Denis Sanders

In this wild sci-fi thriller penned by Nicholas Meyer (Fatal Attraction), government investigator Neil Agar (William Smith) travels to a small California town to look into the odd case of a research scientist said to have expired from "sexual exhaustion." After more local men meet the same fate, Smith learns that the killers are women who've mutated into bug-eyed sexual predators intent on dispatching as many men as they can in this fashion.

It says a lot about George Hamilton's acting skills that his first credited performance was this starring - and very demanding - role. He shines as Robert Cole, a troubled young man with a troubling belief: Exceptional people shouldn't have to pay for their crimes. After blacking out near the scene of a murder, Cole captures the attention of the police and proceeds to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a tenacious cop, a beautiful stranger and a family foe. 1950s Southern California is as far from 19th-century Moscow as you can get... or is it? By radically changing the setting of Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment, this moody thriller makes the dusty classic new, fresh and dangerous once again. Literary fans will be impressed, and film fans will delight in being reunited with this unique, sun-drenched, jazz-tinged noir opus.

A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.

A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.