The Wild World of Batwoman

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Movie
Original title The Wild World of Batwoman
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Jerry Warren
script Jerry Warren
production Jerry Warren
camera William G. Troiano
cut Jerry Warren
occupation

The Wild World of Batwoman is a science fiction superhero film. Jerry Warren wrote, directed, produced and edited the film. The main characters are Katherine Victor as Batwoman , George Andre as Professor G. Octavius ​​Neon and Steve Brodie as Jim Flanagan.

Due to the popularity of the Batman - television series to make decided Warren, its own "bat movie". The film was also released under the title She Was a Hippy Vampire .

action

Batwoman is supported by Batgirls in her fight for justice . Your archenemy is a masked villain named Rat Fink. The company Ayjax Development uses plutonium as an energy source and develops the listening device The Atomic Hearing Aid , which enables eavesdropping over an unlimited range. The company wants to sell the device to the US government. This refuses it due to its unreliable power supply and asks Ayjax to destroy the device, which it refuses. Rat Fink tries to usurp the device.

Ayjax's vice president asks Batwoman to protect the device. Rat Fink's servants use poisoned soup to incapacitate Batwoman and the Batgirls and steal the device. Then Batwoman and her companions storm Rat Fink's hiding place. You get the device back and use this opportunity to uncover Rat Fink. Tiger, one of Rat Fink's henchmen, takes on the good side after falling in love with Batwoman.

production

Jerra Warren first came up with ideas for the film when he recognized the popularity of the superhero Batman . Warren decided to make a movie with a batman-like character. He offered the lead role to Katherine Victor. Having made several films with Warren including Teenage Zombies and Curse of the Stone Hand , she wasn't thrilled to work with him again. In order to convince her, he offered her color photographs and a batboat, but neither of which was realized. When Bruno VeSota received the script for the role of Seltzer, he said that he had to learn the phone book by heart. Otherwise, the shoot was a bit chaotic.

For the monster scenes, Warren used footage from Universal Pictures' film The Mole People . Other scenes are from the Swedish film No Time to Kill from 1959. The scenes can be recognized by the Swedish word for food, "Livsmedel" at a grocery store.

publication

Due to the similarity of the title to Batman , the production company Associated Distributors Productions has been sued for copyright infringement. Warren won the case. After the lawsuit and after the television series Batman's popularity waned , Warren re-released the film under the title She Was a Hippy Vampire .

In 1993 the film The Wild World of Batwoman was shown together with the short film Cheating as episode # 515 of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 series. It was later released on DVD by Rhino Entertainment .

reception

The reception of the film today is very negative. Fred Beldin from the film database AllMovie gives the film one and a half stars out of five. In his review, Beldin writes that it is a "joyless spoof of the Batman hit series", which alludes to many of the popular cultural events of the time and lies somewhere on the fine line between "parody and plagiarism ". Due to the “forced madness” and “innocence” as well as a certain nostalgic charm of the film, however, he could please fans of similar trash films.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ray, Fred Olen, 1954-: The new poverty row: independent filmmakers as distributors . McFarland, Jefferson, NC 1991, ISBN 0-89950-628-3 , pp. 16-17 .
  2. ↑ Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Wild World of Batwoman> Overview . In: Sarah Sloboda . omovie . Retrieved November 18, 2008.
  3. ↑ Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Wild World Of Batwoman - at Rhino . Rhino.com. Retrieved December 11, 2008.
  4. ↑ Fred Beldin: The Wild World of Batwoman> Review . AllMovie . Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ Weaver, Tom, 1958-: Return of the B science fiction and horror heroes: the mutant melding of two volumes of classic interviews . McFarland Classics, Jefferson, NC 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0755-7 , pp. 387 .