EDITOR’S NOTE: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, July 19, 1969 at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, September 13, 1969 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, January 16, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, July 12, 1972 at 1:00 a.m.
I keep saying to myself, “Don’t get confused.”
This is not 1950’s Prehistoric Women, nor is it the 1967 movie Prehistoric Women, nor is it Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women.
When Roger Corman bought the Russian movie Planet of Storms (Planeta Bur), he used that footage to make Peter Bogdanovich’s Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, and this film had to confuse filmgoers. And me, as you can tell, even today.
Corman doubled down on that mind-altering sensation by shooting new scenes at the same time Harrington was making Queen of Blood, as Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue shot their scenes in half a day using the same costumes from that movie.
While Harrington considered Queen of Blood good enough to keep his name on, he used the name John Sebastian, inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach, for this remix. He told Psychotronic Video that the movie “was not even a film.”
Rathbone plays Professor Hartman, and Domergue is Dr. Marsha Evans. They’re the only English-speaking actors that show up, as everything else is dubbed from the Russian movie. Even the soundtrack is recycled from Dinosaurus! Even crazier, most of the credits were fake so no one would realize it was made in Russia, since it was released during the Cold War.
You can watch this on Tubi.
