1950’s Sci-Fi and Horror movies occupy a special place in my mind, especially great ones like The Fly (1958), which totally wrecked me as a youngster. Other movies like Them and The House on Haunted Hill, with the master of horror, Vincent Price, were terrifying and well done films.
Unfortunately, scattered generously among these few near-masterpieces we have many stinkers, such as The Beast of Yucca Flats and The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy which are so horribly bad that they are unintentionally hilarious masterpieces of incompetence.
Now we have the Devil Girl From Mars. A “movie” that is so bad, so misguided, so unintentionally politically incorrect and so boring that it almost stands alone in unwatchability. It also outdoes the Robot in Aztec Mummy as the most pitiful and laughable robot in film history.
O.K., here is the plot, and I’m not kidding. Apparently, back on Mars most of the men have become cuckold and impotent sissies or gay! (Of course, this being the 50’s, this is not even hinted). Therefore, this leather-clad Dominatrix comes from Mars to Earth to conscript some suitable males for breeding. High marks for click-bait potential, but Devil Girl fails miserably in everything else.
Devil Girl is a reasonable 77 minutes long, but it is so predictable, pedestrian and downright boring that it seems to drag on for hours. David MacDonald is responsible for this unwatchable mess, and he was actually trained by Cecil B. DeMille! Even outside the sci-fi, the plot was absurd, with even spontaneous love interests shoe-horned in for some unknown reason. The Devil Girl from Mars does nothing other than walk back and forth from the space ship to the Scottish Inn, spouting her hubris about Martian superiority. 80’s Action movies feature Stupid Chiefs, but movies like this one and The Crawling Eye feature stupid professors, who only make things worse.
I cannot go on without mentioning Michael (Hugh McDermott), who is a newspaper man traveling with The Professor. I guess that with an anti-hero like Devil Woman, the director was compelled to inject an insufferable, over-the-top, fearless macho-man to counteract the Martian threat. Of course, I am cheering for him to die horribly, and that is the end of the spoilers and the end of this review.
If for some reason you want to watch this atrocity, it is available for viewing on Tubi TV
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