Re-titled Bullshit

HORRORS OF THE RED PLANET-(aka THE WIZARD OF MARS)-1965-A US spaceship is forced to land on Mars. Its occupants (4 men and a woman): Steve (Roger Gentry), Doc (Vic McGee), Charlie (Jerry Rannow) and Dorothy (Eve Bernhardt) decide to explore the surface. While sleeping in a raft they are attacked by what looks like used lobster tails with appendages (puppets). In a dense fog, they drift into a multicolored cavern, get lost, wander around and have to avoid boiling lava. “Isn't there anyplace on this planet that isn't a death trap?”. They keep walking, almost run out of oxygen but find some in an old probe. They eventually come upon a deserted city and meet an alien who's in a kind of suspended animation (it’s the same weird looking creature from the equally low budget sci-fi movie SPACE MONSTER!). They meet the manifestation of the Martian race (John Carradine’s head) who explains how they were beings who messed with time, became immortal and now want to die. The Astronauts fix time and almost die but wind up back on their ship and only two minutes has past. Too bad they couldn't make the story move that fast! 

This movie marked the directorial debut of David L. Hewitt who later made the abysmal but entertaining Z-budget horror anthology GALLERY OF HORROR. That's all you need to know. Some call it a rip-off of The Wizard of Oz but I'd just call it boring. Star Gentry was later in the aforementioned GOH. McGee had a role in Ed Wood's THE SINISTER URGE a few years before. Rannow became a TV show writer. Former showgirl Bernhardt didn't make many movies. In the same year Carradine worked with Jerry Warren on CURSE OF THE STONE HAND and the strange pasted together HOUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH.

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