Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)

I love this movie so much

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Just perfect...

Blistering performances.

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

This was, as others have pointed out, a pretty disjointed effort; thus, so will my comments be. Spoilers? I dunno; how do you spoil something like this?Let's see: out of the twelve dollar budget, how much was spent to keep John Carradine in Wild Turkey? I mean, LOOK AT HIM. If he hadn't been sitting down, he'd have had to have been propped up.Did anybody else see fingers holding on to the tip of the toy rocket, as it "landed"? When I saw it with my own MST3K buddies about 20 years ago, we were all pretty, uh, "Carradined", but I seem to remember THAT.Also seems to me that, at one point, there would be a phony control panel of sorts behind John C, then in the next shot, it would just be a blue screen. Seems that way...but then again, see above.And weren't there some guys who threw snakes as sort of "poisonous boomerang" weapons? I vaguely remember thinking, that was at least a somewhat original idea.Recommend it? Yeah...kinda. Just don't do it without someone to bounce sarcastic comments off of. And you might want to keep a full cooler handy, too.

The line above may be a very kind way of summing up Al Adamson's career, but I feel bad for the guy. When I read a few years back that he had been murdered in his house, I thought,'Who would want to murder this fella?'I have yet to find that answer, and if anyone out there know if there was a trial, or any information on the death of Al Adamson, please contact me at my address.I have seen a few of Adamson's films, and although his taste is questionable, his movies can tend to be mesmerising. This is sometimes a good thing at 2 in the morning when you are trying to go to sleep; not knowing what to expect, and even as you watch it, you're still not sure. This is how I saw NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS, or whatever the hell that title was. The film contains some of the most boring dialogue scenes since Jerry Warren, and the acting is uniformly wooden. The plot is a bit hard to explain, having something to do with a vampire plague on Earth that, in flimsy exposition, started in outer space. A rocketship and crew (headed by John Carradine) land on the Vampire planet, and encounter more dialogue and tinted Filipino footage.The Filipino footage that Adamson culled appears to have been done in black-and-white, but since Adamson was making a color film, he came up with a cheap ploy to sell the concept of the tinted portion. It is radiation, explains one of the characters, and the audience is left in total disbelief. In fact, the most unbelievable part is the sets, made up of poorly-lit backdrops and cardboard. The sex scene is hilarious.This cheesy movie must be seen by any lover of bad cinema, and people who remember what the drive-in was like, or would like to. All others beware, this film is UNCEASINGLY BAD.Now, if only I could find out what happened to Al Adamson, (and his wife, Regina Carrol, for that matter)...

Yes, ol' John Carradine is back, playing yet another crotchety old coot, this time in Vampire Men of the Lost Planet, aka Horror of the Blood Monsters, aka about 57 other titles. This one is a classic. It's a vampire movie! It's a space movie! It's a caveman movie! It's 3 treats in 1!! In the first part of this chilling opus, an annoying narrator waxes poetically about the vampire culture on earth, as we watch a bunch of half-doped vampires attack some stage extras with toothpicks instead of teeth. Then, we are whisked to Mission Control, run, apparently, only by 1 man and a woman with lots of cleavage. Then we see our plucky astronaut team, lead by the irratible Mr. Carradine, who obviously needed some ruffage. Then they land in the middle of a Filipino caveman moovie, where they help the good cave people fight the bad cave people...sort of. The "special effects" are the real eye candy here: most impressive is the Chromatic Radiation, which changes the film's color from blue to yellow to green to whatever gell the cameraman chose at the time. Watch quickly for an elephant with carpeting glued to it's hide, several wandering water buffalo, a couple of saw-toothed iguanas, furry bat people who fly on strings, lobster people who attack with claws, pre-historic midgets who attack with bows....the list goes on and on. This is Roger Corman at his worst. MooCow says check it out for a hoot, but don't say you weren't warned!:=8)