33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015

TERRORE NELLO SPAZIO

PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
by Mario Bava
Country: Italy, Spain
Year: 1965
Duration: 88'


The spaceships Argos and Galliot intercept mysterious signals that indicate the presence of intelligent life on the planet Aura. A magnetic field forces the astronauts to land but during the manoeuvre the Argos loses contact with the Galliot and its crew is overcome by a madness that only Commander Mark Markary can control. The behavior of the people onboard becomes violent and aggressive. When the captain and his men return to the Galliot, they find the bodies of their companions, decimated by the same homicidal fury: who or what has caused this massacre? To Markary and the other astronauts, this is the beginning of a journey into the mysteries that envelop the planet Aura, inhabited by an unknown civilization which is determined to abandon the dying satellite any way it can.

Biography

film director

Mario Bava

Mario Bava (San Remo, 1914) died in Rome 1980. His father was a camera person at the time of silent movies and passed down to Mario his passion for the cinema as well as a love for painting and an interest in everything that is connected with images. Until 1960 he worked as director of photography. In the 1940s he directed a few short films. He debuted as a director with Black Sunday, today still considered his masterpiece. Subsequently, he started to make color films and began to make a long series of gothic horror films that have largely been overlooked in Italian criticism. His cinema has earned a healthy reputation abroad and has been subjected to an important re-evaluation over the last thirty years.

FILMOGRAFIA

La maschera del demonio (1960), I tre volti della paura (1963), La frusta e il corpo (1963), Sei donne per l'assassino (1964), Terrore nello spazio (1965), Diabolik (1968), Il rosso segno della follia (1969), Reazione a catena (1971), Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (1972), La casa dell'esorcismo (1974), Schock (1977), La venere d'Ille (1978).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Mario Bava
soggetto/story
dal racconto/from the short story Una notte di 21 ore di/by Renato Pestriniero
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Mario Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua, Callisto Cosulich, Ib Melchior, Antonio Romàn, Rafael J. Salvia
fotografia/cinematography
Antonio Pérez Olea, Antonio Rinaldi
montaggio/film editing
Romana Fortini, Antonio Gimeno
scenografia/production design
Giorgio Giovannini
costumi/costume design
Gabiele Mayer
musica/music
Gino Marinuzzi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Barry Sullivan (Mark Markary), Norma Bengell (Sanya), Ángel Aranda (Wes), Evi Marandi (Tiona), Mario Morales (Eldon), Stelio Candelli (Brad), Franco Andrei (Garr), Fernando Villena (Dr Karan)
produttore/producer
Fulvio Lucisano
produzione/production
American International Pictures, Castilla Cooperativa Cinematográfica, Italian International Film


contatti/contacts
Cineteca Nazionale
Laura Argento
laura.argento@fondazionecsc.it
www.fondazionecsc.it
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