So much average

Powerful

Absolutely Fantastic

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Made to resemble the original Batman series (1966-1968), The Wild World of Batwoman would have been considered a blatant rip-off if it wasn't to badly brought to life. For real though, director/producer Jerry Warren was sued for copyright infringement and won the case because the film is so bad no audience of the time would ever connect it to the majesty that is Adam West's Batman.The film stars Katherine Victor as the titular Batwoman, a bubbly crime-fighter who teams up with a gaggle of fellow batwomen dressed in elaborate costumes. The plot (if you could call it that) revolves around the batwomen trying to track down a plutonium powered espionage device that's being sold to Batwoman's arch-enemy Rat Fink (Richard Banks). In reality, the film largely takes place on one dingy back-lot with the costumed women trying and failing to battle a host of barely discernible baddies.This movie is a mess. It showcases confusing writing, inept directing, grainy and unpleasant cinematography, lazy, amateurish acting, jarring editing and cheap-looking costuming. The precious few scenes that are not entirely without merit were literally lifted from other movies in the hopes that the audience wouldn't notice. The film is just a loosely strung together scenes and utterly pointless to try to decipher. It's such a lazy shoestring-quickie that when Warren won his lawsuit he re-released the movie under the title She Was a Hippy Vampire. Think about that; that's like re-releasing Iron Man (2008) under the title "The Clever Hostage" and hoping no one would realize it's the same f***ing film! It's renaming is also further proof that the plot is completely amorphous and irrelevant. But hey, at least there's dancing, lots and lots of dancing.

Wild World of Batwoman, The (1966) * 1/2 (out of 4) Infamous film from director Warren had the man sued by Marvel and this film, at one time, re-released as SHE WAS A HIPPIE VAMPIRE but it's the title here and the clear rip-off of Batman that has made this thing live for so long. The story is all over the place but we've basically got Batwoman (Katherine Victor) going after the evil Rat Fink (Richard Banks) who also had a nutty scientist (George Mitchell) working for him. I was somewhat shocked to see that this movie was ranked in the Bottom 100 at IMDb for several reasons. One is that this is the only Warren movie there. The second reason is that there are so many more movies out there worse than this one. I'm really not sure why this film has gotten so much special attention but I'm going to guess it's because Batman fans are checking this thing out and seeing a pure "Z" grade picture. I can understand someone familiar with "A" pictures to hate this. It does contain horrible acting, horrible direction, horrible outfits, a horrible plot and any other job title could have horrible before it. However, as someone who has seen many Warren film, this one contains something the others don't and that's an attempt at telling a story. Yes, the story is all over the place, makes no sense and at times will have you lost but at least it tries, which is a lot more than you can say for the director's other films. This one here also has more than just one long dialogue sequence after another. We've actually got quite a bit of action ranging from fights to some silly guns being waived around. Again, this isn't too common for a Warren picture. One of the silliest things here is the scientist who has created a "happy" pill that his girls to girls so that they will dance and do a few other things. These dances are so crazy that you can't help but laugh and the music they're dancing to certainly wasn't rock 'n roll from 1966 but seems to be about fifteen years late from its target audience. What's even sillier is the scientist who has an assistant who is mildly retarded due to an experiment that went wrong. The politically incorrect role was silly but at the same time it had me laughing. Again, all of these things make for an awful movie but at the same time they keep the film moving and make it rather fun to watch. If you're a fan of bad cinema then this here is certainly one of the all-time great bad movies. Warren would take a fourteen year break from filmmaking before jumping back onto the scene with the downright horrid FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND. It's really too bad he didn't go out with this sucker as it pretty much contains everything bad you'd expect from a movie like this. Just don't take it too serious, sit back and laugh.

People who rip other popular concepts off just to make a fast buck at the theatres really ought to be locked away in a special form of Colditz camp and never heard from again. The usual result is that their movie sucks and should never ever see the light of day unless it's to be heckled, a la Swimfan at my friends 18th party.With this in mind it is time for a Mr Jerry Warren to step forward. By 1966 Jerry Warren had a string of bad movies to his name already. So what better thing to do by then? No not retire, rip off the infamous Batman series starring Adam West by changing the sex of the character! This of course resulted in a lawsuit and the title of the film was changed to "She Was A Hippie Vampire" meaning it could now masquerade as a horror flick.If it were up to me I too would file a lawsuit against it. No, not because of the movie title. But because anyone who rips off the 60's Batman (one my my childhood memories) and then butchers it in such a contemptible way ought to be sued for every last penny they owe! WWOB is a truly appalling movie, one of those movies that subjects your brain to a mind screw! I found it hard to decide what was worse. This hateful garbage, or the stunningly awful Catwoman with Halle Berry. I go with this as being worse because although it's shorter, it's far worse in quality. Catwoman took a DC comic character and turned it inside out and created a mess. WWOB took a whole genre and created an antidote to it! It's not scary! There's no action! It's boring, it's cheesy, it's terrible! It's not a horror or action film. It's a mess!Remember what your kids use to make Nickelodeon movies? Just by cutting snippets and putting them together. That's what this is like. Nothing at all makes sense, it's just an excuse to string together all sorts of crap together and have scantily clad bimbos act it out.Well when I say ACT i mean it very loosely. Never has acting been so wooden and boring. "Gee Bat.Girl. We.Should.Warn.The.Police.Of.This.Crime." or something like that. Oh and by the way, yes it does sound like that, And YES! That line was actually spoken in a superhero horror film! The girls actually let the POLICE solve their crimes? Ever seen Batman and Superman get it that easy? No. And there's a reason for that! Again, it's mind boggling how this ever got a seal of approval! I'll tell you what, don't ever, ever watch this film. It's just truly awful. OK? Just don't.

Being a fan of MST3K, I have seen more than my share of bad movies. That being said, this has to be one of the most excruciatingly awful experiences ever captured on celluloid. The acting is horrendous and the so-called plot is completely incomprehensible. The scene with the séance and the Chinese "ghost" should offend the common decency of anyone with an I.Q. over 10. Everything about this movie (and I use that word very generously) is bad, bad, bad. Anyone who attempts to watch this without the support system of Mike, Crow and Tom should have the makings of a pretty good class action lawsuit against everyone responsible for or involved with this tripe.