La nave de los monstruos

At a glance this title may not stand out, but it's worth your time, being a bit of a rare treat: a decently made B-flick with a sense of humor. That humor hasn't been lost in translation or obscured over time, either.

The premise: After many wars, Venus needs men, so they dispatch Gamma and Beta to scrape the bottom of the galactic barrel for any males they can manage to collect. (Seriously, any.) Next stop is Earth, where they meet a romantic, singing cowboy who's much less revolting than the others, but romance may be the least of the threats about to send the mission into chaos.

Beyond those basics, try to go in as unspoiled as you can manage. This movie has a handful of twists, and they really are more effective and funnier that way. The Ship of Monsters will certainly hit the B-sci-fi-horror spot with its black-and-white low budget aesthetic and wacky effects, but the film knows what it's doing, and entertains all on its own. Refreshing if you're used to uneven or lackluster old productions that need riffing to get through.

A must see movie for anyone who loves 1950's style scifi , Mexican movies or movies that are in their own little universe.

This is a Mexican scifi/monster/western/musical/comedy/horror film. It concerns a space ship piloted by two women (think Cat Women of the Moon or Queen of Outer Space) who land on earth with a ship of monsters. They get mixed up with a Mexican cowboy who's prone to song and who falls in love with one of the women. As you can guess the monsters get loose and pandemonium ensues.

Wow, wow and wow.

This is a fun film that is NOT a so good its bad film, its just a fun little movie that is very good on its own terms. Its clear that everyone knows that what they are doing is silly but they play it straight anyway and seem to be having a good time.

Being a monster junkie I was in heaven. Not only is there a great looking robot, but a strange talking skeleton, a weird little guy with a brain like head, a furry guy with long arms. a giant monster of some sort, a vampire and something else. Its a a wonderful assortment of monsters of the clearly men in suit variety. You'll laugh at them and probably find them charmingly hokey.

I really loved this film. Its a 9 out of 10 for me for the simple reason that I had to see this with out any English translation. Somehow I think that had I seen this in English this would have been even better since from the few words I could grasp it seemed to strike the right balance between serious and silly.

If you get the chance see this movie, its just a lot of fun and it will make you feel good.

A Mexican Sci-fi/Western starring the late but always great Piporro and Ana Bertha Lepe. This is a sui generis movie because the b-movie market in México during the late 50's was really poor in production values mainly but this movie is the exception. This is probably the best of it's kind. I mean, the best b-sci-fi flick Mexican movie of probably 50 years. It's no wonder this movie it's ahead of it's time mainly because it's heavily influenced by American productions but still the effort is recognized. GREAT f/x and art direction. This is a likable, entertaining, cultural movie.

An earth Mexican cowboy is the only hope for humanity to confront four monsters that have been commanded to destroy: animals and humanity mainly. The monsters are really cool and you can see the effort of the production. There is a cyclops monster in the likes of "Clash Of The Titans", a short martian with a gigantic brain, an ape type gigantic monster, and a skeleton in the likes of "Sinbad and his 7th Voyage". All of them are menacing but Piporro faces them with his comedic Norteño attitude and his gun. After a first encounter with them, he goes to a local cantina (bar) and with the aid of a beer and Tequila he recovers his strenght and faith and faces the monsters for once and all. Oh and there's also room for some Norteño singing! Piporro delivers a comedic performance that relies on his on-screen charisma and his over the top Norteño attitude. He is supposed to be the brave cowboy but he gives the character his own charm.

Lorena Velázquez is really beautiful and sexy and delivers a great performance as the aspiring Mars Queen. She's always great and this is no exception. She looked gorgeous and sexy with his one-piece outfit. Hot. And her dialogs are very evil! There's always a room for cheese and in these performances there wasn't exception.

This Mexican sci-fi movie is a must-see simply because it's so strange. Plus, it has a good heart and never takes itself seriously! The story is very similar to "Abbott & Costello Go to Mars"...combined with a monster movie! It begins with some super- hot Venusian ladies and their incredibly silly robot announcing that they are in search of men, as the last of their died off recently. So, they have accumulated a really bizarre menagerie of goofy looking monsters from various planets--and you assume these hotties are planning on breeding with these male creatures. However, before they can get their galactic groove on, they become stranded on Earth--which is fortunate because these Venusians thing human men are super-mega-hot! They are particularly infatuated with a singing caballero in a cowboy hat!

Later, the plans run amok when the nice sexy hot Venusian realizes her sexy leader is actually....a vampire!!!! Then the sexy vampire takes over, as her plan is to bring 'a wave of death and terror' on the Earth....along with her menagerie of nasty (and very silly looking) monsters. Can our super-mega-hot caballero possibly tame this she- devil or is the Earth doomed?

Where to begin?! Everything about this film is silly--from the space suits the Venusians wear (just bathing suits are all they need in space, apparently), the robot, the monsters and the plot...which is just insane! Still, there is a certain silliness about the film that make it worth seeing--particularly if you like insane movies!! And, this is pretty insane! Plus, the production values, while silly, are occasionally better than you'd expect from such a film. Not terrible....but very weird.

What a really great but ridiculous film starring one of the Wrestling Women (Lorena Velasquez) of Mexican films of that series. When I use the word "great", I really mean "so bad it's good".

The premise of the film is the old "taking Earthlings back to Venus, or a planet of your choice, to breed". Why the men of Venus can't cut the mustard is never made clear but nevertheless, it's the ever-popular Pipporo who gets the nod. He rides through the Mexican landscape warbling from the saddle while, somewhere behind a cactus, an accordion provides the back-up music. As might be expected, he is unwilling to make the trip to Venus, even though the aliens are wearing fishnet hose and reallllly high heels. So the girls unleash on mankind, some of the worst monsters conceived in film but to no avail. Pipporo 'aint leaving and in the end, the invaders are repulsed with weapons that wouldn't stop a gang of senior citizens on Valium.

This film is such fun that you have to love it. Check out the skeleton with a cow's head that keeps repeating "Ha, Ha, Ha". It's a blast!!!!