The Angry Red Planet
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Movie Reviews of The Angry Red Planet
Movie Review: Scared the bejezuz out of me when I was a kid...
Summary: 3 Stars
...and I still look back on that with fondness. That giant rotating eye thing sent me scurrying for the covers! It may be tame by today's standards but it does evoke a time when you pretty much knew a monster when you saw one.Movie Review: Angry Red Planet: Reaction at the original premier
Summary: 2 Stars
Way back when, when exploitation flicks were really in full bloom, came "The Angry Red Planet" which was purported at the time to be filmed in a new film process, which turned out to be a red wash to make the cheap scenery and astoundingly dumb visual effects look like Mars.For the record, the film actually had a World Premiere at LA's former 4-Star Theatre, once located in the Miracle Mile District.
I was just a kid and the screening was not filled, although the stars of the film, namely Nora Hayden, Gerald Mohr and Jack Kruschen (who went on to be a major character actor) attended - so theatre mangement let me in to take a look. Without giving away too much, many shots were apparantly lifted from an old 3 Stooges short, the film reeked of cheapness, the music score was
appropriately schlocky, and it was a cheap shot from beginning to end, however, it was fun and worth seeing once..just to see the real low end of the genre.Worth seeing anyway.
Movie Review: Filmed over the weekend on some leftover sets?
Summary: 2 Stars
Watch the first seven or eight minutes of this movie carefully, and you'll see something interesting: only ONE scene (an exchange between a few characters in an "aerospace" office) was actually filmed for this movie, and the rest is all stock footage-- of aircraft, naval bases, radar equipment, etc. In other words, it's another quality production of American International Pictures! And that opening segment is only the beginning. Wait'll you see some of the more ambitious cost-saving measures later on. And I guess that's my point: if you go into this movie as a kind of "student of schlock", you might have some fun with it. But if you are looking for something truly involving or actually thought-provoking, take the advice of the (badly hand drawn) martian in the movie and "keep away and never return!"Movie Review: you have to be terribly bored to want to buy this
Summary: 1 Stars
Many things don't make sense in this movie. E.g.:there is gravity in space ship in space
"the air is so thin on mars to conduct sound", said one of the crew, yet they brought along a "sonic gun" as a principle weapon
one guy kept waving a pistol in the face of his fellow crew mates, but never aimed or fired it at the creatures
people who were infected were not quarantined
all the crew went outside together and no one is left to man the spaceship
the captain(? guy who waves the pistol around) said "let's stay close to each other" but yet a minute earlier they were shooting the breeze while a female crew were left alone to collect samples from moving plants
I guess it's ok to watch if you don't try to make sense of it.