Planet of the Female Invaders (1966) User Reviews

Hilarious

[pv61 · 25 September 2011]

EL PLANETA DE LAS MUJERES INVASORAS (1967) In the same year so the ship and sets didn't go to waste, Mr Crevenna sent the crew to the planet of the 'eternal shining sun'. Such creativity! You had to wear glasses in there and all the inhabitants were women. They had kidnapped some earthlings and now they had to be rescued. Lorena Velazquez was both the evil and the good witch, I mean, queen. The cutest girls (Elizabeth Campbell, Maura Monti), were sent to earth to get more information and the less cute ones (Monica Miguel, Lucia Guilmain), stayed serving the queen. What these women wanted from us were our lungs, so they could go everywhere where they could breath oxygen.

You're not going to believe this, but the ship the women use to take hostages to their planet is one from a State Fair, since people were already in it. I guess that toy ship could stand the hardship of space travel and everything! Don't miss LA NAVE DE LOS MONSTRUOS (from Rogelio A. González), another jewel...

Forget the rollercoaster. This carnival has the wildest ride...

[TonyB2594 · 7/10 · 13 September 2022]

Planet of the Female Invaders (1967) - The only thing missing in this wonderful Sci-Fi movie out of Mexico are some of their wild-looking monsters.

Instead of monsters, we get mobsters as the added attraction.

Oh, well. Can't have everything.

What we do have is a pretty neat story about the women from the planet Sibila, also known as the "planet of the eternal sun" that never sets. They can't work on their tans very well there, because the sunlight is so severe, it blinds anyone who is exposed unless they wear a special shield.

Yeah, that's a beach baby buzzkill, for sure. For that reason alone, the women are for the most part soulless and filled with bitterness.

Looking to get away from it all, their evil leader, Adastrea (Lorena Velazquez), takes her girls on a spaceship and they travel to Earth. Adastrea and the girls want to live on Earth, but they don't have the lung capacity to breathe our air for very long.

So their mission is to land on Earth, kidnap some people, take them back to Sibila, and graft their lungs so they can breathe easier and leave Sibila forever.

As it happens, they land on Earth in the middle of the night at a carnival, They make their ship look like one of the rides. Yep, a spaceship and a carnival. What a great sci-fi movie combo. For me, it's like hitting the jackpot!

Anyway, they wind up kidnapping a crooked boxer, some mob figures he threw a fight for but then double-crossed, a couple and their child, and a random portly gentleman.

Will the Earthlings survive this mission? Or will Adastrea take their breath away? Her twin sister, the kind and caring Alburnia (also Lorena Velazquez), does her best to stop her sibling's mad plan.

The print I watched on YouTube is a very good one. You need concentration and patience, because you have to read English subtitles. However, the subtitles were well-presented, and I had no problem keeping up with things.

Lorena Velazquez was simply fantastic in her dual role. She did some other sci-fi things as well. I think I saw her in one of the Santo vs. A monster or a mummy or an alien creature movies. She's in her 80s now and she still looks great!

I'll be honest. I'd have liked it more if they'd incorporated some alien creatures lurking about on Sibila. It's a pretty one-dimensional threat that the Earthlings face. So the excitement level flattens out fairly quickly. But it's still a good time.

A perfect movie!

[BandSAboutMovies · 10/10 · 30 June 2020]

Behold pure magic! You may have noticed that I have a weakness for movies where planetary races of female overlords descend on our little mudball and wipe humans out left and right. This is one of the best examples I've ever seen of the genre ever and has suddenly leaped to the top of the list.

What else should I expect from Alfredo B. Crevenna, the director of The Fury of the Karate Experts, one of the most out-there films ever, a movie that somehow combines Santo, kung fu mysticism, aliens, the Coral Castle and Atlantis?

After walking into a flying saucer-looking ride at a carnival, a group of humans is soon light speeding their way through space, the prisoners of a planet of women looking for a new home. Beyond the nuclear family being menaced, we also have a boxer who is in over his head with the mob, his girl and the gang of thugs out to make him pay.

Soon, they're being experimented on by the evil queen Adastrea and helped by her twin Alburnia. There's a legend on their planet that twins would arrive, with one serving a dark god and the other a being of light. They're both played by Lorena Velazquez, whose acting career continues to this day. She's as close to a scream queen as this era would produce, with roles in The Ship of Monsters, Macabre Legends of the Colony, She-Wolves of the Ring and, in perhaps her best-known horror role, she was Thorina, queen of the vampires in Santo contra Las Mujeres Vampiros. She's beyond fabulous in this, threatening the lives of children in one scene and sweet and tender in the next.

Speaking of children, the space women have a plot to take human lungs - the younger the better - and use them to make their own ability to breathe our air.

If you're looking for more movies like this, you can always pick Catwomen of the Moon, Fire Maidens from Outer Space, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Missile to the Moon, Amazon Women on the Moon or Queen of Outer Space.

One of the space women, Eritrea, is played by Maura Monti, who would play a similar role in Santo vs. the Martian Invasion, released the very same year. She's also The Batwoman, which we covered last week.

This movie packs plenty of poignant moments and hilarious dialogue inside it, so much so that you're unsure if you're watching a drama or a comedy at points. The sets are astounding works of pop art, the aliens' costumes leave little to the imagination and the bad guys are as bad as you can get. All movies should aspire to do so much with so little.