Saturday Night Movie: Queen of Outer Space

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After I rented Cat Women of the Moon, this was one of the films that Blockbuster Online recommended to me. I was really excited about this one because it had pretty good reviews, unlike a lot of those old campy movies! When we got the film we watched it half way through before it started to skip terribly, eventually just freezing completely. After trying to clean the disc off, and having the same problem, we reported it, and had to wait almost a week to finish watching this movie!

Queen of Outer Space’s theme seems quite typical of many sci-fi films of the late 50’s and early 60’s. A ship full of men head to the moon and they crash land in some mysterious location. Naturally, the place they land is inhabited only by gorgeous women with long legs, short skirts, and large bouffants. Though many sci-fi films followed that formula, this one tops all others, not only because it stars Zsa Zsa Gabor, but because it goes above and beyond most films of that era in its usage of sexual connotation.

After crash landing in on an unknown planet, the four men aboard get out to investigate. They oldest of the crew quickly concludes that they are on the planet Venus. After a less than welcome greeting from the women of the planet, they quickly learn that the planet is ruled by the evil, masked queen, Yllana, and that the men went extinct many years before. They quickly meet Talleah (Zsa Zsa Gabor) who tells them of her plan to try and over throw the queen. After a brief stint with the queen, one of the men removes her mask to find that her face is horribly disfigured. Yllana explains that men did it to her, the radiation from wars caused her scars. The now furious queen decides that the only choice she has is to destroy the Earth, and all the men on it. The four men on Venus need to fight the evil queen for their lives, the lives of their ladies, and for every single person on Earth.

While there is a storyline somewhere in this movie, it is hard to pay attention when all you see on the screen is men and women making kissy faces at each other. While the three younger men quickly find ladies to latch onto, the oldest man in the bunch gets the pleasure of watching the three couples have a steamy make out session in a cave, while trying to hide from Queen Yllana. This movie was really worth the wait. It was highly amusing, and the picture was so clear and easy to watch. Zsa Zsa and her accent were never explained….was she from the opposite side of Venus?