Planet of the Vampires 05/14/24

Radiance comes through again, giving us Mario Bava’s haunted space opera in multiple versions. The encoding of the original Italian version improves greatly on everything we’ve seen so far — it’s dazzling. Barry Sullivan and Norma Bengell struggle to overcome the curse of a ‘demon planet’ — which rushes to possess every life form it encounters. The alien landscape is all rocks, smoke and colored light, and the ‘vampires’ are Sullivan’s own crewmates, transformed into murderous zombies. On Blu-ray from Radiance.
05/14/24