The crewmembers aboard the Argos and Galliot spaceships are sent to explore the planet Aura, not knowing that upon landing, they will face a "form of life worse than death." Friends turn on each other as an alien living dead species begins possessing human bodies in Planet of the Vampires, a 1965 cult classic that Scorpion Releasing is bringing to home media with all-new bonus features.
“In the near future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the mysterious planet Aura. As the Galliot lands on the planet her crew suddenly go berserk and attack each other. The strange event passes, but the crew soon discovers the crashed Argos – and learns that her crew died fighting each other! Investigating further, the explorers come to realize the existence of a race of bodiless aliens that seek to escape from their dying world…”
Planet of the Vampires hits home media on October 28th. Directed by Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, this 1965 sci-fi fright flick stars Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi, and Stelio Candelli.
Blu-ray Special Features (via Scorpion Releasing):
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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