Journey to the Seventh Planet

Journey to the Seventh Planet is a 1962 science fiction film. It was directed by Sid Pink, written by Pink and Ib Melchior, and shot in Denmark with a budget of only US75,000. The seventh planet of the title is Uranus, and a crew is being dispatched there by the United Nations on a mission of space exploration. The films ideas of astronauts exploring outer space only to confront their inner mindscapes and memories precede the similarthemed 1972 film Solaris by a full decade although the novel Solaris precedes this film by a year. The film is also reminiscent of Ray Bradburys 1948 short story Mars is Heaven that appeared in the 1950 book The Martian Chronicles.

New features and forms begin to appear each time they are imagined by the crew. A familiarlooking village appears, complete with attractive women the various male crew members have known in the past. Soon, they must face a series of strange beasts including a giant bipedal cyclopean rodent and a lobsterlike insect. The crew realizes that they have been the victims of mind control by a gigantic oneeyed brain living in a cave. There, they are confronted by the Being, whose mysterious brain cuts to the inner thoughts of the explorers and causes their thoughts to appear as seemingly real. The brainBeing plans to possess the astronauts bodies and have them take it with them back to Earth where it will implement a plan for global domination. The crew gradually come to realize their peril and start to fight back against the presence, even eliciting aid from the sympathetic women. They must then confront the Being in its lair while it assaults each with monsters spawned from their fears.

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