The Angry Red Planet

"The Angry Red Planet" (1960) (Ib Melchior) A bumbling communication/security man from Brooklyn, a wise “looking”, prose spouting old-man scientist, a (surprise) red-headed female biologist, and a sexist, hairy-chested womanizing captain (who looks like a heroin junkie cocktail of Humphry Bogart and Henry Fonda) are all stock character “astronauts” on this one of a kind trip to Mars. What begins as a routine sci-fi/horror/space genre exercise, complete with hokey banter, and spacious, gravity friendly, house-like rocketship interiors (which might have been charming period genre entertainment on it’s own), suddenly plunges into a visually dazzling and experimental cinematic experience. As soon as the crew steps foot onto Mars, a film processing technique/gimmick invented by the filmmakers (which they entitled “Cinemagic”) begins. The technique, achieved by reversing the black and white negative and then tinting it candy apple red, makes the film glow neon with fluxuating levels, concentrations, areas, and extremities of intensity, texture and color. The degrees of reversed and tinted light and shadow fluctuate constantly, creating a wild morphing, freeform, day-glo red visual wonder

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