Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

Rating: **/*****, or 4/10

Television remake of the ultimate fifties' cult film. A wife to an abusive and disloyal husband drives home through the night and gets caught by a flying saucer's ray beam. Afterwards, she finds her anger makes her grow taller and taller, until she's at least 50 ft. tall, and she sets out for revenge against her lowlife husband and everybody else who ever humiliated her. The reasons for remaking an already schlock low budget film, its classic silly title not withstanding, remain unclear as this version certainly does not improve upon the original and ends up a dull and predictable watch, despite its occasional funny feminist retro overtones.

Starring: Daryl Hannah, Daniel Baldwin, Frances Fisher

Directed by Christopher Guest

USA: Warner Bros. Television, 1993