Alien Blood

Starring:Rebecca Stirling, Tony Hunt, Penelope Dudley, Francesca Manning, Vanessa Stevens, Rob Campbell (II), Glyn Whiteside, Catherine Whitaker
Director: Jon Sorensen
Studio: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Product Type: DVD

Description

It is a voracious parasite from the dawn of creation, surviving centuries in search of the one thing it needs: To be born of a human. But when this cunning creature slithers inside a sexy circus performer (voluptuous French starlet Emmanuelle Escourrou), it demands gallons of fresh blood to grow stronger. Now this reluctantly expectant mommy and her chatty mutant fetus are off on a cross- country killing spree where pre-natal care means violent carnage, horny men make tasty meals, and the ultimate mother's milk is BABY BLOOD! Throw away those grainy bootlegs and get ready to feel this one kick: BABY BLOOD - also known as THE EVIL WITHIN - is now presented totally uncut and uncensored with all of its infamous womb-raiding, gore-spewing and flesh-baring beauty fully restored for the first time ever in America!

Customer Reviews:

Rental.......2007-04-22

"Baby Blood" starts out promising, reminding me somewhat of "Freaks" with its circus setting. It seems that some sort of parasitic creature has infected one of the circus animals. It eventually breaks out, invades a woman and then she goes on a killing spree to "feed" her host baby. There is a fair amount of blood spurting and nudity but not much else. The film depicts the communication between the woman and her parasitic invader and this voice over stuff never really works. It is basically a road trip story with the woman moving from place to place and then killing someone. One thing that I found amusing is that there is a lengthy period towards the end of the film where the woman is covered in blood. No one seems to really care or even ask if she is okay, they treat her requsts for a ride as if she looked otherwise normal. You would think that if someone walked up to you covered in blood you would at least take notice. Really not much in this film worth a purchase, no special features of note, rental only.

Retarded.......2007-03-30

***Warning*** Spoilers.

Baby Blood has a certain charm to it for sure. In reality it is on par
with other dark humored splatterfests like "Braindead aka:Dead Alive",
"Brain Damage" and even the "Basket Case" movies. The movie plods along
without really delving much into Yanka's (the main character)story much
other than that she is an abused woman living in a dominant man based
society.
The fun is where you can see her strong distaste for men and
how later she even revolts against mankind (men mainly and a few women
that get in the way for good measure!haha). She has enough of men
treating her badly and lashes out at them sexually and later with some
old fashioned cold blooded murder. Or is it? After all baby must get
blood to survive!
The film has it's very random moments of "what
the???" scenes but pretty much delivers in the splatter and nudity
departments making it silly, gory and fun pretty much. If you can't
laugh at a lot of it this isn't your film.... but the fun is the
connection between Yanka and the beast within her (Even the subtle hint
of her inner woman breaking out to wreak havoc on men as all men are
bad! Bad I tell you!).
The film really has its moments of brilliance for this type of film but the weakness is the ending. It basically makes NO sense and almost seems like they either forgot the ending when shooting or the editor was a little drunk when editing.
They are driving in a bus full of evil men and the creature starts to eat the bus driver's head while Yanka steers the bus (as she seemingly wants to live!) and well, the bus just explodes! NO reason just BOOM! Then you
get a POV shot of something rushing into the ocean. The end..... one of
the worst endings EVER. But in the end I guess you can't watch these
movies for sense and sensibility I suppose. It is what it is, French
Horror with Nudity, Gore and a retarded ending. I'd really give the
movie a higher rating but sadly the ending ruins the film and gets a
low score for me. The ending is just illogical. (Unless you're drunk I
suppose)

The Dvd looks superb! I've actually seen some people gripe that mid way the film has subtitles! LOL. This is funny because they must have missed the HUGE message at the beginning that states it is the full uncut film and parts were cut and in the original language and have subtitles. Uh HELLO PEOPLE?!?!?!

The sound isn't too shabby also! It's a fun film. Not the best dvd out there but still a fun gory, silly film.

I was surprised it was so good!.......2006-12-19

This is a very good movie. Well made,acted,directed. I didnt know what to expect.I bought a used vhs from amazon that was cheap in case I didn't like it. from the start it looked like it was going to be good and it was.

Keep on rockin' me baby!.......2003-07-31

I lived the first fourteen years of my life in Austria and so I was often present within European video stores. I picked this box up with a friend and marveled at the vile cover art(the version that I picked up, depicted the mother holding a monstrous baby drenched in gore) and new that we had found a winner for the night.
Baby Blood, as I knew it, was and still remains, one of the most facinatingly grotesque and visceral movies that I have ever seen. I found the idea to be truely terrifying (aliens meets rosemarys baby).
Finding an uncut version here in the states could prove to be somewhat of a challenge, however if you are a gorehound, I declare this struggle, highly worth your time and effort.
This is not your average splatter flick.

rosemary's baby iii.......2003-06-28

After the success of Rosemary's Baby, they decided to do a sequel involving the manhood of the baby, entitled Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby. It bombed so bad they had to do a third, where it shows the process of how the baby comes to be. The actual "baby" comes from hell and possesses the normal baby. This has to do with the daughter of Rosemary's Baby, for he was seduced by a woman named Yanka in the second one. By the way, I wonder if the baby thought it was from the ocean because of the salt water in the womb. All I know is that I own the Rosemary's Baby trilogy, and this is far superior to the awful second one. Highly recommended.

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An original creature...
best sci flick ever
Very strange
cheap (convincing) SFX, good acting and one hell of an ugly monster!
Not much to recommend it other than the monsters, but they're enough.

The Deadly Spawn
Starring: Charles George Hildebrandt , Tom DeFranco , Richard Lee Porter , Jean Tafler , and Karen Tighe
Director: Douglas McKeown
Manufacturer: Synapse Films
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0002Z0F12
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Description

A group of campers stumble upon the remnants of a meteorite and discover some fanged, worm-like creatures have hitched a ride to Earth. After the "camper" appetizer, the alien spawn take refuge in the basement of an isolated house… and get ready for the main course! With the people in the house now becoming the entrees of an intergalactic monster buffet, a group of teenagers, led by a small boy, decide to take this matter into their own hands… to stop the aliens from reproducing and rid the world of THE DEADLY SPAWN once and for all!

