Queen of Blood

This is one of those Roger Corman movies where the storyline of the making of the film is more thrilling than the film's actual storyline. TLDR: This is a Roger Corman movie.

This is a cheap but watchable horror/sci-fi hybrid. Harrington blends his original material well with some special effects footage derived from some Russian space opus and the cast is pretty interesting for this sort of zero-budgeted affair, but the pacing is awfully sluggish, with the real action not beginning until the last 20 minutes or so.

Campy space horror that seems to take more than a few notes from Mario Bava's "Planet of the Vampires". Queen of Blood takes a while to get going, and even when it does it remains slow, but an early role by Dennis Hopper and some nice atmospherics elevates it beyond its goofy script. Verdict: Watchable but silly golden age sci-fi. Seems to be a precursor to Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce and Ridley Scott's Alien. Worth a look if yer into this kinda stuff.

Interesting, albeit extremely cheesy precurser to Lifeforce. Short, cheap and featuring a surprisingly awesome cast, this is tailor-made for a double bill with Planet of the Vampires.

Numerically, it gets a bad review, but I actually was fairly impressed with it, in some regards. There's an eerie stillness and heart that, even though it doesn't quite pull it off, I respect.

worth a watch

Should've and could've been way more interesting. The colours pop it has a good sense of eeriness and a Dennis Hopper performance! A very clear influence on Tobe Hooper in the way it looks at the use of outsider forces in an alien world and just the aesthetics of it all. Wish I felt a little more tho just felt kinda bored while watching it. Also lmao the future was 1990!!

Effects are rough but overall the movie got better. Alien vampire.

"They're scientists, Alan. They know what they're doing." Wow, houda thunk Dennis Hopper and Basil Rathbone ever did a movie together? Or that DH did some goofy drive-in scifi thing? Oh sure, maybe Night Tide...but not anything with spacesuits and ray guns and alien beasties. You're practically waiting for him to explain "What is kiss?" to somebody (unfortunately though that moment never did arise). Anyway, this one was definitely filmed in PurpleVision (with lotsa luridly picturesque sets).

A little slow but doesn't overstay its welcome.