Is the Ventura release listed here the same as [another] version reviewed by everyone at this site?...
NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST is an enjoyable but cheap and somewhat predictable fare. The actors do the best they can with the material. Some elements are reminescent of other films. The Quatermass Xperiment, for instance, also features an astronaut who comes back to earth, a man who should be dead, but who is kept alive and consumed by an alien parasite. This film has the "momma" or "papa" alien aboard the rocket as well. It will become the protagonist of the film.
The body scan of the astronaut, Major John Corcoran (Michael Emmet) with the incubating… Read more
