Queen of Blood horror/science fiction film released by American International Pictures. The director, Curtis Harrington, crafted this B-movie with footage from the Russian films Mechte Navstrechu and Nebo Zovyot. It was released as part of a double bill with the AIP movie Blood Bath. The film features John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, and Dennis Hopper. After aliens contact Earth via radio to inform humans of an impending visit, their ambassador spaceship crashes on Mars. Astronaut rescuers recover only one green-skinned survivor - a female with insatiably vampire-like appetites. The film was... released in the United States on March 1966. On December 1, 2003, the film was featured at the Sitges Film Festival, Spain. Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, and wrote, "Since it was a cut-up and cobbled together rush job, it turns out better than expected; even though it drags its feet through most of the voyage, it still manages to deliver some chills come climax time." Critic Richard Scheib liked the film's atmospherics and wrote, "Curtis Harrington constantly aims for an atmosphere of otherworldly weirdness.
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| Release date: | 1966 |
| Directed by: | Curtis Harrington |
| Runtime: | 81 Minutes |
| Producer: | Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stephanie Rothman, George Edwards |
| Estimated budget: | $50,000 |
| Adapted from: | Battle Beyond the Sun |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |