Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Leofwine_draca 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.

popcorninhell It's amazing what you can find when you're not looking. While surfing through the various sites I usually frequent to watch free movies, I stumbled across this inept little monstrosity hidden among poverty row horrors and cardboard cutout sci-fi. Released at the very beginning of the drive-in double-features golden age, Fire Maidens of Outer Space is arguably one of the worst films ever made.Fire Maidens of Outer Space concerns a team of male astronauts who are launched from Earth to research one of Jupiter's Moons. When they arrive however they are greeted by a population of beautiful women seeking mates to continue the species. As far as plots go, it's not the worst sci-fi concept; it's somewhere between season 3 of Lost in Space (1965-1968) and Gene Roddenberry slumming it. Yet what sets Fire Maidens apart from other mediocre sci-fi; what makes it closest to the spirit of Ed Wood than any other movie in 1956 is it's abysmal failure on all fronts.The direction can be best described as shoot and point; giving no reference points, establishing shots and worse still, stealing all the atmosphere. The dialogue is asinine with so many poorly conscripted plot points and utterances seemingly taken out of Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963). Actors sit and stand in front of cobbled together sets that flimsily sway whenever blocking is required. When the crew stumbles around outside in what looks like a public park, the camera keeps a distance if only so the crew can avoid having to wait for a permit. As for the acting itself; well, let's just say its as cardboard as their spaceship.Now by this point, fans of infamously bad director Ed Wood might have pricked their ears up. Does Fire Maidens truly saunter past that line of just plain awful into Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) open DVD case at your own risk awful? Yes, Fire Maidens does reach that low, low bar, offering the same shoddy workmanship, sluggish editing and absurdly contrived goofiness you would expect. What's more Fire Maidens rewards an already suffering audience with pretentious Greek character names and blaring classical music screeching in the background. Who knew that a movie featuring a grousing scab monster would also feature a five minute interpretive dance about Grecian urns. Thanks movie for making me feel like being stuck in a dentist's waiting room, trapped under something heavy.Seriously, Plan 9 (1959) is actually a better movie. If Fire Maidens of Outer Space was made today, it would be on the dusty top shelf of a Freshman film student's dorm closet. It simply wouldn't be viewed unless that said student wanted to feel embarrassed. By virtue of being made in 1956 when out-of-control teenagers weren't really paying attention to the screen, the film did find distribution. Now we can see it on youtube.com for free. Thank goodness for the modern age. Because of it we get to watch bad movies for free insuring the only thing we waste is our time.

Dextrousleftie You know, in spite of how bad this one is I really like it. It's one of my fav of the older MST3Ks, because of the sheer cheese factor and the very funny riffing on this travesty by the SOL crew. The sad thing is they took a few bits of interesting plot(they didn't even know if Jupiter had a 13th moon in the 50s!) and padded it out with the most ridiculous things - bad dancing, loathsome men leering at pretty girls, a really stupid 'monster'(which they never explain the origins of), men smoking and sitting around, an inexplicable cup of poisoned wine, and a sacrifice that never quite happens. The science part of this sci fi movie is almost non-existent. The 'astronauts' don't wear spacesuits; the ship is retarded looking and wouldn't even get off the ground; two levers control every function on the ship; the moon is identical to Earth in every way; the Atlanteans speak English with no explanation; and not only is the trip way too fast when they communicate with Earth there is no time lag whatsoever even though they're millions of miles apart. The Stranger in Paradise soundtrack is so repetitive that it makes you want to stick an ice pick in your ear after awhile so you don't have to listen to it anymore. Lots of padding, male chauvinism, girls in skimpy costumes, and innuendo. Horrible, to say the least. But wonderfully cheesy, which is why its so amusing in spite of all of these defects. MST3K just had so MUCH to work with! The movie isn't dull like so many Corman films, in spite of the padding.

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.