
- Year
- 1965
- Country
- Spain · Italy
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Director
- Mario Bava
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Demon Planet · Planet of Blood · Space Mutants · Terror in Space · The Haunted Planet · The Haunted World
Planet of the Vampires
Bava builds an alien planet out of fog and two rocks, and Alien quietly borrowed the skeleton.
Bava shoots a haunted house in orbit: two crews answer a distress signal and land on a fog-drowned world where the dead get back up and walk, wearing the same black leather the living do. He built the entire planet from dry ice, coloured gels and a couple of papier-mache boulders, and it looks like nothing else in 1965 science fiction. The derelict alien wreck with the giant fossilised pilot went straight into Alien a decade later, a debt Dan O'Bannon never bothered denying.
The whole world is fog, plastic and two rocks. You will believe every frame of it.
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