Th Angry Red Planet (1959)
Ib Melchior
HorrorScience fictionScienceSpaceAdventure
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About
The Angry Red Planet is a 1959 American science-fiction film directed by Ib Melchior, featuring a crew's expedition to Mars where they encounter strange creatures and challenges. The film follows the Mars Rocket 1 (MR-1) crew, who are initially thought lost. Upon their return, only two crew members survive. They recount their harrowing experiences on Mars, including encounters with bizarre creatures like a giant amoeba and a hybrid creature resembling a rat, bat, spider, and crab. Due to a limited budget and tight filming schedule, the movie utilized a unique film-processing technique called "CineMagic." This method combined hand-drawn animations with live-action footage to depict the Martian landscape, although it received mixed reviews for its effectiveness.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Sci-fi and horror
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Ib Melchior
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed