topeka Why watch this movie? To say you have. It's a bit like mountain climbing, but only if you're climbing molehills. Or collecting bottle caps. Or counting the tiles on the ceiling at the DMV. This film came in the 50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics DVD collection by Treeline. Not all of the films are bad. If you have any sense of nostalgia or affection for theater or genre movies, most of the flicks have something to offer despite the poor budgets, terrible plots, dialogue that wouldn't satisfy your fifth grade teacher, or hopelessly bad acting. Nonetheless most of the films are entertaining, and it's a shame they have not been restored - what with the computing power we have today, you'd think someone would clean up these lost 'antique' films. But Mesa of Lost Women is a truly bad film. The only logic reason for watching this film is if you're working on a Camp SciFi Horror flick, and you want to find something ridiculous to add. But even there, Mesa is a let down: The mad scientist makes his case the same way a loan officer explains the terms of your car loan. And he inexplicably wears a pair of glasses with the left side glazed over. His mad scheme to take over the world is as plausible as granny's plan to rid her trees of squirrels by feeding them her leftover meds. Watching the film is absolutely tedious. So tedious, if an American military or intelligence agency forced prisoners to watch it, it would probably be considered a war crime. I'm retired, so my mental health is irrelevant, and it's too late to do anything about it anyway. Treeline failed to put a warning on this film for those who might be triggered by slowly watching nothing unfold. Another excellent review has adequately covered the plot, but I wanted to add a comment about the obnoxious score. The musical score consists of guitar strumming as if the musician is about to begin a classical Latin piece. But it doesn't. The guitar just strums. A bit up. A bit down. And always too loud. It was so irritating my college student (daughter) came out and gripped at me for disturbing her - that despite the fact that she's never bothered by Godzilla or any of the other campy, silly flicks I run on the big TV. I think its so bad, I'm afraid it could cause sensitive people to have a mental reaction. Caution is warranted.

Rainey Dawn NO, this is not a good film, yes it's funny! This is one of those films that you'll laugh at some of the cheesy dialogue and dumb stuff the characters do. If you watch this alone as I did then you might find yourself wishing you watched it with someone, I know I did, because you just want to discuss some of the stupid things going on with someone! Ha ha ha! A dude gets it by the spider women, the group hears him scream and stands around discussing who's going and who's staying at the camp. Then they all decide to go together, the group leader tells them it's better if we all hold hands and of course that takes up more time. ---> Why didn't they all just take off immediately since they heard him scream and knew he was in trouble instead of all this jabber-jawing?! LMBO! Dorky as all get outs. It hits a couple of lulls but just wait a couple of minutes because it'll get funny again. lol!!4/10

verbusen Anyone who is rating this higher then a Francis Coleman film (a ONE) is rating it on it's horribly fun factor. This is one of the worst films of all time and it took me literally 7 hours to finally make it to the ending. Thankfully I watched the rifftrax version (now available on Hulu) and so they took the really bad funny movie factor and multiplied it by 10. All in all, this deserves to be in bottom 100 film land straight up, but as a Rifftrax product it's at least an 8 or 9. It is hilarious but also an insult to the theater goers of the day that actually paid money to watch this. The whole thing is one big sack of feces, but funny as hell because it's so bad. ONE STAR. The rewatchability of this is very suspect also unlike a Coleman Francis film like Beast Of Yucca Flats or Red Zone Cuba which I have watched at least 5 times each. This thing is funny but also very painful. ONE STAR.

wbswetnam Absolutely horrible movie, only Manos the Hands of Fate is possibly worse. There are numerous scene jumps due to bad editing, it is badly overacted by the Z-grade actors, the story line is completely loopy, there's the never-ending guitar riff / dramatic piano pounding, oh I could go on but what's the point? Maybe you like movies with 3 foot tall puppet spiders, whacked-out bar dances by spider women, grinning midgets, and crazy scientists called "Dr. Aranya". Well if this motley cast of characters sounds like something you can't resist, then by all means watch The Mesa of Lost Women. Otherwise use those 80-some minutes of your life doing something more entertaining, such as clearing the dead leaves out of the gutter, or cleaning the oven, or getting a prostate examination done.