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THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS is a classic "good bad motion-picture show." Large Tor Johnson is a Russian scientist who is transformed into a choke-happy maniac after an A-bomb test. With ii of the blandest rangers imaginable hot on his trail, the "brute" makes caveman noises, takes a nap, chases later children with a stick and, in an uncontrollable fit of rage, tosses a rock.
While Tor's indescribable performance is enough to make full ane bad movie, there are plenty of other "highlights". For one, the film was shot as a silent, with audio (including some incredibly cheesy "suspense" music) added in mail-production. The vocalization-overs are every flake equally unconvincing as the acting. Information technology'due south impossible to sentry the characters interact and not picture someone sitting in forepart of a microphone, indifferently reading from a script.
Secondly, the film has plot holes and so big not even Tor's supper could fill up them. The opening scene, for instance, depicts someone (presumably the beast) murdering an innocent woman. Simply it's prior to Johnson'due south transformation, and the bedlamite never leaves Yucca Flats. Then who did the deed? And why is it and then easy for these characters to get so close to an atomic testing site? And why tin can't the rangers manage to climb a summit so non-challenging that a couple of young boys have no problem? I approximate it helps not to be so inquiring.
The absolute best (or worst?) role of this film is the inane "narration" by manager Coleman Francis. With and so much silence to fill, it oft sounds like Francis is just making things upward as he goes along, hoping to sound deep, sophisticated and poetic. An instance: "Boys from the city, not nevertheless caught past the whirlwind of progress, feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs." Or: "Touch on a push button, things happen. A scientist becomes a creature." But just reading such quotes don't exercise them justice. They really have to be heard, in Coleman's serious-toned voice, to be believed.
And what about the "beast"? Despite the title, Johnson isn't much of one. He looks pretty much like the regular Tor Johnson, save for some "puffy burn" makeup. I was expecting some phony-looking safety monster. Nor does this beast actually practise beastly things. He just chokes (or tries to choke) people and makes caveman noises. In the personality department, he makes Frankenstein's monster look similar Freddy Krueger.
What's most amazing well-nigh THE Creature OF YUCCA FLATS is that it was a big screen release. People paid money to run into this, and in its mean solar day, more than than a few presumably had to comprehend their eyes at the sheer horror. The budget was said to be around $34,000, but you lot'd be hard-pressed to notice where even that infinitesimal amount went. It looks a grouping of friends but got together ane weekend to have some fun with their new motion-picture show recorder. Consider the rabbit who hopped onto the set toward the end of filming. Francis but went with the unscripted moment as the rabbit investigated Johnson, who at that point was supposed to exist dead just is revived long plenty to kiss the animal (what'due south that about?) before again losing consciousness. Information technology's reminiscent of your family's home videos when the camera suddenly jerks away from little Jimmy roasting marshmallows to an impromptu moment in the groundwork: "Wait! A rabbit!"
Dear information technology or hate it, THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS is truly unlike anything we've ever seen or will see again. Though information technology may have more than i viewing to fully appreciate the ineptness, its ridiculousness will stay with you lot. Recommended for anyone whose gut hurt after Plan 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.
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Truly Unbelievable
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Older people tell us that as y'all age, time seems to speed upward and fly speedily adieu. Watch "The Fauna of Yucca Flats" and you lot will observe a paradox – you will age rapidly, still fourth dimension volition slow to a crawl, the 54 minute running time feeling like hours, or even days.
The plot of this movie may be summarized equally follows. A scientist is converted into a monster when exposed to a nuclear test. He kills an unlucky (and very unobservant) couple whose car had broken down, and so chases two young boys around while their father is trying to fix a flat tire. Two lawmen on the trail of the beast shoot, get-go the father of the boys, and then the animate being, after which a rabbit stumbles into the scene and nuzzles the brute causing it to take hold of and kiss the rabbit before succumbing at last to its wounds. Actually, this is not a plot summary, but rather the shooting script, with the exception of the rabbit, which was a wild rabbit that stumbled into the scene entirely past blow, and was left in. There are no outtakes in a Coleman Francis picture show.
This was the get-go effort by then unknown filmmaker Coleman Francis. Francis was thus unexposed when the picture show was shot, though in a more perfect globe, the film would take been unexposed and Coleman Francis shot. In this pic, Francis pays homage to Hitchcock with a scene reminiscent of the cropduster sequence in North past Northwest, and to Ed Wood, by intercutting freely between day and night during a chase scene. Francis' talent every bit a filmmaker really shines, however, in his determination to dispense with synchronized sound equally might take been utilized past a lesser filmmaker. He does this in several clever ways, such as having dialog (and gunshots) come from off screen, or past having the actors embrace their mouths or plow their faces away from the camera when they speak. In i especially inspired sequence, he simply frames the summit of the camera view to the actors' shoulders, letting the dialog crepitation back and forth between the headless bodies.
