Very Cool!!!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

That's all you need to know to add this to your hard drive or DVD collection - pandering to the easily satiated requirements of mid 1950s masturbation material - a film chocked full to the gunrails with delicicious hot totty with Rada accents and pussies so sweet you can almost smell them, decked out in tiny skirts and bust enhancing bras - dancing to Borodin's tune later bastardised into "Stranger In Paradise" Sydney Tafler and Harry Fowler are the least likely heroes one might encounter in outer space - or terrestrially for that matter Think of a 1956 edition of Men Only - implication rather than explication Good fun for all 7/10 Mark James Burden

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.

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.

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.