Planet of the Vampires (1965 film)
Planet of the Vampires, AKA Terrore nello spazio, Planet of Blood, Terror in Space, The Haunted Planet, The Haunted World, Planet of the Damned, etc. (1965 film)
Summary
After landing on a mysterious, dark, and foggy planet to respond to a distress signal emitted by a derelict alien spacecraft, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, but why....?
Details
- Release Date: 1965
- Country/Language: Italy and Spain, English
- Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
- Runtime: 1 hr 28 min
- Starring: Norma Bengell, Barry Sullivan, Evi Marandi, Ángel Aranda
- Director: Mario Bava
- Writer: Mario Bava, et.al.
- Producer/Production Co: MGM Studios
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: (none) (roughly equivalent to a "PG" for Violence, gore, and creepiness)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
Not explicitly or implicitly based on any particular Lovecraft creation, though the bleak, oppressive atmosphere and hints of a vast, indifferent, Gothic universe haunted by alien ghosts is not too far off from Lovecraft in spirit.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis
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After landing on a mysterious, dark, and foggy planet to respond to a distress signal emitted by a derelict alien spacecraft, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the sinister influence of the planet and its strange and ghostly inhabitants.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
- Many fans of horror and science fiction films have noted numerous similarities between this film and Alien (1979 franchise), such as the hints at a dystopic setting, the dark and foggy planet, the distress signal emitted by a derelict spaceship containing only a fossilized giant skeleton, the parasitic alien ghosts invading human bodies, etc. The creators of Alien claim to have not seen Planet of the Vampires, however.
Associated Mythos Elements
- disembodied alien "ghosts" possessing human bodies
