malcolmgsw The problem with this film being in the sci film genre is that the aficionados tend to take films far to seriously.Why else would so many people have rated it at 1'After all the budget of this film was clearly miniscule.The sets are very small.The rocket seems to consist of 5men sitting at a desk.The monster is a man in a monkey suit.Harry Fowler and Sydney Tafler talking with American accents.The exterior of the rocket is only shown as gas as the top of the ladder.The astronauts appear to wander around the nearest local park to the studio.The formaldehyde who seem like the contestants in the local beauty contest.A classic of the genre.

mark.waltz A credit in this reads "all characters in space are fictitious". I wonder if the credit department ran that past the space cadets who wrote this. The story involves the 13th moon outside of Jupiter's orbit where an earth-like existence is the home to the descendants of ancient survivors from Atlantis who inhabited the moon because they believed that the land on earth would sink into the ocean. If only someone had had the sense to do this with the script before it went in front of the cameras.The music of Alexander Borodin presents the opportunity for the moon maidens to dance (rather badly to the music, most of which is heard became the source for "Stranger in Paradise" from "Kismet"), but even that is done in a tacky manner that is too low-down to even be considered camp. Halliwell's film guide describes this as a "contender for the title of worst movie ever made". The sad matter is that it strives too hard to become camp, and fails on every level simply out of sheer stupidity.

lemon_magic "Fire Maidens Of Outer Space" misses the mark on so many levels that I wanted to travel to England and throw rocks at the window of the room in the nursing home that Cy Young is probably living in now. It's an exercise in tedium, static blocking, and endless padding, weighed down with a tiny budget and zero imagination in production and art design. In its favor: they actually play some music by Borodin and what sounds like the "Saber Dance" at some points in the movie, a nice touch considering the title; the fire maidens are quite attractive (if somewhat blank faced) and the camera spends a lot of time focused on their shapely legs as they walk endlessly from one corridor to another; if you're going to have liturgical dancing in a cheap science fiction movie (and it seemed to be a requirement whenever the plot concerned alien civilizations), you might as well have well choreographed liturgical dancing, and the women are pleasantly limber and graceful. Also the set-up with the alien civilization can't help but serve as a litmus test for the modern male viewer's chauvinism and political correctness (what with the patriarch apparently being a semi- doddering drunk surrounded by nubile women - your reactions to this will tell you a lot about yourself). Against: well, the first third of the screenplay is about as exciting for the viewer as the time my best friend and I camped out in his back yard in a piano crate overnight and pretended we were flying to the moon and back. (We were 10 years old at the time). And the special effects aren't much more convincing. The rest of the movie resembles a slow motion Brtish bedroom farce, only without the slamming doors or humor. I am glad I saw this - once! - if only to assure myself that the movie in no way lived up to the promise of its title and that I hadn't missed anything worthwhile by putting off watching it for 30+ years.

jerome_horwitz Fire Maidens from Outer Space, about the only thing I agree with is the maidens part. This mid-50s sci-fi flick is just horrible. I don't really know how else to put it.The story is one of man venturing to a moon of Jupiter. Upon arrival the Earth ship, and the 5 male passengers, is greeted with co-ordinates of where to land. After some exploring the Earth men come upon a screaming maiden who appears to being assaulted by a werewolf (thing)? The Earth men scare the werewolf off, and follow the maiden back to her lair. As the story continues we learn this moon's inhabitants are actually offspring from the civilization of Atlantis. I'm not really sure if the werewolf is ever adequately explained, only that something about the Earth men can't leave until they figure out a way to kill it. As well, the population has since dwindled to near nothing, and the 5 Earth men are nearly forced to mate with the lovely maidens. Of course the Earth men can't leave for that reason as well. The movie ends with the werewolf being killed, and the Earth men being freed to return back to Earth, even taking one of the maidens with.There's a lot that can't really be explained about this film. The werewolf thing, I don't really think it was ever explained or whatever it was. I really don't know for certain.MST3k does a fairly well job with this old turd. But it's still extremely painful, and required many viewings to actually be able to watch the entire thing. 1/10