Starring John Agar, Carl Ottosen, Ove Sprogoe, Louis Miehe-Renard, Peter Monch
Directed by Sidney Pink
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A spaceship is sent to Uranus to investigate radiation signals, but when they land, they find the hostile environment has been replaced by landscapes and people out of their own memories.
We have here another sci-fi effort from director Pink and screenwriter Ib Melchior, who previously collaborated on The Angry Red Planet and Reptilicus. Although Agar is the biggest name in the cast, Ottosen plays the commander of the ship, whom he and the rest of the crew defer to. There's definitely some good ideas in the screenplay (that I think at the least inspired some Star Trek episodes) as the crew find they're matching wits with an alien intelligence who tries to distract them from their mission by recreating a number of attractive female acquaintances of the men. I liked an encounter with a stop-motion monster, and the unique design of the colorful spacesuits. However, there seemed to be some holes in the narrative, and perhaps some dialogue lost in translation, as the film was lensed in Denmark and is clearly dubbed. Yet, it's still a very watchable movie with some memorable imagery and music.
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