Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Lack of good storyline.

As Good As It Gets

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Pure crap. Crap story, acting, dialogue, cinematography, music, sets, scenes, lighting, fx. Garbage all the way around! Stupid costumes. They spent most of the budget on cheap sets. Crappy non imaginative camera work. Crappy acting all the way. Dialogue was stupid.Apparently it inspired Alien. Alien is a crap movie too. Alien was better, but not much.Very slow movie. Nothing happens. How, when did the last two get infected? We are never told where these two ships are going to. The big reveal came around 1 hour mark, where the vampires needed new bodies. And at the end when the last two were revealed to be infected and that they had to land on earth. This movie is slow, and it sucked. They had a budget, and spent it on crappy props. Better to spend the money on a script, and if they didn't have it, then don't make the movie. Then if you're going to make a movie, get better sets, actors, dialogue, camera work, etc. At least if the story sucked, then we would have something decent to look at.One of the worst movies ever made. If you don't believe me, go see it. Then go read the reviews of people who liked it and give it so high marks. My rating is a 1. Failure!

10.000 years ago or 10.000 years to come , in a far future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the rare planet called Aura . As soon as the Galliot lands on the planet her team suddenly go berserk and attack each other . The mysterious happening occurs , but the crew (Angel Aranda , Norma Bengell, Fernando Villena , among others) commanded by Capt. Mark Markary (Barry Sullivan) soon discover the crashed Argos . After landing on a strange planet, the squad of explorers learns that her crew died fighting each other . Investigating further, the astronauts come to realize the existence of a race of bodiless aliens that seek to escape from their dying . The crew begin to turn on each other , swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants . Are they beings of the future or the past , these men who rule the Demon Planet? .Thrilling film based on a story titled "One Night of 21 Hours" by Renato Pestriniero with interesting screenplay by Rafael J Salvia and Antonio Roman , the latter a screen-player and filmmaker who co-directed with Mario Bava a Western titled Ringo of Nebraska . Director Mario Bava used the mirror-based Schufftan Process to combine live action with miniatures and thereby avoiding the costly matte/optical printing techniques . Bava used the mirror-based Schufftan Process to combine live action with miniatures and thereby avoiding the costly matte/optical printing techniques . Cinematographer Antonio Perez Olea along with uncredited cameraman Mario Bava bath the picture an incredible atmosphere is somehow both breathtaking and colorful and its groundbreaking imaginery is hypnotic , being filmed in Colorscope. The ingenious camera works and special effects trickery make up for budgetery insufficiency and the whole movie seems to be a nightmarish precursor to ¨Alien¨, ¨Event Horizon¨or ¨Pandorum¨ , though ¨It , the terror from beyond space¨ that bears remarkable resemblance was previously realized . Being a Spanish/Italian co-production , the film is plenty of Spanish/Italian actors such as Angel Aranda , Fernando Villena , The Brazilian Norma Bengell and Evi Marandi , Massimo Righi , Rick Boyd , Ivan Rassimov , among others . This is a good Sci-Fi that had more than 15 titles before it was decided to be Planet of the Vampires such as ¨Terrore Nello Spazio" , "The Demon Planet" or ¨Terror en Espacio¨. In 1965, American International Pictures distributed this film, dubbed in English and titled "Planet of the Vampires", on a double bill with ¨Die , monster , die.This was the film on which Mario Bava's son, Lamberto Bava, began his career as his father's assistant ; Lamberto would latter become a director himself , winning a successful career . The picture was compellingly directed Mario Bava . Mario was the main creator of Italian ¨Giallo¨ genre , Bava ("Blood and Black Lace", ¨House of exorcism¨ , Black Sabbath¨) along with Riccardo Freda (¨Secret of Dr. Hitchcock¨ , ¨Il Vampiri¨) are the fundamental representatives . In fact , both of whom collaborated deeply among them , as Bava finished two Fedra's films ¨Il Vampiri¨ and ¨Caltiki¨ . These Giallo movies are characterized by overblown use of color in shining red blood , usual zooms and utilization of images-shock ; in ¨Planet of Vampires¨ Bava also uses these elements . Rating : Good , this is one more imaginative Sci-Fi picture in which the camera stalks in sinister style throughout a story with magnificent visual skills , including some creepy scenes are worth the price of admission.

About the only problem I have with this movie is that the title is sort of deceptive. This film is not about vampires. Rather it's about two spaceships named "Argos" and "Galiant" which crash land on an alien planet and the crews find themselves being mentally and physically controlled by aliens. The fact that these aliens use dead bodies for their purposes might suggest a similarity to zombies but only very loosely in my view. Other than the misleading title, I thought this was a very fine science-fiction/horror film especially for the time period in which it was produced. While none of the actors really stood out, I thought the sets were pretty good and it didn't hurt to have two attractive actresses in Norma Bengell ("Sanya") and Eve Marandi ("Tiona") to provide visual imagery to an interesting plot. Again, for its time I thought this was a decent enough movie. Accordingly, I rate this movie as slightly above average.

I was a bit afraid to watch this flick from the sixties. I don't dig flicks from the fifties or sixties but what a relieve it was to see this one. It's directed by Mario Bava well known for so much horror flicks. But here he directed a science fiction. Science fiction in that era is mostly out dated to today's standards but this here keep me watching and finally I really enjoyed it. It's a good story and you never see the real monsters or vampires. To say vampires is maybe a bit exaggerated because you don't see any fangs. But it contains for the time being a lot of blood and is even for that time gory. One person do open his jacket to show his body being ripped apart by the alien creatures. And just have a close look towards the space costumes they were wearing. It was made in leather and you could easily see that the collars annoyed them. They can't turn their face properly so they have to act a bit wooden. Nice flick and surely a view worth if you are into science fiction or even horror.