Journey to the Seventh Planet

1962 science fiction movie

Rating: 12/20

Plot: It's the future (2001) and the United Nations has sent a team of horny space explores to investigate Uranus. A powerful presence on the planet invades their minds and turns their thoughts and memories into mirages. Mostly, buxom women and flirtatious windmills.

Pretty cool low budget affair with some extra-crappy special effects and dopey dialogue. Strong ideas, reminiscent of Solaris actually, and I really enjoyed the psychedelic imagery of the sets and some of the dated effects, including superimposed stock footage of a "giant" spider and a stop-animated clay cyclops dinosaur thing. Chunks of this journey succeeds in being mysterious if not entirely eerie, and there's never really a dull moment. Lots of nearly incomprehensible ones though. This'll be right up your alley if you like this sort of thing.