for the CIA. Are you having trouble breaking down terrorist suspects at Guantanamo? Then, just make them watch this hour of movie loony tunes, and I guarantee they'll confess to anything. If the surreal story doesn't get them, that crazed guitar strumming will. I still can't figure out how anyone outside an institution can plunk the same note over and over and over. At one point, the movie's mad scientist insists "… their nerves will soon break". Now I know he meant the audience, not the movie.The cast is an all-star line-up of bad movie vets— especially, Talbot, Fuller, and Nixon. And I love the way Knapp keeps looking skyward as he recites his dreadful lines. It's like he's expecting the wrath of god at any moment. And what's with dancer Tarentella whose horizontal squirming turns her into a human floor mop, even if she does look like Liz Taylor's older sister. However, for sheer weirdness, nothing beats Dr. Masterson. He just stands there grinning idiotically the whole time. It's like giving Mr. Rogers a gun to make nice with his neighborhood. Happily, it's an easy payday for Hollywood's plucky dwarf colony. All they have to do is leer into the camera, laughing at us I guess for maybe paying actual money to see this mess.Still, watching this hour of sheer goofiness is a lot more perverse fun than 90% of old Hollywood's prestige productions. You know, the kind with Liz and Dick that are faster acting than a load of Sominex. No chance of that here as we wait for the next slice of serious silliness. Here's a big load of Golden Turkeys to Tevos and Ormond for a truly inspired bad movie.

wbswetnam Absolutely horrible movie, only Manos the Hands of Fate is possibly worse. There are numerous scene jumps due to bad editing, it is badly overacted by the Z-grade actors, the story line is completely loopy, there's the never-ending guitar riff / dramatic piano pounding, oh I could go on but what's the point? Maybe you like movies with 3 foot tall puppet spiders, whacked-out bar dances by spider women, grinning midgets, and crazy scientists called "Dr. Aranya". Well if this motley cast of characters sounds like something you can't resist, then by all means watch The Mesa of Lost Women. Otherwise use those 80-some minutes of your life doing something more entertaining, such as clearing the dead leaves out of the gutter, or cleaning the oven, or getting a prostate examination done.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1953, The Mesa of Lost Women, Dr Aranya is a crazed scientist with his lab located on the top of a Mexican mesa. He has developed a serum which will transform humans using spider's hormones. The females human injected with the serum turn into beautiful women. And the male test subjects into hideous dwarfs. A group of travelers are taken to the secret doctor's lair by his hypnotized erotic lab assistant. The travelers end up discovering his terrible outlaw experiments. They escape the clutches of their evil host and his human spiders. *Special stars- Jackie Coogan.*Theme- Nature cannot be conquered even when a male scientist wishes to conquer the world. *Based on- Dr Jeckel and Mr Hyde *Trivia/location/goofs- Coogan, a huge and talented movie star on bad times. Maybe he did the movie just for the cash & keeping the union health insurance up that year. Very sad. He could do more than this. Ageism at work in Hollywood ? Watch out for the special 'tarantella' dance scene. *Emotion- A potty mad scientist movie that can leave you wanting to turn-it off. Child star of the silent days "The Champ" or TV's 'Addam's Family" Uncle Fester lends his many years acting to this terrible predictable monster film.