Featuring classic creature designs and gory special effects by John Dods (THE X-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE, SPOOKIES, "MONSTERS" TV Series), THE DEADLY SPAWN has been totally re-mastered from the original 16mm camera negatives. With extra materials compiled from the personal collections of the cast and crew, THE DEADLY SPAWN can finally invade your home theatre in the best version ever! Just try not to put this DVD in the basement… you might be surprised what you find down there.

SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
- New, Digitally Mastered Windowboxed Transfer in the Original Filmed Aspect Ratio of 1.33:1
- Two Audio Commentaries
- Extensive Still Galleries of Behind-the-Scenes Photos, Make-Up Effects, and the Premiere in New York City
- A Comic-Style Prequel with Its Own Musical Score
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Alternate Opening Sequence with New Effects and Credits
- Animated Menus
- Outtake Reel
- Cast and Crew Biographies

Customer Reviews:

An original creature..........2007-02-02

This is truly on of the most original sci-fi creatures I have ever seen. The movie is about a meteor that crashes on earth. Some people discover it and in it is a living creature. The creature begins to multiply in numbers and size upon eating its favorite meal--humans. Very cool little flick with plenty of gore, interesting story, excellent creatures. Check it out, it is a worthy addition to your sci-fi/horror library. I don't want to ruin anymore of the story so go on and get it...you will not regret it.

best sci flick ever.......2007-01-20

Awesome effects, creepy aliens, loads of gore, awesome story. What more do you want in an Alien horror movie. One of my favorites of all time!! Im not going to ruin any of the movie so thats all I will say, see it!

Very strange.......2006-12-27

I've just watched this movie and to be honest, I don't know what to make of it. It's very weird, even by the standards of things I usually watch. Still, I didn't fell like it was a waste of time and I was in a bad mood to begin with, so taking that into consideration, overall I think I should give it a positive score.

Anyway, the movie mostly takes place inside of a house. It has more preliminary victims than most horror movies before they introduce the main cast. The house is invaded by fish/tadpole-like aliens, and a larger alien that has three mouths and two very frail limbs, but somehow manages to break down doors.

Damn, I've been staring at the screen for a few minutes now, and I don't really know what else to say. I guess that's it.

cheap (convincing) SFX, good acting and one hell of an ugly monster!.......2006-11-06

Let me start by saying that this movie has been through one hell of a history, along with Last House on Dead End Street (even less budget, around 800-3000). Douglas Mckeown was smart enough to direct a movie with a few close friends and it became a HUGE hit after 23 years!. The characters live out their normal lives when the ultimate alien is living in their basement, unaware that they're being devoured one by one. Pete is the science geek, Ellen is the love interest (Hint: noone is safe!), Frankie is Pete's best friend, not very good on science, Kathy is a friend of theirs (famous line of the movie is said by her) and Charles, the horror fan. The main title music always gets my spine tingling, it's very chilling for a horror movie (Another Hint: Hollywood don't know how to make great composers). The reason why this movie is successful being a cult hit is because you can believe the situation they're in, they don't know anything about it until the last 25 minutes. It was only shot on 20,000 budget and the special effects are amazing (that's what all the money went to!) Heads dropping off, little Spawns swimming (they have their own personality, subtle hint), faces being ripped off and that's just the tip of the iceberg on the effects used. So, if you want some cheap entertainment thatwill give you the creeps, go for this title, you'll not be disappointed.

Rated R18+ for Aussies for Violence, Gore, Nudity and Coarse Language

Not much to recommend it other than the monsters, but they're enough........2006-04-19

Not much to say here. Yes, this is a very low-budget film, even by low-budget standards. Though this does hurt the film technically, the bigger concern comes in terms of the action i.e. it's a helluva a lot cheaper and faster to just shoot people standing around and talking than actually having anything happen. The performances are amateurish, but likable enough for the material, but there just isn't anything there. As usual, I never got terribly bored of the filler, but I got a bit antsy for sure, and in the end there just isn't as much alien action as their should be. Still, what there is makes it all worth it. The head alien-beast is pretty damn cool, I must admit. A much classier design than I'd have expected for a film this cheap. And the little baby eel spawn things, well they're just adorable. I don't often use that word, but it's the only one that'll do. The film is indeed quite gruesome, and though the execution is lacking, they make up for it in heart and volume. But again, all the standing around and talking and lame AP Biology speak is fairly pointless, but it's worth the wait.

Worth a rental, anyway.

Grade: C+

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"I'm telling you, it's getting so a fella can't get away from the G*****n sickies no more."
I got a beast in my belly...pass the Pepto-Bismol...
Cheesy, oh so cheesy!
parasite
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Parasite
Starring: Robert Glaudini , Demi Moore , Luca Bercovici , James Davidson (II) , and Al Fann
Director: Charles Band
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
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"I'm telling you, it's getting so a fella can't get away from the G*****n sickies no more.".......2005-11-20

Last night I had the horrible misfortune to see the 1982 snoozer PARASITE starring the husky voiced Demi Moore versus a slimy otter-sized worm thing that's running around her small desert town occasionally biting people. Imagine how exciting this story could have been...now replace all the exciting parts with boring parts and you still have a story better than the one presented here.

Let the misery end with me, I've thrown myself to the mercy of the bad movie gods (and lost) so please don't let my sacrifice be in vain - stay away from this movie.

