Monday, August 9, 2021

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)

As with Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, this is an edited version of the Soviet science-fiction film Planeta Bur with added footage of mysterious women of Venus led by Mamie van Doren who wear sea shells and have some silver paint on their bellies! The astronauts, which include Gennadi Vernov and Georgi Zhzhyonov, are supposedly American but don't ask why their space ship has red stars on it!

Venus is a strange world inhabited by various rubber monsters including a flying reptile the Venus women regard as their god. However, when the astronauts kill the creature the Venus women call up a volcano and earthquake...

The film is very surreal. Despite the fact the film is made from two completely different ones the result is reasonably coherent though does at times drag slightly. The film is dubbed and the dialogue is sometimes rather clumsy to match the original Russian speaking lips!