“Beast of Yucca Flats” (1961) – Oh, Sweet Brevity!
This is a really short movie. A "quicky" if ever there were one. Not necessarily a bad thing is this case but if you can tolerate this mish mash, then you have earned a symbolic badge of honor for witnessing one of the worst films ever made!
Tor Johnson is a defecting Soviet scientist who relocates to the Southwestern Nevada region of Yucca Flat (s). The professor apparently is carrying secret documents that contain highly confidential information regarding Russia's space plans for The Moon. Russian agents are sent to intercept Johnson and get the classified information back. A chase ensues and the scientist and his pursuers end up clashing right smack dab in the middle of the Yucca Flat test site, an area where atomic bomb testing takes place. Johnson manages to elude the agents/assassins but can't get out of line of sight of a nearby atomic test. Johnson is slathered over with atomic radiation and transforms into a raging psychotic killer! The countryside is not safe.
Completely disjointed, ragged filmmaking effort. Probably a tax write off of some sort. Don't miss the absurdist voice over narrator pontificate about the struggles of life and moral implications of this slice of storytelling sappiness.
Tor Johnson, a former wrestler, and he of gargantuan proportions, gives his usual somnambulist performance as a rampaging, twisted monster. (See "Plan 9 From Outer Space").
Don't expect to walk away from this one with anything more than loss of 70 minutes of your life that you will never get back.
This is a really short movie. A “quicky” if ever there were one. Not necessarily a bad thing is this case but if you can tolerate this mish mash, then you have earned a symbolic badge of honor for witnessing one of the worst films ever made!
Tor Johnson is a defecting Soviet scientist who relocates to the Southwestern Nevada region of Yucca Flat (s). The professor apparently is carrying secret documents that contain highly confidential information regarding Russia’s space plans for The Moon. Russian agents are sent to intercept Johnson and get the classified information back. A chase ensues and the scientist and his pursuers end up clashing right smack dab in the middle of the Yucca Flat test site, an area where atomic bomb testing takes place. Johnson manages to elude the agents/assassins but can’t get out of line of sight of a nearby atomic test. Johnson is slathered over with atomic radiation and transforms into a raging psychotic killer! The countryside is not safe.
Completely disjointed, ragged filmmaking effort. Probably a tax write off of some sort. Don’t miss the absurdist voice over narrator pontificate about the struggles of life and moral implications of this slice of storytelling sappiness.
Tor Johnson, a former wrestler, and he of gargantuan proportions, gives his usual somnambulist performance as a rampaging, twisted monster. (See “Plan 9 From Outer Space”).
Don’t expect to walk away from this one with anything more than loss of 70 minutes of your life that you will never get back.
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