THE ANGRY RED PLANET
Dir. Ib Melchior, 1959
United States. 83 min.
In English.

SATURDAY August 9 – 5pm
SUNDAY August 10 – 7:30pm
SUNDAY August 17 – 5pm

Well? Shall we go out and claim the planet in the name of Brooklyn?

THE ANGRY RED PLANET is a delightfully strange late-50s creature feature with a production budget of 200K and only nine days of filming. With constraints like that, the team had no choice but to improvise by adapting hand-drawn animation to live-action footage. Such is the CineMagic that brings this surreal and very red depiction of Mars to life, a Mars that also happens to be the residence of our picture's monster: a behemoth rat/bat/spider/crab hybrid. A formidable, otherworldly quest alongside character actor greats Gerald Mohr and Jack Kruschen.

a stimulating experience in suspense and intrigue
---Samuel D. Burns, Motion Picture Daily

director/screenwriter Ib Melchior brings a surprisingly light, deft touch
---Bruce Eder, AllMovie

Special thanks to Tiffany Greenwood and SWANK