Horror of the Blood Monsters Movie Review

John Carradine made a career out of being in bad movies, and this one competes as one of the worst. This is an editor's nightmare, made up of black & white film from a bizarre Filipino fantasy picture about battling tribes of mutants, spliced together and tinted. Added footage shows vampires attacking people, while Carradine spouts nonsense about the bloodsuckers being from outer space. Robert Dix and Vicki Volante lead an expedition to another world to track down the source of the vampire plague – or do they? There's so much mix-and-match editing, with plenty of “action” taking place off screen (while the on-screen imported antics remain unexplained), that it's difficult to tell whether this can actually be called a movie or not. A milestone in the audacious career of Al Adamson, who made a bundle from this assemblage of film stock by releasing it over and over under different titles, even touting the tinted scenes as a revolutionary new process. No doubt many of you caught a piece of this on late night TV, and woke up the next morning convinced you dreamed it all. AKA: Vampire Men of the Lost Planet; Horror Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet; Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet; Creatures of the Red Planet; Flesh Creatures of the Red Planet; The Flesh Creatures; Space Mission of the Lost Planet.

1970 (PG) 85m/C PH John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Jennifer Bishop, Joey Benson, Bruce Powers; D: Al Adamson; W: Sue McNair; C: William G. Troiano, William Zsigmond. VHS, Beta REP