D: Charles Band (THE CREEPS, THE ALCHEMIST)

Dr. Paul Dean - Robert Glaudini (CUTTING CLASS, THE ALCHEMIST)
Patricia Welles - Demi Moore (BLAME IT ON RIO, STRIPTEASE)
Ricus - Luca Bercovici (FRIGHTMARE, SCANNER COP)

I got a beast in my belly...pass the Pepto-Bismol..........2005-09-23

I knew I was in trouble last night shortly after the credits began rolling for the film Parasite (1982) as the name Charles Band came up, not only as producer, but also as the director. If you're not familiar with the name, know that he's the man behind such cinematic atrocities like Laserblast (1978), The Day Time Ended (1980), Robot Holocaust (1986), and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)...that's not to say every one of his cinematic ventures stink on ice, as when you churn out as many crummy films as he does, you're bound to get lucky once in awhile...but that's not the case here. Starring in the film is Robert `Who?' Glaudini (Wavelength, The Alchemist) and a young Demi `It's pronounced dem-EE, you fool' Moore (St. Elmo's Fire, One Crazy Summer, G.I. Jane), in her first starring role (her first actual role was in a 1981 made for TV feature titled Choices). Also appearing is Luca Bercovici (Rockula, Scanner Cop), Al Fann (Curse II: The Bite), one time member of the jailbait girl band The Runaways turned actress Cherie Currie (Foxes, Twilight Zone: The Movie), Tom Villard (One Crazy Summer, Heartbreak Ridge), Miss Vivian Blaine (Guys and Dolls), James Davidson (The Mechanic), and B movie favorite Cheryl `Rainbeaux' Smith (Caged Heat, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Vice Squad), in a minor, but certainly revealing role...

After a really awkward opening sequence, one that, I think, tried to set up how a scientist named Paul Dean (Glaudini) accidentally infected himself with a parasitic organism and escaped from a secure facility, we see him driving around in a van, stopping at an abandoned work camp, encountered some violent, mutated types. He manages to fight them off (in a slow motion fight sequence) and then leave, making me wonder what the hell was the point of the past ten minutes of footage...now is probably a good time to mention the story is supposed to take place after some sort of apocalyptic, nuclear event, and atomic fallout has ravaged the major cities. Anyway, Dean boogies on down the road and eventually arrives at a small town, rents a room in a flophouse run by an old woman named Maggie (Blaine), who informs Dean that, while she doesn't clean up the rooms, she would participate in helping to mess them up, if you know what I mean...file this under `things that make you go blecch'. All right, so here's the deal...Dean created these parasitic organisms for some mysterious corporation/gooberment agency (Why? Who knows? It's never explained), realized the dangers, destroyed the all the creatures but two, one of which is in a silver container he has with him, and the other actually inside his belly. Now he's trying desperately to figure out how to kill them before it's too late, as the more they eat, the bigger they get, and then the hungrier they become...some local punks, led by a dink named Ricus (Bercovici), cause trouble and steal the container housing the specimen, which they let loose upon opening (they thought valuable goodies be inside)...Paul finds refuge with the local goodie goodie named Patricia (Moore) who helps him for no good reason, but may regret her assistance as Paul is being pursued by a ruthless corporate agent named Wolf, who drives a sweet, black Lamborghini Countach (complete with flip up doors), carries a wicked laser wand, and is intent on recovery what was stolen, no matter the cost...

Was Parasite, touted as "The First Futuristic Monster Movie in 3-D", the beginning of the short lived 3-D fad of the early 80s, one that brought us such craptastic features like Jaws 3-D (1983), Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982), Amityville 3-D (1983), and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)? Most likely...actually, the film did pretty well, costing well under half a million and raking in around seven million, probably mostly due to the novelty of the stereoscopic aspect (it sure wasn't the stellar story or amazing performances that drew audiences). Sadly, that element didn't carry over onto the DVD release, so what we're left with are a lot of scenes where things are flying towards the camera for no apparent reason. The story is fairly haphazard, and limps along hobbled by unnecessary plot points, like the bit about those populating the story are the remnants of post apocalyptic event. The only good reason I could discern for the inclusion of this was it being a way to explain why there are so few actual people in the film, which, in reality, was probably due to a limited budget. Ultimately it could have been left out (along with a number of other things), and the story would have been just as good (good, in this case meaning rotten). I'm unsure what prompted those involved to cast Robert Glaudini as the lead, as he was hardly hero material, feeling like secondary character at best here, one who would be killed off well before the movie ended. Overall the acting is pretty crummy, but this is more due to deficiencies within the script rather than poor performers, in my opinion. In one scene where Patricia rescues Dean, she's trying to get him to talk, but he's tight lipped, and she issues the following bit of nonsense..."You don't talk much. Maybe a little rattlesnake tea will loosen your tongue a little." Who in the world talks like that? It's not an overly awkward bit of dialogue, but just enough to create a niggling sense of annoyance of having to listen to it...and the film is littered with clunky stuff like this...and get this, the movie had three, count `em, three writers. I did like the make-up effects featured on the people eventually consumed by the parasite, as it was somewhat gruesome, but the parasites themselves, created by Stan Winston, looked odd, like slimy, wriggling, pulsating ten-pound sacks of mud with huge mouths and lots of razor sharp teeth. We actually don't see a whole lot of them, but when we do, the sequences are memorable and even gory. I think my favorite bit happened after the gang of youths stole the container Dean was keep the specimen in, thinking it stored something of value, and the one punk opens it up to see what's inside. Now, any normal person would have probably dumped the contents out on the floor, but this genius sticks his hand inside the darkness of the container and sez "There's something wet in here." As you can imagine, he gets what he deserves...all in all I think this could have been a better feature, had it not been hamstrung with such poor writing, which is a lot more noticeable sans the 3-D effects of the original release.

Anchor Bay Entertainment provides a decent wide screen (the aspect ratio is listed as 2.00:1 on the DVD case), enhanced for 16X9 TVs, picture on this DVD, but since the film was originally presented in 3-D, there's a noticeable grainy quality through while watching the movie in regular old 2-D, which bothered me a little at first, until I got used to it...as far as the audio, there's two options one being Dolby Surround 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0. Special features include a theatrical trailer, touting the movie's amazing stereoscopic process, along with interesting liner notes by Fangoria writer Michael Gingold, and a 5X7 reproduction of original poster art, both contained on a DVD insert.

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By the way, if you're interested in buying this DVD, I'd suggest doing what I did and buying the Anchor Bay DVD Fright Pack: Man's Worst Friends, which features six films including Parasite (1982), Lucio Fulci's The Black Cat (1989), Slugs: The Movie (1988), Bruno Mattei's Rats: Night of Terror (1984), Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978), and Dario Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971). It's available here on the Amazon website, at a really good price, and cheaper than buying the individual releases.

