Stars: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicky Volante

Director: Al Adamson

Summary: A scientist leads an expedition to the homeworld of space vampires. When they arrive they discover giant lizards and warring cavemen amongst other horrors.

The people of planet Earth are in danger of being completely drained of their blood when a terrifying wave of inexplicable vampire killings sweep the world. Includes paste-up footage from a black and white Philipino movie with phony color added and new scenes shot in the United States. Also released under about 5 other titles.

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In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Bloodinto the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! Plus lots of exclamation marks! Plus lurid trailers!

In Horror of the Blood Monstersvampires are overrunning Earth (cheaply), so John Carradine leads a space mission (rocket footage from another film) to the planet the bloodsuckers come from, and the astronauts vaguely interact with tinted black and white footage from a Filippino prehistoric epic. It makes no sense whatsoever. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Original Trailer
Year:	1970
Release Date:	July 14, 2003
Runtime:	85 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 9739
Keywords:	Men, Lost, Blood, Planet, General, Vampire, Monsters, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult