Phonearl
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Fulke
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
O2D
This movie has it all. Terrible dialog, bad green screen, a person telling the story. Nothing original about the entire movie. I noticed that the characters are exactly the same as the Fantastic Four except they didn't get super powers. This movie does manage to have some bad edits that are funny. It's been a long time since I've seen something edited so poorly. The most interesting thing about this movie is that the monster from the cover of the Misfits record Walk Among Us is from it. It also had the best quote I have heard in awhile. The captain looks at the gauges and says " All the pins are glued to the top!". Classic stupidity. This is definitely worth watching once.
bheadher
Okay, so I'm old, so what, heh heh...you have to remember that scifi movies never had a big budget back then, so the FX and quality usually suffered for it. There are a couple superb classics that overcame this restriction, but Angry Red isn't one of them, and I knew that at 11 years old.Right from the start, the use of existing equipment made the movie clunky, the weird pink color of Mars is oogly of course, but as a kid who cared...it was the magic of space flight and visiting other planets that captured your heart. So you automatically allowed for the lousy filmography.Don't knock this one, it's well worth a late night viewing, with a big bowl of pop corn, heh heh...
Art Fern
----SPOILER IN REVIEW---- I have no desire to offend my fellow film-addicts but seriously, if I actually paid to see this film in a theater, I'd be miffed and ask for my money back. If I attended a Funtementalist church and they showed this feature, I would feel more comfortable. This is a mixture of The Bible with a little Sci-Fi tossed in. It doesn't take long to discover a very simplistic script with actors who are one sided and predictable. You have the science guy, the loving wife who has a religious God-loving core, and an evil, Satan-loving Nazi, with Ruskies from the USSR built in and a Bible quoting, Billy Graham clone as the US President. The basic premise is that God lives on Mars and he has begun replying to our science couple living in San Diego, who are trying to contact Mars, only WHOOPS it was the evil Nazi tricking all of us instead, including the Reds who toss out the Commies and replace them with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, but then WHOOPS AGAIN, it really was God in the first place. The worse and most farcical part is Peter Graves telling the Prez that we shouldn't release the first religious message cause it ain't science, while his wife says otherwise along with the Prez later making speeches in King James language. I want my 90 minutes back.
Woodyanders
The crew of an exploratory expedition to Mars must fight for their lives after they encounter various lethal alien lifeforms on the angry red planet. Director Ib Melchior, who also co-wrote the engrossing and imaginative script with Sid Pink, relates the entertaining story at a steady pace and treats the neat premise with admirable restraint and seriousness. The cast play their roles commendably straight, with nice work by Gerald Mohr as the amiable Col. Thomas O'Bannon, ravishing redhead Naura Hayden as the strong, smart, and resourceful Dr. Iris 'Irish' Ryan (this film scores extra points for not presenting Ryan as your usual demeaning shrieking helpless damsel in distress), Les Tremayne as the sage Prof. Theodore Gettell, and Jack Kruschen as the hearty and easygoing CWO Sam Jacobs. This movie further benefits from a nifty array of gnarly creatures: a deadly Venus Flytrap-type carnivorous plant, a briefly glimpsed three-eyed behemoth, a giant amoeba, and, best of all, the famous enormous bat-rat spider beast. Moreover, there's a real sincerity to the whole picture that's impossible to either dislike or resist. Both Stanley Cortez's vibrant color cinematography and Paul Dunlap's rousing score are up to par. A fun little film.