Cheesy, oh so cheesy!.......2004-01-08

You would think Demi Moore's first film, the aptly titled "Parasite," would attract more attention from moviegoers. Actually, I accidentally saw a few minutes of Moore on one of those late night talk shows recently and the host "surprised" her with about thirty seconds of cheesy footage from this 1982 film. The actress took it all in good stride, giggling and squirming over her histrionic performance in the film. After having seen "Parasite" in its entirety, I would have to say Moore is one of the bright spots in the movie, a painful admission for me considering my dislike for most of this actress's work. What can you expect from a Charles Band film, though? Yep, the producer of such shlocky pap as "Laserblast," "Puppet Master," and "Blood Dolls" is the driving force behind "Parasite." As serious horror fans know, Band worked under the Empire Pictures label before starting Full Moon Productions several years later. Low budget cheese lovers have learned to adore many of Band's inept pictures; but then again, how can you ignore a guy who consistently used puppets, dolls, or midgets in his films. Band has some sort of fixation for miniatures, a mania put to good use here with the cheesy looking parasite thingies.

Set in the future world of 1992, "Parasite" tells the story of the hapless Doctor Paul Dean. Dean worked for the merchants, or minions of ruthless corporations whose goal is to turn the population of the United States into slaves. The doctor, who wrote a book on parasites, created a vicious type of organism for the merchants. Why? Who knows, but in the course of his work Dean becomes infected with one of these grotesque organisms and runs away from the merchants in order to seek a cure before it kills him. He heads to the small town of Joshua, located out in the desert, where he runs into a gang of miscreants led by an escaped merchant slave, an elderly hotel owner with a penchant for pancake makeup and huge wigs, a cranky gas station owner, a restaurant proprietor with a huge scar on his face, and Demi Moore. Moore, who of course will become the heroine of the film, grows lemons on a little farm outside of town. No one in town is particularly friendly to outsiders, especially one in as shaky and sweaty of a condition as the shambling Dean. The doctor knows he must work quickly if he is to kill the parasite before the merchants locate him and bring him back to the city.

But wouldn't you know it? Dean keeps another parasite in a metal container that the town thugs promptly steal and release with disastrous consequences. The parasite is a nasty looking creature, long and rubbery with huge teeth. The creature attaches itself to a person and proceeds to feed upon the victim until they turn into a shriveled up husk and die. Fortunately for Dean, the one residing in his abdomen is in hibernation due to periodic injections of some strange fluid. The doctor is the fortunate one since those unlucky enough to encounter the other parasite die in extraordinarily gruesome ways. Think John Hurt in "Alien," with the creature bursting out of stomachs and faces with the concomitant spray of saucy effects. The gore, more than any other element of "Parasite," helps move the film along.

We never learn just what went on in the outside world to bring about such an unfortunate series of events. One of the characters mentions in passing that he left New York City when the atomic debris raining out of the sky began killing people. We also notice that gasoline costs roughly fifty dollars a gallon, silver rather than paper currency is the only acceptable mode of exchange, and merchants carry around some cheesy looking laser wand that can cut off people's hands with seeming ease. Merchants also drive really nice Ferrari type cars with nifty doors that open upwards rather than outwards. It figures the corporate types would get all the perks in the future. The merchant who comes for Dean is a rough sort, a guy clad in a three piece suit who thinks little of slapping poor Demi around in order to get information. We learn from Dean that this is the guy who acted as liaison between the corporations and the government in the parasite program. The summary of the film sounds impressive, but almost nothing seems to happen in this movie. I had little idea what was going on until roughly forty-five minutes into the picture.

I kept thinking about Band's film "Laserblast" as I watched "Parasite." The two films share similar locales, both have a mysterious figure showing up and asking a lot of questions (the merchant here and a government agent in "Laserblast"), and both have some nice slow motion violence. In "Laserblast," we saw a lot of hilarious car explosions and fires from numerous camera angles. Regrettably, we don't see nearly enough of this type of action in "Parasite." Granted, we do get a funny slow motion fistfight scene in the beginning, along with a guy on fire towards the end, but no cars blow up here (probably due to a sluggish car market caused by the apocalypse). One thing we do get from this film is much better performances from the cast. All the actors do an acceptable, if occasionally goofy, job playing their parts. Moore stands out, not surprisingly, and even strikes a pose eerily reminiscent of her teary scene at the end of "Ghost" eight years later. "Parasite" is a worthwhile film for cheese lovers, although Moore fans might wish to avoid it and watch instead some of her (supposedly) worthier projects.

parasite.......1999-11-23

Parasite is an awsome movie with one of the very best "face explosion" scenes ever. this movie doesn't drag and is a definite "sleeper" cult movie. plenty of gore and supprise as the monsters change as they grow leaving the viewer in the dark as to what's going to happen next. I wish they'd put this out on vhs.

flat and cropped presentation of widescreen 3-D movie.......1999-10-30

This was released to theatres in 1982 in full color polarized 3-D and widescreen (using the clear grey glasses) and on a low budget level was kind of fun. It is interesting today as it was Demi Moore's first film. I bet she leaves it off her resume these days. This DVD is presented flat and the widescreen image is cropped to fit the TV screen. I think they should have released it letterboxed at least. The 3-D is the main reason to watch the film anyway, so this DVD isn't really worth owning in my opinion. Better to search out the 3-D widescreen tapes that are out there (unofficially?)

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A few bits of goodness, but my finger was mostly on the FF button
GOTTA LOVE THE ASTROZOMBIES
an endearing guilty pleasure
B-movie commits cardinal sin....
Saw it when I was 6 or 7

Astro-Zombies
Starring: Wendell Corey , Tom Pace , John Carradine , Joan Patrick , and Tura Satana
Director: Ted V. Mikels
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B000051S7M
Release Date: 2000-12-26

Description

Finally, the film that has it all! A mad astro-scientist ("B" horror king John Carradine) reviving corpses at his laboratory in a secluded mansion, two gore-crazed, solar-powered killer robot zombies, a bloody trail of girl-next-door victims, Chinese communist spies and deadly Mexican secret agents led by the insanely voluptuous Tura Satana (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and intrepid CIA agent Wendell Corey hot on their trail and trying to figure it all out! Almost too much for one movie; must be seen to be believed! A high-powered fusion of Ed Wood, Russ Meyer and George Romero! Co-written and co-produced by television star Wayne Rogers (M*A*S*H).

