Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956, Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw, Paul Carpenter, Jacqueline Curtis, Harry Fowler, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 11,421

Writer/ producer/ director Cy Roth’s 1956 black-and-white independent sci-fi film Fire Maidens from Outer Space is a hysterically awful British no-budget space opera picture with a group of cosmonauts landing on Jupiter’s 13th Moon and finding an all-female society of 16 man-hungry space-women who dance to Alexander Borodin’s kitsch Kismet hit ‘Stranger in Paradise’.

But it is not all sweetness and light for these lucky Earthmen, for hiding behind a polystyrene rock is a monster with an acute case of acne and a hunger for the blood of a hapless human.

Fire Maidens from Outer Space is truly one of the great bad movies with dreadful special effects and consequently huge fun. It includes a priceless scene on the alien planet where a car can been driving past.

One time heart-throb Anthony Dexter (1951’s Valentino) stars as Luther Blair, the leader of the amorous astronauts, and Susan Shaw plays the Fire Maiden Hestia who befriends him. Paul Carpenter co-stars as the expedition boss Captain Larson, Harry Fowler as Sydney Stanhope, and Sydney Tafler as Dr Higgins, with Jacqueline Curtis as the Fire Maiden leader Duessa,

Fire Maidens from Outer Space is must-see for schlock film fans and lovers of so-bad-it’s good movies.

The support cast down on their luck include Owen Berry as Prasus, Rodney Diak as Anderson, Jan Holden and Kim Parker, with Richard Walter as The Creature and Maya Koumani, Norma Arnould, Sylvia Burrows, Ann Elsden, Marcella Georgius and Corinne Gray as Fire Maidens.

It is known in the US as Fire Maidens of Outer Space.

It is written, produced and directed by American film-maker Cy Roth for Cy Roth Productions and Britain’s Criterion Films, and distributed in the UK by Eros Films and in the US by Topaz Film Company.

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