Can a bad film be enjoyable. You betcha! You just need to enjoy its campiness and silliness.
Filmed in Cinemascope, "Queen of Outer Space" offers laughable special effects, cheap-looking sets, a contempt for the laws of physics, a juvenile conception of future technologies and fashions, chase scenes with almost no action, and even a monster that's as threatening as a throw pillow.
Still, it can be fun to watch a film that features corny dialogue and a Venusian rebel who speaks with a Hungarian accent and indulges in numerous costume changes. Zsa Zsa Gabor is the rebel, and she plans to overthrow her man-hating queen when she is not applying her makeup or working in a laboratory that looks like the workshop of a flower arranger.
The Earthmen who crash on Venus are imprisoned (a goulash archipelago?)by the evil queen but they are distracted by the all-female population of Venus. They spend their time insulting women in general and they seem about as worried as a patient awaiting his annual dental cleaning.
The irony is that mankind (really) would enter space only a few years after the release of this film in 1958. And the first moonwalk would take place barely more than a decade later than this film. That makes the film interesting in a peculiar way. The added fun of the film's inferior production values and the silly story make this a must-see for cinema fans.
Filmed in Cinemascope, "Queen of Outer Space" offers laughable special effects, cheap-looking sets, a contempt for the laws of physics, a juvenile conception of future technologies and fashions, chase scenes with almost no action, and even a monster that's as threatening as a throw pillow.
Still, it can be fun to watch a film that features corny dialogue and a Venusian rebel who speaks with a Hungarian accent and indulges in numerous costume changes. Zsa Zsa Gabor is the rebel, and she plans to overthrow her man-hating queen when she is not applying her makeup or working in a laboratory that looks like the workshop of a flower arranger.
The Earthmen who crash on Venus are imprisoned (a goulash archipelago?)by the evil queen but they are distracted by the all-female population of Venus. They spend their time insulting women in general and they seem about as worried as a patient awaiting his annual dental cleaning.
The irony is that mankind (really) would enter space only a few years after the release of this film in 1958. And the first moonwalk would take place barely more than a decade later than this film. That makes the film interesting in a peculiar way. The added fun of the film's inferior production values and the silly story make this a must-see for cinema fans.