Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

This film is so awful it's brilliant.

The film is actually a re-edit of a Soviet science fiction film with extra footage of young American girls. Very low budget. The two sets of actors never actually meet.

All the voices are dubbed on afterwards. This covers up the fact that the astronauts are speaking Russian. The "Prehistoric women" communicate through thought waves, so none of them have to talk and act at the same time! I watched this on Sumo TV in the UK. The version I saw still had all the cinema adds spliced in. The adverts for ice cream, popcorn and hot chocolate were still there. There was also an advert for CocaCola.

The whole thing looks like someone had filmed the thing from the stalls on an old Cine camera. Picture blurred and fuzzy, colour almost bleached away.

Unfortunately none of the US actors ever went on to do anything of any significance. The leading lady, Mamie Van Doren, seems to have built her reputation around being a former Hollywood starlet who was supposed to be the next Marylin Monroe and spent five years dating Howard Hughes, from the age of 15! Directed by Peter Bogdanovich (Famous director and also Dr. Elliot Kupferberg in The Sopranos TV series)

Any prospective actor/producer/director should see some of this.

Although Planet Of Prehistoric Women's mother film Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet had some interesting aspects to it, this one is a total dud. Unless of course all you want to see is Mamie Van Doren and those scantily clad Venusian babes. All of them Playboy playmates or could qualify for same.

Honestly if the earth people knew what was on Venus, they'd be rushing pell mell to get to the shrouded second planet.

This film is a re-edited version of the first film with some added footage of Mamie and her clan. It seems as though the earth astronauts have killed the flying reptile the Venusians worship as a god. Causing a theological revolution on the place.

Unless you like Mamie and those twin weapons of mass destruction she sports, I'd pass this one up.

Like many of the reviewers, I watched this after the "Prehistoric Planet" film. I was astonished that there were no changes to any of the previous footage, other than the Bogdanovich voice over and the disappearance of Faith Domergue (Marcia). What has been added is a set of blonde women who hold sway on Venus and worship a Pterodactyl. They have scallop shell bras and hip hugger pants with bell bottoms made of a sheer material. I do remember that Mamie Van Doren was really quite a good looking lady and these really are some attractive women. But they never really speak. They are telepathic. They are there to show that they actually caused much of what happened to the Astronauts in the previous movie. This had to be made for the drive-in crowd to neck and ignore, simply to fill space on a triple feature. It certainly wasn't worth much time and effort.

Soon after landing on Venus a team of American astronauts are attacked by a creature resembling a pterosaur. In order to do defend themselves they kill it. However, Venus is inhabited by a race of women who worshipped the flying creature, and who decide to kill the astronauts in revenge.

This movie started life as a 1962 Russian film called Planeta Bur. US producer Roger Corman got hold of it and decided to overdub it with American actors for a US release. His first attempt met with a very limited success so he tried again. This time he hired a young Peter Bogdanovich to shoot some extra scenes, telling him "AIP won't buy it unless we stick some girls in it." So, Bogdanovich hired blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren, plus half a dozen or so other blondes, and shot their inserts over five days (their roles mainly involving reclining on the shoreline of a Venusian ocean, whilst posing in skin-tight pants and tops made-up of two strategically placed seashells). Because of this there is no direct onscreen interaction between the women and the astronauts, and as a result the film inevitably feels very disjointed. In its favour, there is a strange dreamlike quality to the scenes on the planet surface, that put me in mind of Mario Bava's (obviously much better) Planet of the Vampires. And the apparent free availability of modern-day hair products and makeup on Venus is worth a laugh every time we get a closeup of one of the centrefold-Venusians. That said, it's a poor movie, and really worth seeing only as a curio. Despite her limited 'role', Van Doren was front and centre for all marketing for obvious reasons. 3.5/10.

"Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" concerns a party of cosmonauts attempting to rescue another group on Venus. Along the way they encounter prehistoric monsters and other perils, and there is an intelligent robot. This part of the film is really an excellently made Russian sci-fi film called "Storm Planet", while the other part concerns a band of telepathic Venusian cave girls led by Mamie Van Doren, who worship a pterosaur named Tera and watch the struggles of the cosmonauts from afar; this other part was spliced in by P. Bogdonovitch (at R. Corman's behest? I'm not sure), and is ridiculous camp. I've seen two versions of this film (not including the Russian original), one without the Van Doren sequences. Although it is regarded as a psychotronic/cult/camp type of film, the classiness of the original manages to come through most of it, and the pacing benefits from the exclusion of a stereotypically sexist subplot involving a female crewmember's misplaced patriotic zeal.