
The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit. An alien ship crash lands on Mars, and a rescue team is sent from Earth. Eventually a surviving female is located and brought on-board the Earth ship. The alien's skin is light green with an amazing hair-do. After some unsuccessful attempts by the human crew to feed her, she is more-or-less left to herself. While most of the crew sleeps, the alien hypnotizes... (Full plot summary below)
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The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit. An alien ship crash lands on Mars, and a rescue team is sent from Earth. Eventually a surviving female is located and brought on-board the Earth ship. The alien's skin is light green with an amazing hair-do. After some unsuccessful attempts by the human crew to feed her, she is more-or-less left to herself. While most of the crew sleeps, the alien hypnotizes the astronaut on guard. When the crew awakens, she's sleeping, and the guard is DEAD! Brief examination shows the Alien drank his blood. THE QUEEN OF BLOOD! Naturally, there is a lot of blood plasma on the ship, which they feed the alien. When they're almost home, another crew member is eaten, a fight breaks out, and the alien is accidentally killed before she can finish the third guy. Phew! The ship lands on Earth, finally! But there is trouble... The two remaining astronauts find a lot of eggs when they are about to leave the ship. Obviously the alien was a kind of bee-queen whose sole purpose was to spread their species to Earth, where there is a lot of yummy food... One of the astronauts tries to warn the arriving scientists of this danger, but they could not care less. Being scientists, they know what they are doing, so they collect the eggs and run happily along. The astronaut sums it up: "Well, at least I TRIED...
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzEven though it drags its feet through most of the voyage, it still manages to deliver some chills come climax time. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThis dry endeavor picks up steam during its final half-hour, but by then, most viewers will have checked out. |
| Parallax ViewSean Axmaker... arguably the best of the Corman-produced recycling jobs and as fun a haunted spaceship film as there was until Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires. |
| User ReviewBill JJohn Saxon and Dennis Hopper in their prime |
| User ReviewPrivate UWhen Frank said he'd fuck anything that moves...did that include green space vampires? Great Saturday horror matinee enjoyment. |
| User ReviewEduardo CGreat movie and an inspiration for Ridley Scott's "Alien". |
| User ReviewBrian S"Queen of Blood" is an Ed Wood-quality sci fi flick with an unusual cast. Where else do you get Dennis Hopper, Basil Rathbone and John Saxon sharing screen time with a green skinned, pointy haired alien played by a former major screen actress whose career was destroyed by anti-Communist witch hunts? The stories of the cast members are probably more interesting than the flick itself. Not that "Queen of Blood" isn't interesting for all the wrong reasons. An alien ship has crashed on Mars sometime in the far-flung future (around 1995). A team of astronauts is dispatched to recover the ship and any survivors. What they find is a green alien queen with pointy hair (it makes her head look like a clove of garlic) and a thirst for blood. She can hypnotize with a glance, and before long she's slurping down earth blood and going through the crew. Still, her green blood has a weakness; it doesn't clot. Still, she's a queen in the insect sense, and she's going to leave her progeny stashed away to stage an invasion of earth and turn it into a fast food joint. Stay tuned! The production values here are as low as low can be. The sets are obviously sets. The rocket ships are on strings. There's a goof in one scene in which some of the alien queen's green makeup gets left behind on one astronaut's hand. The dialogue is stilted and the better actors in the cast seem to know it. Basil Rathbone is particularly phoning it in for this one; watch his utter lack of reaction in the scenes in which he's informed that one of the crew members has turned into a snack for the alien! "Aliens" meets "Dracula" meets "Plan 9 from Outer Space." If you get a chuckle out of Ed Wood's stuff and want to get a glimpse of what Dennis Hopper had to go through on his way up and what Basil Rathbone had to put up with on his way down, check out "Queen of Blood." It's so bad. So, so bad. And so, so unintentionally funny, and yet somehow just a little compelling when you consider the stories of the cast members. |
| User ReviewMatthew CAnother low budget American science fiction film to make use of stock footage from a couple Russian science fiction films, Queen of Blood is at once kind of fun and kind of dull. Psychic vampires from beyond our solar system, who may or may not be part plant. Weird. But the Archduke of B-Movies, John Saxon is on the case, so no worries. |
| User ReviewZahi STake the Soviet film "Niebo Zowiet", about 2 superpowers racing to Mars, and turn it into a blood-sucking alien, mix with good actors like Basil Rathbone, a very young Dennis Hopper and John Saxxon playing good guys. My favourite part was when Basil Rathbone steps off the stage at a big speech, he suddenly becomes 3 times as fat in the long shot. |
| User ReviewShaun IY'know, for a cheesy '60's B-movie, this movie was actually quite decent! Once you look past the no budget "special" effects, it's a well directed, well acted thriller, with, surprisingly, some moments of real suspense. I wouldn't have expected it, but an enjoyable watching experience. |