The Wizard of Mars is a 1965 American science fiction film directed and co-written by David L. Hewitt.

[1] The title character is portrayed by John Carradine, who gives a lengthy monologue as a projection near the end of the film.

Believing they hear the signal of their ship's main stage, they instead discover an automated biolab that had been sent beforehand to determine the habitability of Mars.

Charlie becomes hysterical and fires the rifle at the lab, inadvertently revealing that it contains enough oxygen to replenish their dwindling air supply.

David L. Hewitt had previously co-written the screenplay of The Time Travelers and had turned a 33-minute-long Monsters Crash the Pajama Party into part of an interactive stage show.

[7] In the early 1980s, the film was released on videotape under its original title, by NTA Home Video (an imprint of Republic Pictures).

The latter two editions topped the cast list (as given on the cover) with Lon Chaney Jr., who did not appear in this film but did appear in Hewitt's Doctor Terror's Gallery of Horrors with Carradine, Gentry, and McGee.

Also in the early 1980s, Regal Video Inc. released both of these films in identical packaging under the title Alien Massacre.