Night of Blood Beast

Night of Blood Beast


Starring:John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson, Georgianna Carter, Michael Emmet, Tyler McVey, Ross Sturlin
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Studio: Retro Media
Product Type: DVD
Night of the Blood Beast
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • 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
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B00009NHAK
Release Date: 2003-07-22

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars 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?

3 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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!

2 out of 5 stars 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...

Cookieman108

4 out of 5 stars 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...
Night of Blood Beast
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • 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 Blood Beast
Starring: John Baer , Angela Greene , Ed Nelson , Georgianna Carter , and Michael Emmet
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Manufacturer: Retro Media
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00006G8I8
Release Date: 2002-09-24

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars 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?

3 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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!

2 out of 5 stars 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...

Cookieman108

4 out of 5 stars 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...
Great Horror Classics, Vol. 12 (Monstrosity, Black Dragons, Night of the Blood Beast, The Devil's Partner)
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    		Great Horror Classics, Vol. 12 (Monstrosity, Black Dragons, Night of the Blood Beast, The Devil's Partner)
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    ASIN: B0002IQIII
    Release Date: 2004-06-15
    Night of the Blood Beast
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • A beast, but not at night, and hardly any blood
    • Good outside of the lame monster....
    • The Moral? Never Eat Sea Monkeys.
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    • 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
    Manufacturer: Retromedia
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    ASIN: B000AYYVC4
    Release Date: 2005-10-11

    Description

    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.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars 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?

    3 out of 5 stars 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.

    4 out of 5 stars 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!

    2 out of 5 stars 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...

    Cookieman108

    4 out of 5 stars 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...
    Triple Feature Sci Fi Monster Classics; Gammera the Invincible, Night of the Blood Beast, & Attack of the Giant Leeches
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    • Horrorfest Delights!
    		 Triple Feature Sci Fi Monster Classics; Gammera the Invincible, Night of the Blood Beast, & Attack of the Giant Leeches

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    5 out of 5 stars Horrorfest Delights!.......2006-08-09

    Anytime you see 3 classic monster classics of this quality in one bright blood red amaray case, you know you're in for a treat! My favorite Japanese turtle; no, not the nijas, but Gammera, flys into the picture after shades of WWIII, and only plan Z can stop him... or can it? After all with Gamera on the rampage it just may be humanity's last desparate chance. No girl was safe as long as this head hunting thing roamed the land! That's the tag line from Night of the Blood Beast; actually an extraterrestrial stowaway with a plan to use it's victims as a breeding ground for alien embryos. A bit like Alien, but 30 years earlier, and a lot more fun to watch! Lastly the horror classic Attack of the Giant Leeches; in which a depraved sinister force threatend the back woods. The leeches are on a kidnapping spree, and it's up to the locals to battle the mammoth leeches in an explosive climax which should take you up to about midnight!
    Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 3: 8 Movie Pack
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      		Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 3: 8 Movie Pack

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      The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 3 includes: Eegah directed by Arch Hall, Sr and starring Arch Hall, Jr; The Lost World directed by Harry Hoyt and starring Wallace Beery; Metamorphosis directed by George Eastman and starring Gene LeBrock; Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter directed by William Beaudine and starring John Lupton; The Amazing Transparent Man directed by Edgar Ulmer and starring Maguerite Chapman; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians directed by Nicholas Webster and starring Pia Zadora; First Spaceship on Venus directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Yoko Tani; Night of the Blood Beast directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring John Baer
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        		Phantom Empire (1986) / Dark Descent (2001)

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        When a man-eating cave creature appears with a fortune in uncut diamonds around his neck, Dr. Chambers' daughter Denae hires adventurers C & C Salvage to find the underground source of the gems. Accompanied by archeaological intern Andrew Paris, mineralogist Prof. Strock, and C&C's scruffy owners Cort Eastman and Eddy Colchilde, Denea's hopes of emerging from her famous father's shadow become as remote as getting out of the caves alive!...... Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it was not an accident. He becomes caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation, and fights to stay alive and uncover the truth.
        [Sci-Fi 5 Movie Pack] Gammera The Invincible (1965) / Night Of The Blood Beast (1958) / Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) / Godzilla (1998) / Jurassic Park 3 "widescreen Collector's Edition
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          		[Sci-Fi 5 Movie Pack] Gammera The Invincible (1965) / Night Of The Blood Beast (1958) / Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) / Godzilla (1998) / Jurassic Park 3 "widescreen Collector's Edition

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