Mars Needs Women
Closed CaptioningLarry Buchanan
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Highly classified U.S. decoding center receives mysterious radio signals. They finally break the code, which reads: Mars needs women! Voice from a space vehicle from Mars gives an ultimatum - they will take five women back to Mars as test cases due to a preponderance of male births. If the U.S. resits, Mars will annihilate the Earth.
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Classic Grade Z Sci-Fi
The film is in color, trailer isn't. Directed by Larry Buchanan, know also for directing remakes of Roger Corman films for TV in Texas...at a lower budget than Corman, "Attack of the Eye Creatures", "Zontar Thing From Venus". This is an 'original' screenplay. Stars former Disney actor Tommy Kirk, who would also star in another Buchanan classic "It's Alive" and Yvonne Craig, best known for playing 'Batgirl' on the classic 60's TV show "Batman". Shot in Houston. You want special effects? Tough...you ain't gonna get 'em! You want great acting? Not a chance! You love grade-Z movie? This is for you.
I love it!
I absolutely love this film! Especially the trailer!!...Oh, and also, the amazing song by Meat Beat Manifesto, "Mars Needs Women;" it samples sounds from the movie. It's great. Available on iTunes, too.
Bad. and not in a good way
There are bad movies that are bad-funny. Then there are bad movies that are bad-boring. This is the latter category. Only 82 minutes, feels like 3 hours. What was Tommy Kirk, of Disney fame (Flubber, Hardy Boys, etc), or his agent, thinking? If watching a government film of an X-15 detach and fly for four or five minutes, and watching a speaker on a wall for several minutes is your idea of fun, go ahead. The soundtrack is absolutely annoying and doesn't seem to match much of anything. The dialogue is excruciatingly slow. It feels like really driving down a highway, or watching a first date unfold. The Martians, who raid a haberdashery, and therefore look just like normal men, stalk a stripper, a homecoming queen, an airline stewardess and a painter. Tommy Kirk falls for a PhD in genetics. Really, about half this movie seems put together from NASA and Air Force films, and from a college football film. It's in color, not black and white, as portrayed in the trailer. The trailer is better than the movie.
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- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Released: 1967
- © 1967 Azalea Film Company. All Rights Reserved.