Voyage To The Planet Of Prehistoric Woma (UK PAL Region 0)

I love sci-fi, and I sometimes get a kick out of watching old movies that I loved as a kid, even though they're awful by today's standards. But this one is just weird. The script is lousy, and the special effects are at about the 1950's level, even though the movie is from 1968. For reference, that's the year "2001: A Space Odyssey" came out.A quick Web search turned up a Wikipedia article that explains it. This is actually a 1962 Russian movie that was dubbed into English. All the footage of the women was added at that time, and the English script was altered to try and make sense of it all.Two of the people who worked on the film were Roger Corman and Peter Bogdanovich. If you're a fan of either of them, you might enjoy this as a curiosity. Otherwise, I'd skip it, unless I was in the mood for one of those "So bad, it's funny" flicks, or perhaps if you like Russian films laced with moody, introspective dialog that doesn't advance the plot.

Bottom line, astronauts from earth go to venus and accidentally kill a flying dinosaur that was being worshiped by a group of hottie women there. The women prop up the dead dino and still worship it. The astronauts explore around some and see some volcanoes, along with their robot they bring with them, and are then forced to leave the planet because of weather and the volcanoes. One dude manages to find a rock that has a hidden sculpture of a woman inside so he thinks the inhabitants are like humans. The astronauts leave the planet leaving their robot behind who seems somewhat encased in volcanic debris. The women decide that the dead dino is no longer a good god to worship and so they then worship the robot encased in volcano debris. Overall the women are hot and just filler to get the studio to buy the movie apparently, and there is some filler at the beginning about old school space ship designs. Overall I like it for what it is, a badly made low plot throw away movie with old school hotties in it. Worth a watch for old school sci fi fans or fans of the one lead hottie girl.

One of my favorite Sci-Fi flicks. Wonderful visuals and can be played on silent in a party or bar just to set the mood. Enjoy

ONLY buy the DUB3 'Comic Book Collector's Edition' version. It is a pressed disk NOT burned like the others I tried.There's probably a half dozen versions of this movie sold on Amazon. I tried many of them in order to get a decent copy.Finally, I discovered the Comic Book 'Collector's Edition' version. It is on a pressed disc and should last just about forever. It looks like the authoring was done on a Mac as opposed to a DVD recorder. This version includes chapter settings and a theatrical trailer. Very good picture and sound.Seeing this film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays like a favorite musical album; the more I know it, the more I like it. The cinematography has not aged at all. The dialogue is so spare and cynical it has not grown old-fashioned. Much of the emotional effect of ' Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women' is achieved by indirection; as we leave the theater, we are absolutely convinced that the only thing keeping the world from going crazy is knowing we have seen 'THE MOVIE'.Movies like this are not merely difficult to make at all, but almost impossible to make well. The technical difficulties are so daunting that it’s a wonder when the filmmakers are also able to bring the drama and history into proportion. I found myself convinced by both story and saga.To watch it, is to experience steadily mounting delight, as you realize the filmmakers have taken enormous risks, and gotten away with them.A true Masterpiece. Great Movie. In COLOR.

This item was delivered yesterday. I tried to play it and was unable to play the complete movie. With a closer look, the damage to the disk was apparent. It appears to me that this was a defective disk that was returned by a previous buyer and just put back in stock. The disk holder wasn't wrapped and I should have been suspicious of it when I opened it. There's no point in returning it to Amazon. The last time I returned an item, I had to pay a $7 UPS shipping charge to return it. That was only a few dollars less than the cost of the product. I don't know when Amazon instituted this policy, but as a long time customer, I'm not pleased with it.

No CGI here. When I saw the image Amazon had up for the title, I thought it looked like it was made in the 50's or 60's, and was maybe Russian or Japanese. After watching the movie, I was able to find out more about it, and indeed, it includes footage from Russian movies, and in fact was made in the 1960's (though Amazon says 2005).The movie itself is seriously washed out of color, and appears black and white in most cases. It's a shame, I think with vibrant colors it would be a whole different film. The models of the spaceships, especially at the beginning, are great. I loved it. Cool "60's style ships. And the hover car is a hoot to see today, though I am sure it was pretty cool when the film was made. There is even a (very) large robot in the film.The women are pretty enough, but their role is not as large as you would think. And as I mentioned, the washed colors and poor copy of the film leaves a lot to be desired.So, if you like old scifi movies, despite any lack of a real story, this would be a good film to watch at least once. I gave it two stars because I just thought the models and effects were well done. To be honest, I might come back later and check this film out again.

I'm giving this 3 stars only for its originality.Venus is inhabited by 9 tall skinny women who communicate by mind speak. Their worship a one of a kind flying dinosaur which the space men kill.The 5 astronauts never see the Venusians, yet one guy "falls in love".This is a very slow movie with lots of rocks and strange plants.I kept waiting for the men to meet the women, but it never happens.

