Thanks for the memories!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

When this crappy film begins, you see a lot of stock footage of V-2 rocket tests. Supposedly these rockets are taking animals into the stratosphere to see what radiation there does to them. However, they loose track of one ship and where it lands, no one knows. Soon there are reports of monsters in a region of Central Africa known as 'Green Hell'--and instead of sending in troops, just two scientists are sent in to investigate. After a long series of adventures, they meet up with the evil killer wasps and, inexplicably, the long arm of God kills these creatures!!Much of this film consists of stock footage clumsily inserted into the picture. Much of it grainy and the overall effect is lousy. But what's worse is that the film is incredibly dull...which you'd never expect from a monster film. Cheap and silly---and get a load of those stop-motion wasps!!

This is one of those movies done in such an awkward manner, that you just have to watch it all the way through just so you can say you did, and maybe even figure out what the movie makers had in mind.Low budget, but it tries so hard not to look that way that it ends up screaming that it's low budget. It's from the late '50's so the basic premise of a scientific experiment gone awry is no surprise, and these kind of films are a gem to watch, no matter what the script does with the idea. This time giant wasps are on the loose deep in the African continent. Jim Davis, the scientist who blames himself for the existence of these beasts, goes on safari to hunt them down and destroy them before they multiply into an unstoppable menace.Cut to stock safari footage. Lots of safari footage. Not much ado about the monsters, but if you like lots and lots of safari footage (from another movie), you'll love this film. Finally, the wasps appear, but the long-anticipated encounter between the five main characters and the creatures kind of fizzles. Certainly considering the time and distance they spent setting up the battle. Mother Nature was apparently also disappointed, and adds some of her own flair to the finale of the story.There aren't too many movies that follow a path quite like this one, and that's what makes it such a novelty to watch. Have some coffee on hand for the safari portion, though.

I was surprised at the amount of giant wasp animated action in the film at the start. There is even a giant full sized head prop too. But there seems to be quite a bit of Jim Davis voice over and as the movie goes on there starts to be more walking to get to the giant wasps than there is actual giant wasps. One major character dies off screen in a way that seems like they never got to shoot it. (Another character shows up and explains what happened) Then the ending is all stock footage and dissolves to footage we've already seen. And Jim Davis, as he did later in THE DAY TIME ENDED, explaining it all to us. Thank god otherwise you'd have only a vague idea of what you just saw, or didn't really get to see.Too bad they ran out of what little money they had. A lively start progressively gets duller. Still that big wasp head was cool, another problem is the generally crappy quality of many copies of the film available which make the footage either dark or blown out. If you're going to watch it make sure you get a decent copy first.The sending test animals into space aspect of the premise is a bit novel as is the idea of having the space ship crash way out in the middle of Africa and having to go find it. Certainly since the film was made, like with the remains of Space Lab, that type of thing has happened.

Insufferably boring 50s sci-fi with Jim Davis as a space scientist who theorizes that radiation has created giant wasps, so he leads an expedition into the jungle to look for them. And look for them, and look for them, and look for them...This is the kind of film whose lurid title dragged many a kid into the house on Saturday afternoons, but whose tedium drove them back into the yard to play after about 20 minutes.