Overview of queen of blood, 1966, directed by curtis harrington, with john saxon, basil rathbone, judi meredith, at turner classic movies. Concerning queen of blood also known as planet of blood writerdirector curtis harrington was quoted as saying, roger corman had acquired some spectacular russian footage of spaceships. This film was often confused with planet of the vampires, because it was a similar film released just months later. An alien species makes contact with earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit. Queen of blood 1966 is one of the films made by aip, at the time roger corman was working for them. If a space vampire movie produced by roger corman and starring dennis hopper. Much of the impressive special effects are stolen uncredited from a couple of big budget soviet.
Brockman and grant go out to find brenner and the queen, now lost in a sandstorm. The film is based on the screenplay for the earlier soviet feature film mechte navstrechu a dream come true. Queen of blood 1966 alien derelict, marsphobos and rescue sequences by steve nyland. Brenner crash lands on mars and carries the queen back to the ocean. The good spot in the movie is florence marly as the alien queen. The problem is, for its majority, harringtons film is just another elongated, underfinanced space opera and remains mostly flimsy until the creature arrives to stoke fear throughout. Farraday rathbone, tales of terror decides to send a team of astronauts, including allan brenner saxon, enter the dragon and paul grant hopper, easy rider, on a rescue. I saw the footage and wrote a screenplay around it. Planet of blood is a 1966 color science fictionhorror film, produced by george edwards and samuel z. Judi meredith in queen of blood 1966 dennis hopper and judi meredith in queen of blood 1966 florence marly in queen. Released in march of 1966 by american international pictures as the second half of a.
American international pictures aip 1966 usa theatrical directed by curtis harrington written by curtis harrington, mikhail karzhukov, otar koberidze. Le film love and marriage 1964 vostfr film complet. The alien queen florence marly is placed in a seat while brenner and barrata decide who will remain behind, as the craft can only carry two. Queen of blood 1966 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood its evident. Simply put, queen of blood has never looked or sounded better. Watch queen of blood full english film queen of blood full movie stream free. Originally published in 1966, and now available for the first time in hardcover the paperback is a fairly expensive item, queen of blood was also a terrific american international picture. Of course, i would like to do a more individual film than queen of blood, said harrington at the time, but i cant get the financing. Blood bath is a 1966 american horror film directed by jack hill and stephanie rothman and starring william campbell, linda saunders, marissa mathes, and sid haig. Its 1990 and earth has finally made its first contact with extraterrestrials on mars.
Queen of blood jumbles similar styles to hoopers vampiric space stinker but in a much more cowed and chic kitsch manner and with sneaky, unsettling scares. The film tells the story of a group of scientists in the distant future of 1990 who are sent from earth to investigate a distress call coming from a crashed alien spacecraft on mars. They utilized a lot of russian film footage mostly because of their superior big budget special effects a soviet fable called mechte navstrechu from 1963 shooting the action scenes around the cannibalized footage finished. The film concerns a delusional painter in venice beach, california who believes himself to be the reincarnation of a vampire. An alien ship crash lands on mars, and a rescue team is sent from. He begins to kidnap local women for his art pieces, and comes to believe that he has found his reincarnated. Although something goes wrong in their attempt and an expedition is sent to mars to find any survivors.
Queen of blood is probably the best of the corman cutups the spate of films produced during the sixties by cobbling together footage pirated from russian science fiction films and new material shot by one or other of roger cormans stable of upandcoming filmmakers, in. Arkoff, directed by curtis harrington, that stars john saxon, basil rathbone, dennis hopper, and judi meredith. But more than halfway through the film it takes a bit of a vampiremovie twist. In fact, the film is so cheaply made that it consists of only a handful of plain sets. Like blood bath which preceeded it, queen is also an excellent example of the roger. Blood bath 1966 film complet en francais film complet. It imagines a 1990 in which everyone dresses the same but noone has a mobile communications device. Queen of blood 1966 hideous beyond belief with an inhuman craving. Not to be mistaken for the 1966 movie of the same name, this is a recent lowbudget affair shot with consumer equipment from canadian filmmaker chris alexander, who is noted on the cover as also being the editorinchief of fangoria magazine. A spaceship is sent to mars after a alien distress signal is picked up.
John saxon, basil rathbone and dennis hopper are some of the actors sentenced by their vindictive agents to appear in this 1966 film. Watch queen of blood full movie in hd visit a spaceship is sent to mars after a alien distress signal is picked up. Queen of blood 1966 basil rathbone, john saxon, judi meredith, dennis hopper and the mysterious vampire alien queen florence marly. Continuing my complete tour of the curtis harrington filmography. Released in march of 1966 by american international pictures as the second half of a unique double bill that included blood. Which they have told earth through radio waves that they actually plan to visit earth. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood its evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. The mgm limited edition collections dvd of queen of blood is a surprisingly good enhanced transfer of a film ive previously seen only in miserable tv prints. Florence marly in queen of blood 1966 dennis hopper and judi meredith in. The film has the same claustrophobic look and story of edward l. John saxon would later star in planet earth, a film that closely resembles this movie. The plot gets even less probable and the acting more questionable as the death toll climbs but it never gets too high. Queen of blood was released in 1966 by american international pictures on a double bill with jack hills blood bath. In the distant future, scientists receive a distress call from an alien spaceship that has crashlanded on mars.
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