Blood Beast from Outer Space (1965) (UK)

aka The Night Caller/Night Caller from Outer Space

⭐️1/2

Those damn mutant humanoids from Ganymede are after our women! Their species is nearing extinction and they are grabbing Earth babes to breed with… well, they just need the blood I believe… and not even alot of blood or anything! Damn those Ganymedians… Ganymedes? Watching an unknown object enter Earth’s atmosphere and somehow not burn up and more impressively changing course, Dr. Morley, Dr. Costain (John fuckin’ Saxon) and Ann Barlow offer their scientific help to the military crawling around the area where it landed. Instead of the large object they are expecting to discover, they come across a freezing, basketball-sized sphere and probing it with x-rays after bringing it back to their lab, it’s discovered to be mostly hollow, free of radiation and made up of an unclassified silicon composition. Sexy Ann stays late to work on some documentation and is beset by a clawed hand belonging to something that must be rather large and had to have emerged from the sphere. Alien energy bullshit is believed to be behind the impressive transmission of matter and whatever the hell that gnarly hand belongs to manages to kill one of the doctors and steal a military jeep in order to escape the base where the sphere is being studied. A growing number of kidnapped young women points to a sinister plot in the works. These supple young women who have gone missing were answering an add placed in a “Bikini Girl” magazine and it looks like that crazy alien is using the oldest trick in the book to get their claws on some English knockouts. This is how Ann ends up planting herself in harms way to get some answers about the threat currently plaguing London. Incredibly stuffy and talkative exercise in boredom has a bout 20 minutes of dialogue for every scene with a rubbery a monster hand not doing much of anything. John Saxon delivers science jargon much to my everlasting delight and Patricia Hanes is very easy on the eyes as the only female character with any depth (as barebones as it may be) but a 60’s monster movie about an alien using a bikini magazine to kidnap girlies should not be this bland.