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The Wild World of Batwoman is an American science fiction superhero film directed by Jerry Warren. The film stars Katherine Victor as Batwoman, George Andre as Professor G. Octavius Neon, and Steve Brodie as Jim Flanagan. With the popularity of the Batman television series, director Jerry Warren decided to make his own bat-figured superhero film. After winning a settlement from being sued for copyright infringement, Warren re-released the film under the title She Was a Hippy Vampire. Like Warren's other films, it is seen by modern critics[who?] and filmakers as almost watchable, but still a poor film.
[edit] ProductionThe original idea for the film began with Jerry Warren realizing there was large popularity with the comic book superhero Batman; Warren decided to make his own Bat-like superhero character into a film.[1] Warren offered the leading role to Katherine Victor. Having worked on Warren's previous productions such as Teenage Zombies and Curse of the Stone Hand, Victor was originally not very excited about working with Warren again.[1] To convince her, Warren promised Victor large production values, colour photography and her own bat boat in the film.[1] None of these promises ever came to fruition by Warren.[1] On receiving the script for the role of Seltzer, Bruno VeSota recalled that "...once again I was in for it. It would be like memorizing a telephone book with pages picked at random."[1] Katherine Victor claimed that on set if an actor rubbed Warren the wrong way, their lines would be cut out or given to other actors.[2] Victor claimed "the pretty brunette who was kidnapped in the beginning of the picture was supposed to be the lead girl, but for some reason Jerry thought she was getting to [sic] big for her britches and gave all her lines to the girl in the leopard tights".[2] For the monsters in the film, Warren used footage from the Universal Pictures film The Mole People for his monsters.[2] [edit] Cast
[edit] ReleaseDue to the similar title, the production company Associated Distributors Productions was promptly sued for copyright infringement.[2] Warren won this lawsuit.[3] After the lawsuit and as the popularity of the television series Batman died down, Warren re-released the film under the title She Was a Hippy Vampire.[2][3] In 1993, The Wild World of Batwoman was released as episode #515 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where it was featured with the short Cheating.[4] This episode was released later on DVD by Rhino Entertainment.[5] [edit] ReceptionModern reception of the film has been very negative. Fred Bildin of the film database AllMovie gave the film one and a half stars out of five, noting the film as "a rip-off hack job no matter how you slice it, though its innocent veneer, period charm, and forced wackiness might endear the film to fans of similar goofs like Rat Pfink a Boo-Boo or The Nasty Rabbit".[6] Film director Fred Olen Ray noted the film has "all the earmarks of Warren's worst work, but rises above the level as something as tedious as Petrified World. It is funny in an unintentional way and sometimes is not hard to look at."[1] [edit] References[edit] Notes
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