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Memorable, crazy movie

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

During the 1950s Hollywood produced numerous campy low-budget sci-fi movies that have since become cult movies; such as "Robot Monster", "The Beast With a Million Eyes", and "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Well, the Americans didn't have things entirely their own way, because the British came up with "Devil Girl from Mars".Naya, The title character, appropriately attired in a tight-fitting plastic frock and shower cap, is en route from Mars to London to conquer the Earth in order to take selected specimens of the male population back to Mars. It seems that there has been a war between the sexes on Mars, in which the entire male population has been exterminated, and now the surviving Martian females require Earth males so that they can perpetuate their species. Unfortunately, Naya's navigation is a wee bit off, so that instead landing in London she ends up landing beside a remote country inn somewhere in the wilds of Scotland. But no matter, she is perfectly content to terrorize the occupants of the inn instead. To assist her in doing so she has a giant robot called "Johnny" that looks something like an enormous coffee percolator with feet. The fate of the entire planet rests upon the actions of the handful of people who happen to be at the inn when Naya arrives. Of course, being British, the first thing they do is...have a cup of tea. "There's nothing like a good cup of tea in a crisis", says the innkeeper's wife immediately after Naya has announced that she is going to kill everyone in the place. The entire budget for this film must have been around ten-and-six. However, his is one of those movies that wouldn't be half so enjoyable if the budget had been a hundred times higher, and the special effects had been modern-day state-of-the-art. Moreover, it is the sort of movie that is all the funnier for the fact that all of the cast play their parts absolutely straight. It wouldn't be half so funny if they played it for laughs. This one rates a "5" just for it's pure campiness.

Although the DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS is hardly what one would call a "girl" (she's well into her 30s), she's here and she's lookin' for Love- for herself AND the rest of the gals on Mars. The "ray gun" she carries seems to give her a great deal of personal comfort (...), as does her giant robot companion (...), but it's still MEN she needs... She erects an "invisible wall" and begins to weed out the lesser specimens among the Earth folk, but the pickin's are slim, indeed. There are a couple of neat fx shots in DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS (including the climactic explosion...), and her skin-tight black leather outfit is impressive, but overall the movie's more FUN than fascinating- but fun it IS.

*Spoiler/plot- Devil Girl from Mars, 1954. IN a quiet isolated part of rural Scotland, some scientists arrive to investigate a astrological matter near the pub. Trouble starts with spaceships and starship alien crews & robots. *Special Stars- Patrcia Laffan, Hugh McDermontt.*Theme- Plucky Scotish residents can survive anything.*Trivia/location/goofs- English, B&W. Robot- "Chanti". "Nyah" girl in latex PVC material costume. Good spaceship design.*Emotion- A wonderfully campy film with a touch of sexy B&D with the alien "Devil Girl'. The robot and spaceship design are refreshingly new and original. Supposedly the basic script idea was taken from this film and used in an American 50's sci-fi film. Guess which one?*Based On- The Cold War invasion and rocket exploration fears.

It's no use reviewing films like these if you're going to compare them with modern day releases. They are what they are - cheap perhaps but made to make money out of 'less expecting' 1950's film goers.In a world where we can do almost anything with CGI - features like this had to rely on good old model work and actual mechanical effects.There are some real howlers in the script - but that's all part of the charm.The actual flying saucer is a real hoot -"It's like something from another planet!"It's landing is very noisy - so not surprising to find that the sound editor is one Gerry 'Thunderbirds' Anderson (Credited here as Gerald Anderson)In some ways there is a connection with Forbidden Planet. In Forbidden Planet a Starship crew come across a naive sheltered beauty who doesn't quite understand what the Men are really looking for and what she wants.Well here the Devil Girl knows exactly what she wants - and has come to get it!