Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)

Unless you're a masochist, stay away from this one., 13 June 2006

Is it possible to "rape" a movie? That's how I would describe Roger Corman and Company's treatment of the Russian film Planeta Bur. Taking footage from that film and adding some terrible sequences he filmed, Peter Bogdanovich created one fine mess of a movie. Other than the nonsensical narration he recorded himself, Bogdanovich's creative contribution to Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women appears to have been the film he shot of Mamie Van Doren and a half-dozen other women lounging on the coast of California. It's so cheaply done that there is no actual dialogue as shooting sound would have been too costly (not to mention these women probably couldn't act to save their lives). This footage was then sloppily edited with the Russian film to create this dull, pointless, plot less "thing" that has no entertainment value whatsoever. I don't know when I've been so bored and ready for a movie to end. It's excruciating. I like a lot of the low-budget, no-budget films of the 60s, but I would rather have a tooth pulled than sit through Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women again. Unless you're a masochist, stay away from this one.

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