WHAT IT IS: a trippy, atmospheric, low-budget, Italian inspiration for “Alien.”
WHAT IT DEFINITELY IS NOT: a vampire movie!
Be that as it may, I hope you’ll join Roy Bjellquist and me tomorrow evening, as we sink our fangs into Mario Bava’s “Planet of the Vampires” (1965), a movie every bit as lurid as its title. Bloody reanimated corpses! Shapely foreign babes in form-fitting cat suits! Barry Sullivan!
SEE! High-collared, aviator-hatted space people of different nationalities badly-dubbed into English!
SEE! Abundant cost-cutting, in-camera effects, miniatures, mirrors, and forced perspective shots!
SEE! Deadly lava pits, forbidding skeletons, and the prototype for Ridley Scott’s space jockey!
LEARN! The singular importance of something called a Meteor Rejector!
The horror begins when we open our mouths. Your comments and insights add to the terror. Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner live-streams on Facebook this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!