Kodie Bird
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
shawnblackman
This sci-fi horror has a team on a mission to Mars. They find a ship with a green woman with white hair on board. They put her on their ship and head back home and soon find out what she needs to keep alive and what she plans on doing.The sets are cheap and the effects are bottom barrel but that doesn't matter. This one has a young John Saxon with more hair and a really young Dennis Hopper. These guys make the film worth watching. Cheesy but enjoyable. One thing I didn't get was how easy her skin could be cut but yet she could shoot a laser from her eyes to burn a rope around her wrist with no pain. Aliens are hard to figure out.
Scott LeBrun
"Queen of Blood", a.k.a. "Planet of Blood", is a reasonably enjoyable low budget science fiction picture, executive produced by Roger Corman, and written and directed by Curtis Harrington ("Night Tide", "The Killing Kind", "Ruby"), who uses a fair amount of footage from two big budget Soviet productions, "Mechte Navstrechu" and "Nebo Zovyot", and writes his own story around it.In 1990, mankind makes contact with aliens who crash land on one of Mars' moons. A sole survivor is brought on board the humans' spaceship, yet she's decidedly deadly: a seductive blood sucker with green skin, a nice tall head of hair, and frightening eyes and smile. Ever engaging John Saxon is young hero Allan Brenner, pretty Judi Meredith his love interest Laura James. Basil Rathbone, in one of his final movie roles, is great fun as the exuberant Dr. Farraday. Dennis Hopper, who'd acted for Harrington in "Night Tide", is well meaning astronaut Paul Grant. Robert Boon as Anders Brockman and Don Eitner as Tony Barrata offer fine support, with a small role for none other than Forrest J. Ackerman as Farraday's aide.While the movie is ultimately a little too slow and talky for its own good, Harrington and a capable crew give this amusing B picture a pretty good look, doing appreciable things in terms of colour. It gets off to a nice start, with the opening credits slowly playing out over paintings by John Cline, and accompanied by eerie stock music composed by Ronald Stein (who's billed as Leonard Morand).All things considered, there are some effectively creepy moments to appreciate in "Queen of Blood", especially in the second half. Among the crew are Stephanie Rothman, director of drive-in flicks like "The Velvet Vampire" and "Terminal Island", as the associate producer, and Gary Kurtz, future producer of "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back", as the production manager. Best of all is the performance of Czech born actress Florence Marly in the title role, who has an incredible presence and makes a Hell of an impact without having to utter a word. The ending is also an interesting combination of being both somewhat happy and yet full of doubt, with a wary attitude towards the ways of scientists. Fans of the genre should find this an acceptable diversion.Seven out of 10.
Arwen1957
I found this movie to be disturbingly good. I only saw it once but have never forgotten it. I enjoyed watch this movie build to it's obvious conclusion. For those who are not a part of the misguided in the name of knowledge movies. This movie may seem silly and pointless. But to those of us in that group the movie is a great way to remember all of those movies that were so bad that they are good. The costumes of the vampire alien are so campy that they have to be seen to be believed. And her hairstyle has to be seen just for the laughs it will bring. All in all one of those movie that should be seen just for the sake of camp.
Scarecrow-88
Cold, but intelligent sci-fi horror flick from director Curtis Harrington made on a shoe-string, using special effects from a foreign source to save money. Harrington depends on the scientific aspects of the story while keeping the look of the film(for the exception of the marvelous alien sets, closer to the decade's previous horde of sci-fi horror flicks keeping elements in tighter confinements meaning the ship in which a small crew(including John Saxon, Dennis Hopper, Judi Meredith & Robert Boon)have brought on board an alien queen vampire who uses a hypnotic ability to "freeze" men so that she can feast on their blood. Her people were supposed to come to earth as "greeters", but instead wind up on Mars' moon. Only the Queen survived. They do not know of her mental telekinetic powers and each fall prey to her. The ending is quite rewarding and inspired(..and influential)..it has an apocalyptic quality that feeds into how science can perhaps lead to total destruction of the human race. Can desiring to learn and study alien life outside our own lead to the threat of complete distinction? Such a powerful question from a low-budget, no-money sci-fi horror.