Just skip around to scenes with the "prehistoric" girls. Somewhat rewarding. Looks like a tryout of female leads for ABBA. Visions of Agnetha at a sushi bar.

Hello, Folks! I just got my package today! I hadn't seen the first in this series, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, since Grade 6... GRADE SIX!!!!!!!!! Tells you how old I am... LOLZ!!!!! Thanks, Folks!!!!! By The By, I'm looking forward to seeing both, Even if the first one had glacial pacing... Thanks, Folks!

amazon film overview first :"After crash landing on Venus, a team of astronauts encounter flying reptiles and other prehistoric monsters. One they kill is considered a God by the female inhabitants of Venus, bringing further wrath from an already hostile planet". Written by Henry Ney Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. and so ..."Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" from 1968, is possibly the most ineptly made film i've EVER seen. the other amazon reviews generally focus either on the very poor image quality or shall we say "jumbled" script but for me miss the main selling point of this film - its so AWFUL its FANTASTIC ! for any fan of laughably bad b-movie genre with films by Ed Wood et al : "Plan 9 from Outer Space", "The Ape Man" etc, "VTTPOPW" is a must. the first 15 minutes are pure Russian space film footage, then the "plot" er develops from there. mainly blond women (from Venus obviously) , rubber prehistoric creatures,spliced with the Russian spacemen adding er an extra diemnsion to this extraordinarily bad film. there are so many funny moments in this film , for less than £5 / $8 to your door - it s a great saturday night in with pizza and friends type film .yes - the picture quality is awful + an obvious cheap cash-in from Elstree (no liner notes or original film release dates either), BUT the film is so bad, laughably spliced together with the two different films , + plain so bad its good enjoyable . people will still find this film hugely enjoyable. SO bad but GOOD, and a welcome addition to the Ed Wood lineage. THIS FILM IS A CLEAR CUT 1 OR 5 STARS. :depending on yr sense of humour or what constitutes a "good" film. like i said for my review of "Attack of the 50tf Woman" (1993 remake)- this is not Bergamn or Tarkovsky - its trash : Get it ?for more info :[...]"GENIUS"..

Poor picture quality.

I really enjoyed this film, it is funny to watch the 1960's cheap technology. I find it interesting that they thought in 1968 that in 1998, in which the film is supposed to be set, we would be able to visit all diffrent planets and would have very advanced technology. In fact humans haven't even been to Mars yet. The film is very entertaining but don't watch it expecting a serious sci-fi movie. What you actually get is clips from another film with some new footage, so don't expect the women to meet the astronuts as the footage is from a diffrent movie. This was an extremely low budget film. On the plus side it has Mamie Van Doren and she is worth buying this movie for, she is stunning in this. And there are many other beautiful women along side her in the film.As for the DVD qulity, this film is completely unrestored. You can only barely make out the colour, so basicly it's a black and white film with a tint. You get lines on the screen and many blobs but it kind of adds to the atmosphere of the film. Definately worth buying for the bad 1960's technology, for Mamie Van Doren and for the fun of it. It's not going to break the bank and if you buy it from amazon you get free postage. You have nothing to lose!

One of the joys of watching such early cinematic sci fi presentations is in seeing the ludicruous expectations or wild hopes for the not too distant future they contain.The story follows the development of space travel and terraforming of distant planets to make them habitable and right for human colonisation, it is told from the perspective of a male astronaut but features two groups or parties, one the initial set of colonists, the second a rescue party dispatched to recover the earlier party.The first party crash and encounter all kinds of hostile environmental challenges to their survival while awaiting rescue, including some rather neat lizard men and dinosaurs, along with tentacled horrors and man eating plants, save for a bug eyed monster all the stock features are present, including a giant robot which is created by one of the scientists in the first group of colonists and goes haywire before the finish.The acting isnt bad but the script wont win any oscars and is a little like early science fiction radio pieces or single scripted episodes. The Venusian prehistoric women do not encounter the astronauts, which probably accounts for the central premise present in the narrators account, he is insisting that he isnt mad to believe the planet, despite being environmentally hostile, is inhabited on the basis of artifacts he found but which were discounted by his colleagues. The Venusians are shown swimming about, eating raw fish and worshipping deified animals, which the clumbsy colonists succeed in killing one at a time with handguns or a mounted gun, no real ray gun futurism here. Despite following false Gods they appear to still be capable of commanding the elements of their home planet to the jeopardy of the astronauts.The movie's effects are poor and the idea that mankind would be colonising Venus by now absurd but it is good fun to watch if you are a fan of old time radio or cinema.