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Summary: Oh yeah!
Review: Now, if you're in the mood for a great campy Sci Fi, you've found the right movie. This is exactly the thing midnight movies are made out of. Cheesy painted backgrounds, big rubbery monsters that can barely move. Excellent. Grab the popcorn and enjoy!!
Rating:
Summary: Oh yeah!
Review: Now, if you're in the mood for a great campy Sci Fi, you've found the right movie. This is exactly the thing midnight movies are made out of. Cheesy painted backgrounds, big rubbery monsters that can barely move. Excellent. Grab the popcorn and enjoy!!
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Summary: The Slightly Disgruntled Red Planet
Review: Sid Pink and American International Pictures produced it. Ib Melchior wrote it. It had a cast of virtual unknowns, and a gimmicky new photographic process called "Cinemagic" that was nothing more than solarizing the film with a red lens. It had a Paul Blaisdell-designed three-eyed, antennaed Martian, man-eating plants, a giant rat-bat-spider-thingey and an enormous protoplasmic Martian sea-amoeba with eyes that roll in opposite directions. And it played at the drive-ins...in 1959.Come on! What's not to love? This is easily one of the cheesiest movies ever made, and one of the most fun. PLOT?! What are you, some kind of purist? Okay, okay. The world's first quartet of astronauts to land on Mars - consisting of three older men and one knockout female redhead (it was 1959, remember?) - is overdue for return, and not answering our hails. The military brings it down by remote control, to find one astronaut missing, another dead, a third dying of some unknown alien gangrene, and the knockout redhead completely amnesiac. The mission tapes all appear to be wiped as clean as the redhead's mind. What happened? Only the redhead can tell them, who consents to undergo narcosynthesis to provide their answers. While on Mars, she and the other brave voyagers encountered all the various perils recounted in the first paragraph of this review - which we, the audience, get to relive in all the solarized red terror of...CINEMAGIC!!! Oh! I forgot the best part! The end credit music abruptly turns the eerie electronic synthesizer theme into a 1950's jazz number! Ya gotta hear it, to disbelieve it! Any questions? So, enjoy, already!
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Summary: The Slightly Disgruntled Red Planet
Review: Sid Pink and American International Pictures produced it. Ib Melchior wrote it. It had a cast of virtual unknowns, and a gimmicky new photographic process called "Cinemagic" that was nothing more than solarizing the film with a red lens. It had a Paul Blaisdell-designed three-eyed, antennaed Martian, man-eating plants, a giant rat-bat-spider-thingey and an enormous protoplasmic Martian sea-amoeba with eyes that roll in opposite directions. And it played at the drive-ins...in 1959. Come on! What's not to love? This is easily one of the cheesiest movies ever made, and one of the most fun. PLOT?! What are you, some kind of purist? Okay, okay. The world's first quartet of astronauts to land on Mars - consisting of three older men and one knockout female redhead (it was 1959, remember?) - is overdue for return, and not answering our hails. The military brings it down by remote control, to find one astronaut missing, another dead, a third dying of some unknown alien gangrene, and the knockout redhead completely amnesiac. The mission tapes all appear to be wiped as clean as the redhead's mind. What happened? Only the redhead can tell them, who consents to undergo narcosynthesis to provide their answers. While on Mars, she and the other brave voyagers encountered all the various perils recounted in the first paragraph of this review - which we, the audience, get to relive in all the solarized red terror of...CINEMAGIC!!! Oh! I forgot the best part! The end credit music abruptly turns the eerie electronic synthesizer theme into a 1950's jazz number! Ya gotta hear it, to disbelieve it! Any questions? So, enjoy, already!
