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      Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

      Released Aug 1, 1965 1h 20m Sci-Fi List
      Reviews 16% Audience Score 100+ Ratings From a lunar space station, professor Hartman (Basil Rathbone) leads a team of astronauts and scientists to explore the faraway planet Venus. Dr. Marsha Evans (Faith Domergue) is assigned to the lead ship, Vega, while other teams follow on ships called Capella and Sirius. After an asteroid attack destroys Capella, the team's communications are cut off. The Vega team sends John the Robot (John Bix) to investigate Venus, while the Sirius team lands and makes a startling discovery. Read More Read Less

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      Phil Hall Film Threat Bad Soviet sci-fi, recycled into worse U.S. sci-fi. Rated: 1/5 Jun 30, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Georgan G Another from the 50 SciFi Classics, that had decent actors. The special effects were interesting for the times. And it was campy, which made it fun to watch. Yes, it was clipped & dubbed from a Russian film & other places. Still good fun. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/01/23 Full Review StephenPaul C The greatest 01 hour: and 20 minutes of science fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/25/23 Full Review Audience Member When Roger Corman bought the Russian movie Planet of Storms (Planeta Bur), he used that footage to make Peter Bogdanovich's Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women and this film, which had to confuse filmgoers. Corman doubled down on that mind-altering sensation that audiences had seen this before by shooting new scenes at the same time that Harrington was making Queen of Blood, as Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue shot their scenes in half a day using the same costumes from that movie. While Harrington considered Queen of Blood good enough to keep his name on, he used the name John Sebastian, inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach, from this remix. He told Psychotronic Video that the movie "was not even a film." Rathbone plays Professor Hartman and Domergue is Dr. Marsha Evans. They're the only English speaking actors that show up, as everything else is dubbed from the Russian movie. Even the soundtrack is recycled from Dinosaurus! Even crazier, most of the credits were fake so that no one would realize this was made in Russia as it was released during the Cold War. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review ryan f Definite 60's B movie and not one of the better ones. There are parts that were incredibly slow moving which made an 80 minute movie seem very long, the characters were thin and goofy at times and the dialogue is laughably dumb. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Apparently there's like three different cuts of this movie with three different titles, so I just picked the one I saw. The movie's decent, it's got some legitimately impressive special effects for the time and some good hilariously bad moments. It's very slow moving though, just as a precaution. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Visually excellent, entertaining, and campy sci-fi adventure--Fiction Drives Life!! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis From a lunar space station, professor Hartman (Basil Rathbone) leads a team of astronauts and scientists to explore the faraway planet Venus. Dr. Marsha Evans (Faith Domergue) is assigned to the lead ship, Vega, while other teams follow on ships called Capella and Sirius. After an asteroid attack destroys Capella, the team's communications are cut off. The Vega team sends John the Robot (John Bix) to investigate Venus, while the Sirius team lands and makes a startling discovery.
      Director
      Curtis Harrington
      Distributor
      American International Pictures
      Production Co
      Roger Corman Productions
      Genre
      Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Aug 1, 1965, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 16, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 20m