The Ship of Monsters

I couldn't help but like this film. It has a crazy plot about Venusians running out of men and sending two utterly gorgeous women to earth to capture some men. They already have some weird creatures on their ship, which presumably are also to mate with! They meet a singing cowboy, played with great charm by Eulalio Gonzalez, who has to teach them what love is. Cue monsters, a robot and a vampire ...and, of course, love. The effects are generally pretty awful but the ship is cool and there are some very nifty devices, including a computer which is a sort of Wikipedia, a zapper which freezes people, a ray gun (more like a fire gun) and a handy box carried on the hip which is a deadly weapon. Great fun, however ridiculous it is. The star is Gonzalez but Ana Bertha Lepe is extremely seductive...and the swimming costume pilot's uniform is a welcome addition to the plot!

A low-budget Mexican science fiction movie with 'borrowed' Russian special effects about two Venusian women in space-bathing-suits (and their robot) who are searching for men to help repopulate their planet PLUS a singing cowboy, a vampire, space monsters, and a hint of interplanetary miscegenation - what more could anyone want?! The film stars Mexican comedian Eulalio González and despite some grisly scenes (at the expense of the very improbable looking monsters) is played strictly for laughs. Some of the special effects (such as the space-walk) were lifted from the excellent Russian futurist documentary 'Doroga k zvezdam' (1957), the rest are strictly bottom-of-the-barrel (except an oddly effective glimpse of the 'vampire' in flight). 'Ship of Monsters' is weird stuff but it is entertaining enough in a singular way and deserves to be better known in cult-film circles.

This Mexican made film could be described as a science fiction/horror comedy/singing cowboy musical. The video copy I rented from my local video store was in Spanish with no sub titles, but even if you don't speak Spanish you should see it. The film is about a singing cowboy who plays the accordion and falls off his horse a lot, encountering two sexy alien women. The women bring them with an assortment of monsters, including a spider, an alien with his brains exposed and something that can best described as a bipedal saber tooth cat skeleton creature that appears to be the most evil one of the lot. The alien creatures are pretty cheap looking but perhaps that is part of the gag. One of the alien women is evil and is apparently a space vampire. The other alien women romances the hero and they even sing a duet together. The interior of the rocket in which the aliens arrive is pretty elaborate for a Mexican picture. There is also scene of a space station orbiting the Earth which seems to have been taken from some other film. There is one scene where the hero's son discovers is beloved pet cow has been turned into a skeleton by the evil alien women. Considering that this film seems to have been made to at least partially appeal to children, this scene is a bit rough.

This is my favorite Mexican Sci-Fi film of the 1950's. Two voluptuous alien women round up hideous space monsters, including a giant tiki with an exposed brain, a spider, a cyclops, and a sabre-tooth tiger skeleton, with the help of a singing cowboy and a giant robot. Lorena Velazquez (Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy, Santo vs. the Vampire Women) is particularly lovely as one of the alien women. The sets are amazing, and the atmosphere is wonderfully retro-futuristic.

What a really great but ridiculous film starring one of the Wrestling Women (Lorena Velasquez) of Mexican films of that series. When I use the word "great", I really mean "so bad it's good".

The premise of the film is the old "taking Earthlings back to Venus, or a planet of your choice, to breed". Why the men of Venus can't cut the mustard is never made clear but nevertheless, it's the ever-popular Pipporo who gets the nod. He rides through the Mexican landscape warbling from the saddle while, somewhere behind a cactus, an accordion provides the back-up music. As might be expected, he is unwilling to make the trip to Venus, even though the aliens are wearing fishnet hose and reallllly high heels. So the girls unleash on mankind, some of the worst monsters conceived in film but to no avail. Pipporo 'aint leaving and in the end, the invaders are repulsed with weapons that wouldn't stop a gang of senior citizens on Valium.

This film is such fun that you have to love it. Check out the skeleton with a cow's head that keeps repeating "Ha, Ha, Ha". It's a blast!!!!