Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Creaky black and white British sci-fi about a space craft from Mars that lands in the Scottish Highlands. It's inhabited by a woman, clad head to thigh in black leather / pvc who has arrived with the sole intention of taking human males back to Mars to help repopulate the planet.
The effects are quite primitive but charming to boot and the film sports a fine cast of scream queen actress types in the lovely Hazel Court and Adrienne Corri as well as Patricia Laffan who looks stunning in her fetish outfit as the alien from the red planet. The script is intelligent with enough going on to have been a perfectly good movie without the space ship arriving at all as characters had well rounded back stories and motivations, mystery and intrigue to fill the allotted 80 minute run time as they were.
Having said that proceedings really liven up when the Martian woman arrives and later brings out her robot - a relative of Robbie the Robot maybe, and it begins zapping all in it's path. It's a film that kind of looks cheap and cheerful in the 2020's but back in the fifties would have seemed perfectly at home alongside other British science fiction such as The Quatermass Experiment and Hollywood's The Day the Earth Stood Still.
For what it is i really enjoy Devil Girl from Mars, it was a delight to see it in HD via StudioCanal's recent Blu-ray last night and a definite step up from my old dvd from Image Entertainment which i might add looked pretty darned decent anyway.
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