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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.
Release : | 1968 |
Rating : | 2.9 |
Studio : | The Filmgroup, Roger Corman Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Mamie Van Doren Mary Marr Margot Hartman Georgiy Teykh Vladimir Yemelyanov |
Genre : | Adventure Science Fiction |
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
****SPOILERS**** Actually a composite of three different movies spanning almost ten years the film "Voage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" was famed film director Peter Bogdanovich's first film that he also narrated. It has to do with a manned mission to Venus that got stranded together with its US crew that crashed on it in the near future, some 30 years after the movie was made, in 1998. With a rescue crew of astronauts sent there on a rescue mission they run into a number of obstacles including this flying prehistoric reptile, Terah, who's considered by the local population, sexy and mostly blond well endowed young women, as a God.With the help of their all purpose robot, Robot John, the rescue crew finally track down the missing astronauts,Kern & Sherman, that planet Venus blows it's top. With Robot John after heroically rescuing the rescue crew, Andre Ferneau & Hans Walter, parishes in a lava flow from an erupting nearby volcano. As for the women lead by beach blond Moana they soon realize that their God Terah, who was killed by the earthling astronauts, was a false idol and destroy, by stoning it, the graven image that they constructed of it.Very confusing at times with all the added footage added on to it the film "Voage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" dose keep you entertained in how cheesy, especially in its special effects, it is as well as the skimpily clad women, lead by Mamie Van Doren, using sea shells as bras in it. There's also the annoying narration by Peter Bogdanovich who instead of making some sense of the story confuses it even more by not letting the actors in it speak their lines by over-talking them. It's also confusing when we see the spaceship that the US astronauts are traveling in having the Soviet Union Red Star painted on it in footage, inserted into it, from the 1962 Soviet sponsored movie Planeta Bur. P.S Re-released years later as "THe Gill Women".
I will not further detract from the content of film, as other reviewers here have done so more than adequately. There is nothing in this film to indicate that Bogdoanovich would someday produce anything worth watching. A word about the story: we're supposed to believe that prehistoric women were telepathic; clever trick avoid the actresses having to memorize or recite any lines.I will devote my further remarks to the recording and the DVD medium.My DVD says it is the output of Estree Hill Entertainment, copyright 2010 Penwick Group Ltd., serial no. 763799. B&W, English only, no subtitles, no special features, no trailers.My first criticism is the sound track: very poor. One channel only; mono I don't mind, but through both speakers, please. Moreover, there is incessant noise in the background: rushing waves, crashing breakers on the shore, roaring rocket engines, beeping- whizzing-whirring machinery, howling wind--it is nervy and often obscures the dialog. Subtitles would have helped.Second criticism: the source film was badly scratched and blistered, none of which was 'digitally remastered' (not that I would have expected anyone to go to the trouble). I have seen better- preserved films from the 1930s.Third, many of the spliced-in shots of the Venusian mermaids were over- or under-exposed. Amateurish is the word.Don't pay more than a buck for this at a rummage sale. Maybe it looks better after three joints.
A group of astronauts travel to Venus where they discover the existence of a primitive civilisation (led by 50s pin-up Mamie Van Doren) that consists solely of telepathic peroxide blondes wearing hipster pants and seashell bras.I watched Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women knowing absolutely nothing about its origins, and was more than a little surprised at just how disjointed and clumsy it all was, even for a low-budget 60s B-movie. Now that I've read all about the film's history—how director Peter Bogdanovich created this movie by editing new footage into an old Russian sci-fi flick called Planeta Bur—this film's erratic nature is far easier to understand.However, despite its distinct lack of coherence (Bogdanovich's sexy sea Venusians never actually cross paths with the astronauts), I still had a reasonable time watching this film—the spacecraft/space station effects were impressive given their vintage, the flying car was fun (a bit like Luke Skywalker's land-speeder, only much, much slower), John the impractical robot is a hoot, and there are quite a few equally silly alien creatures, including a carnivorous plant, a flying reptile, and some man-sized swamp dinosaurs. That said, given that virtually everything I liked came from the original Russian film, I cannot bring myself to rate Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women very highly.
Although Planet Of Prehistoric Women's mother film Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet had some interesting aspects to it, this one is a total dud. Unless of course all you want to see is Mamie Van Doren and those scantily clad Venusian babes. All of them Playboy playmates or could qualify for same.Honestly if the earth people knew what was on Venus, they'd be rushing pell mell to get to the shrouded second planet.This film is a re-edited version of the first film with some added footage of Mamie and her clan. It seems as though the earth astronauts have killed the flying reptile the Venusians worship as a god. Causing a theological revolution on the place.Unless you like Mamie and those twin weapons of mass destruction she sports, I'd pass this one up.