Queen of Blood
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| Directed by | Curtis Harrington |
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| Screenplay by | Curtis Harrington |
| Based on | the story "Mechte navstrechu" by Mikhail Karzhukov Otar Koberidze |
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| Music by | Leonard Moran |
| Cinematography | Vilis Lapenieks |
| Edited by | Leo H. Shreve |
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Cinema West Productions
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time
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81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $17.3 million (as at 1 Oct 1966) |
Queen of Blood is a 1966 color science fiction-horror film based on the screenplay for an earlier, Soviet film called Mechte Navstrechu. It was produced by George Edwards and Samuel Z. Arkoff, directed by Curtis Harrington, and starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, and Judi Meredith. The film was released by American International Pictures as part of a double bill with the AIP feature Blood Bath. Director Harrington crafted this B-movie using footage from the Soviet feature films Mechte Navstrechu and Nebo Zovyot.
The year is 1990, and space travel is well-established since humans first landed on the Moon twenty years earlier. At the International Institute of Space Technology, communications expert and astronaut Laura James monitors strange signals being received from outer space. Laura's superior, Dr. Farraday, translates the signal and discovers that it is from an alien race, who are sending an ambassador to Earth. Soon after, however, Laura receives a video log showing that the aliens' spaceship has crashed-landed on Mars.
The Institute launches a rescue mission aboard the spaceship Oceano, which includes Laura and astronauts Anders Brockman and Paul Grant. Oceano travels through a sunburst, suffering some damage, before completing the journey to Mars and locating the downed alien craft. Anders and Paul investigate and discover a single dead alien aboard. Faraday deduces that the surviving crew may have been rescued, so an observation satellite will be needed to locate the alien rescue ship. Laura's fiancé Allan and fellow astronaut Tony volunteer. They travel on the spaceship Meteor to Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, where they launch the observation satellite. Tony finds an alien spaceship on Phobos. He and Allan are able to enter, finding an unconscious but still-living female alien. As their rescue ship holds only two, one of them must stay behind, so they toss a coin and Tony stays.
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