
In the near future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the mysterious planet Aura. As the Galliot lands on the planet her crew suddenly go berserk and attack each other. The strange event passes, but the crew soon discovers the crashed Argos - and learns that her crew died fighting each other! Investigating further, the explorers come to realize the existence of a race of bodiless aliens that seek to escape from their dying world.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the near future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the mysterious planet Aura. As the Galliot lands on the planet her crew suddenly go berserk and attack each other. The strange event passes, but the crew soon discovers the crashed Argos - and learns that her crew died fighting each other! Investigating further, the explorers come to realize the existence of a race of bodiless aliens that seek to escape from their dying world.
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| Stream on DemandSean AxmakerIf you like Italian sci-fi, with its shiny, phony plastic miniatures and sprawling Cinecitta studio sets, this is one of the best, with unbelievable black leather fashions with yellow piping and headhugging skull caps. |
| User ReviewSarah FBava amazes with his uncanny ability to make a low budget film look like its 1,000,000 for its time! Great twilight zone type story too. |
| User Reviewdelysid dthis is a great old film from italian master mario bava. its an old school space adventure that reminds me of original star trek |
| User ReviewBenjamin NGreat visuals and music, this movie definitely raised the bar in cinema history. |
| User ReviewGordon THow to rate an out-dated, "schlocky (by nature of it being outdated), poorly acted, "poorly directed," cheese-ball Italian science fiction spaghetti-horror movie? With a big fat ZERO . . . or contextualize the film, placing it in its proper place in the history of science-fiction, horror, international and world cinema. Call Planet of the Vampires "THE EVIL DEAD IN OUTER SPACE." The tiular creatures are not classic-mythological vampires that are undead creatures who suck the blood of the living for survival; instead The Vampiers are spiritual creatures who invade the bodies of their host. The plot: Just as in RIDLEY SCOTT'S 1979 masterpiece ALIEN, the crew of a starship answers a distress call from a distant world. Just like in ALIEN, They crash-land upon the strange, eerie, breathable alien planet. And Just as in ALIEN, they stumble upon a pile of GIANT BONES of a creature who crash-landed on the planet centuries before. AND just as in ALIEN, the crew encounter a strange alien life-form that wants to sneak into their bodies and hitch a ride aboard their ship to another planet yet not in as gorily a fashion as in ALIEN. PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES is based upon an Italian short story entitled "21 HOURS OF NIGHT" Samuel Z. ARKOFF at American International Pictures changed TERRORE NELLA SPAZIO to PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES because "VAMPIRES" sell more tickets; notice the tag-line on the poster reads "Are they Vampires?" MARIO BAVA is a pioneer in his ability to increase the level of gore and violence in mainstream cinema: threre are plenty of bloody, partially denuded rib-cages and bloody gashes by 1965 standards in PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES and the red and blue pastel lighting effects are stylishly "out of this world." Absent of a historical and artistically-minded context PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES lingers around a 10%, yet "BECAUSE ITS BAVA (e.g. because it is directed by the great Italian horror director MARIO BAVA," PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES earns a 100%. |
| User ReviewWray BThe Citizen Kane of Italian sci-fi cinema, Mario Bava's Terrore nello spazio is a midnight movie classic that the writers of Alien clearly sat through several times. From the kinky leather outfits to Bava's "unique" special effects, Vampires initially screams camp YET get past this and there are some (albeit dated) chills to be had. You'll either love it or hate it, but that's how Bava devides his audiences. |
| User ReviewOscar Hsimply one of the best sci-fi of the 60s and... |
| User ReviewChris PChildhood favorite with space vampires in leather. Yum. |
| User ReviewNate Wbava does a weird and very stylish sci-fi film. totally awesome |
| User ReviewJohn DTHIS. IS. BRILLIANT. Basically it's Forbidden Planet with a twist - this is basically the primary precursor to Alien (imagine if the whole film had happened on the planet where they found the eggs). But Bava was able to do something as chilling, atmospheric, and good for the time in 1965, over ten years earlier. Amazing film, one of my favorites. :D |