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Summary: Pink's Red Planet
Review: Sid Pink's "Angry Red Planet" was a delight when it came out four decades ago and it's still great fun to watch. In a day when low-budget SF flicks were all in black and white, this ruby-hued gem was dazzling, filmed in "Cinemagic" - a kind of solarized and red-tinted film processing gimmick. So boost the color control on your TV to the max and get your retinas scorched the way audiences did in 1960. Sid Pink's pics tend to the bizarre - "Bwana Devil", "Reptilicus", "The Man From O.R.G.Y." and of course the camp Hans Conried classic "The Twonky" about an alien TV set that takes over a geek's household. This film is no exception. This time four astronauts land on Mars, only to find they are unwelcome. Armed only with a sonic ray gun named Cleopatra -- "because she's such a cool doll" -- our intrepid quartet must fight off a meat-eating plant with a yen for red-haired Irish-American exo-biologists, a 40-foot-tall bat-rat-spider drooling over a goateed, pipe-smoking professor, and a one-eyed blob the size of a mountain that wants to devour their spaceship with everybody in it. All the while they are ogled by three-eyed, two-horned Martians with an attitude problem. Hand-painted sets, puppet monsters, beatnik dialogue, nothing but red as far as the eye can see, and a jazz xylophone score - hey, daddy-oh, this is like coolsville.
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Summary: Pink's Red Planet
Review: Sid Pink's "Angry Red Planet" was a delight when it came out four decades ago and it's still great fun to watch. In a day when low-budget SF flicks were all in black and white, this ruby-hued gem was dazzling, filmed in "Cinemagic" - a kind of solarized and red-tinted film processing gimmick. So boost the color control on your TV to the max and get your retinas scorched the way audiences did in 1960. Sid Pink's pics tend to the bizarre - "Bwana Devil", "Reptilicus", "The Man From O.R.G.Y." and of course the camp Hans Conried classic "The Twonky" about an alien TV set that takes over a geek's household. This film is no exception. This time four astronauts land on Mars, only to find they are unwelcome. Armed only with a sonic ray gun named Cleopatra -- "because she's such a cool doll" -- our intrepid quartet must fight off a meat-eating plant with a yen for red-haired Irish-American exo-biologists, a 40-foot-tall bat-rat-spider drooling over a goateed, pipe-smoking professor, and a one-eyed blob the size of a mountain that wants to devour their spaceship with everybody in it. All the while they are ogled by three-eyed, two-horned Martians with an attitude problem. Hand-painted sets, puppet monsters, beatnik dialogue, nothing but red as far as the eye can see, and a jazz xylophone score - hey, daddy-oh, this is like coolsville.
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Summary: Terrible Effects But A Fun Film
Review: The film is easily one of the worst ever done as far as effects goes. The backdrops are easily painted sheets and you can see where the sheet meet the ground in the film. Plus a lot of the monsters show their strings as well; like the bat-rat-spider.
Although the film has major flaws effects wise, the story is entertaining and pretty neat. Even the concept of some of the alien life forms were neat despite their flaws.
The acting is pretty bad but does have good parts. A lot of you might be asking, well since you keep talking about the film's bad sides, why did you give it 5 stars then? I gave it 5 stars because it delivers what it was supposed to: entertainment. The film is worth the buy if you are a fan of these types of movies. In the end, an entertaining film.
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Summary: Somewhat better then average
Review: The film is noteable for it's red fliter photography, it makes everything on Mars look red/pink. The acting is somewhat better then average for a 1950's low budget film. The monsters are fake, but the film is actually kind of entertaining. It's about 84 minutes long. It was clearly done on a low budget of only a thosand dollars or so and was done in just a few weeks. But it is was it is.
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Summary: "0" stars really should be an option for reviews
Review: There are a lot of bad movies out there, especially in the science fiction category, and "Angry Red Planet" is one of them. The acting is awful, the script and story are just plain stupid and the "special effects" seem to consist of putting a red filter on the camera lens to simulate being on the surface of Mars. If you're a person who likes to laugh at poorly made and incredibly bad science fiction movies, then this movie is for you. It may not be as bad as "Plan Nine From Outerspace", but it's pretty close. "Angry Red Planet" is definately a movie to rent if you are planning on inviting a few friends over for a night of laughing at bad movies. Looked at from that point of view, the arguement could be made that this movie deserves 5 stars.
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Summary: classic
Review: This film has it all,mediocre special effects,sexist dialogue and stupid plot.Grab the popcorn!
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