Queen of Blood
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Queen of Blood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curtis Harrington |
| script | Curtis Harrington |
| production | George Edwards , Samuel Z. Arkoff |
| music | Leonard Moran |
| camera | Vilis Lapenieks |
| cut | Leo H. Shreve |
| occupation | |
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Queen of Blood is an American science fiction B-movie from 1966 that is loosely based on an older Soviet film called Mechte Navstrechu (1963) by Mikhail Karzhukov and Otar Koberidze, and also uses some effect scenes from those films; Director Curtis Harrington later compared the film to Alien . The special colourfulness of the effects and John Cline's impressive and fantastic paintings under the opening titles are outstanding features of the film.
history
In 1990 mankind prepares for the first flights to Mars and Venus ; At the same time, you listen to space at the International Institute of Space Technology to answer the question of whether there are other intelligent creatures in the universe besides humans. Laura James, a communications specialist and astronaut, picks up signals that turn out to be a message from beyond the solar system: Alien beings announce a starship with an ambassador on board. But when entering the solar system problems arise; the starship of the extra-solar falls on Mars.
The Terran spaceship Oceano , with Laura and the astronauts Anders Brockman and Paul Grant, is to rush to the aid of the extra-solar. On Mars, however, they only find one dead astronaut in the strange starship. Institute director Faraday is certain that the rest of the crew landed on a rescue ship at another point on Mars. To put tracking satellites into orbit on Mars, Laura's fiancé Allan and his colleague Tony start in the spacecraft Meteor to the Martian moon Phobos, from where they launch the satellites; they discover the rescue ship on the moon with a still living but very weak extra solar on board. You bring the survivor to the Oceano .
The extra solar soon regains consciousness and shows the men of the expedition a friendly face, but rejects Laura; in addition, she refuses solid food and a blood sample. During the night she hypnotizes Paul and drinks his blood. After discovering the corpse of their comrade, the astronauts decide to keep the extra-solar cells alive with blood; they consider her too foreign to be able to make a moral judgment. On the way to earth the blood supplies are running low and the crew has to feed the creature with blood donations. Soon she kills Anders in the same way.
Allan and Laura tie the being, but with their hypnotic powers they can influence Allan; but while she drinks it she is surprised by Laura, who scratches her skin in the fight. It turns out that she is hemophilia: the attackers bleed to death from the minor wound.
On the approach to landing, Laura finds eggs laid by the dead queen in the spaceship; Allan wants to destroy them, but Laura points out the benefits to Terran science.
Trivia
The film is said to contain the last film role of the actor Basil Rathbone. The Rotten Tomatoes meta- review page shows an approval rating of 17% (2017). Despite the low budget, the film is sometimes praised for its idiosyncratic space-age scenes. Around the same time, a commissioned novel of the same name by Pulp author Charles Nuetzel with an identical story was published.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curtis Harrington's Memoirs. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
- ↑ ImDb entry. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
- ↑ https://horrorpedia.com/2013/04/17/queen-of-blood-1966-american-science-fiction-horror-movie-curtis-harrington-plot-reviews-buy/
- ^ Deborah Painter, "The Life of Forry," MacFarland Publications, 2008, p. 71: Deborah Painter: Forry. McFarland, 2010, ISBN 978-0-786-45798-4 , p. 75 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Queen of Blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)