Planet of the Vampires influence ?

No please no vampires in this movie! Sorry but the Twilight series emasculated that genre!

The movie is a sci-fi classic. It has nothing to do with Twilight or other aberrations like that :D

In fact, it's well known that 'Planet of The Vampires' was one of the original inspirations for 'Alien'...so, it doesn't surprise me in the least...

Sorry man! Thought it was some cheesy vampire film! You may be right but I think it would have to do with genetic memory and not out right possesion.

I find that scene along with the scene of the remains of dead space jockeys (??) the most bizarre and misterious ones so far. Cant wait to see the movie !

Grrrrrr Twilight. I hate what they did to vampires -_-

@ Cypher that's not all!!!! The amature AT BEST author of the twilight series wrote a ALIEN ROMANCE NOVEL called the Host! Looks like Ridley's Prometheus will be the last great sci-fi movie before they ruin the noble and magestic genre that is SCIENCE FICTION! I think we should send this author and the producers,actors and director a FACEHUGGER!

It's funny...much as I dislike 'Twilight', I wouldn't have my job without that movie...

I stopped on Vampires after Buffy. I was like 9.

@craigamore Really? That's very interesting! What's your job? If I may ask?

It's weird. I never noticed that, but now that you mention it...

I work in Special Education actually.....a friend of mine that I used to work with me in retail left to work at this school and I hadn't seen her in months...she wanted me to take her to see 'Twilight' and I agreed...while we were waiting for the movie to start, we got to talking about her job and how I hated mine, wanted a way out and she told me she thought I'd be perfect working with special needs children...so I checked it out and here I am, looking up at what appears to be a career in a job I absolutely love to death....

Wow craigmore that's a really cool way to get a job! As the nephew of a special needs aunt I totaly admire your work with these children! Keep up the awesome work!

Thanks man...I love what I do and it's just so amazing to work with these kids...see the progress they have to fight to make on the littlest things and just how awesome it is when they do...

That's a great story craigamore. I'm glad your happy in your work. That is key! Particularly true for you... "Big Things have small beginnings" ! Cheers!

Maybe this is a stupid question but...where are the vampires....in "Planet of the Vampires?" I can't find any. ~N

Thanks Nephilim_LV426...I just feel like, for the first time, I'm doing something worthwhile...

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Buffy and Twilight made Vampires crap.

The "Vampires" in Planet of the Vampires are actually inspired by older folk tales of vampires, which were generally entities that came back from the dead, the un-dead so to speak.

I vaguely recalled that Dan O'Bannon mentioned in one of his interviews (Alien DVD/Blu-Ray extras?) that 'Planet of the Vampires' was one of the influences on Alien. Planet of the Vampire is an Italian science-fiction made by Mario Brava and it conatined a scene whereby the crew of two spacecrafts crash landed on an unexplored planet containing bodies of the crews who died during the crash. The corpses became animated and began to stalk and kill the remaining survivors. But more specifically the spacesuit in Planet of the Vampire and Prometheus shared similar design concepts. Alien drew in from a lot of old B-Movie science-fictions/horrors and Prometheus in turn is based on some of the idea in Alien that were not fully realised in 1979. Fiy, Planet of the Vampires is on Youtube. Here's one such link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcMI4O2_tLA

Ain't no way anybody gonna tell me the scene where the two main astronauts enter the alien ship/find the remains of a huge pilot in Planet of Vamps (favorite scene, and scarier than the vampires) did not directly influence the little trio meeting the Space Jockey in Alien.

No discussion of space vampire movies is complete, without a mention of "Lifeforce".....and Mathilda May.

@artyoh I would love to "discuss" Mathilda May. More than once. But wow, that movie. I had read the book (originally titled just that, "Space Vampires") about three years before the movie came out thinking it was going to be something similar to Bava's flick. But it was actually very somber and philosophical. Scott would have had a field day with it, I think. I mean I know it is a cliche to say the book is better but my gawd this one may be blue ribbon material for making a flick that bears almost not resemblance to its source. I think that was Tobe Hooper's last stab at mainstream success. All in all, worth it for Mathilda May. But would love to see a closer adaptation of the book.

of course you cant compare the two movies, but they share the same genes for sure! i have nothing against hommages or inspirations, true it is troubling how much the two visuals and themes connects: alien planet/cew infected/"bad vampires" wanting to go back on earth" U shape spaceship, derelict alien ship, giant skelletons...

Guys you have to take something into account i think you are all missing. As far back as 35+ years ago people like Dan O'Bannon were already trying to explain to everyone how saturated mainstream Science Fiction had become. It is 35+ years later and I can tell you he was right on the money, there isn't an idea in films, movies or television, even ones made by enthusiasts in their own homes that doesn't lend itself to some other idea that came first or was presented before it...it's what they refer to as a "tired genre", one that is "done to death." I disagree with it being "tired" but the point is you can find the influence if you look hard enough or imagine influences if you look hard enough that aren't even true or there at all.