Terrore nello spazio (1965)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Mario Bava

Writers:

Mario Bava (original version)
Alberto Bevilacqua (original version)

Release Date:

27 October 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

This was the day the universe trembled before the demon forces of the killer planet!

Plot:

In the near future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the mysterious planet Aura...

Plot Keywords:

Planet | Alien | Escape | Living Dead | Reverse Footage

Cast

Barry Sullivan	...	Capt. Mark Markary
Norma Bengell	...	Sanya
Ángel Aranda	...	Wess
Evi Marandi	...	Tiona
Stelio Candelli	...	Brad / Mud
Franco Andrei	...	Bert / Garr
Fernando Villena	...	Dr. Karan
Mario Morales	...	Eldon
Ivan Rassimov	...	Carter / Dervy
Federico Boido	...	Keir (as Rico Boido)
Alberto Cevenini	...	Toby Markary / Wan

Also Known As:

Planet of Blood
Planet of the Vampires (USA)
Space Mutants
Terror en el espacio (Spain)
Terror in Space
The Demon Planet (USA) (TV title)
The Haunted Planet
The Haunted World
The Outlawed Planet
The Planet of Terror
The Planet of the Damned

Runtime:

86 min | Italy:88 min

Country:

Spain | Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Italy:T (DVD) (2005) | USA:Approved | USA:Not Rated (DVD) | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16 | West Germany:12 (re-rating)

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

America-International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

This film had more then 15 titles before it was decided to be Planet of the Vampires.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Toby and Mark duke it out, Toby bumps into and moves the flight seat revealing it to be unattached to the deck.

Quotes:

Capt. Mark Markary: One entire crew lost; two of our own crew gone. Bert dead, Eldon disappeared. And this unknown enemy keeps getting closer!
Dr. Karan: The enemy is also becoming visible.
Capt. Mark Markary: What do you mean by that?
Dr. Karan: Well, you saw something. Something not quite identifiable out of the corner of your eye.
Capt. Mark Markary: Ah, yes. As if it were composed of little globes of light, something fleeting, nothing definite. And the minute I looked at the things directly, they were gone.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Fantastic Fantasy Fright-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)

Hot Italo-babes + best Italian 60s Sci-Fi

(aka: Planet of the Vampires)

And I don't say that lightly because I've seen a number of them such as "I Criminali della galassia" (Wild, Wild Planet), "Diafanoidi vengono da Marte" (War of the Planets) "Il Pianeta degli uomini spenti" (Battle of the Worlds) etc... Cheesy, boring epics, usually directed by the likes of Antonio Margheriti that have crummy atmospherics, bad plots and horrible dubbing.

But "Planet of the Vampires" has something else. Something mysterious and original that even Ridley Scott would pick up on 15 years later. A little known fact except to viewers of this film.

Plus they got some hot looking Italo-babes in this one. Yumm...

This beats them by far, and is certainly original in it's execution, in my opinion. The DVD is a vast improvement over the old Thorn/EMI videotape, transferred from a stunning, original master print that has the AIP logo at the beginning of the titles.

I don't think there was really anything that combined both the Sci-Fi element with the horror element before this film. If someone can come up with one that escapes me, then I'd appreciate hearing about it.

7 out of 10 for originality (for it's time) on the imdb meter...