I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Like other reviewers here, I saw this as a youngster on a Sunday afternoon in the 1970s. Being a sci-fi fan, I just had to tune in after seeing the title in TV Guide. Even at that tender age, I thought it was bad, but still had just a spark of intrigue. Decades later, I saw it again, and my reaction was much different. Oh, my god.Watching it as an adult, I see that it's much worse than I thought. The script didn't make much sense, but as bad as the writing was, it could have been barely salvaged had the actors been at all competent. Alas, the four "astronauts" weren't. Go to your community playhouse and you could probably find a more capable cast. They make Jonathan Harris, Bill Mumy and the others on Lost in Space seem positively Emmy-worthy by comparison. And then there's John Carradine. He has more acting skills than all of the other four put together (and then some) but maybe overcompensates for their shortcomings. Whereas they can't act, he overacts, spending his time on screen being portentously Shakespearean, like some Martian King Lear. The film feels like B-movies made ten years earlier, an impression not helped by the fact that they swiped sound effects and musical cues from Forbidden Planet.I'll always have a fond memory of that first viewing just out of sheer nostalgia, but if you've never seen it and have something better to do with your time, I recommend sparing yourself.

I saw the trailer on some sci fi trailer collection DVD recently and hunted this thing down. The trailer was all like new dense vision or some stuff I can't recall but they are all like BETTER THAN 3-D. Sisters and brothers the effects in this one ROCK cutting edge stuff for the time, and up there with star trek. The other guy I feel was WAY too harsh about this look up the director, he did A lot of visual effects and even directed GORGO! YEAH! Granted I totally luv sci fi movies, just really dig folks floatin thru space an getting into adventures. This film delivers all the goods in the so bad it's good dept, but also is just pure 60's SCI FI RAD! And not like Corman FLICKS WITH A lot OF DULL! In this they are in space right away and the adventure is full throttle. Prove me wrong.

Four astronauts crash land on Mars and struggle to escape. Their antics are incomprehensible and boring. No one dies in this thriller, yet the female astronaut talks about all the dangers present. This movie tends to remind one of a documentary more so than a sci-fi adventure or action flick. The movie will put you asleep if you're not careful. There are many mistakes made in this movie. The astronauts talk about their oxygen running out, yet at times running around without their face shields on exposing themselves to the atmosphere. There is another scene where the female astronaut(Dorothy) says there is no life. She says this to a group after they pass by a tree. One of my favorite parts is the rifle with unlimited ammunition. This astronaut shoots at these poor helpless aliens floating in the water(cheap looking plastic segmented white worm props). He doesn't even hit one of them even after firing 15 to 20 rounds at a range of two feet. Another great part in this movie is the stage hands leg moving the time machine pendulum back and forth. He is up in the rafters in the ceiling. I can't believe they didn't edit that out. John Carradine climax's the movie with a 20 minute dissertation on history and life.When this movie is done, you wonder, "What's the point of this movie?" I can't believe I bought this movie. I purchased it as "Horrors of the Red Planet". The box it came in described this movie as an intergalactic war movie. Obviously they never watched it. This movie is awful and boring. I rank this up in my top 10 worst movies of all time.

This movie was so bad even I couldn't stand it. It was the first movie I ever removed from my massive personal collection because it was just that lame. I gave it to someone for free under the condition that he took it away, far away. I bought it under the title "Horrors of the Red Planet", and it was only slightly less nauseating than "Wizard of Mars" because it was shorter. You could cut half of this film out and you wouldn't miss it. The summary on the box had absolutely nothing to do with the movie, it mentioned black holes, alien ships and photon torpedos, none of which appeared in the film. I've seen better films on Petri dishes. The special effects were so bad they made Doctor Who look like Star Wars. (I'm not slamming DW, that's my favorite show.) A wall of shaking tin foil with a red lamp on it wa supposed to be underground magma. The science in this made Godzilla look like Andromeda Strain. One of the characters said something like,"We don't have enough oxygen to make it. But there is a little oxygen in the Martian atmosphere, so if we drop our suit pressure to below Martian air pressure, the extra oxygen will flow into our suits." WROOOOOOOONG! The characters were about as bright as coal sacks, sharp as balloons. I gave this movie a 1, which was far too generous but it's the lowest score available. If you want a better movie, watch Blood Diner.