Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

Directed by

Sidney W. Pink

Genre

horror film, action film, science fiction film, adventure film

Country

Denmark, United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

T

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the year 2001, an international crew of astronauts travels to Uranus on a mission from a unified world government. Once they arrive, they discover that their own memories and fears are taking physical form, threatening the mission.

low-budgetdatedpsychedelicintrospectivewhimsicalcampysurrealslow-pacedmind-bending

What happens

Journey to the Seventh Planet is a 1962 Danish-American science fiction film. It was directed by Sid Pink, written by Pink and Ib Melchior, and shot in Denmark with a budget of only US$75,000. Uranus, the seventh planet in the Solar System, has not been charted by the United Nations' Space Fleet. Therefore, in 2001, an international crew has been dispatched to Uranus by the United Nations, which has become a world government, on a space exploration mission. The film's ideas of astronauts exploring outer space only to confront their inner mindscapes and memories precede the similar-themed 1972 film Solaris by a full decade (although the novel Solaris was published a year prior to this film). The film is also reminiscent of Ray Bradbury's 1948 short story "Mars Is Heaven!" and the manifestations of the subconscious in "Forbidden Planet". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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