Stevieboy666 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.

timbertrail4444 I just love this movie. I can watch it over and over and get enjoyment out of it. I first saw it in 1956 as a child and watched it many times over the years. The musical soundtrack is so captivating. Susan Shaw is very cute. It reminds me of the early Universal Pictures Horror Movies that I can watch again and again. This movie and The Mole People and Zombies of Mora Tau are my favorites from the time period. Please watch it and see if you agree with me. Many of the current movies cannot hold my interest and I have to force myself to sit through them. This movie has a certain charm and holds my interest. It is a low budget but they did a great job with the funds they had at the time.

MartinHafer "Fire Maidens of Outer Space" is among the very cheapest and crappiest looking films of the 1950s. I am not at all exaggerating when I say that it makes "Plan 9 From Outer Space" look big-budgeted by comparison! After all, the space ship is just old footage of V-2 tests, the 'moon' they land on looks pretty much like Indiana and the sets and outfits must have set the film back a whopping $38.79! Yes, it's incredibly cheap and stupid looking--but is the film otherwise any good? A group of ultra-horny human men take a space voyage to Jupiter's 13th moon. There, they discover the lost city of Atlantis....and this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. They are then welcomed by Prossus--a man who claims to be the last male survivor of this mythical city. Because they are dying out, that's why they contacted the astronauts. The problem is a monster that is both indestructible AND has the head of a man.Much of this film seems unscripted and pointless, so the script and direction aren't exactly the picture's strong points! A great example is the sexy(????) dance number set to "Stranger in Paradise"---which is odd since these Atlantians have been on this moon long, long before Borodin wrote this public domain piece! Why do they dance and gyrate in such a pointless manner?! I guess it's just filler...as is much of the movie. The acting also is rather poor and stilted. In fact, nothing in the film is particularly interesting or done with any sense of quality and it's generally very boring. I would place this among the very worst sci-fi films of its era and can only think of films as bad...not really worse.If you want to see it (and I cannot for the life of me think WHY you would), then a very poor copy is available on YouTube.

Uriah43 It appears that my evaluation of this film may differ from a vast majority of comments made about it. That's okay. Obviously, other viewers gave their honest opinions and I fully understand and respect their point of view. Be that as it may, allow me to say that I honestly enjoyed this movie. For several reasons. First, I think that in order to fully appreciate a film like this a person really needs to have experienced the time period in which it was made. Things were different and more basic back then. For example, this was an era without personal computers, cable television, cell phones or anything like that. Slide rules were used instead of hand-held calculators and Sputnik hadn't yet been launched. The drug epidemic, Vietnam and the sexual revolution had not yet occurred either. Mini-skirts hadn't been invented and all women wore their skirts below the knee. As a result, young men had to use their imagination to a greater degree. And nothing is better for a young man's imagination than watching a dozen flirtatious "fire maidens" performing a dance routine in alluring attire. If that sounds "tame" then let me just say that it was an innocent time. And this film captures that charm and innocence. Now, don't get me wrong, this is a 1950's era, grade-B, science fiction film all the way. It has bad acting, cheap sets, a thin plot and terrible special effects. I realize all of this. But it was never intended to be taken seriously. It was simply meant to be enjoyed for what it was--a pleasant diversion at a local drive-in on a Saturday night. And what could be a more enjoyable diversion than watching "Hestia" (Susan Shaw) and a dozen beautiful "fire maidens" being rescued from a deadly monster by British and American astronauts on the 13th moon of Jupiter? All it takes is a little imagination.