The Leech Woman
A middle-aged woman regains her youth by way of a magic potion that has lethal consequences. Colleen Moore plays the vain dowager and Grant Williams is the unlucky lothario who catches her eye. Directed by Edward Dein and co-starring preeminent scream queen Gloria Talbott, The Leech Woman is emblematic of Universal’s sci-fi horror films of the late 50s and early 60s—a B movie that manages to retain some of that old studio luster.
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Gillian Wallace Horvat is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer, and film programmer. Her first short film, GUNPLAY, was a 2007 Wasserman Semi-Finalist. KISS KISS FINGERBANG, starring Anton Yelchin, Kate Lyn Sheil, and Buck Henry was awarded the Jury Prize in the Midnight Shorts category at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival. Her films have screened in festivals around the world including SXSW, Fantasia, Palm Springs, and many others.Gillian also produced A FULLER LIFE, a documentary on the life and films of director Samuel Fuller that premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. Recently she has produced documentary shorts for Arrow Films, Kino Lorber, and Olive Films. She is also a guest columnist for Filmmaker Magazine and her writing has appeared in Sight & Sound.
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“The Leech Woman” is also one of MST3K’s funniest riffs. As for misogyny: the protagonist murders at least five men, one of whose sole crimes was saving her life. One could well see her as a precursor of the AWFLs who plague us nowadays.