Planet of the Vampires story
The story follows the horrific experiences of the crew members of two giant spaceships that have crash landed on a forbidding, unexplored planet. The disembodied inhabitants of the world possess the bodies of the crew who died during the crash, and use the animated corpses to stalk and kill the remaining survivors.
6 total · 4 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| dying sun | major | The disembodied aliens were the last of their race and wished to escape from their homeworld, which was doomed owing to their sun being on the verge of dying. |
| fear | major | Crew members experienced fear and terror to varying degrees while being stalked by animated corpses on the surface of a barren planet. |
| incorporeal being | major | Disembodied aliens uses the animated corpses of dead crew members to stalk the survivors of the two spaceship expedition into deep uncharted space. |
| invasive life form from outer space | major | The film concluded with a pair of the disembodied aliens headed to Earth to secretly assimilate their incorporeal race with humans. |
| flying saucer | minor | The astronauts flew in flying saucer-like spaceships. |
| interplanetary space travel | minor | The crews of a two spaceship mission into deep uncharted space landed on a barren planet in answer to a distress call. |