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[[caption-width-right:300:This film literally has you seeing red!]]

With a budget of $200,000 to make the film and given only nine to ten days to shoot the film, director Ib Melchior gives us '''''The Angry Red Planet''''', a 1959 science fiction film that necessitated the use of [=CineMagic=] technique. The [=CineMagic=] technique, used for all scenes of the Martian surface, involved the usage of hand drawn animation used in conjunction with live-action footage to create an alien atmosphere that was revolutionary for the time.

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!!Tropes:

* ApatheticCitizens: Both Sam Jacobs and Theodore Gillett stand there as Tom O’Bannion rescues Iris Ryan from some living tentacle plant. Only when Tom gets Iris away from the thing does Jacobs use his weapon against the being.[[note]]To be fair, Sam's freeze ray probably wasn't a precision weapon and if he'd fired it, he would have likely hit Iris. Still, they look rather bored for people watching a crewmate on her way to being eaten.[[/note]]
* ArtShift: Producer Norman Maurer attempted this by having the surface of Mars footage turn directly into hand-drawn animation from live-action, or at least to simulate that through the use of [=CineMagic=] technique, which enables hand-drawn backgrounds to look as real or as unreal as the live-action footage. The Mars scenes also shifts from Technicolor to a red hue.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: As with most sci-fi movies of the period, the crew brings along .45 caliber pistols. Colonel O'Bannion carries his around in hand, finger firmly on the trigger.
* [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the 40-Foot Whatever]]: The batratspidercrab (and maybe monkey).
* BeingWatched: Gillette voices this after they return to the rocket on their first survey of Mars.
* BehindTheBlack[=/=]EpicFail: Four astronauts that are trained scientists fail to notice the rat-bat-spider-crab-monkey monster standing in the midst of an otherwise empty plain.
* BloodFromTheMouth: After waking up from fainting, Iris finds Theodore sitting at the table with blood on his lips, [[spoiler:dying from either cardio arrest, stress or the shock of losing Sam.]]
* CassandraTruth: Iris sees a creature appear outside the rocket’s porthole and when she tells the guys what she saw, Thomas O’Bannion and Theodore Gillett look out, seeing nothing.
* CloseOnTitle: The main title doesn't appear until the closing credits.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Everything bad that happens to the astronauts (and the ''only'' reason they were finally let go) was because of the Martians toying with them to send a message to Earth: ''never'' come back to Mars... [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens o]][[CurbStompBattle r]] '''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ELSE]]'''...
* TabletopGame/{{Chess}}: Gettell’s seen playing by himself when he and the other three scientists are on their seventeenth day in space.
* DeathWorld: Space explorers land on Mars but instead of intelligent life, they're constantly attacked by monsters.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: on ''Mars''!
* {{Flashback}}: Most of the movie takes place during the events of the mission, cutting back to the present day.
* {{Fainting}}: Iris does this when she sees the alien face through the porthole earlier the second time.
* FlashbackEffect: Scene ripples from present time to flashback.
* HartmanHips: Dr. Iris Ryan
* {{Go for the Eye}}s: Sam shoots his weapon at the monster’s eyes in order to rescue Theodore from being crushed between two rocks where he’s hiding from the creature even after it spotted him.
* LampshadeHanging: Gillette notes that the alien plant that attacked Iris didn’t attack them when they passed it earlier.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The alien creature is essentially a blend of a bat, rat, spider, crab and possibly monkey.
* {{Posthumous Character}}s: [[spoiler:Professor Theodore Gettell and Chief Warrant Officer Sam Jacobs are only seen in a newsreel and in flashback.]]
* ProductPlacement: Sam Jacobs’ seen reading ‘''Super Fantastic Science Fiction Stories'',’ a fictional magazine possibly based on American pulp science fiction magazine ''Super Science Stories'' published by Popular Publication from 1940 to 1943 and again from 1949 to 1951.
* ShoutOut: Tom calls the alien monster Film/KingKong’s big brother.
* SeaMonster: Tom, Theo, Iris and Sam encounter one when rowing to the other side of the lake on Mars. Though subverted when the creature gets on land to follow the four back to their ship.
* [[SomeKindOfForceField Some Sort of Force Field]]: Spoken word for word by Tom when they try to leave Mars on the second day, explaining some sort of power is holding them right there.
* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear: As was normal for BMovie props [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar of the era]], the "spacesuits" were nothing more than surplus Air Force pilot gear.
* [[WaitHere Stay Here]]: What Thomas tells Sam when there’s a loud noise above deck of the rocket as he goes investigate. It was the sound of Iris dropping a box full of test tubes when she tripped over Sam’s clothes.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Iris Ryan is not only the lone female astronaut -- she’s the only female main character.
* ThatsNoMoon: The four astronauts somehow mistake the forty-foot bat-rat-spider-monkey's legs for trees.
* ThousandYardStare: Dr. Iris Ryan when we first see her on her hospital bed being questions after coming back from the mission.
* TimePassesMontage: About a full minute from the astronauts’ seventeenth day in space to the twenty-ninth day and then from there to the forty-seventh day of flight.
* TitleDrop: Occurs during a conversation between Ryan and Tom while en route to Mars.

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