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A few bits of goodness, but my finger was mostly on the FF button.......2007-04-02

I am continuing my mission to review every movie with the word "zombie" or "dead" in the title. I'm on the fence when it comes to "Astro Zombies". It's barely a good "bad movie"; and comes quite close to crossing the line into being a bad "bad movie".

First, and most important, what strain of Zombie are these Astro Zombies? These are the solar powered, plastic "space man" masked, stabbing and killing variety of zombie. There are no flesh-eaters here, but these zombies are so unique that they are almost endearing. Especially when one has to run around holding a flashlight to his solar panel, so he may ambulate at night when his power reserves are low. The zombies get a 6/10 for uniqueness.

The gore is barely existent. A few splashes of red here and there, and some jiggling hearts and brains in jars. Gore score: 1/10.

Speaking of jiggling, the gratuitous sexism and nudity is low on the scale as well. The zombies "happen" to rip open their victims' shirts while stabbing them, but it's so poorly shot that it doesn't really matter. There is one naked dancing girl, who is painted head to toe, and another young lady strapped to a torture table (for no reason what so ever). Once again, these scenes are poorly shot/lit/edited. Late 60's jiggly score of 3/10.

Unfortunately, the zombies in this movie are barely in this picture. Most of the film is taken up by John Carradine using a screwdriver. Or John Carradine flipping a switch. Or John Carradine telling his hunchback assistant about how he is going to flip a switch. Or the hunchback giving the camera a creepy look. Or federal agents talking in a room about John Carradine flipping a switch. After a while I found myself fast-forwarding lengthy sections of this movie. Boredom scale (0 being boring, 10 being Dawn of the Dead) 3/10.

Cheesy dialogue. A good "bad movie" will have a wealth of terrible one-liners and pseudo science. A bad "bad movie" will have dialogue too bad to make fun of, and acting worse than a 70's soft-core porn movie. I did enjoy the cheesy dialogue in this film. The best source of laughable lines came from Tura Satana, who was so cool and cruel that she almost seemed out of place in this film. Her bad acting was far better than everyone else's terrible acting. I give Astro Zombies a delicious cheesy dialogue score of 7/10.

Overall, I can't recommend this movie to fans of Zombie films. It is o.k. if you have a fascination with bad movies, though. Try to rent it, or pick it up used for under five dollars, if you are curious.

GOTTA LOVE THE ASTROZOMBIES.......2004-12-10

WONDERFUL B MOVIE MAYHEM. LOVED THE SPY STUFF, CARRADINE'S PSEUDO-SCIENCE, THE GREAT WIND-UP ROBOTS AND TANKS OPENING SEQUENCE,THE ASTOZOMBIES...HELL I DUG IT ALL! NOT GREAT ART (WHO EXPECTED IT TO BE?) BUT IT IS GREAT FUN!

an endearing guilty pleasure.......2004-09-15

I have a lot of affection for this film. I first learned about it from the Misfit's song Astrozombies and then I stumbled across Mark Of The Astrozombies (the sequel to this movie) on video. I was astounded! I then tracked down the original on DVD and it was love at first sight. I loved the great DVD cover featuring an Astrozombie attacking a beautiful female and those great cheesy blurbs like "See: Astro Space Laboratory"! Great stuff! I put this disc into my DVD player, hit play, and I had a blast! It's been magic ever since. Folks this infamous bad movie has become like a beloved retarded relative to me. Sure it's slow in spots (it would have played better if it were only a little more than an hour long so keep your finger on the fast-forward button) but it's got plenty of entertaining moments that I adore. Truly a gulity pleasure. The sequel is something else too. Wait 'til you see the living severed head of John Carradine in that one! Mark Of The Astrozombies is a fine follow-up and an even more enjoyable gulity pleasure. Ted V. Mikels has gotten better with age! THANKS TED!

B-movie commits cardinal sin...........2004-08-22

Unlike other truly horrible B-movies, like lets say Ed Wood's movies, this movie lacks the entertainment factor and becomes bogged down in numerous sub-plots and intricacies. Over all the movie is pretty boring.
Everybody is trying to get their hands on the "Astro-Man" who is sometimes referred to as an "Astro-Zombie." The Chinese spy, Satana, who never actually identifies herself as from that country, desperately wants to deliver the all-obeying "Astro-Man" to her government. The authorities and the mad scientist's former partner also are looking for the "Astro-Man" who was stupidly ressurected from a psychopath's brain and is now on a murderous rampage through town, killing off young gals.
The movie is flawed in almost every way. Many scenes are dragged on for much too long, especially in the labortories. The mad scientist talks to his wannabe Igor in B.S scientific lingo for a good chunk of the movie. If it made sense then it might have then made a valuable addition to the movie unfortunatelyu it does not and is as I earlier said B.S. The director decided to plop down numerous scens like this throughout the movie. Also it was never explained how the authorities came to the conclsion that a zombie was killing people. They tried to somehow make sense of it and they were not able to. Yes, I know this is a B-movie, it isn't supposed to make sense.
However the most egregious flaw in this movie is also what makes this a sub-par B-movie is that the zombies were only in the movie for about 5 minutes. The first zombie was exposed to us in the first 5 minutes then dissappeared for about half an hour. Instead the movie focused more on the ridiculous and boring sub-plot of spies and police officers which was neither funny nor scary nor anything that should be in a 'quality' B-movie. When we finally get some zombie action by the end on the movie we are already bored out of our minds and then dissapointed that that action oly lasts for less than 5 minutes.
The movie fails as a good movie but more importantly it fails as a B-movie as it is boring and overall not funny. I would recommend a little bit of use of the fast forward button if I were you.

Saw it when I was 6 or 7.......2004-03-16

I just wanted to chime in that I saw this movie at either the theatre or the drive-in when it came out. I was born in 1963 so do the math! I hesitate to buy the dvd since I know a contemporary viewing will surely pale to the effect it had on me as a kid. I thought it was a hoot at the time and always had fond memories about it. I'm glad my parents were liberal enough to allow me to become such a demented little cuss at such a young age. Thanks mom and dad!

