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Angry Red Planet (Full Screen)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The film is easily one of the worst ever done as far as effects goes. The backdrops are easily painted sheets and you can see where the sheet meet the ground in the film. Plus a lot of the monsters show their strings as well; like the bat-rat-spider.
Although the film has major flaws effects wise, the story is entertaining and pretty neat. Even the concept of some of the alien life forms were neat despite their flaws.
The acting is pretty bad but does have good parts. A lot of you might be asking, well since you keep talking about the film's bad sides, why did you give it 5 stars then? I gave it 5 stars because it delivers what it was supposed to: entertainment. The film is worth the buy if you are a fan of these types of movies. In the end, an entertaining film.

This film has it all,mediocre special effects,sexist dialogue and stupid plot.Grab the popcorn!

Hey, I'm all about some nifty 50's and 60's cheesy sci-fi flicks. Heck, I LOVE 'EM! But I have to say I think ANGRY RED PLANET is a bit overrated. I never saw "Cinemagic" displayed on the Big Screen, but it's fairly headache-inducing on my 27-inch t.v.

The plot has one decent gimmick, the framing device of using flashbacks (used to better effect in IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE) to tell the story. But really, the acting is atrocious, even for a B-grade sci-fi/monster flick.

On the plus side, the "batratspidercrab" thing is one of the more memorable beasties, strings and all. And the sets, though obviously painted backgrounds, are imaginative and just plain weird.

Picture and sound quality are what we've come to expect from MGM's Midnite Movies line: superb. So if this kind of film is your thing, you could do worse than ANGRY RED PLANET. But. . .you could also do a lot better.

Now, if you're in the mood for a great campy Sci Fi, you've found the right movie. This is exactly the thing midnight movies are made out of. Cheesy painted backgrounds, big rubbery monsters that can barely move. Excellent. Grab the popcorn and enjoy!!

Fans of classic science fiction should love this. People who are just casual fans may not appreciate the film, but for people like myself who enjoy the classic sci-fi movies of the 50s and early 60s ,this movie was very entertaining and just plain fun

Three men and a woman are the first people sent to Mars, but the expedition gets in trouble, so military-men and scientists back on Earth remote-fire the rocket's engines and bring the ship back. After the ship lands the female astronaut stumbles out of the ship, and the military rushes out to help her. They interview her and she recounts what happened on their mission to Mars. The flight there went fine (very boring, filled with techno-babble and rampant sexism), but when they land, weird things begin to happen. The Martians don't want Earthmen mucking about on their world so they terrorize the crew with 3-eyed cucumber-looking peeping Toms, foam-rubber man-eating plants waiting to devour the astronauts, and trees that turn out to be a really goofy spider-monster (it looks like some sort of rat with crab legs glued to it). But the best Martian creature is a giant amoeba thing with eyeballs that twirl (imagine a WHOLE bunch of Jell-O oozing across the Martian landscape) that appears while the explorers are paddling their rubber raft across a Martian lake.

This is one of those "aliens warning man that we are too violent" movies, and its not really all that bad. They attempted to make the set with its lakes and jungle look like Mars (yes I said lakes and a jungle) by filming everything as a reverse negative through the brightest red gel filter ever made, that way they could get away with cheap props and crudely sketched backdrops because you couldn't see anything anyways. To get the same effect try watching a movie through a glass of cherry Cool-Aid. It gets really annoying really fast. The acting isn't too bad, but the effects are, especially the creature effects. Still it's a fun '50s sci-fi adventure.

It's a great classic.
cheesey,colorful,corny and yet ...classy.
a must-see.

Sid Pink and American International Pictures produced it. Ib Melchior wrote it. It had a cast of virtual unknowns, and a gimmicky new photographic process called "Cinemagic" that was nothing more than solarizing the film with a red lens. It had a Paul Blaisdell-designed three-eyed, antennaed Martian, man-eating plants, a giant rat-bat-spider-thingey and an enormous protoplasmic Martian sea-amoeba with eyes that roll in opposite directions. And it played at the drive-ins...in 1959.

Come on! What's not to love?

This is easily one of the cheesiest movies ever made, and one of the most fun.

PLOT?! What are you, some kind of purist?

Okay, okay. The world's first quartet of astronauts to land on Mars - consisting of three older men and one knockout female redhead (it was 1959, remember?) - is overdue for return, and not answering our hails. The military brings it down by remote control, to find one astronaut missing, another dead, a third dying of some unknown alien gangrene, and the knockout redhead completely amnesiac. The mission tapes all appear to be wiped as clean as the redhead's mind. What happened? Only the redhead can tell them, who consents to undergo narcosynthesis to provide their answers. While on Mars, she and the other brave voyagers encountered all the various perils recounted in the first paragraph of this review - which we, the audience, get to relive in all the solarized red terror of...CINEMAGIC!!!

Oh! I forgot the best part! The end credit music abruptly turns the eerie electronic synthesizer theme into a 1950's jazz number! Ya gotta hear it, to disbelieve it!

Any questions? So, enjoy, already!

If you like the B movies of the 50's this one is a fun watch. Its pretty well acted the the special FX are pretty good for the time. I didnt quite like the "Cinemagic" used to make the Red Planet red but im sure it was pretty cool for its time. Dont pick this one apart (cause it will come apart quite easily) just sit back and enjoy some cool cheese of the 50's. My review is for the DVD version.

Absolute love. I barely remember seeing this movie when I was little on a Sunday afternoon. The rat-bat-spidermajigger sent me into my moms arms and under the blankets. Now I'm 33 and I just finished watching the dvd from MGM. The sound, print, and color are all fantastic! MGM is pretty consistant. If you are anal about your dvds then fear not. The movie itself is a hoot. Hollywood is still recycling this plot over and over, monthly it seems. Sci-Fi formula: A Bunch of dudes and one "token" (usually a girl but sometimes an ethnic) zoom off into space and find something spooky. In the 50's it only took 80 minutes to do this, now it takes 2.5 hrs (always with about 30 minutes of 'space' footage filler). The bottom line, If you dig theremin laced moody exotica soundtracks, creepy aliens, foxy 50's bombshells in tight space-suits, and wise-cracking jugheads (ala McHale's
Navy) then this is your flick. A bargain at twice the price.