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Released
1965 · FILM

Planet of the Vampires

“This was the day the universe trembled before the demon forces of the killer planet!”

Directed by
Mario Bava
Written by
Alberto Bevilacqua, Callisto Cosulich
Runtime
88 min
Language
IT
ActionAdventureHorror

Synopsis

A team of astronauts lands on a mysterious planet and begins to experience growing tensions, as the planet and its strange inhabitants exert an uncertain influence that causes them to turn on one another.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Romana FortiniShot by Antonio RinaldiScored by Gino Marinuzzi Jr

Box Office

1965 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.0M

Budget$200K
Worldwide gross$1.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Planet der Vampirede
  • Demon Planeten
  • Planet of the Vampiresen
  • Terror en el espacioes
  • La Planète des vampiresfr

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