QUEEN OF BLOOD (1966) BAD MOVIE ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT

THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT CONTINUES! In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 came this pre-MST3K show about bad and campy movies. Film Vault Technicians 1st Class Richard Malmos and Randy Clower hosted the show along with their friend and cocreator Ken Miller as Tex plus Laurie Savino as the Film Vault Corps’ Mystery Clip Technician. 

QUEEN OF BLOOD (1966)  

Originally aired on T27FV: Saturday May 3rd, 1986 from 10:30pm to 1am. Broadcast throughout Texas and Oklahoma.

Extras: The Texas 27 Film Vault ran 2 1/2 hours, so Randy and Richard had more time to work with than many other Movie Host shows. In addition to showing the movie, mocking the movie and featuring Film Vault Corps comedy sketches this episode presented the 12th and final chapter of the 1952 serial Radar Men from the Moon plus an interview with Forry Ackerman. (I think there’s more footage of Ackerman than there is of some U.S. presidents.)

If the only bad movie show you know is MST3K think of: Women of the Prehistoric Planet, First Spaceship on Venus and Humanoid Woman.

THE MOVIE: Queen of Blood is one of the most joyously disjointed and demented examples of the American sci-fi films cobbled together by recycling some footage from the Soviet movie Planet of Storms and others. The recycled footage is awkwardly edited in with new footage featuring THE Dennis Hopper and John Saxon.

In the far-off year 1990 Saxon, Hopper, Basil Rathbone, Forry Ackerman and others are personnel serving in a Starfleet-type outfit. An alien race has contacted the Earth for the first time and is invited over for a visit. Their Ambassadorial ship crash-lands on one of the moons of Mars via cut-and-pasted and often mismatched footage from the foreign films mentioned above.

Saxon, Hopper and friends set off to rescue the survivors on that moon of the Red Planet via MORE cut-and-pasted and often mismatched footage. The sole survivor is a green-skinned woman with a hairdo that’s shaped like an onion. She’s our title menace and is really a vampiric alien. The extraterrestrials were planning on visiting Earth only so they could use the human race as involuntary blood-donors.

The Queen of Blood also turns out to be like a queen bee and has littered the rescuing Earth ship with red, gooshy, pulsating eggs (obvious balloons being partially inflated and deflated in sequence).

Randy (right) and Richard way down on Level 31 hosting The Texas 27 Film Vault

As a necessity with these cobbled-together movies the bulk of the action takes place on small, claustrophobic sets. That’s because, for obvious reasons, the actors in the new footage can never be shown in action in the colorful, sweeping alien planet locations from the borrowed footage.

SPOILER: The film ends in incredibly anti-climactic fashion. The Queen is a hemophiliac and so one minor scratch from our few surviving heroes causes her death. Hilarious! Her eggs are taken away for scientific study as this whole laughable mess comes to a kind of “meh” ending.

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