The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmissions. After astronauts from earth venture to the planet, they find one - a female, who's mute. As they tran... Read allThe year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmissions. After astronauts from earth venture to the planet, they find one - a female, who's mute. As they transport her back to earth, one by one, the male crew members die. It's too late when they re... Read allThe year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmissions. After astronauts from earth venture to the planet, they find one - a female, who's mute. As they transport her back to earth, one by one, the male crew members die. It's too late when they realise she needs their blood to survive.
- Farraday's Aide
- (as Forrest Ackerman)
- Woman on alien planet
- (archive footage)
- Spaceship crew member
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Curtis Harrington
- Mikhail Karyukov(uncredited)
- Otar Koberidze(uncredited)
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- TriviaBasil Rathbone was paid $1,500 to act for a day and a half on this film and $1,500 for half a day on Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), another film that incorporated Russian film footage. Rathbone ended up working overtime and missed a meal. The Screen Actors Guild demanded overtime pay, plus a fine for the meal violation, but producer George Edwards produced footage that showed the delay was because Rathbone had not memorized all his lines and insisted on skipping lunch.
- GoofsThe 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: [disgusted] She's a monster.
- Crazy creditsIn the ending credits, the last character credited is "Florence Marly as ?"
- ConnectionsEdited from Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
It's a formula terror space film with tension , thrills , chills, including some elaborate scares , twists , and results to be entertaining enough . This nifty sci-fi/horror has a thrilling plot , if simple and ordinary , similar to subsequent Sci-Fi- movies , as alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit , a rescue team goes Mars and discover a strange extraterrestrial , but when one man is attacked and drained of his blood, the survivors are soon racing home , before they too become victim to the bloodsucker . At the beginning shows up some colorful paintings belonging to the artistry of John Douglas Cline, a popular artist in the 1960, forerunner of the Phoenix Art Group, and he founded the John Douglas Cline Gallery in Los Angeles. If you've ever seen the soviet film Niebo Zowiet don't be surprised if some scenes look familiar , the script was written around segments cut from that film . This was an ultra low budget production with decent special effects taken from two big budget Soviet productions , Encounter in space (1963), and Battle Beyond the Sun (1959), though Harrington estimated that most of the film was his. Producers Roger Corman and his brother Gene Corman made a similar operation, as economic as rip-off from a Russian film , with ¨Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet¨also starred by Basil Rathbone . And being released on a double-bill by AIP along with other B-Science Fiction pictures . Acceptable main and support cast , such as : the recently deceased John Saxon , the beautiful Judi Meredith , the great Sherlock's Basil Rathbone and the Czech actress Florence Marly as the beguiling green-skinned woman who was a personal friend of filmmaker Harrington. In the final shot, a cameo by Forrest J. Ackerman, at the time, Ackerman was the editor of the magazine "Famous Monsters¨. Queen of Blood has most often been compared to ¨Lifeforce¨ (1985) by Tobe Hooper and many films have received some inspiration from his feature ¨Queen of Blood¨, as the expensive ¨Alien¨ (1979) by Ridley Scott . Other movies that have been likened to Queen of Blood include ¨The Thing from Another World¨ (1951) by Christian Niby , ¨It! The Terror from Beyond Space¨(1958) by Edward L. Cahn , ¨Terrore nello spazio or Planet of vampires¨ (1965) by Mario Bava and other quickies or sequels as ¨Forbidden world¨(1981) by Allan Holzman or ¨Galaxy of Terror¨(1985) by Bruce Clark . The picture was regular but professionally directed by Curtis Harrington , and it was shot in seven to eight days . Harrington was a good craftsman in B-territory . In 1961 he made a strong and impressive feature-film debut with the nicely moody and quirky Night tide (1961) with Dennis Hooper. His follow-up features were a pleasingly diverse , idiosyncratic and often entertaining bunch , and included the delightfully campy Shelley Winters vehicles as Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) , What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) ,the perverse The Killing Kind (1973) and the immensely fun Ruby (1977). Moreover , Harrington directed a handful of solid and satisfying made-for-TV offerings: The cat (1973), Killer bees (1974), The Dead Don't Die (1975) and the terror animal Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) , as well as TV episodes from The Twilight Zone, The Colby , Dynasty , Wonder woman , Hotel , among others .
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- Flight to a Far Planet
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- $65,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1