Invasion of the Bee Girls
1973 film by Denis Sanders
Invasion of the Bee Girls (re-released in 1981 as Graveyard Tramps) is a 1973 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Denis Sanders from a screenplay written by Nicholas Meyer, and starring William Smith, Anitra Ford and Victoria Vetri. In the film, a mad scientist (Ford) uses radiation-mutated bee serum to create an army of female beauties who seduce men to death. One by one, the male victims are killed before the local police catch on to the plans of the infected females.
The film was the first film venture of writer Nicholas Meyer, as well as the last feature film directed by Sanders before his death in 1987. The script was altered while Meyer was visiting his parents. When he saw the new script, he wanted to take his name off the project, but was convinced by his manager that he needed a credit.
Invasion of the Bee Girls was released by Centaur Releasing on June 1, 1973.
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Neil Agar, a special agent with the State Department's Office of Security (the predecessor of the Diplomatic Security Service), is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of John Grubowsky, a bacteriologist working at the government-sponsored Brandt Research. Quickly making the acquaintance of the laboratory's head librarian, Julie Zorn, he begins interviewing the firm's leading scientists, many of whom have reputations as sexual philanderers. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of deaths, all men who died of congestive heart failure caused by "sexual exhaustion".
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