Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1966)
1966 · Feature film · 79 min · dir. Larry Buchanan
It's Coming for YOU from Space to wipe all living things from the face of the Earth! CAN IT BE STOPPED?
- Horror
- Science Fiction
- TV Movie
Synopsis
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to "help solve man's problems". However, as soon as Zontar arrives on Earth, it quickly becomes obvious that the three-eyed, bat-winged, skeletal black creature has a hidden agenda.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Larry Buchanan
- Writer
- Larry Buchanan
- Cinematography
- Robert B. Alcott
- Studio
- Azalea Pictures
- Released
- 1967-12-01
- Running time
- 79 minutes
Cast & crew
Larry Buchanan Director
John Agar
Susan Bjurman
Tony Huston
Pat Delaney
Neil Fletcher
Warren Hammack
Colleen Carr
Jeff Alexander
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · ZONTAR RESTORED · SCI-FI-MAN · 2012-11-04
Beautiful restoration on ZONTAR. I bounced it to DVD and sent my other versions to the dumpster. I kept my Sci-Fi 50 pack as an original reference. Watched this as a teen in 1968 on Chiller Theatre on a old B&W TV with rabit ears. Great job! Looking forward to your next restore. Terrible movie, but the restore made it mucho watchable! Many thanks VE
★★★★★ · Restored Zontar-- who ever expected to see those two words together? · phantomofkrankor · 2012-09-05
Thanks to both of you, this is great! All we need now is "Zontar--the Director's Cut" and life will be complete ;-)
★★★★ · It Conquered The World Mark II · Robbmeister X · 2013-11-08
This pacy, apparently made for TV revamp of It Conquered The World doesn't just remake but shamelessly rips off Roger Corman's original, right down to most of its dialogue and its mise-en-scene. The Corman film was an unusually thoughful and subtle affair in spite of its well-designed (on paper) but still silly monster, sidetracking the usual period 'red menace' paranoia in favour of a humanist denial of the concept of collectivism, which seems to posit the monster as a kind of Venusian Karl Marx. I've actually seen a flag-waving Christian reviewer online give the film a low rating, on…
