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No. Queen of Blood was filmed from a screenplay written by American film-maker Curtis Harrington, who also directed the movie, with some of the footage taken from three Russian films -- Mechte navstrechu (1963) (A Dream come True) (1963), Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) (The Heavens Call) (1959), and Planeta bur (1962) (Planet of Storms) (1962). The film was subsequently novelized as Queen of Blood (1966) by Charles Nuetzel.

In the far distant year of 1990, the International Institute of Space Technology receives an SOS from an alien vessel saying that they are sending an ambassador to Earth but that the spaceship has crash-landed on Mars. In good faith, the Institute's director, Dr Farraday (Basil Rathbone), dispatches two rescue ships -- the Oceano, carrying three astronauts...Laura James (Judi Meredith), Paul Grant (Dennis Hopper), and Commander Anders Brockman (Robert Boon)...and the Meteor, carrying two more astronauts...Allan Brenner (John Saxon) and Tony Barrata (Don Eitner). When the only survivor turns out to be a beguiling green-skinned woman (Florence Marly) whom they call 'the Queen', the crew takes special care of her on the trip back to Earth. Little do they know that they are bringing with them a vampire.

No origin was named in the movie, other than the first message came from 'a far galaxy'.

That was the alien spaceship's SOS. The ball contained a videolog of the events that caused their ship to crashland on Mars.

Allan and Laura return to Earth, after having discovered the pulsing red eggs that the Queen has been depositing all over the ship. When Dr Farrady boards the ship after it lands, Allan attempts to alert him to the danger posed by the alien eggs, but Farrady is too interested in their value to scientific research. Unable to convince Farrady that the eggs are deadly, Allan and Laura leave the ship. In the final scene, the body of the Queen is carried out of the ship followed by a technician carrying a tray of the pulsing red eggs.

Those paintings are the artistry of John Douglas Cline, a popular artist in the 1960s. Cline founded the John Douglas Cline Gallery in Los Angeles, then moved to Phoenix in 1970 to establish Accent Graphics, Inc., the forerunner of the Phoenix Art Group, Inc..

Queen of Blood has most often been compared to Lifeforce (1985) (1985), in which a beautiful space vampire is brought back to Earth with disastrous results, and to Alien (1979) (1979) in which a spaceship is sent out to bring back an alien creature. Other movies that have been likened to Queen of Blood include It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) (1958), Planet of the Vampires (1965) (Planet of the Vampires) (1985), and The Thing from Another World (1951) (1951).