Just watched this on TV, the guide described it as a SF comedy and it certainly is funny - because it is so awful! Difficult to know how to rate films such as this because on the one hand I did enjoy it (for being so bad it's good) but on the other hand it is simply awful. The only positive thing about the production values is that it does feature some very attractive young women in skimpy dresses, though their attempts at dancing in sync fail miserable. The creature had me in stitches, must be one of the worst that I have ever seen. Highly recommended for film fans that enjoy watching bottom of the barrel turkeys.

A five man team of astronauts undertake a joint American-British mission to investigate the possibility of life on the previously undiscovered 13th moon of Jupiter. There they discover a civilization of babes who are supposed to be the last living descendants of the residents of Atlantis. Oh, and they also realize that there is a "creature" roaming around that the lovely ladies fear."Fire Maidens from Outer Space" just goes to show you that the Brits can deliver cheesy goods just as "well" as Americans when it comes to this sort of low budget genre entertainment. We of course don't take it seriously, although it's largely played with an endearing sincerity from the majority of the actors. That "creature" is certainly good for laughs; Richard Walter plays the role in a crude mask that seems to have no means of vocalization, yet the thing is always heard howling and snarling. The sets are designed as frugally as possible, and special effects are likewise economically done.Anthony Dexter plays American scientist Luther Blair, our strapping hero, and receives amiable support from Paul Carpenter, Harry Fowler, Sydney Tafler, and Rodney Diak, who play his comrades. Owen Berry is a hoot as gnarly old man Prasus, Jacqueline Curtis is alluring as the jealous Duessa, and Susan Shaw is positively GORGEOUS as Hestia, the female lead."Fire Maidens from Outer Space" has its clunky charms, just like many other movies of this kind, but the unqualified highlight is when the Fire Maidens perform interpretive dance to the strains of music by Aleksandr Borodin.Written, produced and directed by American-born Cy Roth, whose other theatrical credits include "Air Strike" and "Combat Squad".Five out of 10.

These 1950's B-movies just get worse and worse. When I heard this title, I thought it was at least going to be a movie with a lot of fiery action scenes. Instead, I got a boring and pointless movie. It's just amazing how bad the costumes were in this. There is no point in the least to make it look like they're on another planet, or should I say Moon. There's this one monster that appears and appears to just be some guy in a turtleneck sweater with a mask and painted hands. The story is that astronauts discover a new moon on Jupiter and decide to go there. How are they able to go all the way over to Jupiter? Why haven't they tried going to some planet that's much closer seeing as how they have the technology to do that? It turns out these people were from Earth because they're from the lost city of Atlantis. How did they get to this moon? I honestly couldn't tell an actual cheap effect from something that was part of the set. This just seems to be nothing but padding as everything is just too boring and pointless. Outer space is featured relatively little and it looks nothing like another area besides Earth. They get with the women at the end even though it's said they're already married. It's an even dumber looking and acted movie than a lot of other films at this time. 1/2. By that I mean half a star. That's the first time I've used this rating and this deserves it!

"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.