Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

verbusen This film is not cool, it's boring. I suspect that the typical Soviet film lovers are inflating it's rating as they often do on IMDb. It's one star above an East German film from around the same time "First Spaceship on Venus" that film was unwatchable (I give it 2 stars) it was so boring. You might say that this is a butchered Corman version with spliced in scenes that make little sense and that the original is much better, that's fine, but I doubt I would enjoy the original either. It's just so boring. One big redeeming factor though is Joe the robot, the communist's answer to our capitalistic bourbon making Robbie, he's pretty cool and will even destroy humans to self preserve itself! I would never attempt to watch this film straight on it's own, I watched it via horror host Mr Lobo and his Cinema Insomnia show. As a Mr Lobo hosted version I give it 7 stars, there are some funny skits with him and a trash can robot that asks some funny tough questions about it's purpose in life other then being a slave to Mr Lobo. One thing about the Mr Lobo version I watched though is he's advertising some bloody grindhouse trash films, I had to fast forward past those, disgusting. The retro commercials are fun though as is a fake commercial for a skateboard lawyer, Rad Abrams. If you are a lover of MST3K and are looking for more material to watch that's free online you will enjoy the Mr Lobo episodes like this one.

mark.waltz What seems to be Red Planet Mars is actually Venus in all her pre-historic glory where dinosaurs, large lizards (looking like sleeztacks from "Land of the Lost") and Venus Flytraps the size of a cow are able to survive on a planet that science has determined is way too hot for anything to flourish on let alone earthlings. But in the mind of some filmmaker with great dramatic license, that's all hogwash and men can not only go there, they can drive around in a souped-up sports car that can fly several feet off the ground without the benefit of wheels. The drive-in crowd may have loved this sort of thing, but they could also find other things to occupy their time with during boring sequences. Sillier than even Ed Wood's most hideous "Z" graders, this will make you laugh at the total ridiculousness of it, especially the obvious stock footage and the hairstyle that Howard Hughes' former protégée, Faith Domergue, must wear, which resembles an out-of-shape Viking helmet that was spray painted black. Basil Rathbone is also on for a few meaningless scenes. Poorly photographed with hollow sound, this film's acting highlight is by the creatures who thanks to a lack of dialog give better performances than the human actors.

bkoganbing Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet has British Basil Rathbone and American Faith Domergue in a cast of mostly Russian players given American names about the first exploration of the planet Venus. Venus proves to be one giant steam bath of a planet with volcanic activity and all kinds of exotic prehistoric like animal and plant life. There are traces of a human civilization, but the Venusians are real shy around us earthlings.For those of us who saw The Aviator and for some like myself who are old enough to remember her, Faith Domergue was one of Howard Hughes's celebrated protégés. She was an exceptional beauty no doubt and she may have even had some talent, but unlike Jane Russell who managed to emerge from the shadow of Hughes, Domergue never did.As for Basil Rathbone he's seen briefly talking to the astronauts from the Lunar station on the moon from whence the expedition came from. The film is not as bad as I thought it would be, the recreation of the director's conception of Venus isn't too far off the mark as far as what we've been able to determine as to terrain. No exotic life like what is shown here though.And in fact this is supposed to have taken place in 2020 and I doubt seriously if we'll get to Venus by then.

Cristi_Ciopron A shocker like Killers from Space at least had a continuous sequence of action and a logical following of the scenes, an explicit continuity—notwithstanding the goofiness of the rest —while some of the surreal delight VPH gives us is due to a fanatical incoherence—though the viewer gets each time the chance of guessing what was left out and unexplained. On the other hand, the method herein is fair—it stimulates perspicacity and it creates strange effects of narrative perspective, putting things in weird perspectives (logical perspectives, I mean).That such a Z movie ever gets to be released, that someone like Rathbone accepts to associate his own name with such an infamy, these are of the grotesque's domain. In the cinema's history, these are disconcerting facts. (It is true that even the cop drama franchises of the '80s—those with Willis, Gibson, Murphy, Nolte—did get to be released .) To put it straight, VOYAGE is nor a respectable, straightforward, ambitious B movie, neither a funnily clumsy B movie (where the campy, goofy note adds some amusement ),but a grotesquely silly Z movie.The girl that acts as the dispatcher for the spaceships does the most annoying whimsical performance I ever saw. The astronauts act like imbeciles and brainless. Their mission on hellish Venus looks like a nerds' trip in the neighborhood. Nothing whatsoever of the many events that succeed is explained or put in context. The poor script is bad on all levels—continuity, logic, etc..Before the tiny budget, there are the script and the actors that damage and wreck the film. The amount of unashamed silliness is insulting. The cretin way of exploring Venus and of taking samples, the petty understanding of what such a mission should be .Extra—goofy Soviet Sci—Fi, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet has a mildly, slightly uncanny charm. The script and the performances are all wrong (among such crap actors, old Rathbone looks quite weird and out of place, with his Flynn/Niven nonchalance misused in this silly primitive film ); yet in the abrupt, random ,chaotic progression of the action there is a certain stellar emotion here .In this primitive, incoherent grammar I have found, nonetheless, a sense of mystery and of contacting the weirdness of a wild world—unfortunately, severely compromised by the chaotic cut, silly script and wrong actors .As it is, the film looked to me interesting and suspenseful, though dramatically primitive and unsubtle. The impression is one of compactness—the underwater sank city, the idol, the ruby, the city below the erupting volcano, the hostile bird, the robot, the rivers of magma ,the carnivorous giant plant, the hoard of reptiles, the carved face found in what seemed a rock, the silhouette reflected in the water .The fauna and flora of the prehistoric planet remain unexplored, _uninvestigated, _un-sampled. The silly, stupid, chaotic, random actions of the astronauts disgust. They have no method, no plan . Their only contact on Earth is an enthusiastic oldster (played by Pére Rathbone ).The hack Harrington made a career (yet,a rather humble and discreet one) out of assembling Russian footage.Maybe Kluşanţev's original film was not so dreary silly?