Rating: **** Stars
Recommended by Malcolm over at Destructural to my friend Josef, with whom I watched this the other night. An entertaining and thematically engaging film. Good sexploitation with a sci-fi twist. All that you would expect from a good exploitation film: frequent and potentially pointless nudity, some good scenes of violence and gore, as well as some very bad acting and implausible story-writing. The contact lenses they use to indicate women as having joined the “bee women” are particularly creepy. Typical of most films of in the genre, one could apply a typically double-edged feminist reading: is this a narrative about women using their sexuality as a strategy to subvert and attack traditional patriarchal conceptions of womenhood and the men that would exploit it, or is this ultimately an expression of male fear: that women’s sexuality could ultimately be a threat, an intrinsic combination of ‘eros’ and ‘thanatos’. Very Freudian indeed.
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