ID sci-fi movie: monster with bright eye

Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker · July 30, 2007, 3:56pm

I am posting this for someone else. Here is his description:

I’m trying to find the name to a movie. it’s a sci fi movie. It’s a very old movie I think. space exploration kinda deal. In the movie it has a group of astronauts going to a planet. They land and they go out to explore the landscape. As they are exploring they are in some mountains when they come across a weird alien creature. It has a lot of curved shaped limbs and a round head with one eye which emits a blinding light but the light blinks very slowly and it burns people. Then there was another alien which was just a big spherical thingy which sucked bodies into it after they died. The astronauts encounter the alien with the light emitting eyeball 2 times before the end of the movie. Also an astronaut leaves the ship and runs into the 1 alien with the burning light and he dies and get’s sucked into the sphere thingy. My dad says it might be an old episode of the outer limits but I went through tv.com’s descriptions of episodes and nothing came up mentioning the aliens. Any ideas on what the name of this movie might be? I know it aired on tv during the late 80’s and it was in color.

I posited that it might be the “Space:1999” ep “Dragon’s Domain,” which has some footage on youtube, but he said that ain’t it.

Anyone???

CalMeacham · July 30, 2007, 5:21pm

Some of this sounds like the Ib Melchior/Sidney Pink “masterpiece” Journey to the Seventh Planet, but other parts don’t.

ouryL · July 30, 2007, 9:16pm

Maybe its a remembrance of that movie and “Angry Red Planet”.

BMalion · July 30, 2007, 9:42pm

It’s one of my favorite forgotten movies!

Mission Mars (1968)

starring Nick Adams and Darren McGavin.

It is not available on DVD.

It’s a great movie, in a fun, campy way.

IMDB

Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker · July 31, 2007, 12:50pm

Thanks for the tip. He seems to think that it is indeed “Mission Mars,” which also stars Chuck Zink.

If you’re wondering “Who the hell is Chuck Zink?” so did my uncle and I 30 years ago when we were watching the state beauty pageant, the winner of which would go on to either “Miss USA” or “Miss America.” The announcer proudly announced that the host for the evening was going to be “CHUCK ZINK!” My uncle looked at me and actually said, “Who the hell is Chuck Zink?”