Planet of the Vampires will be released on Blu-ray on July 26 via Kino Lorber. Directed by Mario Bava (Black Sunday, A Bay of Blood), the 1965 Italian sci-fi horror film was an influence on Alien.
Bava co-wrote the script with Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua (Black Sabbath), Callisto Cosulich, Antonio Roman, and Rafael J. Salvia, based on a short story by Renato Pestriniero. Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, and Evi Marandi star.
Planet of the Vampires has been newly restored in 2K. A slipcover and reversible art are included. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw (new)
Audio commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
Alternate music score highlights
Original Italian opening credits
Trailers From Hell - Trailer commentary by filmmaker Joe Dante
Trailers From Hell - Trailer commentary by screenwriter Josh Olson
Theatrical trailer
Two spacecrafts on the same mission land on a strange, misty planet. The crew members each find themselves overcome by a hostile alien force which causes homicidal impulses in each of them. As the astronauts are killed one by one, the dead won't stay dead, which complicates things greatly for the remaining living crew who are attempting to unravel the mystery of the strange forces at hand.
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❝ PAIN MAKES ME A BELIEVER. ❞
GENERAL INFO
NAME: Rodrigo Vargas Delgado
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis Man, He/Him
DATE OF BIRTH: February 14th, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH: Los Angeles, CA
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Queens
OCCUPATION: Flourist
FACE CLAIM: Alberto Rosende
SUPERNATURAL INFO
SPECIES: Vampire
CLAN POSITION: Member
AGE AT TRANSFORMATION: Thirty
BIOGRAPHY
Trigger Warnings: Death, Bullying, Racism, Stabbing, Suicidal Thoughts.
Ro was born and raised in LA, his parents were very loving and supportive. His childhood wasn't that bad, except for the people that weren't a big fan of the fact that his parents were latino. He was just a kid, but he had to deal with racism since an young age. He didn't understand why he was treated in such a way, but he had a great support system, his parents always did everything they could to help him feel better about it. Unfortunately, the school didn't do much to stop it, so he had to continue to deal with it. At some point his parents decided to put him in another school, one that had an amazing reputation. Differently from his old school, they actually did something when a student was treated in a unfair way, so things started to get better.
Fast forwarding to his high school years, he had yet again to deal with bullying, but this time because of the way he dressed. When he became a teenager, he stopped being scared of being himself, so he started to wear what he felt like, he wore a lot pink, because it was one of his favorite colors, and was vocal about his love for flowers, he also loved to paint his nails and wear earrings. There were a lot of people that thought he was gay, because of the stereotypes, but that didn't bother him, he didn't have a fragile masculinity, and he also didn't think that it made him any less straight, what bothered him was the way that some treated him because they thought that. It made him feel even worse for the ones that had to deal with it for simply being who they are, but like mentioned, the school protected the students, so every time they found out what he was dealing with, they did something to stop it, but they couldn't exactly protect him outside of school.
However, his life wasn't only made of bad things, when he was in the senior year, his friend dragged him to a college party, so he could see how the college life was, since he would be soon a college student as well. It was there that he met the love of his life, the first girl he truly loved, the girl who took his virginity, the first girl that he would date. He was smitten by her the second that he saw her, but due to his shy nature, he wasn't the one that started a conversation. For his luck, she was also interested, so she approached him. They talked a lot, they hit off the moment they started talking, so that was definitely not the last time that they did it. She have him her number, but again, he was so shy that he didn't have the courage to text her first. One day, he was leaving school, and she was there, she walked to him and teased him, asked him if her phone was broken, since she didn't get a text nor call from him. He started to ramble and stutter, he thought that because of it he would lose his shot and she wouldn't be interested anymore, but instead she smirked once more, and said he was adorable. From that moment on, they were inseparable.
They started as friends with benefit and then both fell for each other. One night when he was really jelaous, he ended up not being able to hold it back anymore, and told her how he felt. When she said that she felt the same, he was surprised, but delighted, because he was so sure that she would turn him down. Poor boy, so clueless, he can never tell when someone is interested, he honestly was so surprised that she even wanted to have sex with him, as he thought she was out of his league, due to the fact he was insecure, he usually thought that about every person.
They started to date, every day after class, they spent together, which was nothing new, except they were together, so it could be what they did already before, but it still felt different for him, in a good way. They stayed together for many, many years, and she was the one that turned him. She hid so well that she was a vampire, that when he found out, he was shocked because he didn't know they existed nor that she was one, but that didn't change how much he loved her. She told him when he was 30 years old, the two of them were going back home after a night out, and a thief approached them. She didn't use her powers on him, because she didn't want to expose herself to Ro, she wasn't ready yet to tell him what she was, besides she figured if they gave him what he wanted, he would leave them alone, but wasn't what happened, he stabbed Ro, and was ready to do the same with her. He would have if she didn't have stopped him with her powers. Once he was gone, she kneeled down by Ro's side, he started to say how much he loved her, and the two of them knew what would come next, but she refused to let that happen, especially when she blamed herself for it, so she told him the truth, told him that she could turn him, that she could save him. He didn't have much time to digest what she just told him, he was dying, so he accepted her offer. She turned him.
Everything was perfect once again, he was saved, he was with the girl he loved, he worked in a flower shop, and was slowly reaching his money goal to buy his own flower shop, but as life has up and downs, his happiness didn't last for too long. His mom ended up finding out that he was a vampire, she wasn't happy, she called him a monster and said that he wasn't her son anymore. He decided to compel her and make her believe that it was all a dream, and that her son had died in a tragic accident. He faked his own death.
He and his girlfriend moved away from the city, because he didn't want to risk end up running into his family and revealing that he was actually alive. They moved to NYC. They bought a house, Ro finally managed to make his dream come true and have a flower shop, and the two officially got married, they had a happy life, which stayed that way until Rodrigo completed 47 years old. It was that year that his wife died, he didn't know what happened, but the house was burned down, and her body was found inside. He knew that it was a murder, but he didn't have any way to prove that.
After that he closed himself off, he barely spent time with his friends, he only went to work and back home. He felt like a part of him was missing, it physically hurt him. He thought about ending his own life many times, but every time, he heard her voice telling him that he shouldn't do it, that he had so much to life yet, because he knew it wouldn't what she would want for him, so he continued his life.
It wasn't easy, and he was only getting actually better, and was being able to smile again, after 3 years, but he was finally better, and he knew that she was looking at him from up there and smiling because he knew that all she wanted was for him to be happy again.
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