Michael_Elliott Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970) BOMB (out of 4) Earth is being overtaken by vampire attacks so a group of astronauts travel to outer space to try and locate the source of this disease. They land on a strange planet and it doesn't take too long to locate the strange creatures. This Al Adamson disaster is also known as Vampire Men of the Lost Planet and Blood Creatures from the Prehistoric Planet but no matter what title you call this there's no denying that it's a major bomb. Apparently Adamson fell in love with a Philippines movie and bought the rights to it. The film was in B&W so drive-in owners didn't want it so Adamson shot some new footage with John Carradine and mixed the two together. The old film had tint thrown on it and this is what we see in "outer space". The film is just bad on so many levels that I couldn't even have a good time with it. The movie is slow beyond belief and there's not a single frame of the film that makes any sense. It's hard to judge the other movie being shown as there's so much editing between the two. Carradine pretty much phones his performance in from a chair so not even he can add anything positive. You know you're in trouble when not even Carradine can add a laugh or two.

Bill-166 This film atrocity must be seen to be believed. By comparison Plan 9 looks like Citizen Kane. Any movie that can combine vampires, space travel, lobster-men, bat-pygmies, snake-men, & cavemen into one utterly illogical, incomprehensible "plot" gets a special place in my bad movie lovin' heart to begin with. When compounded by adding tinted black & white stock footage as a plot device, a 50-cent plastic toy spaceship with a bic lighter for propulsion(I swear I'm not making this up), and a "Spectum Analyzer" that is clearly a caulk gun, it transcends the normally accepted standard of "so-bad-it's-good". The WORST of the worst.

w00f Huh?What?Vampire cavemen? Sex replaced by flashing multi-colored light bulbs? Guys in dinosaur suits? A film half made of stock footage?This isn't just bad, it's inexplicably bad. DO NOT WATCH THIS ALONE. Make sure to have a friend or two with whom you can swap wisecracks about this... this... HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS.The end of this movie has nothing to do with the beginning. The middle has nothing to do with the end or the beginning. Not only does this planet change colors, but apparently at least one woman on it manages to change races, switching periodically back and forth between Filipino and Caucasian.And remember, kids, the red radiation is the most dangerous to human life. Here, let me demonstrate with this spectrum gun.WHAT THE HELL??????

Bruce Cook Also released as: `Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet', `Horror Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet', `Space Mission of the Lost Planet', and `Vampire Men of the Lost Planet'.Al Adamson again proves that anything Edward D. Wood, Jr. could do badly by accident, Adamson could do worse on purpose! As with several other Adamson projects, this one started as a Filipino feature, from which Adamson clipped footage and then shot new footage to be added. John Carradine plays a scientist who traces a group of vampire killers on Earth to a previously unknown planet, where he and his crew have to fight vampire cavemen, snakemen, and other badly done makeup jobs from the cribbed Filipino footage.The original film was in black-and-white, but the new scenes were filmed in color. Was this a problem for Adamson? Of course not! Al just tinted the black-and-white scenes and then had his astronaut characters explain that the tint was a side effect of the planet's radiation (what else?)Also starring Vicki Volante and Robert Dix. A voice-over narration by Theodore Gottlieb tries in vain to bring it all together. When the film flopped at the box office, Adamson tried his patented re-title-and re-release method -- which never works. But it did give the public four more chances to unwittingly see his rotten movie.