Fire maidens of outer space 1956 09061956 us science fiction 1h 20m user score. Fire maidens of outer space bluray 1956 olive films. See more ideas about movie posters, horror movie posters and vintage movies. A team of astronauts land on the moon of jupiter and find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. The beast is a contemptuous halfhearted attempt at a monster. The earliest signs, dating to 1889, bragged that coke was delicious and refreshing, available at soda fountains, and cost a mere nickel. Theres also a vaguely defined monster and human sacrifices, and. Fire maidens of outer space in england, astronomers peer through large optical telescopes and discover a thirteenth moon orbiting jupiter, a moon that appears to be surrounded by terrestrial fog. Soon theyre battling a monster that has been terrorizing the settlement. A team of astronauts lands on a moon of jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates.
Fire maidens of outer space 1956 the movie database. Fire maidens from outer space is a 1956 film starring anthony dexter, susan shaw, paul carpenter. Synopsis see the creature of horror who ravished a planet. A team of astronauts lands on a moon of jupiter to find it populated. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines.
After landing on the th moon of jupiter, the men from earth debark from their ship to find a forested area containing the last remnant of lost atlantis. Fire maidens of outer space 1956 directed by cy roth. The thirteenth moon of jupiter, fire maidens from outer space, love maidens of outer space. They find it to be inhabited by the fire maidens, beautiful young women and daughters. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 based on a pretty good little sf book the girls from planet 5 by william tenn but still a sucky movie unless you like rimskykorsakov fire maidens from outer space one of those movies where a ship load of men discover a planet populated by dancers and then all the men go home alone. On an expedition through outer space, five scientists from the united states and great britain land on the thirteenth moon of jupiter. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 the last drive in. Written, produced, and directed by chicagoborn cy roth and starring nebraska native anthony dexter, the film deliberately and pretty accurately emulates the worst hollywoodmade lowbudget scifi movies. Olives bluray of fire maidens of outer space is in nighperfect condition. And then there are movies like fire maidens of outer space.
The entire premise of the movie civilization of outerspace atlantean babes dancing to borodin is the kind of goofy mst was made for. I vividly remember that night, back in 1987, watching fire maidens of outer space on latenight tv as a teenager, alone in the dark and laughing myself completely silly. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. Mst3k 416 fire maidens of outer space mst3k fandom. Fire maidens is boring, paced like a crippled snail, and lacks any type of plausibility. Fire maidens of outer space 1956 changes the movie. The deviations are usually bits borrowed from other movies.
An old man owen berry explains to the explorers about their civilization, as. Start this article has been rated as startclass on the projects. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. The thirteenth moon of jupiter, fire maidens from outer space, firemaidens of outer space, love maidens of outer. Fire maidens from outer space 1956, released in the united states as fire maidens of outer space, is an 80minute blackandwhite science fiction feature film. There they encounter an old man and a bunch of scantilyclad starlets, er, fire maidens, who dance endlessly to aleksandr borodin music. The characters are two dimensional, sexists, shallow, and completely unlikable. The space vehicle is a german v2, the same rocket shown in many early. This has been explained away by stating that the expedition is a joint angloamerican mission. It was a british production, written, produced and directed by american filmmaker cy roth as a collaboration between cy roth productions and criterion films, and distributed in the. Spacemen land on the th moon of jupiter and find manhungry spacegirls waiting for them.
Fire maidens of outer space trailer video dailymotion. Fire maidens from outer space fire maidens of outer space 1956. Fire maidens of outer space 1956 bluray dvd drivein. An old man explains to the explorers the groups story, as well as the moons dangers. Fire maidens of outer space br 1956 paul carpenter left date. Although little in the film can be considered artistic, it is competently filmed. The space vehicle is a german v2, the same rocket shown in many early science. Australia brazil canada china france germany india italy japan.
Trailer from the 1956 scifi classic, fire maidens of outer space. And i certainly want to stay on patricia laffans good side in that film. The neon is an independent movie theater in dayton, ohio. Fire maidens of outer space criterion films 1956 its jus another friday night drivein with tabonga, here at the dungeon our feature is a strange little uk flick i saw on tv after school one afternoon in 1957 where a lot of the neighborhood kids met at principal caronas house to watch it, it was a big deal at the time. With anthony dexter, susan shaw, paul carpenter, jacqueline curtis. Why the heck anyone would want to watch fire maidens of outer space is beyond me. Fire maidens of outer space is as bad as anything you can imagine. Fire maidens from outer space classic horror film board. There are several similarities between the two, which support the notion, but there some deviations too.
Fire maidens of outer space, 1956 this movie is sometimes called a british remake of catwomen of the moon with an even lower budget. Sciencefictions greatest thrill a team of astronauts lands on a moon of jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. Cocacola advertising signs in the 1950s fire maidens of outer space came out in 1956 most often read drink cocacola or enjoy cocacola, rather than the more informal have a coke, as seen in the film. Metropolis 1927 german expressionist epic sciencefiction film directed by fritz lang. They kill the monster, take one of the maidens back with them and promise to send back male settlers for the other girls. This article is within the scope of wikiproject film. Old scifi can be great and insightful into its time period when its good. Its an exercise in tedium, static blocking, and endless padding, weighed down with a tiny budget and zero imagination in production and art design. The 1950s brought us a number of science fiction films from the uk which can now be deemed as classics, including the quatermass xperiment, quatermass ii, the crawling eye, x. The scientists ponder whether it can support life, and if it even might have people living on it. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 film silver sirens. They find it to be inhabited by the fire maidens, beautiful young women and daughters of prasus.
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. Fire maidens of outer space 1956 is an anomaly among anomalies. Fire maidens of outer space 1956 fire maidens from outer space original title approved 1h min scifi 6 september 1956 usa a team of astronauts lands on a moon of jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. Silver triptych 1708 new maidens convent in moscow nazism national.
This painful, woefully wooden scifi trash is heavily laden with a papery plot, atrocious acting, stupidly obvious sets, and one of the worst movie monsters ever seen on screen. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 rotten tomatoes. An astronaut anthony dexter and crew land on jupiters th moon and find a monster and women from atlantis. The thirteenth moon of jupiterfire maidens of outer spacelove maidens of outer space. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 based on a pretty good little sf book the girls from planet 5 by william tenn but still a sucky movie unless you like rimskykorsakov space mystery fire maidens from outer space.
Ive always had a couple of soft spots for hazel court and adrienne corri. On an expedition through outer space, five scientists from the united states. The audio is in such good condition that we can almost hear the phonograph needle hitting the groove when the borodin music begins for yet another fire maiden dance. There is some horrendous dance sequences that even for 1956 had to be laughable. Fire maidens of outer space is b scifi filmmaking at its best outrageous epic about a group of astronauts who encounter a lost race of scantily clad women from atlantis on the thirteenth moon of planet jupiter. But if youre going to be bad, scifi is the worst genre to be in.
I particularly love mst3ks early seasons and fire maidens has always been one of my favorites. Fire maidens of outer space topaz, insert x science fiction. This silly britishmade space opera finds distant ancestors of the lost civilization of atlantis all of them nubile young ladies, of course, and. Fire maidens of outer space 1956 official trailer youtube. Literally, fire maidens of outer space is my alltime favorite bad movie. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 fantastic movie. Fire maidens from outer space 1956 rare movie collector. Although fire maidens of outer space is a us production, you get the impression that it was shot in england due to the number of british actors among the supporting cast. This is the movie that got me into bad movies, in fact.
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