Powerful

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Sounds juicy huh, the poster helps with a full length image of female character Nyah (Patricia Laffan) in an all black, skin tight catsuit, rawr! Laffan actually wears a black mini skirt and black stockings in the movie, so no catsuit. Better or worse? Hmmm...its all good.OK back to Earth with a bump. The plot for this movie is clearly from the mind of a (possibly horny) male. Nyah of Mars lands on Earth for one sole purpose, she is looking for youthful, strong males to take back to Mars in order to boost the planets dying male population. Why are the men dying on Mars? Possibly from being f*cked to death by dominant girls like Nyah? (oh my!). No, there was a battle of the sexes and somehow the women won. This also led to all males on Mars becoming impotent, why? Possibly from having their balls crushed underfoot by the dominant ladies? Perhaps, I don't really know, but these sexy space ladies go around dressed in these ultra dominant, ultra sexy looking outfits. I guess I could cope with that. Although Nyah isn't specifically on Earth for sex slaves, that's immediately what springs to mind because you just can't help it. And straight away the movies plot is totally compromised because you don't care about the humans or their problems, you just wanna go with Nyah back to Mars to be her personal doormat. K, back from the bathroom, had to splash some cold water on my loins. Right so Nyah lands in the remote Scottish Moors and comes across an inn with various occupants. Each occupant has a different story behind them which is completely and utterly of no interest believe me. Nyah must decide which human to take back to Mars and what to do with the rest, and that's pretty much it.So straight away, why doesn't Nyah lift off and go elsewhere with more humans to choose from? This inn is owned by an elderly Scottish couple (one of whom is played by 'Dad's Army' star John Laurie) who are of no use, and various other random people of various ages. Of course the women are of no use so that's three people out, this leaves Nyah with little choice really. A loud mouth American, an elderly professor (always a professor), a child, a convict and a hunchback. Slim pickings right there, maybe fly to a bigger town Nyah? Oh and she kills the hunchback with her sex ray...I mean ray gun! So that pretty much leaves her with only two men to choose from, oh man the tension!In general this movie plays out in a very simplistic manner, and it goes like this. Nyah enters the inn and jabbers on about how powerful she and her race are and how she will do as she pleases. The scared locals look and listen intently and then when Nyah leaves they discuss what to do. Then Nyah will come back into the inn sometime later and pretty much do the same thing again, the locals listen and then when she leaves they continue with their chatter about what to do and various other mundane side plot issues of relationships and whatnot. Then Nyah will enter the inn again, but this time she might take someone back to her ship to show them around or show them her personal killer robot. Then said person or persons will go back to the inn and talk about what happened and so forth.Honesty this is the most boring sci-fi thriller I think I've ever seen. All the people in the inn are dull as dishwater and they literally don't do anything of interest throughout the entire movie. The only tiny bits of interest involve Chani the robot (pre-Robbie the Robot!) who shuffles around and disintegrates things, and the part where Nyah zaps the hunchback with a grin on her sexy face. Other than that the whole thing looks and plays out like some amateur theatrical production. Although, credit where credits due, the space ship model effects were quite good, ditto the space ship set which was pretty big. Chani the robot was basic but reasonable as was the ray gun effects. But the finale explosion for the alien craft was one of the best explosions I've seen in these early films. It looks like they shot a small sequence with clouds of smoke expanding, or possibly a liquid.There are many problems with this movie, the fact that nothing actually happens, there are set ups that don't go anywhere (Chani the robot), the fact that Nyah lands intent on grabbing a male but spends so long in doing so and merely walks back and forth between her ship and the inn. It all seems so pointless really, after everything has played out Nyah finally decides to take one male back with her only for that male to (somehow) sabotage her ship and its blows up. What a waste of bloody time! Presumably the political message here (for the time) was focusing on gender equality, but I'm not really sure that comes across as it feels more like a male fantasy to be honest (outfit much?). The movies title and poster are misleading, as per usual, as they both lure you in with promises of cheap thrills. I suspect back in 54 Nyah's outfit probably was a thrill (it ain't too bad now) but that simply can't bail this stale offering out.2.5/10

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.

"Devil Girl from Mars" is a rather worse than mediocre piece of 50's SF - a bit special because it's a British production, but neither does it spin a new angle on the "Invaders from Mars" theme, nor is it particularly charming.I could overlook many of this movie's problems - the cheap production design, the simple set, the cardboard characters - even the ridiculous robot (all the more ridiculous because it doesn't do anything the imposing Ms. Laffan couldn't have done herself) - but there's one big problem I can't overlook, and that's the sluggish pace. Humanity's survival is at stake but there's never any urgency, any sense of doom. A group of people trapped in a limited location and fighting for survival - quite a common theme for movies, many of them very good, so you can't blame the small budget or the SF genre - it's simply a script, direction and editing problem.Conclusio: I found this really really hard to sit through. Recommended only for completists of the genre.

In a Scotish inn, the owners, employees and guests are reunited in the bar. Our of the blue, a flying saucer lands nearby and a woman dressed in black leather like a dominatrix with cape arrives in the bar armed with a ray-gun. She explains that she is Nyah (Patricia Laffan), from Mars, and she was heading to London. However her spacecraft collided with an airplane and was damaged; therefore she had to land to repair the saucer. She also explains that she is looking for men to breed her female race since the male population is dying after warfare between males and females and they need offspring. Nyah has the robot Chani to help her to capture men, but she wants that one of the men volunteers to go with her to Mars. Who might be the volunteer? "Devil Girl from Mars" is an awful campy film, but also a cult-movie. The main reason is the character Nyah, the alien from Mars, who dresses like a dominatrix. The storyline is funny since the Martians have high technology but are unable to develop artificial insemination. The romantic subplots are boring and the sacrifice of Robert Justin, alias Albert Simpson, is simply forgotten by the ungrateful survivors. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): Not Available