"It's So Close, And Yet, Just Beyond Our Reach!"...

Strange, beautiful film - deliberate or inadvertent art?

Well...it's got John Carradine...and it's in color...umm...did I mention John Carradine?

Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

Cesare Danova, Danielle De Metz, Sean McClory, and Joan Staley in Valley of the Dragons (1961)

Ross Ford, Donna Martell, and Hayden Rorke in Project Moon Base (1953)

William Mims, Kent Taylor, and Marie Windsor in The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)

John Baer, Georgianna Carter, Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, Tyler McVey, Ed Nelson, and Ross Sturlin in Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Eve Bernhardt in The Wizard of Mars (1965)

Roger Gentry in The Wizard of Mars (1965)

John Carradine

Roger Gentry

Vic McGee

David L. Hewitt

Armando Busick

L. Frank Baum

In 1975, four astronauts, Dorothy, Doc, Charlie, and Steve, crash land on Mars when taking readings, with only four days of supplies.

The Wizard of Mars

A Horse Of A Strange Color

Hewitt&apos;s &quot;Gallery Of Horrors&quot; is one of the great &quot;so bad it&apos;s good&quot;  funny films, and his really stupid &quot;Monsters Crash the Pajama Party&quot; is inept but a lot less amusing.  so the genuine qualities of &quot;Wizard Of Mars&quot; caught me off guard. It&apos;s video title &quot;Horrors Of The Red Planet&quot; is actually a lot better and more fitting.       I hate to get into a fight here about the obvious merits of MST3K, who did not even do this movie, but it would have in fact been a bad choice for the show, as the film does have a strange, hypnotic effect that goes along with the clumsy flubs one expects from a Hewitt film. The film has a dream like quality, and it&apos;s strange story seems, yes, an interesting forerunner to &quot;2001&quot;.

      Three of Hewitt&apos;s &quot;Gallery Of Horrors&quot; stars (Carridine, Roger Gentry, and Vic McGee) are back.   McGee does the best work of his career, even toping his

sleazy ganster in Ed Wood&apos;s &quot;Sinister Urge.&quot; Opps,  there I go. Actually, Vic McGee is a terrible actor who appeared in a handful of grade Z films, but his work here is  somehow moving. See, this movie just won&apos;t let you make fun of it.      I don&apos;t know if the actress is overdubbing her own voice, but they should have found a better one to use(the whole movie is overdubbed). In any case, see this film.  It&apos;s right up there with &quot;Creation Of The Humanoids&quot; in the strange department.

Hewitt's "Gallery Of Horrors" is one of the great "so bad it's good"  funny films, and his really stupid "Monsters Crash the Pajama Party" is inept but a lot less amusing.  so the genuine qualities of "Wizard Of Mars" caught me off guard. It's video title "Horrors Of The Red Planet" is actually a lot better and more fitting.       I hate to get into a fight here about the obvious merits of MST3K, who did not even do this movie, but it would have in fact been a bad choice for the show, as the film does have a strange, hypnotic effect that goes along with the clumsy flubs one expects from a Hewitt film. The film has a dream like quality, and it's strange story seems, yes, an interesting forerunner to "2001".

      Three of Hewitt's "Gallery Of Horrors" stars (Carridine, Roger Gentry, and Vic McGee) are back.   McGee does the best work of his career, even toping his

sleazy ganster in Ed Wood's "Sinister Urge." Opps,  there I go. Actually, Vic McGee is a terrible actor who appeared in a handful of grade Z films, but his work here is  somehow moving. See, this movie just won't let you make fun of it.      I don't know if the actress is overdubbing her own voice, but they should have found a better one to use(the whole movie is overdubbed). In any case, see this film.  It's right up there with "Creation Of The Humanoids" in the strange department.

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