"Planet of the Vampires certainly is schlock and pulp that's been gorgeously rendered by Bava's art house sensibilities. It's perhaps as beautiful as a film can be when it's dealing with reanimated bodies and soul-sucking beings from outer space, but it doesn't come without that signature, underlying Bava weirdness that makes it genuinely effective beyond its goriness. At this point in his career, Bava still couldn't be fussed to move his films along at the breakneck, nightmarish pace of his later work, so Planet of the Vampires is another one of those half-remembered dreams that unfolds in puzzle-like increments that are slowly pieced together." - Brett Gallman, Oh, The Horror