Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

Despite the interesting sounding premise: a Martian woman in a black leather outfit arrives looking for men, this is a slow and plodding science-fiction film. Escaped convict Simpson (Peter Reynolds) turns up at a remote Scottish hotel where guests are few and far between but include scientist Professor Hennessey (Joseph Tomelty) and reporter Carter (Hugh McDermott) who are looking for a meteorite. Prestwick (Hazel Court) is also present though mostly just to look pretty. Just at the moment Simpson is recognised a UFO lands in the back garden! What are the chances eh?

Nyah (Patricia Laffan) descends the ramp in her kinky leather outfit and declares that she is looking for men to take back to Mars to help rebuild the population. As she landed at a Scottish hotel populated by stoic 1950s British people and not a high school full of horny boys she has trouble finding willing males. Much slow plodding plot proceeds as the Earthlings are powerless before Nyah's powers and her ridiculously clunky robot...

This is not a long film but it feels it because of the slowness of the plot. The budget was low and the special effects poor, though pretty much standard for their time. Nyah and her outfit are superb and give the film enough camp and cheese to get you through the slow moments (of which there are quite a few!)