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A beast, but not at night, and hardly any blood
Good outside of the lame monster....
The Moral? Never Eat Sea Monkeys.
Night of the Bargain Basement Beast
Very Little Blood Here...

Night of the Blood Beast
Starring: John Baer , Angela Greene , Ed Nelson , Georgianna Carter , and Michael Emmet
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
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A beast, but not at night, and hardly any blood.......2006-03-27

The one time I spit pop out of my nose was when the beast, who had spent the entire film shambling around, suddenly turns broad-jumper and makes a tremendous leap into the woods. After that, he (she?) goes back to shambling around. I'm suprised the poor thing even wanted to come to Earth, considering all the people it encountered were trying to kill it with incomprehensible psuedo-scientific dialogue, not to mention flare guns. All in all, though, this really isn't a bad film, although the monster really looks, as other reviewers have mentioned, like a gigantic paper-mache' puffin. Then there's the cute little Sea Monkey thing with the astronaut, who no one knows if he's dead or alive, including the astronaut himself. The ending is rather inconclusive -- you really don't know if it's a Bad Monster or not. Certainly not a great film, or even a good one...but it's _almost_ a good one. Don't miss the claws on the monster. How did he (she?) operate a spaceship with those things, anyway?

Good outside of the lame monster...........2005-04-12

Not bad at all!! This flick is everything I look for in a 50's sci-fi except for the homemade looking monster. Other than this paper-mache looking parrot from outer space, the direction, camera work, acting, and story were all first rate.

For the price you it can't be beat. Make sure you get the Alpha version with the red cover. The transfer and sound are far superior to the previous release of this film.

The Moral? Never Eat Sea Monkeys........2004-05-20

This sublime little gem from the one and only Roger Corman is a fun and cheesy way to spend 62 minutes of your life. After being launched into space via the magic of some of the lamest animation you will ever see, pilot John Corcoran loses control of his spacecraft and plummets to earth. For crashing at such high speed the spaceship is in remarkably good shape. NASA dispatches their one Jeep to the crash site and arrives within minutes. (Note: it is inadvisable to smoke cigarettes at an aircraft accident site.) John has one cut, but is dead, (evidently) although there is a lot of medical doubletalk about his skin color, so they whisk him to the base in the official NASA flatbed truck for examination.

Once back at the base John comes back to life with no warning. They draw a blood sample and see a hysterical piece of animation of one cell, oh sorry, 'alien amorphic cell structure', gobbling up another in the microscope. They decide they best put John in front of a fluoroscope to look inside him, and, (oh the humanity!) he is revealed to be teeming with what appear to be Sea Monkey embryos. John rapidly realizes that the thing that has been terrorizing the base since the crash is a Blood Beast from a different planet, and he is carrying its spawn. Surprisingly, he ends up leading the pro-monster lobby, and decides to reason with the Blood Beast. We actually get to see the felonious (murder and kidnapping) Blood Beast quite a bit (and his amusing shadow a couple of times, too.) It is normally good to get a lot of screen time for the monster in one of these movies, but here, I am not so sure it was that great of an idea, especially in daylight: the Blood Beast looks like a cross between something from 'Sigmund and the Sea Monsters' and a giant puffin with beak, claws, zipper, and very bad complexion. In short, the Blood Beast is a little less than horrifying. Ultimately the movie evokes a bit of 'It Conquered the World' or 'Zontar, the Thing From Venus' in the dramatic ending.

Throughout the movie there is dreadful acting (especially the women, for some reason), and great gothic music, which has been recycled from earlier Corman films. This movie was given the MST3K treatment to good effect, and I wish that version was available on DVD as well. Even without the MST3K treatment, this movie is fun to watch and makes you wish that they still made monster movies like this one. Thanks, Roger!

Night of the Bargain Basement Beast.......2004-02-20

Co-written and produced by Gene Corman, with Roger Corman as the executive producer, Night of the Blood Beast (1958) is a good representation of the Z grade science fiction movies of the late 50's.

Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, who also helmed Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), the movie stars, among others, John Baer, Angela Greene, and Ed Nelson, from Teenage Caveman (1958), The Brain Eaters (1959), and TV's Peyton Place (1964).

The movie starts off proper with an astronaut in a small capsule supposedly returning to Earth after a brief orbit. Something goes wrong, and after much techno babble, "The negative, cross-indexed hyper dyne ion chamber is reading 8 million psi!", "The multi-functional thyroid chronometer is unfunctional!", the small capsule crashes to Earth. Two individuals find the capsule (not much of a rescue party) and discover their space-traveling colleague is no longing among the living. They radio the rest of their small group, who soon arrive, and then they document everything and take the body back to some dinky, remote radar station they are using for a base. What they don't realize is that their chum didn't come back from space alone...oooooh...(cue creepy music)

A cursory analysis of the dead man reveals he is dead, but he isn't. The older scientist keeps saying, "That's impossible" every time they find another indication that the dead man may not really be dead. Soon after stuff starts happening...the radio goes kaput, the lights no longer light, vehicles no longer run...seems a magnetic field is playing havoc with just about everything. And to top things off, there's a space thingy running around, which makes it's appearance known by breaking some windows. The dead man comes back to life, and we find out a rather disturbing fact in that the man, who was once dead and is now seemingly alive, has wee, little aliens growing inside his body. Oh yes, the man with the alien babies also develops some kind of telepathic link with the alien, who is now hiding out in one of Hollywood's more famously filmed spots, the Bronson Caves, used for, among other things, the scenes from the 60's Batman TV show where the Batmobile came barreling out whenever the characters left the Batcave.

So what happens next? Realizing that their friend and colleague's survival is linked to the alien, do they make nicey nice with the alien? Or do they destroy the abomination? And what about those alien babies? Is a satisfactory conclusion forthcoming? Watch and find out. (Don't hold your breath)

I have to say, I thought the element of the man carrying aliens inside him was interesting, and the subsequent story, although a bit talky, kept me interested. The biggest thing working against this movie was the budget. The space creature was completely funky, looking like giant, sickly sloth with google eyes wearing dirty trash bags. This may have been better received at the time, but now seems like a dusty relic. The movie certainly doesn't hold up to others of the time, but is worth checking out if you enjoy clunky, cheaply made science fiction films of the 50's. The dialogue, as I said, got rather clunky, but the direction seemed to movie things along pretty well, along with a 65 minute running time. Short and sweet, that's the way to make a movie like this. I was just really happy they didn't try to pad things out with a lot of stock footage, as was a common practice with a lot of these low budget features.

