Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good concept, poorly executed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

These 1950's B-movies just get worse and worse. When I heard this title, I thought it was at least going to be a movie with a lot of fiery action scenes. Instead, I got a boring and pointless movie. It's just amazing how bad the costumes were in this. There is no point in the least to make it look like they're on another planet, or should I say Moon. There's this one monster that appears and appears to just be some guy in a turtleneck sweater with a mask and painted hands. The story is that astronauts discover a new moon on Jupiter and decide to go there. How are they able to go all the way over to Jupiter? Why haven't they tried going to some planet that's much closer seeing as how they have the technology to do that? It turns out these people were from Earth because they're from the lost city of Atlantis. How did they get to this moon? I honestly couldn't tell an actual cheap effect from something that was part of the set. This just seems to be nothing but padding as everything is just too boring and pointless. Outer space is featured relatively little and it looks nothing like another area besides Earth. They get with the women at the end even though it's said they're already married. It's an even dumber looking and acted movie than a lot of other films at this time. 1/2. By that I mean half a star. That's the first time I've used this rating and this deserves it!

FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE is a great title, isn't it? A title that a B-movie producer would kill for. A shame, then, that the film which accompanies is nothing like that title; instead this is a tepid, po-faced British slice of science fiction drama, with a ludicrous storyline and incredibly ordinary plot execution.The outer space scenes (accompanied by stock footage of a V2 rocket) are limited to the start of the movie as for much of the running time the action takes place on the 13th moon of Jupiter - a satellite that looks remarkably like Earth complete with lush vegetation and the like! A bunch of astronauts (including regular leading man Paul Carpenter and character actors Sydney Tafler and Harry Fowler) arrive on the moon and soon find themselves contending with a tribe of man-eating women who come to the place from Atlantis.It's as silly and cheesy as it sounds, and rather turgid with it. The staging of the action and the presence of a dodgy monster-man make this feel like one of those silly American sci-fi B-movies such as TARGET EARTH or ROBOT MONSTER. The way that the cast refuse to ever crack a smile or have much fun is laughable in itself. Still, the film does feature a number of nubile young actresses in form-fitting costumes, so there is something for the male viewer to enjoy; just not much.

It appears that my evaluation of this film may differ from a vast majority of comments made about it. That's okay. Obviously, other viewers gave their honest opinions and I fully understand and respect their point of view. Be that as it may, allow me to say that I honestly enjoyed this movie. For several reasons. First, I think that in order to fully appreciate a film like this a person really needs to have experienced the time period in which it was made. Things were different and more basic back then. For example, this was an era without personal computers, cable television, cell phones or anything like that. Slide rules were used instead of hand-held calculators and Sputnik hadn't yet been launched. The drug epidemic, Vietnam and the sexual revolution had not yet occurred either. Mini-skirts hadn't been invented and all women wore their skirts below the knee. As a result, young men had to use their imagination to a greater degree. And nothing is better for a young man's imagination than watching a dozen flirtatious "fire maidens" performing a dance routine in alluring attire. If that sounds "tame" then let me just say that it was an innocent time. And this film captures that charm and innocence. Now, don't get me wrong, this is a 1950's era, grade-B, science fiction film all the way. It has bad acting, cheap sets, a thin plot and terrible special effects. I realize all of this. But it was never intended to be taken seriously. It was simply meant to be enjoyed for what it was--a pleasant diversion at a local drive-in on a Saturday night. And what could be a more enjoyable diversion than watching "Hestia" (Susan Shaw) and a dozen beautiful "fire maidens" being rescued from a deadly monster by British and American astronauts on the 13th moon of Jupiter? All it takes is a little imagination.

This movie is solely about five guys who sit around for a long time in a rocket ship headed towards Jupiter's thirteenth moon. Where they find human life, well, rather many "attractive" women, an old man, and The Creature (a horrible costume, if i may say so). The MST3K version made me laugh hysterically and made the movie much more entertaining that it otherwise would have been. if you have an interest in this movie, i suggest getting the MST3K version. It's worth the watch. Too much interpretive dance if you ask me. The Creature could definitely use a little love. The special effects and definitely short of special...then again, we must remember the time period, but come on, the rocket could have been a little better.