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.

I saw this movie when it was released. My friend and I who saw it thought it was funny then and I still think it is one of the most unintentionally funny films ever made. The 'no-expense-spared' location shots of, possibly the planet Clapham Common, are a complete hoot. Whenever I talk with people about bad films I have seen (and I've seen a few) this one always comes up. Some of the people in it went on to become car-park attendants, I think. One thing, though. It was a 'B' feature, but I cannot for the life of me remember what the big film was, so it must have had something to make me remember it. And, it was better than 'The Wicker Man' (don't get me started on that bilge!)

I just saw this at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival 31. I have a few observations to offer.This movie certainly falls within the realm of "there go eighty minutes of my life that I'll never get back again". In fact I have two quite earnest theories about this movie that may account for at least a part of its overall horribility.It is quite obvious that the film was only minimally scripted. There were all the hallmarks of improvised dialog, but not in an artsy experimental cinema kind of way. More like "OK, We've got this sound stage for an hour, but no dialog written. Action!" My other suspicion is that the studio contracted for a film of a specific length, and the director was actively trying to pad it out. This is quite obvious. Another commenter mentioned product placements for Longines watches, but not every time we were subjected to real-time half-minute closeups of clocks were we looking at a Longines.Finally, If I ever hear Borodin's "Stranger in Paradise" again, I'll strangle myself! It was played at least twelve times, I'd swear.I've officially named the villain "Mr. Tiki-Head" for reasons that will be obvious if you have the misfortune to view this dreadful excuse for a movie.

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