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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302890563 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 630289056X Label: Orion Home Video Manufacturer: Orion Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Orion Home Video Release Date: June 16, 1993 Running Time: 86 minutes Sales Rank: 28592 Studio: Orion Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 27, 1965
Amazon.com: Italian horror master Mario Bava brought his considerable skills to bear on this hypnotic genre hybrid, creating one of the most eerily atmospheric science fiction films ever made. A spaceship is lured to a mysterious planet, where members of its crew are slaughtered, and their bodies possessed by a near-extinct alien race--a minimalist plot, to be sure, but in the hands of Bava and cinematographer Antonio Rinaldi, Planet of the Vampires (the best-known of this film's many titles) is a near-masterpiece of style over substance. The simplest sets and backdrops are composed with a perfect eye for perspective and color, with sensible spaceship design and memorable costumes that look like they sprang from the futuristic fantasies of an S&M biker gang. Performances are secondary but effectively low-key, serving to enhance Bava's painterly use of matte work and miniatures. With a surprise twist ending, POTV is an essential addition to anyone's sci-fi collection. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Decent but outdone by the original Star Trek and "Alien"
Although this 1965 film is an Italian production, directed by the famed Mario Bava, it was released by American International and stars American Barry Sullivan as the captain and main protagonist. Its original Italian title is (translated) "Terror in Space," which is better than the American title "Planet of the Vampires" (also "Demon Planet") seeing as how there are no blood-sucking vampires anywhere to be seen.
THE STORY: Barry Sullivan commands a spaceship that goes to a strange unknown planet in response to a distress call from another ship. They soon discover that the creepy ... Read More
Rating: - Great service
This was a good movie was in great shape. I came in the time promised with no problems. Thank you
Rating: - the come of age
if you think that this is a normal review you're right. but mario bava wasn't. he invented in his sci-fi-flic on very low budget a few genres at the same time, just because of only this one room was such an encaving moment, pressure about exploring one guy on a strange planet.
when alfred hitchcock ends, bava starts.
Rating: - sick horror sci fi
THis film came out in 65 - the original star trek came out in 66. Yunno those star trek plots where the psychic aliens take over crew members? This film is like the horror version of that plot. (Ray bradbury's martian chronicals is probably the inspiration for this type of stuff - he took hp lovecrafts approach to sci fi to another level)
I especially loved the creepy creepy vintage sci fi sound design (make sure youre in the right state of mind to enjoy this). It starts slow and just keeps getting better and better. When they find the alien ship! WOAH!!!
Rating: - planet of the vampires
if there could be a worse movie, i am not aware of it. while it has a surprising end, it has added a new meaning to the word 'acting.' clumsy and uneven performance, strange music and , well, you get the point. there is no point.
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