By Hank Reineke
Though the 1966 space-age vampire flick Queen of Blood is not new to home video, it has been one of the more elusive science-fiction titles of the 1960s. Issued on VHS as Planet of Blood back in the early 1980s on the budget “Star Classics” label and later in 1990 on a much improved laser disc from Image (paired with Mario Bava’s similarly-themed Planet of the Vampires), Queen of Blood has been mostly unavailable to collectors for nearly twenty-five years. In March 2011 MGM finally re-issued the title as part of its Limited Edition Collection, but only as a made-on-demand release. In 2015, Kino Lorber has – very happily for genre fans and collectors - rescued this title from the wasteland of cult-film marginalia with their superb Blu-Ray release of this Roger Corman-Curtis Harrington classic.
Queen of Blood (for reasons we’ll get into a little later on) more...
Though the 1966 space-age vampire flick Queen of Blood is not new to home video, it has been one of the more elusive science-fiction titles of the 1960s. Issued on VHS as Planet of Blood back in the early 1980s on the budget “Star Classics” label and later in 1990 on a much improved laser disc from Image (paired with Mario Bava’s similarly-themed Planet of the Vampires), Queen of Blood has been mostly unavailable to collectors for nearly twenty-five years. In March 2011 MGM finally re-issued the title as part of its Limited Edition Collection, but only as a made-on-demand release. In 2015, Kino Lorber has – very happily for genre fans and collectors - rescued this title from the wasteland of cult-film marginalia with their superb Blu-Ray release of this Roger Corman-Curtis Harrington classic.
Queen of Blood (for reasons we’ll get into a little later on) more...
- 1/24/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Curtis Harrington took an assignment nobody else would and fashioned a gem of low-budget Sci-Fi. A Russian space epic provides expensive-looking special effects scenes for a new horror show about a deadly alien rescued from a crash landing on Mars. The extras include excellent interviews with Roger Corman and effects specialist / historian Robert Skotak.
Queen of Blood Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 80 min. / Street Date December 1, 2015 / 29.95 Starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Florence Marly, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper, Robert Boon, Don Eitner, Forrest J Ackerman. Cinematography Vilis Lapenieks Film Editor Leo Shreve Original Music Ronald Stein Written by Curtis Harrington from the Soviet film Mechte navstrechu Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, George Edwards Directed by Curtis Harrington
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A.I.P. released some tacky movies in its day but none were less respected than those cobbled together from foreign imports spiked with new filmed-in-Hollywood storylines.
Queen of Blood Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 80 min. / Street Date December 1, 2015 / 29.95 Starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Florence Marly, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper, Robert Boon, Don Eitner, Forrest J Ackerman. Cinematography Vilis Lapenieks Film Editor Leo Shreve Original Music Ronald Stein Written by Curtis Harrington from the Soviet film Mechte navstrechu Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, George Edwards Directed by Curtis Harrington
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A.I.P. released some tacky movies in its day but none were less respected than those cobbled together from foreign imports spiked with new filmed-in-Hollywood storylines.
- 11/28/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Continuing her climb to the top of the modeling game, Gigi Hadid appears in the May 2015 issue of Harper's Bazaar as part of a very special spread.
The 19-year-old poser is part of Global Fashion Director Carine Roitfeld’s “Beauty Queens: Where Beauty Meets Fashion This Season” portfolio.
Included in all 32 editions of the magazine, “Beauty Queens” also features Jing Wen, Laura James, Anna Cleveland, Ondria Hardin, Antonia Wilson, Paige Reifler and Kitty Hayes.
The 19-year-old poser is part of Global Fashion Director Carine Roitfeld’s “Beauty Queens: Where Beauty Meets Fashion This Season” portfolio.
Included in all 32 editions of the magazine, “Beauty Queens” also features Jing Wen, Laura James, Anna Cleveland, Ondria Hardin, Antonia Wilson, Paige Reifler and Kitty Hayes.
- 4/7/2015
- GossipCenter
Scientists are baffled by a newly-discovered plague that is decimating many of the world's starfish by causing the creatures to literally tear their own bodies apart. The disease, the source of which is still unknown, seems to trigger a bizarre reaction in the animals, making their limbs move independently in opposing directions until their bodies literally rip themselves apart. While a healthy starfish can regenerate missing limbs, those afflicted by the plague do not heal themselves. PBS News Hour recently ran a story on the phenomenon, interviewing researchers in Washington state, where the first corpses began to appear. (Watch the full interview in the clip below.) “There were just bodies everywhere,” said diver & marine photographer Laura James. “They were just like splats. To me, it always looked like somebody had taken a laser gun and just zapped them and they just vaporized.” Experts are concerned that mass deaths of starfish...
- 2/5/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
LeAnn Rimes got engulfed in a twitter battle with a follower on Wednesday (16.08.12), after they slammed her for being a homewrecker. She immediately rushed to defend herself and her marriage to Eddie Cibrian, after Laura James mentioned the country singer in a tweet, noting that she 'cheated with Ed & broke up her marriage and his.' LeAnn responded: 'Correction...we broke up our own marriages. people have nothing better to do than judge something they know nothing about.' Laura replied: 'Well, then u better prove to others what u did was right by staying together so u can get ur fan base back. Otherwise the breakups & your marriage were all for nothing. 'And u might not want to...
- 8/16/2012
- Monsters and Critics
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