Blog Monster B-Movie Review: Bad Girls from Mars

Bad Girls from Mars (1991)

Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Written by: Mark Thomas McGee and Fred Olen Ray
Starring: Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens, Dana Bentley, and Bob Ruth
Production Company: American Independent Productions

The appreciation of a B-Movie is a special thing. It takes work. You have to look for the value in a movie, such as Bad Girls from Mars, which is shot in five days with a budget around $52,000. It also takes a bit on insanity, but Bad Girls from Mars is a B-Movie gem.

The leading ladies of a B-Movie in production, Bad Girls from Mars, are getting murdered. Four leading ladies to be precise. In desperation, the producer calls in Emanuelle, international prostitute extraordinaire and author to be the new leading lady. That’s when things really go crazy as Emanelle goes like a sexual whirlwind through the production company, the film gets stolen, and more murders occur. Who’s trying to ruin this B-Movie, and why?

I have to give credit to anything that shows a self-awareness of the genre in which is occurs, and Bad Girls from Mars shows a good natured recognition of the nature of B-Movies. Tongue in cheek references to the payment of actors, development of script, the actors themselves, and the producers and directors involved in a B-Movie. There is even some authentic, if a bit cheesy, humor, especially from Bob Ruth who plays Al the Cop. Brinke Stevens, B-Movie queen, is a delight.

Bad Girls from Mars, while a B-Movie, predates some popular movies that share some story elements like the self-aware humor of the horror movie Scream and the movie within the movie of Scream 3, and something from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective that I can’t share without ruining the film. Bad Girls is really a fun movie as long as you keep in mind that it is a B-Movie and it is, in fact, making fun of itself.