IntroductionI turned on this movie expecting it to be MST-able Grade B nonsense. I was very pleasantly surprised with what I found. Though the special effects are lame and its concept of space travel primitive by modern standards, it was actually an intelligent and well-thought-out movie -- one which deserved better treatment than it could get at
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All this proves is that we are similar enough on the level of nucleoproteins that our blood is a nourishing broth to them -- nourishing enough to enable the Queen to survive for a matter of weeks, during which she lays eggs. The minor scratch proving mortal implies a rather different anatomical organization, but not an essentially-different biochemistry at the fundamental level.
Note that nothing in the movie shows them as being similar to us in any other way than that they can nourish themselves from our blood -- and that is only proven to be effective for a time, we don't know what equivalents of vitamins it might lack. Their psychology appears to be very different, and we don't know how detailed the anatomical similarities (or differences) are, ( ... )
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I don't know. The concept of sapient aliens who live like eusocial insects dates all the way back to H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon (1901), and the concept was done several other times before 1966, most notably in Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959). Oddly, given what I think were the alien motives and the nature of the implied mutual misunderstanding, Queen of Blood actually reminded me of the backstory of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1985), which makes me wonder if Card was inspired by this movie.
The vampiric aliens concept also goes back to H. G. Wells, this time War of the Worlds (1898). It's also been done over and over again, including by Jack Williamson ("Prince of Space"), C. L. Moore ("Shambleau") and Robert Bloch ("Shambler from the Stars"). The movie Lifeforce (1985) was in part obviously inspired by Queen of Blood, though it also has literary origins in Colin Wilson's The Space Vampires (1976), ( ... )
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Well it works for the planet.
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