Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Angry Red Planet (1959) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - March 25, 1960
The Angry Red Planet is a colorful, in more ways than one, science-fiction adventure about the perilous first landing of humanity on the planet Mars. Dangers abound, from a giant man-eating amoeba-jellyfish hybrid to a towering bat-rat-spider creature. The latter being acknowledged by Stephen King as influencing him to put the giant leg of something stepping past a carload of people attempting to escape The Mist.

The second feature is the less colorful, seeing that it is in black and white, but almost as fun Hideous Sun Demon. A Jekyll-Hyde or wolfman type of science-fiction thriller starring Robert Clarke, who also co-wrote and co-directed, about a scientist that turns into a monster whenever exposed to sunlight. Because... radiation.

Oh, and "CINEMAGIC" was just the placement of red cellophane over the camera lens for whenever the explorers were in the surface of Mars.

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