Directed by: David MacDonald
Starring: Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court
Every time I watch one of these 50’s/60’s sci-fi movies, I look forward to writing about them. Mostly just so I have an excuse to look up their movie poster and see what sort of bizarre claims were on it. Still, I think it’s high time we admitted it: Movie posters fucking suck nowadays.
A small group of people in a Scottish pub are visited by an alien spaceship and it’s single occupant, a woman from Mars who is here to gather men to bring back with her to bolster the Martian population. Obviously, this is a terrible thing, so the people do their best to fight back and destroy the alien and her awesomely cheap-looking robot before she’s forced to make all the men her Martian sex slaves! HAHAHA– I mean… “oh no”.
The biggest problem with Devil Girl From Mars is that it has such hilarious potential, but it ends up being boring as hell. The exact same thing happens like, four times, and that’s the movie. The “devil girl” comes in, makes some threats, takes somebody out with her to her spaceship to look at her robot or something, they try to destroy it, she gets miffed and brings them back to the pub with the others. Repeat. I mean, I can see where they’re coming from, trying to make the focus of the film be on how the people in the pub react, and that’s commendable… and while I can’t fault them on this, The Twilight Zone did the exact same sort of thing a dozen times, all of which were way better. Ah well.
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