Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Directed by Cy Roth
Written by Cy Roth
1956/UK
Criterion Films
First viewing/YouTube
[box] Hestia: I’ll go with my beloved to earth but I shall return! [/box]
This movie is bad in almost every possible way. I had a lot of fun watching it.
A joint British-American expedition (Plan 13) launches for a three-week journey to the 13th moon of Jupiter, evidently the only body in the solar system capable of sustaining life. And how! It comes complete with oxygen, trees, beautiful female humans, and a “Creature”. We discover that the lost continent of Atlantis evacuated to this location. The girls are dressed in Atlantan garb which happens to resemble that worn in the “Late Minoan” period. All the men have died out except for one old man. He looks at the astronauts with a greedy eye. The girls start doing some fancy footwork and drinks are being drugged …
One ludicrous episode follows another in this hilariously bad movie. The only complaint I had is that the YouTube print was so dark that I could barely discern the Creature. Judging from the still, perhaps this was a problem in the original as well.
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