Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

kevin olzak "Horror of the Blood Monsters," or as it was on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater, "Vampire Men of the Lost Planet" (paired on July 16 1977 with second feature "Doctor Blood's Coffin"), is a cherished member of the Al Adamson school of atrocious titles that nevertheless did excellent business through his Independent-International Pictures Corp. While his co-producer Samuel M. Sherman unerringly acknowledges that this is Adamson's worst, it still has its share of fans who truly appreciate 'good bad films,' and I myself believe that it's a step up from Jerry Warren's usual cut-and-paste work ("Face of the Screaming Werewolf," "Attack of the Mayan Mummy," "Invasion of the Animal People," "Curse of the Stone Hand"). Nearly all of Adamson's late 60s work consisted of movies shot in bits and pieces over a period of years, after losing the rights to "Blood of Dracula's Castle" to Crown International, forcing he and Sherman to form their own company to maintain control of future product, of which quite a few had been gathering dust- "Five Bloody Graves," "Blood of Ghastly Horror," "Hell's Bloody Devils," "Dracula vs. Frankenstein," "The Female Bunch," and this one. Adamson had purchased a 1965 black and white Filipino cheapie called "Tagani," and decided to incorporate its footage of prehistoric cave people (the Tubatan, which literally translates from Tagalog as 'vampire'), snake people (you can tell by their shoulders), claw people (hiding underwater), and winged bat people (played by furry midgets), into a smörgåsbord of odd science fiction clichés centering around a space flight using special effects culled from David L. Hewitt's ultra low budget 1965 release "The Wizard of Mars." The 'Wizard' himself, John Carradine, again takes the top spot, this time playing the 'infamous' Dr. Rynning, leading said expedition to that long distant planet, following a ludicrous introduction of dark alley vampires led by Adamson himself, wearing the same kind of plastic fangs you used to find in any five-and-dime. More than half the 85 minute film is in black and white, so to match with the new color footage Samuel Sherman decided to simply use red and blue tinting, the stock footage including shots from 1953's "Robot Monster," 1948's "Unknown Island" (2 tiny dinosaurs in a long shot), plus the usual battling lizards from 1940's "One Million B.C." The folks at the film processing lab could not believe that Sherman had promised to release such an abomination, so the resulting success must be chalked up to salesmanship and advertising. TV viewings under one title were interspersed with theatrical showings under the original, and after the phenomenal "Star Wars," a third release as "Space Mission to the Lost Planet." What it amounts to is truly the last gasp in 1950s-era spaceship clichés, mostly filmed before 1967's "Mission Mars," all of which disappeared from screens after "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968. While many believe that Al Adamson was a master of such reckless paste jobs, he only repeated this formula once more with 1977's "Doctor Dracula," again starring John Carradine, this one a barely released Paul Aratow feature called "Lucifer's Women," adding Dracula to its Svengali. The movies of Al Adamson certainly have their entertainment value, yet will never be mistaken for good cinema.

Woodyanders This uproariously atrocious Al Adamson $1.50 sci-fi/horror patch-up job rates highly as one of Al's single most sublimely stinky pictures to ever disgrace celluloid. This beautifully bad and berserk baby boasts John Carradine at his all-time crankiest, Brother Theodore's gut-busting wheezing histrionic opening narration, poorly tinted black and white giant creature footage from the moldy oldie items "One Million Years B.C." and "Unknown Island," cheap cardboard spaceship sets, a quick cameo by Adamson as a vampire with wicked sideburns, a particularly ridiculous heavy-breathing sex scene, a pretty sorry trash cinema ensemble cast that includes Vicki Volante, Jennifer Bishop and Robert Dix, chintzy cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond, such hysterically goofy monsters as hairy cave-dwelling bat demons, swamp-residing lobster men, snake men, and two warring cavemen tribes, and a stupendously silly plot concerning a fearless team of astronauts traveling to a hostile alien planet so they can thwart a severe extraterrestrial vampire plague that's ravaging Earth! This isn't by any stretch of the imagination a good movie, but it is nonetheless an often unintentionally amusing and hence hugely enjoyable Grace Z low-budget crap camp classic.

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

Casey-52 I don't care how many people voted this movie a "1" out of 10, this movie is pure entertainment! There aren't very many painful moments, lots of great, fun scenes, and of course, the Adamson trademark of "cut and paste filmmaking"."Vampire Men of the Lost Planet" (the video title) is a bizarre combination of horror and science fiction. The opening scenes include vampires attacking people in dark alleyways and actually manage to conjure up some atmosphere before ruining it by displaying obviously fake vampire fangs and dabs of blood on necks. Watch for Adamson himself as a vampire (with plastered back hair)! Now for the real movie...or at least Adamson's part of the movie: a team of astronauts are sent to a far-off planet that is believed to have sent the vampire virus to Earth to discover how to destroy them! Of course, by the end of the movie, the mission is forgotten and presumably the vampire epidemic is still running rampant, but what comes in-between is loads of fun! What follows is a mix of Adamson's footage (the astronauts and their cavegirl guide) and a Filipino caveman movie that is surprisingly well-made. The monsters are all in the Filipino movie and are inventive, to say the least. There are great scenes of warring cave tribes, vicious cave women who fight off their attackers, snake men with snakes protruding from their skin, lobster monsters eating cavemen as they cross a lake, and a simple plotline about the warring tribes venturing to get "fire water" (oil) in a valley. John Carradine is along for the ride, but never leaves the spaceship! Vicki Volante and Robert Dix play two lovers working at the launching pad. To make matters worse (better?), most of the film is tinted a certain color, changing every few minutes (the explanation is that the planet's atmosphere has varying levels of radiation). The reason for the tinting: Adamson's footage was in color and the Filipino monster movie in B&W.Al Adamson. What an original! His films will always remain fun to watch for generations, even if small-minded people look for something else beneath the cheap surface. There isn't, so just sit back and enjoy them!