Queen of Blood (1966)

Director:

Curtis Harrington

Writer:

Curtis Harrington (writer)

Release Date:

March 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

HIDEOUS BEYOND BELIEF with an INHUMAN CRAVING

Plot:

The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Blood | Rescue | Egg | Mars

Cast

John Saxon	...	Allan Brenner
Basil Rathbone	...	Dr. Farraday
Judi Meredith	...	Laura James
Dennis Hopper	...	Paul Grant
Florence Marly	...	Alien Queen
Robert Boon	...	Anders Brockman
Don Eitner	...	Tony Barrata
Virgil Frye
Robert Porter
Terry Lee
Forrest J Ackerman	...	Farraday's aide (as Forrest Ackerman)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
T. Pochepa	...	Woman on alien planet (archive footage)

Also Known As:

Flight to a Far Planet (USA) (working title)
Planet of Blood
Planet of Terror
Planet of Vampires
Space Vampires (USA) (working title)
The Green Woman

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Pathécolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:PG | USA:Unrated

Company:

Cinema West Productions

Trivia:

This was an ultra low budget production. The elaborate special effects were taken (uncredited) from the big budget Soviet production Nebo zovyot (1960).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The Cyrillic letters CCCP (USSR) can be seen on the side of the "American" rocket ship, betraying the fact that this film used stock footage from a Russian sci-fi film.

Quotes:

Allan Brenner: How are the musical spheres?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Once Upon a Body (1969)

The green woman sucks Dennis Hopper dry

(aka: PLANET OF BLOOD)

Wow, I remember this from late night TV back in the 70s, only it was with a grainy print that was continually interrupted by commercials. This is strictly a low budget AIP affair using lots of stock footage from Russian science fiction films from the early 1960s.

An alien ship that has crash landed on Mars sends out an SOS to earth for help. Two rocket ships take off from the Earth's moon and head there only to find one dead alien body and a female alien with green skin and silver pointed hair that makes her look like something out of the old Star Trek TV show. She doesn't speak. Not one word. However she does feast on human blood.

The first one she kills is a young clean-cut Dennis Hopper. She sucks him bone dry of all his blood. The rocket ship team then feed her blood plasma in order to keep her satisfied from killing any of the others, even though the head pilot (John Saxon) objects and wants her destroyed. When they run out of plasma before they get back to Earth, she kills the commander by hypnotizing him and then draining his blood.

After Judith Meredith again talks Saxon out of killing her, he ties her up but she burns through the rope with those hypnotic eyes of hers and almost kills Saxon in his sleep. Meredith walks in on this and in the ensuing fight, scratches the alien woman thereby killing her. She drips green blood all over the floor. It seems this alien race are a bunch of hemophiliacs and can die from the slightest of injuries.

But that's not all. She also laid green eggs all throughout the ship that look like pink balloons covered in green jell-o. (laughs)

After they land back on Earth, Saxon wants them destroyed because they're dangerous, but head scientist Basil Rathbone refuses and wants them kept for study. It's amusing watching Forrest Ackerman carrying them on a silver tray when they take them off the ship. It looks like he's carrying dinner. (laughs)

The rocket ship interior is low budget enough and so long as you don't take it too seriously. It's a good way to pass the time if you want to check out the more obscure, cheesy sci-fi from the 60s.

4 out of 10