To begin with Nyah lands in the wrong place. She's trying for London but hits the Scottish moors, so her audience is not thousands but a mere handful of humans, all of whom have big issues. Nyah is aided by her robot Chani who is a lumbering mechanical man and only vaguely resembles the robot on the poster. The flying saucer is pretty ponderous overall but seems to work. Nyah arrives and breaks into an inn and issues her demands to the locals who are gobsmacked by it all. In the group are the married owners of the inn, a young woman who works for them. a young boy, their mute gardner, and a sophisticated city woman who is a guest. Arriving with the saucer are a reporter, a scientist and an escaped convict. The latter knows the young woman who is hopelessly in love with him from years previous. The reporter quickly falls in love with the sophisticated lady and she with him.
The plot is pretty much Nyah shows up at the inn, explains a bunch of stuff such as Mars needing to restock its breeding supply, then leaves the group with warnings or ultimatums. They in turn try to come up with schemes to stop her, but she seems to ahead them at every corner. The movie is mired wild overacting while the characters try desperately to figure out to save themselves and perhaps even mankind. Not all of them make it, but to say more would destroy what little suspense in the story. Chani can disintegrate trees and sheds and things and Nyah's leather bondage gear seems to protect her pretty well.
This is movie is definitely one of those so-bad-it's-good affairs. Earnest filmmaking gone awry is often entertaining in unexpected ways and Devil Girl from Mars fits that bill.
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