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Mesa of Lost Women (1953)

Mesa of Lost Women poster
Directed by
Ron Ormond
Genre
science fiction film, monster film, exploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
2.5 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist on a remote mesa creates giant spiders and monstrous women using experimental drugs. A pilot is dragged into the scientist's twisted world when his plane crashes nearby.

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What happens

Mesa of Lost Women is a 1953 American low-budget black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Herbert Tevos and Ron Ormond from a screenplay and original story created by Tevos and Orville H. Hampton, who is given on-screen credit only for dialogue supervision. Critical response to the film was overwhelmingly negative. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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