Kudos must besides go to the cast. Conrad Brooks, of Plan 9 fame, appears in this motion picture, which launched him into a long and illustrious career in such beloved classics every bit "Polish Vampire in Burbank," "Fart: the Movie," and "Zombiegeddon." Tor Johnson, who had similarly appeared in Plan 9, also experienced a career advocacy after this motion picture -- he never made another movie. Despite the notable work by these ii, as well as several friends and relatives of the managing director, special mention must exist fabricated of the rabbit, which turned in by far the best performance of the moving picture, displaying great charisma and screen presence, while yet seeming natural and unaffected. To attain all of this while being unexpectedly kissed by Tor Johnson is no mean feat for a showtime-timer.
This motion picture shames the recently popular movie "The Ring," in which everyone who watches a certain video all dice horrible deaths inside one week of the viewing. "The Beast of Yucca Flats" effortlessly achieves the same result in just 54 minutes.
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Cinema: How it should NOT be washed!
Tor Johnson is probably all-time remembered for his starring in the and then-called "worst flick ever made" Plan nine from Outer Infinite! Well, the people who voted this obviously never saw The Beast of Yucca Flats! Ed Wood'southward Program 9 is an authentic masterpiece compared to Coleman Francis' unendurable work of art. As most of my fellow-reviewers already pointed out: everything that can go perchance wrong in a film features here…times ten! Even though the story just lasts 54 minutes, it's ane of the almost dull experiences I ever had to sit through! Johnson plays a devoted scientist (oh yep, he really looks like one) chased by cops (why? You tell me…) into a radiation test-area. There, he transforms into some sort of Hulky monster that goes on a lame prowl in the desert. What follows is a hilarious attempt by Francis to create tension and defoliation, as he shows cops hunting downward the wrong person (for 10 minutes!) and Johnson chasing two young boys that got lost in the wastelands. There'southward every bit good equally no dialogue in the film, only Francis' own voice-over. And I guarantee you'll be wishing him dead after approximately 15 minutes. He talks the biggest nonsense (example: "Touch a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a animal") and personally introduces you to even the most meaningless side-character! Argh, the humanity!! The spontaneously improvised catastrophe (featuring Johnson kissing a infant rabbit) but stresses how ingeniously awful this production actually is. Oh well, at least it's bad in a fun mode. Nigh of the time, you tin't figure out whether to compassion or worship everyone involved in this film. Johnson wisely decided to quit his acting career subsequently this but Coleman Francis ambitiously persisted chasing his dreams and delivered the – even worse – film "Dark Train to Munde Fino" in 1966. His cinema career regretfully ended with guest appearances where he got credited as "Fat boozer" or "1st human"… What a damn shame! Believe the public opinion on this ane, folks! It really is awful
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Useful equally meditation device
There is something very Zen-like about "Brute of Yucca Flats". The vast lingering views of the desert Southwest. The odd disconnected dialogue that sounds completely disembodied. The haiku like narration.
Information technology is in the spirit of Coleman Francis' narration that I now requite impressions of the film: A clock ticks. A cute girl. A hidden killer. The clock stops. In that location is no connection.
The vast desert. A aeroplane lands. Joseph Javorski, noted scientist. Joseph Javorski, who looks like he could swallow whole pigs, has the fate of the earth in his briefcase. The Kremlin'south best make him a target. The wheels of progress grind on.
A chase. Bullets. Murder. Flag on the Moon...how did information technology become there? A bomb. More progress. Touch a button, something happens. A scientist becomes a beast.
Figures in a mural. Who knows how long we actually have? Joe and Jim, desert patrolman. They baby-sit liberty and commonwealth 24/7 in this landscape. A beast is on the loose. Joseph Javorski, once a noted scientist, now...nothing.
There is no progress in the desert. Yet its effects are everywhere. Human being's progress. Quench the killer's thirst. A family stops for a rest. The beast appears. A terrible mistake. Policemen with quick guns and the minds of swine. An innocent man dies. Who cares? Ii boys feed soda pop to thirsty pigs. It's progress, you know.
Confrontation. A fight that is not a fight. A gun with no bullets fires. Joseph Javorski, noted scientist, becomes rabbit food. The wheels of progress grind on. Terminate.
The viewer's listen becomes nothing. What have we seen? Who believes in flight saucers? Coleman Francis. The name lingers on. The lone cry of desert winds. I beloved the movies.
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Where's The Beast?
The towering presence of "Swedish Angel" Tor Johnson and laughable narration that sounds at times like some kind of oriental poetry fail to make this film more than than barely watchable. In that location is no real dialogue (presumably the producers couldn't beget a travelling microphone) -- all the dialogue is postdubbed with the actors conveniently turning their heads away when the speak! -- or story, and the only effects are a guy parachuting off a helicopter and Johnson in pancake makeup. Still, a somehow agreeable depression-upkeep film filled with friends and associates of the belatedly great Ed Wood.
