Devil Girl from Mars (1954) - Because You Watched Starcrash
Episode description
“We must have sinned something terrible.”
Well, we lost the recording of our episode where we talked about The New Barbarians/ Warriors of the Wasteland, and we didn’t like it enough to re-record it, so now the distinguished professors move on to discuss British stage play-to-film adaption Devil Girl from Mars! Topics include the problems of converting a play to a movie, Dr. Berres’s pledge to play Nyah (PVC outfit and all) should we do a stage version of the movie at our college, the movie’s anti-feminist message, the failed attempt at titillation/ sexploitation, constant reminders that the scientist is a scientist, the sacrifice of the escaped jailbird boyfriend and the failure of the overly loud hero, the unimpressive power of another world, Nyah’s constant use of the surprise curtain and remarkably unsexy PVC outfit, a comparison with Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, the first of many references to Back to the Future, using radio as a plot device, filmdom’s worst robot, the Velma/Daphne dynamic, that kid in 1950s and 1960s movies that befriends the monster, and the role of this movie’s crappiness in inspiring Octavia Butler to take up science fiction writing.
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Music credits:
"Laser Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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