A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Mesa of Lost Women 1953 HD | Sci-Fi & horror film by Ron Ormond & Herbert Tevos | Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon & Richard Travis
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Mesa of Lost Women is a 1953 American low-budget black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Herbert Tevos and Ron Ormond from a screenplay and original story created by Tevos and Orville H. Hampton, who is given on-screen credit only for dialogue supervision. Critical response to the film was overwhelmingly negative.
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A man and woman are found wandering the Muerto Desert on the US–Mexico border, suffering from extreme dehydration and exposure, and taken to an oil company field hospital. As he begins to recover, Grand Phillips excitedly asks for oil trucks to burn up “super bugs” from a secret underground laboratory on the isolated Zarpa Mesa. While he begins to tell his story from the beginning, a narrator speaks over him and shifts focus to his rescuer, Pepe, drawing attention to what the Mexicans know but the Americans would not believe.
A flashback to a year earlier shows famous scientist Leeland Masterson arrive at Zarpa Mesa at the invitation of the reclusive Dr. Aranya, whose brilliant theories have intrigued Masterson. Aranya reveals his successful experimentation with growth hormones, creating human-sized tarantulas he can control telepathically and human women with the abilities and instincts of spiders. His creation Tarantella can regenerate severed limbs and Aranya expects her to have a lifespan of several centuries. However, his experiments on male subjects have resulted in dwarfism akin to drone insects. His end goal is to create spiders with human intellect, subject to his will, to control the world. Asked to assist, Masterson instead denounces Aranya’s work as evil and blasphemous. In response, Tarantella injects him with a drug that turns him into a simpleton. Following experimentation, Masterson is found wandering the desert and placed in a lunatic asylum from which he eventually escapes.
Masterson arrives in a lively bar on the border where businessman Jan van Croft and his fiancée Doreen find themselves when their private aircraft breaks down. Masterson joins the couple, and Tarantella performs a dance, mesmerizing everyone present – except for George, a nurse from the asylum who has come to collect Masterson. Masterson recognized Tarantella as evil and shoots her, then takes Jan, Doreen, and George hostage. They arrive at Jan’s aircraft where pilot Grant Phillips and servant Wu are added to the hostages. Masterson forces them all to depart despite the aircraft’s disrepair. Meanwhile, Tarantella regenerates following her apparent death and leaves the bar.
Grant discovers that the compass is reading incorrectly and, due to an engine failure, they crash-land on Zarpa Mesa. George is killed while exploring and Jan wounded. Grant and Doreen grow closer during the night. Jan sends Wu on a dangerous errand, allowing Wu to report to Aranya, having sabotaged the airplane in order to return Masterson; no longer needed, Wu is killed by the spider women. Blamed for Wu’s death, Jan has a mental breakdown and is killed by a giant spider. The others are captured and Aranya restores Masterson’s intellect, requiring his help. Grant and Doreen restrain Aranya and Tarantella, allowing Masterson to concoct an explosive in the laboratory. After Grant and Doreen escape, Masterson incinerates the laboratory, along with himself, Aranya, and Aranya’s monsters.
At the field hospital, Grant fails to convince anyone but Pepe of the truth of his story. It is revealed that at least one of Aranya’s spider-women has survived.
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