undead alien vampires

planet of the vampires is a good old school drive in sort've movie. by today's standard is very slow. sets are minimal but very well done; the film retains a unique look. its probably more interesting to look at most of the film than it it to listen along. much of the dialog, especially at the beginning is every 'space-age' term they could think of...to the point of being total nonsense. once they actually crashland and the plot starts to thicken...the plot drives the dialog better. still its nothing terribly interesting as far as dialog goes until the very end.

basically 2 spaceships from earth crash on a planet due in part to some sort've distress signal. immediately something causes the members on one ship to fight each other and then crew members start to go missing. the second ship is found to be entirely dead; by fighting amongst themselves. but they go missing too. and then they start to reappear.

to be sure the ending was nice and the film itself is nice to watch. as well there is nothing particularly bad about the film per say. its worst points are the aforementioned slow pace and the overuse of 'space-age sound effects'

worth a watch even if it won't be your favorite film.

(6/10)

6/10