The picture quality of the movie on this disc is not all that great, being washed out and showing many flaws and lacking clarity and the audio drops out briefly a couple of times, but I guess that is to be expected. I am not too familiar with Retromedia and their other releases, so I don't know if they try to use the best possible prints or whatever they have on hand. This release seems shoddy, especially for the asking price. The only extra feature is a really poor copy of the trailer for the movie. There is a nice, lengthy piece on the back of the case about the movie, written by someone from a book I never heard of...

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Very Little Blood Here..........2003-08-25

Roger Corman does it again! Night Of The Blood Beast is a gooey cheese classic! An astronaut returns to earth, only to crash and burn. Scientists find him dead, yet still warm and without rigor mortis. They take him back to a research station, where a strange beast appears and kills one of them. The dead astronaut "wakes up" and starts acting weird. He is somehow linked to the monster and tells everyone that it means no harm (even though it's already murdered one of 'em). The astronaut decides he needs an x-ray and everyone sees that his body is plum full of alien embryos! The good news is that we do get to see the blood beast itself quite a bit. The bad news is that it looks pretty stupid. The beast tries to tell everyone that it is only here to help us by killing us all and melding our minds with it's own. So, the scientists burn it up in a cave. Will more blood beasts attack in the future? We are left to ponder this deep question. Still, as B movies go, this is at the top of the heap! The musical score is the same as in "Attack Of The Giant Leeches" and "Beast From Haunted Cave". Corman was a good recycler! Best when viewed after 2 am...

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You must buy this IMMEDIATELY!
first man into space
first man into space a 50s gem
A movie I will never forget.
Slept with the light on for a week!!!

First Man into Space
Starring: Marshall Thompson , Marla Landi , Bill Edwards (IX) , Robert Ayres , and Bill Nagy
Director: Robert Day
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The early reels of First Man into Space should delight fans of the Mercury/Sputnik era in rocket technology... though it may delight fans of low-budget '50s sci-fi even more. A small manned rocket, launched from a jet cruising at high altitude, manages to poke its nose up about 250 miles above the earth---thus making its cocky, reckless pilot the (you guessed it) first man into space. Unfortunately, weird cosmic debris clings to the spacecraft when it crash-lands, and also to the astronaut: he's now covered with a layer of scaly, sparkly space rock. To put it in technical terms, the returned pilot is categorized as "a great big lumbering deformed monster." He's lumbering around a rocket facility in New Mexico, and the monster-pilot's brother (played by the always sober, always reliable Marshall Thompson) must find the thing before it kills again. Oddly enough, once the cheesy space-flight FX wear off, First Man into Space turns into a competent and surprisingly thoughtful thriller; give this movie some points for at least trying to emphasize the science in its fiction. --Robert Horton

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A cocky test pilot takes his experimental aircraft higher than anyone has ever flown before--and he is bombarded by cosmic rays and crashes without a trace, until a mysterious string of vampire-like killings occur.

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You must buy this IMMEDIATELY!.......2006-11-07

A guy gets shot into space and returns to Earth as a crusty, cockeyed spazzbo... and he spends the whole movie stumbling around and bumping into things. Pure genius... if you need sleep, BUY THIS MOVIE NOW!

first man into space.......2005-09-25

the fiend without a face producers strike again with this somewhat less successful but stillpretty creepy sci-fi/ horror hybrid. like fiend this starts slow but builds to some really scary moments.

first man into space a 50s gem .......2005-05-03

I remember seeing this film a a young boy and it helped hook me on Sci Fi for life. 50s rockets and a space plane right out of the newsreels of the time coupled with a risk taking pilot, responsible older brother who is his superior officer and the beautiful scientist who they both want make for a great movie. The science and horror are blended into a believable tale of ambition gone wrong as a disobeyed order to stay below the threshold of space so the pilot can be the first man into space leads to a hideous fate. By doing so he passes thru a cosmic cloud that covers the ship and him in a protective reflective dust which insulates both him and the ship from the atmosphere. What follows is a mystery as to what happened to the pilot when the ship re enters the atmosphere and what is causing the mysterious slasher type murders that have their victims drained of blood leading to a typical 50s climax where a noble act ends in tragedy but gives future pilots a new safety element to continue into space.

a real gem of a film cheaply but professionally done. dont pass this one up.

A movie I will never forget........2004-12-29

I saw this movie when I was 8 years old. It was a double feature with "Old Yeller". I never had seen any scary movies before. Like some of the other reviewers, this movie scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares for several weeks and refused to walk alone down the long dark hallway to our bathroom at night. After all these years, the memory of what the monster looked like is still fresh. Now that I have seen the whole movie again, it was fun to relive all the chills it gave me so long ago.

Slept with the light on for a week!!!.......2003-12-01

This film caused me nightmares when I was a child (after it was run on television). I have never forgotten seeing this movie -- nor have I forgotten sleeping with the lights on for a week -- even though I am now 50 years old. Several Internet movie database websites list this film as "suitable for children." I DON'T THINK SO; unless scaring the crap out of your children is your goal?

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They weren't real vampires, It's a party!
'Alien Blood' drained the life from me........
WOW!!!!!
ALIEN BLOOD
Bloody Confusing

Alien Blood
Starring: Rebecca Stirling , Tony Hunt , Penelope Dudley , Francesca Manning , and Vanessa Stevens
Director: Jon Sorensen
Manufacturer: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
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ASIN: B00004YS61
Release Date: 2000-11-28

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On New Year's Eve 1999, a woman and her daughter are being chased across England by a band of assassins. The threatened duo are forced to break into a mysterious house to survive, where aliens are only one of the treacherous and suspenseful terrors that await them. Alien Blood is an intensely original vampire/ alien movie, featuring all of the tromatic sex and bloodshed that you want and more! This exclusive DVD edition of Alien Blood contains interviews with cast and crew members and a music video directed by Troma President and creator of the Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman! Elements of Dr.Who and The X-Files blend with the chilling atmosphere of 28 Days Later in Alien Blood.

