SHIP OF MONSTERS-1960-This lunatic
Mexican sci-fi musical comedy features Gamma (Ana Bertha Lepe) &
Beta (Lorena Velazquez), 2 alien women from Venus who comb the solar
system in search of males to breed with after a war has destroyed their male population. A clunky blinking robot Torr assists them. Before
coming to Earth they pick up some doozies! There's the short big head
Tawal, Prince of Mars, who's brain seems to be on the outside of his
head. Demonic Ogre Muppet like Uk, king of the fire planet. Giant
Crassus of the red planet (isn't that Mars?). Plus a marionette like
bag of bones whose name and planet are not mentioned.
The girls
freeze them and hide them in a cave when their spaceship has trouble
and they are forced to land on Earth. They meet the loud smiling
Lauriano (Eulalio Gonzalez) and his much younger brother. Almost
immediately he and Gamma fall in love and he sings a couple of songs!
Later Beta is jealous and reveals that she is a vampire from the
vampire planet Uranus and plans to drain Earth of its blood. She
turns into a bat and kills a farmer. Gamma rats her out to their boss
and Beta is condemned to be disintegrated. Beta double crosses Gamma,
locks her up, makes Torr her slave and convinces the captured male
prisoners help to her terrify and conquer Earth. She and Tawal seem
to have a thing for each other! Lauriano encounters all 4 of them in
the forest. Since he’s a big mouth braggart no one believes him. He
manages to get to the spaceship but Beta catches him and makes him
sing her a love song. While they are kissing Lauriano steals the
control box Bets uses and frees Gamma (and his little brother) but
sends the rocket into space. With the help of the robot the aliens are destroyed and Beta
is impaled. Gamma stays on Earth.
This is so nutty and dumb it's very
entertaining! Vampire alien Lorena Velaquez was later in some
Wrestling Women movies. Director Rogelio A. Gonzalez made many more
movies in Mexico but unfortunately was killed in a car accident in
1984.
Thanks for reading!
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