Planet of the Vampires
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Mario Bava
Barry Sullivan
Norma Bengell
Angel Aranda
Evi Marandi
Fernando Villena
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Spaceships Argos and Galliot carry crews of explorer-scientists to Aura, a distant planet which transmits radio signals and has an oxygen atmosphere. As Capt. Mark Markary of the Argos lands his ship, the crew members go berserk and attack one another. Later, they find the wreckage of the Galliot with the mutilated bodies of its crew, who were apparently killed fighting among themselves. The crew of the Argos find no signs of life on Aura, but Professor Karan speculates that the planet is inhabited by invisible minds seeking to control the wills of the visitors. That night, the bodies of the Galliot 's crew are seen to move through the planet's eerie mists; and one by one Mark's crew are killed or disappear. Mark captures one of the missing crew members and discovers that his body is inhabited by a being from Aura, whose survivors hope to leave their dying planet in the visitors' spaceships. The survivors of the Argos foil the Aurans' attempt to disable their craft, and Mark escapes with his assistant, Sanya, and second-in-command, Wess. However, he perceives that his companions have been vampirized by the Aurans, who now prepare to land on an unknown planet--Earth. [Sources disagree on the precise ending of the film; according to some sources, Mark and Sanya escape unharmed.]
Director
Mario Bava
Cast
Barry Sullivan
Norma Bengell
Angel Aranda
Evi Marandi
Fernando Villena
Stelio Candelli
Massimo Righi
Mario Morales
Franco Andrei
Ivan Rassimov
Rico Boido
Alberto Cevenini
Crew
Mario Bava
Alberto Bevilacqua
Salvatore Billitteri
Callisto Cosulich
Antonio Gimeno
Giorgio Giovannini
Louis M. Heyward
Fulvio Lucisano
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.
Gabriele Mayer
Ib Melchior
Ib Melchior
Antonio Pérez Olea
Antonio Rinaldi
Antonio Román
Mario Ronchetti
Rafael J. Salvia
Mario Silvestri
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Trivia
This was the first film in which Mario Bava's son, Lamberto Bava, began his career as his father's assistant. Lamberto would latter become a director himself.
Notes
Opened in Rome in October 1965 as Terrore nello spazio; running time: ca100 min; in Madrid in April 1966 as Terror en el espacio; running time: 88 min. Also known as Planet of Blood. United States co-production status unconfirmed.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States Fall November 1965
Released in United States October 1999
Released in United States 1996 (Shown in Los Angeles (American Cinematheque) as part of program "The Haunted World of Mario Bava" July 26 - August 31, 1996.)
Released in United States October 1999 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Science Fiction Movie Marathon - Excerpts shown) October 21-29, 1999.)
Released in United States Fall November 1965