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A Simply Incredible Mind Melting Mess!
A disruptive and mind melting mess of a moving-picture show. They don't make them like this anymore! Tor Johnson's chance to star! Tor, as you lot may know, was a professional person wrestler who went on to fame in Ed Wood, Jr. films like Bride of the Monster and Plan Nine from Outer Space. His huge build, like a homo wall, and his baldheaded head became famous. They still sell Halloween masks with his image!
In this film atrocity, he plays an diminutive scientist on the run! Watch how government agents empty their guns shooting at him at shut range, only can't hit his huge 400 pound body! If fact people are repeatedly shot in this picture without whatsoever outcome whatsoever. The moving-picture show is nigh famous for its nearly total lack of dialogue, as an off screen narrator tells the audience what is going on and incessantly babbles ambiguous philosophical insights on the mod earth. Out of nowhere the narrator says things similar "Flag on the Moon, how did get in that location?" "Young boys feed soda to the thirsty pigs."
The "plot" has Tor accidently stumbling into an atomic flop exam (funny how that happens), getting his clothes ripped up in the procedure, and then becoming a sort of hermit like desert cavern dweller with a big stick. He likes to grab women, conduct them effectually, and lick their hair. At that place are some other plot elements, but they don't make much sense. In fact, nothing in this movie makes much sense. Perhaps its all meant to be "art" and if so, its a lot more fun than whatever Andy Warhol movie ever was. I would love to make serious film students watch and study Beast of Yucca Flats to larn its cinematic techniques and digest its social commentary.
The long version of the pic contains a nude scene at the showtime. Aye, the moving-picture show drags in places, but its a unique and unforgettable work.
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Oh, the inhumanity...
A man. A movie. Mans inhumanity to the pic.
I have watched my share of garbage-amateur-horrible-z-course horror, but Coleman Francis'southward: The Beast of Yucca Flats must be the worst e'er! I cannot say I wasn't warned by other user comments, but such a alarm only sparked my interest. If there ever was a movie, which deserved to be rated one/10 this must be it.
The Plot: A defecting Russian scientist (Tor Johnson) is chased into atomic testing grounds by KGB agents, and he turns into a monster afterwards he is exposed to a nuclear blast. Yous can tell he has turned into a monster considering his hair is at present white! The monster goes on a killing rampage, and two detectives venture out to stop him.
What went incorrect: Short answer: Everything!
i. Dubbing. It took a while before I noticed that you never meet any of the characters when they speak, and then I checked the IMDb trivia section. Apparently the movie was shot without sound and later dubbed and to avert out of sync problems the characters had their backs to the camera when talking or the camera focused on something else… It is hilarious to lookout ii people talk when the camera constantly shifts to the character that isn't talking. Then trying to get abroad with information technology for a whole hour
2. The "score". The score is so over the summit dramatic that information technology adds to the fun. A man walks through the desert/prairie and suddenly he sees a Keep Out sign, and you are blasted backwards in your chair by the music. Judging past the music a Continue Out sign is then much scarier than getting stabbed while showering… I guess it is supposed to compensate for the missing suspense/horror/action on all the other fronts!
iii. The Narrator. The funniest thing in the movie is the narrator (Coleman Francis himself), who speaks with a at-home and intellectual voice. I don't remember one give-and-take he spoke made any sense – information technology'south pseudo-intellectual dribble from the beginning to the end. We meet a man lying in a hammock and the narrator goes: "Nothing bothers some people, not fifty-fifty flying saucers". I take no thought where he got flying saucers from – there are none in the movie nor are they always mentioned. Nosotros run across the scientist walking into the testing grounds and the narrator says: "Touch a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a animate being". It's similar that during the whole movie.
4. Interim and effects. If the movie was supposed to exist scary it would all depend on the monster, simply like I already mentioned it consists of Tor Johnson with some white stuff on his confront. We see the horrible monster chase a couple of boys, but sadly the monster is so fat it cannot really run, but it can throw rocks and wave a big stick… There are a couple of gunfights in the movie, but the bullets don't brand holes or draw blood… At present, this might all sound like it makes some kind of sense, merely let me assure you that it does not! There are and then many whys and WTFs in this movie!
I will bring together the 393 out of 527 who rated this flick 1/ten, simply the fun gene is a lot college. I didn't end up hating the motion-picture show like I did with Troll 2. And hey… information technology's only 54 minutes!
