Arthur Batanides, Colleen Gray, Estelle Hemsley, Gloria Talbott, Grant Williams ...( see more  see more... ) , John Van Dreelen , Kim Hamilton , Phillip Terry

When a very old African woman offers an ambitious endocrinologist the secret of eternal youth, he decides to take his estranged and no-longer-young-and-beautiful wife along with him on the safari. But...( read more  read more... ) then she finds out the true reason for their sudden reconciliation is so that she can serve as his guinea pig. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially one with a stolen pineal gland tapper. But once you try Nipe, there's no going back.

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Directed by: Edward Dein

Release Date: May 1, 1960

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DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008

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  • January 25, 2009
    Campy but oddly charming in a low-budget 50's/60's horror film sort of way.
  • August 8, 2009
    Women either look 20 or 120. If the former, they reduce men men into groveling, slobbering fools, ready to throw everything they hold dear for a night of passion. If the latter, they are to be pitied as objects of disgust, and only two courses are open to the man who is unfortuna...( read more)te enough to be married to one of them or to be the victim of her advances: either to run away as fast as he can, or to treat her like the repugnant creature she is until he has found a medical cure for her horrible condition and can make her look 20 again.

    Such is the profound message of this film, a variant on the old myth of the succubus ("she drained men of their loves and lives!" says the poster) that very thinly allegorises our culture's perception of the impermanence of female beauty (and I don't think things have got better since 1960, as more and more "mature" women try to compete with the ruling lolitas by turning into high-tech leeches.)

    The MST3K commentary on this one has quite a few great lines: "We'd better camp here. The next stock footage is 80 miles away"; "Is this your bag? Brown with the pineal juice dripping?" and "This is the 50's. Why am I explaining things to a woman? Get in the car!"

    By the way, Coleen Gray is still alive today, having reached the ripe old age of 87. Maybe they left her keep the rest of the pineal juice.

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