Images and themes in IKARIE XB-1 are resonant with a number of later SF films. 2001 has the most explicit connections, here in the hexagonal corridor, but also in the ongoing portrayal of mundane daily life. A large porton of 2001 is devoted to showing people eating, making small talk, or having uncomfortable territorial interactions with their fellows. Both films also make use of a baby as a symbol of Mankind's first experience of a new, more celestial phase of history.

Although it is widely noted that ALIEN borrowed heavily from the derelict spaceship sequence in Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, it is very hard not to connect the Bava film to the even earlier IKARIE XB-1. One has to wonder if Bava saw the film, and it's easy to assume that he must have. IKARIE XB-1's ghost ship is is not laden with monsters or psychic vampires, however, but a vague yet discernable message about 20th century politics.

IKARIE XB-1 is available on DVD in the USA from Xploited Cinema. In Googling the title, I also found this useful and well-informed blog devoted to Czech cinema on DVD.