Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) is a good example of how to take something that is pretty good and make it better. In the hands of Peter Bogdanovich, stock footage of Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) is co-mingled with new footage to essentially fill the gaps in the first film.
The story begins with a half-hour recap of the first film, summarizing the arrival of two crews of men and a robot on the planet Venus. The first crew had been lost, and the second crew was sent in to rescue them. Throughout their time on the planet, they keep hearing a strange female voice singing. This leaves them wondering whether there is indeed human life existent...
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
Here's where the Prehistoric women come in. They are all beautiful women, who don't speak, but communicate with each other telepathically. Whether they are invisible or not, I don't know, but the human astronauts never see them...
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
They pray to a pterodactyl as a God, whom they call Tera. When the Earthling astronauts kill the pterodactyl after it attacks them, the women become enraged. They pray to the Volcanic God of the planet to exact their revenge on the men and robot...
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
The God concedes and lets loose lava flows and storms when they ask for them. When the men are not killed, and leave the planet safely, the women are heartbroken and curse the statue of Tera as a false God...
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
The lava flow had destroyed the robot, but the ladies find the scrap remains a suitable replacement for Tera...
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
They erect the robot and worship it as a God...
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. 1968: Mamie Van Doren |
