Tuesday 8 August 2017

246 Queen of Blood ( 1966 )


This  Alien-prefiguring  sci-fi  horror  is  a  low  budget  offering  from   Roger   Corman' s American  International  Pictures  which  improves  after  a  slow  start. A  young  Dennis  Hopper  features  in  a  supporting  role.

The  year  is  1990. The  Space  Institute  receives  a  message  from  outer  space  telling  us  an  ambassador  is  on  the  way  but  the  ship  crashes  on  Mars. A  party  is  sent  up  by  Dr  Faraday   ( Basil  Rathbone  )  on  a  rescue  mission  and  retrieves  a  humanoid  female. However  she  is  not  benign...

Judi  Meredith  ( as  Laura  James )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Judi  was  a  former  figure  skater  who  had  to  give up  on  medical  advice  after  two  bad  injuries. Her  acting  career  was nurtured  by  George  Burns. She  was  more  of  a  TV  actress, She  retired  in  the  early  seventies  and  pursued her  interest  in  photograhy.She  died  in  2014  aged  77.






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