QUEEN OF BLOOD

1966, regia di Curtis Harrington

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: American International Pictures, Filmgroup - Distribuzione: American International Pictures, Home Box Office, Image Entertainment Inc., PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Sinister Cinema, Star Classics - Soggetto: da Mechte navstrechu di Mikhail Karyukov e Otar Koberidze - Sceneggiatura: Curtis Harrington - Fotografia: Vilis Lapenieks - Montaggio: Leo H. Shreve - Scenografia: Al Locatelli - Costumi: T. Glinkova - Musiche: Eduard Artemyev, Bebe Barron, Louis Barron - Effetti speciali: Ivan Mikhels, Ivan Pulenko - Formato: Pathécolor - Durata: 81'.

Cast: John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper, Florence Marly, Robert Boon, Don Eitner, Virgil Frye,  J. Robert Porter,  Forrest J. Ackerman, Terry Lee, T. Pochepa.

Trama e commenti: contenebbia.splinder.com - fantafilm.it: «...La bella aliena è una specie di vampiro asessuato che dissangua gli uomini dell'astronave, agendo mentre gli altri dormono ed usando le armi della seduzione e dell'ipnosi. ...Prodotto da AIP di Roger Corman a tempo di record (sembra siano bastati soltanto 8 giorni) con un occhio puntato al precedente Il mostro dell'astronave e con il riadattamento di sequenze di pellicole russe, il film è considerato da alcuni un precedente di Alien».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - madphat.com - entertainment.msn.com - multimania.com/gimena - tvguide.com: «This surely ranks as one of American International Pictures' finest efforts in plot construction. After seeing some excellent spaceship footage purchased by Roger Corman from the 1959 Russian film Niebo Zowiet, the producers edited out the clips they wanted and fashioned a story around it. The final product cost only $50,000 (the most expensive items being helmets to match the Russian ones, purchased for $1,000!) and was shot in approximately eight days. The story casts Rathbone (in quite a different role from his more famous Sherlock Holmes) as a doctor who flies with a crew to Mars to rescue a downed ship. The only survivor is Marly, who now sports a green complexion and sinister glowing eyes. It is revealed that she is an intergalactic vampire intent on draining crew members of their blood. Saxon and Meredith, the only crew members left, discover that Marly is a hemophiliac! Considering the production background, this is an entertaining science fiction horror piece with an off-the-wall sense of the macabre. The direction nicely matches the footage and presents it in an eerie, atmospheric style with great effect...».

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Conosciuto anche con i titoli: Flight to a Far Planet; The Green Woman; Planet of Blood; Planet of Terror; Planet of Vampires; Space Vampires.

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