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They weren't real vampires, It's a party!.......2005-02-01

This film starts like a Ken Russell film, lots of open space and idyllic shots, lulling you into a soft mood, then "boom!" Off we go! The people at the party admit it's a dress-up affair, they ain't the undead. The violence is gritty and realistic, the gunplay frantic and bloody. If you have a problem with Aliens doing Martial Arts, what about Worf from Star Trek? You wouldn't have bought the "two hearts" thing if they just biffed people on the nose either, so the goodly crunch of a fast spin kick sells the strength of the aliens. If you didn't see aliens, you were off making a cuppa. The SFX were really spectacular, I was entertained.

'Alien Blood' drained the life from me...............2003-08-22

'Alien blood' was a bitter disappointment for me. This movie is just bad, bad, bad. Now I generally like B horror movies but not this one.
As soon as I saw it was filmed in England my heart sunk.
It's starts off with some nice vistas of the English countryside and I'm thinking ok this might be cool. Then the pain begins.
The characters in the first 15 minutes of the movie don't talk. I guess we are to assume they communicate by telepathy but it comes off really awkward.
Next thing you know the scene changes to a house full of vampires.What? Lesbian vampires at that. Don't get excited.
English women are not pretty. Not in this movie anyway.
I can't even begin to explain the rest since I fast forwarded through it. This enabled me to quickly assertain there was nothing more to look forward to.
The gore was extremely weak and cheesey beyond words.
Worst of all there was no humor. If there was, I didn't get it.
I would have gotten more pleasure from that 10 American dollars I spent on this movie if I would have rolled the bill up and shoved it in my eye.
THERE ARE NO ALIENS IN THIS MOVIE!!!
If you have the urge to dispell my criticism and buy this movie please send me the 10 dollars instead and I will send you my VHS copy of 'Crossroads'with Britney Spears.
That way we both come out ahead.

WOW!!!!!.......2002-11-28

Genius, what more can be said. A budget equivelant to the pocket money I recived as a child yet spent with more panache! Acting that is camp, scary and engrossing. The lead vampire will be seen again, of that I have no doubt.

ALIEN BLOOD.......2002-08-16

I am not usually a 'splatter/horror movie' fan, but I found this film unusual and totally engrossing. Shot with great elan and some gorgeous camerawork in the beautiful English Lake District, ALIEN BLOOD combines elements of sci-fi, horror, action movie and thriller to make an intriguing and VERY fast-moving story. In fact it is so fast you have to keep your wits about you, which is perhaps the reason why the viewer who found the film 'confusing' was confused! Director JON SORENSON gets five stars from me for this bold venture: more power to his elbow and I look forward to his next movie. Let's hope it comes soon.

Bloody Confusing.......2002-08-12

I read a viewer review of this who says it's not like other Troma films - because it's made in England. Well it is like other Troma films - it's bad!

This film is strange. A group of men trying to kill a group of alien women who all seem to be converging on a house in England that just happens to have several vampires staying there; one of them happens to be Dracula !?!

All the alien women are blonde, one speaks only French, & all of them do martial arts - and all have to be at some certain location before the clock strikes mid-night on 12th December 1999!?!

There is very little vampirism, so vampire buffs can give this film a miss. (These vampires are killed just as easily as any mortal.)

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A BETTER LIFE IN NOT ACROSS THE BORDER!.......2003-09-20

This most unusual action/thriller shot in mexico and the U.S., focuses on the hard, dangerous lives of Mexicans attempting to cross the border into the U.S. Telly Savales stars as the tough cop dealing with the evil Mexican officials who blatantly ship them over the border to work in horrible sweatshops.

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I want back those 78 minutes of my life........2002-11-05

The first five minutes of the movie were actually pretty cool. An exciting car chase and shoot-out. After that, I found the movie to be predictable and tired. The dialogue sounds like it was written for junior high students. There was a hideous and graphic five minute scene where a steer is first shot, and then butchered with an axe and various cleavers. This film can best be described as an amateurish hispanicsploitation film, where all Americans (except Telly Savalas) are shown as brutal racists and profiteers. Leave this one in the bargain bin of history.

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A beast, but not at night, and hardly any blood
Good outside of the lame monster....
The Moral? Never Eat Sea Monkeys.
Night of the Bargain Basement Beast
Very Little Blood Here...

Night of the Blood Beast
Starring: John Baer , Angela Greene , Ed Nelson , Georgianna Carter , and Michael Emmet
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
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ASIN: B000AYYVC4
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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The first man in space returns to Earth, appearing to be dead. While on his mission, he encountered a mysterious alien, which impregnated him with its young. Now on Earth, the alien finally emerges and the entire human race is in danger! This rare, low-budget work was executive-produced by Roger Corman.

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A beast, but not at night, and hardly any blood.......2006-03-27

Good outside of the lame monster...........2005-04-12

The Moral? Never Eat Sea Monkeys........2004-05-20

Night of the Bargain Basement Beast.......2004-02-20

Co-written and produced by Gene Corman, with Roger Corman as the executive producer, Night of the Blood Beast (1958) is a good representation of the Z grade science fiction movies of the late 50's.

Cookieman108

Very Little Blood Here..........2003-08-25

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INCIDENT AT BLOOD GORGE
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Incident at Blood Gorge is a classic haunted house story in the tradition of Alien and The Thing. The lone survivor of a group of grisly murders tells the tale of his incredible escape down a Himalayan mountain. As an Army interrogator questions him about the massacre, the truth unfolds. Stationed on the world's highest battlefield, a skeleton crew of U.S. soldiers fights with the elements and the gnawing isolation. The routine is broken when a blizzard forces some climbers to seek shelter at the base. As the storm outside intensifies, one of the mountain guides relates a legend - a ghost story about ancient battles fought by immortals on the glacier. The tale ends with a warning: If man chooses to fight over land already won by the gods, then let the demons be raised to feed on them. As the blizzard buries them alive, one by one they meet with horrible deaths. Is one of them a killer? Or is the climber's tale prophecy?

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