THE WAR IN SPACE / Toho Company - 1977

It's time to take a trip into space to fight a war with invaders from Venus! Other movies involving Venus include QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE, STRANGER FROM VENUS, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS and FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.

Here's a sound clip from this flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our grounded space ship, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's... THE WAR IN SPACE!

The story starts with a meeting at the space command, invaders from Venus are on Earth and have started attacking certain locations... Cool photo!

The good guys chase down an invader and find this weird mask he was wearing!

Professor Takigawa has constructed a special space craft, the Gohten, to confront the numerous little attacking flying saucers from Venus.

The crew gets a transmission from the decked out Venusian leader while they're in space.

Destination Venus!.. The Gohten barely makes it safely to the surface of Venus after a wild ride through the hot sulfuric atmosphere!

Here's the token American fighter, Jimmy, as he zeroes in on the Venusian command center.

This is pretty weird, they fire the rockets out of what looks like the giant bullet cylinder of a revolver! Photo shows one rocket just appearing before it streaks out of the chamber.

The guys from Earth explore the surface and eventually find the command center, actually a spaceship protected by a pink force field.

Is this a surreal picture or what?!.. Welcome to X-ville!!

Check it out, they even throw in this big old bull monster guard for fun! Wheeeee!....

Well anyway, the two ships battle it out and it looks like defeat for the Gohten. But, it has an ace up its nose, a super bomb that can destroy a planet! It strikes the Venusian ship and it slams into a volcano! Game over, man!

The Gohten and crew safely make it into space just before Venus explodes to oblivion from the super bomb... You know, WTF?!! I guess we didn't really need that many planets!

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