Bad Girls from Mars

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Bad Girls from Mars
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Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Screenplay by Mark Thomas McGee
Fred Olen Ray
(as Sherman Scott)
Produced byFred Olen Ray
Grant Austin Waldman
Starring Edy Williams
Oliver Darrow
Brinke Stevens
Jay Richardson
Cinematography Gary Graver
Edited byChristopher Roth
Music by Louis Febre
Peter Rotter
Distributed by Vidmark Entertainment
Release date
  • 1991 (1991)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$19,000 [1]

Bad Girls from Mars is a 1991 American black comedy science fiction slasher film written by Mark Thomas McGee and directed by Fred Olen Ray. [2] It stars Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens and Jay Richardson.

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Plot synopsis

Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production of Bad Girls from Mars. The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle (Edy Williams) immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town. Meanwhile, the killings continue, and detectives try to stop the fiend responsible.

Cast

Production

Fred Olen Ray says the film has its genesis with sets left over from Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death. The sets were going to be torn down so Ray decided to use them for a film. A script was written, actors hired (including Russ Tamblyn) and Ray shot two days of a sword and sorcery film, Wizards of the Demon Sword . He then planned filming the rest of the film. They only needed four days, and had five days use left of the camera equipment. Ray had $19,000 left and decided to make a movie. He was inspired by Hollywood Boulevard (1976) and decided to make a movie about making a movie. He says they wanted Adam West and Burt Ward so there are references to Batgirls from Mars and bat symbols in the film, but the actors were not available. Ray says it was one of the first movies to mention Ed Wood. When they started making it was called Emmanuel Goes to Hollywood. [1]

Reception

According to Ray, Demon Sword "tanked financially" in part because the movie wound up at Troma. However Bad Girls from Mars proved quite popular, being released by Lionsgate, tripling its money. [1]

According to TV Guide, "What begins as a dirty, simple-mindedly funny sci-fi parody winds up becoming an over-extended murder-mystery spoof." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fred Olen Ray Interview". The Spoiler Room Podcast (Podcast). 21 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Topel, Fred (27 October 2014). "After Midnight: Fred Olen Ray on Strip Clubs & Chainsaw Hookers". Crave Online. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Bad Girls from Mars". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
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