Film Summary CCCXLI (Mesa of Lost Women)


It's time for another ''amazing'' spider movie!


So there's this crazy man named Dr.Araña (subtle) and he wants to create a race of super spider humanoids. But he also has a giant spider? I don't know why he has both.
He's got these weird dancing women who are actually spiders who happen to look like women. All they can do is stare at you awkwardly and run around, occasionally hypnotising people. I think it one point one of them is supposed to hypnotic Paula Hill. But they never really explored this again. Then it's some other point one of the other spider ladies has these really long fingers and can kill a guy by kissing him. Once again this isn't expanded on.

The doctor wants to conquer the world with the spider people, he doesn't really explain why he wants to conquer the world or what possible good come from it. But I guess an evil Trope is an evil trope and we're just supposed to go along for the ride. He gets this other scientist to come up to his Mountain to see said creatures and ask him to join in his Conquest. This scientist refuses and is than  kidnapped by Dr.Araña and brainwashed.
The scientist is then released back into civilisation, stuck into a mental institute of which he escapes from. Only to go to a restaurant to order a drink to sit with a weird couple and then shoot one of the women who was secretly a spider while she dances.
Then he kidnaps The oddcouple along with this other guy who was hunting him down to begin with. They head to an airport where they meet up with the plane Captain who's going to take the couple to Mexico to get married. They all get in the plane and the plane crashes onto a plateau which is actually the headquarters of the scientist Dr.Araña who was the guy who initially Brainwashed the other scientists to bring them all back here to begin with. And if this doesn't sound like it makes any sense that's because it doesn't.

There's also this strange tall man called Wu and he was working for the couple who wanted to go to Mexico in the first place. But he was also a servant of the doctor on the plateau? But they don't explain how any of these people got all mixed together.

See that's the problem with this movie. It's an incoherent mess of sub-stories and a major story all trying to coexist at the same time. If they had spent a little time expanding on their initial story and explaining how all these different people got together so they could all crash in one place for the convenience of the doctor then this movie might actually make some sense. But they don't do any of that. What makes it even worse is that the movie spends a lot of time just wandering around and being really slow paced. The film is both convoluted, confusing and drawn-out. You have to screw up pretty conveniently in order to get that to happen.

it's some point everybody in the group either dies or is captured by the spider bagel. People. And then doctor spider decides to give the initial scientist his sanity back by giving him some strange injection. After this he asks the scientist if he wants to join him in his Endeavors once more. The scientist refuses grabs this weird vial of chemicals and proceeds to burn the entire place down. The only ones to escape or the pilot and his one random girl who was supposed to get married to this other random guy who was killed by a giant jumping spider.

At the end of the movie We're supposed to be happy that this random girl in this pilot got together. But it's pretty clear of the pilot doesn't really care about this girl and it's just trying to go on with his day. The girl was supposed to get married to this other guy and wanted to cheat on him to get with the pilot. So you've got an indifferent person and a bad person trying to create a romance.
I just want to see more people interact with the giant spider. But he's only shown in two different scenes. It's a really sad thing because they have this great setup for the spider in the scientist lab at the very beginning of the film.

I certainly wouldn't recommend watching the entire movie. If anything watch the first 15 minutes. right up until the Asylum scene. Once that happens you can just turn it off and make up your own ending.
I hate saying that because the first 15 minutes I thought we were really good. I love the setup of the spider people and the giant spider itself. I like the setup for the ridiculous Over the Top Mexican adventure and I love the narrator Lyle Talbot. He brings a lot of fun to this film and he's easily the best thing about it.

I'd love to see an independent filmmaker pick this film up today and try to recreate it. Because there is a plot and an actual story here. Somebody with the right amount of talent and skill could turn this into a coherent and intertwining story. It just wasn't done here.


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