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Defenseless IN THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS
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Long before Michael Berryman caused us to freak out over a nuclear monster, at that place was Tor Johnson. Tor plays the distinguished Joseph Jarvorsky, a Russian scientist who has defected with a brief case. While in the desert, his vehicle is pursued by the KGB in a white1961 Plymouth Valiant. During a shootout (one without CG flames coming from guns) Javorsky escapes into the desert with his brief case. As luck would take it, an A-bomb goes off and daze waves engulf our hero which transforms him into a "prehistoric killer." Quite the mistake by writer/director Coleman Francis whose family moved the year they taught science in school.
The moving-picture show has a lot of night shots with poor lighting. Information technology is certified MST form and voted at #90 of the 100 worse films of all time by IMDB every bit of this writing. The trailer for the picture show, with bongo music, was more entertaining than the film itself. At less than an hr long, this would be the third flick at the drive-in.
It has an opening nude scene with Lanell Cado best known as Ruby Chastain in "Dark Railroad train to Mundo Fine", than the uncredited strangled girl in Yucca Flats.
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So bad, I can watch information technology over & over again!
I don't know what it is, just I find this stupifying excuse for a movie almost hypnotic in its sheer badness. I am starting to think information technology is so bad that information technology's perhaps the greatest movie always fabricated! Should I give information technology a 1 or x? It'southward horrible, but not horrible similar 'Manos', 'Wild World of Batwoman' or 'Stroker Ace'. Those are completely unwatchable movies. 'Beast' stands up to frequent repeated viewings (much like 'Plan 9'). I have to say that being a Large Tor Johnson fan may accept something to exercise with information technology, but I don't feel the aforementioned way most 'The Unearthly' & Tor utters perchance the most memorable line in moving picture history in that ane.
Perchance information technology's the magical bear upon of Coleman Francis. This is his 'Kane' & it shows frame by frame. The not-sensical narration, the stellar casting, the beingness of the start scene in the pic (why??), the sparse landscape, the light aircraft...
All I know is, I just tin can't go enough of this movie. Good thing Englewood Amusement has seen fit to release the picture show on DVD, although I volition as well keep the copy Conrad Brooks gave me a few years ago why bravado through boondocks showing Plan nine. I only wish Englewood had released it in 'Letterbox' format with director's commentary & a documentary of the making of 'Creature'. Yeah, I know Coleman's expressionless, but somebody somewhere had to exist asking Mr. Francis WHY at the fourth dimension & got information technology downwards on picture or record. At the least, I think Conrad is still around to lend some clues.
I feel an idea for a book coming on, but what I'm trying to convey with this overlong comment is that at that place is excellence and there is amateurish bafoonery, but with the case of this film, the distinction in my brain has been blurred. Perhaps the rating system is non a straight line, but a circle. And '0' & '10' are the same.
Past the way, I love the treatment MST3K gave this stinker (along with the residuum of the Coleman Francis trilogy), simply even that deadens the event. Watch that one if you must, simply for the full event buy the DVD/VHS of the standard release & picket information technology. Not one time, merely about 12 times will do it. Then you will know what I'm talking about. Judging past some of the '10' ratings out at that place, I may not be lone in this opinion.
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The worst moving-picture show ever made, easily
I had no idea when I started watching this picture show what it was nigh just I was very well surprised by the extremely depression quality of the movie.
Information technology consists of no on screen dialog, a speaker-voice reads an pretensious load of crap as Tor Johnson staggers around as a dislocated Russian scientist harmed past a nuclear-test. Fifty-fifty if someone for some bizarre reason would Want to brand such an insane moving picture they would not have been able to come with something like this.
Only a truly deranged mind could make such a moving picture. A genius in its own earth of badness, competing with brilliant filmmakers like Ed Wood and others but Coleman Francis outnumbers them all!!
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A once proud and humble man, reduced to nothing
**SPOILERS** Hulking 6 foot 4 inch 400 pound Tor Johnson as top Soviet scientist Joesph Joversky defecting to the US is caught by surprise, together with his ii CIA contacts, by KGB agents equally he's about to paw over a briefcase with acme secret photos and data about a underground Soviet space landing on the Moon. Running for his life Big Joe runs right into a US Army atomic nail test in the deserted Yucca Flats, which vaporizes his KGB perusers, and the once kind and caring nuclear physicists is turned into a mindless and murderous kill crazy brute: The Fauna of Yucca Flats.
With no soundtrack and a dull sanctimonious and soporific narration we become to see Big Joe lumbering through the desert and getting a hold of a vacationing couple. Large Joe ends up murdering the hubby and for some strange reason takes his wife, whom he too strangled, along with him. Beingness perused by 2 highway patrolmen, Jim & Joe, Big Joe drops the dead woman in a cave and makes his getaway in the desert. Nosotros later see the Radcliff's Hank & Barbara and their ii immature boys Randy & Art taking a trip where they cease to become some gas. The two boys disappear and the frantic parents become out looking for them just to take Hank run downwards and shot, but not killed, past Jim from a airplane who mistook him for the on the loose killer Large Joe.
Large Joe for his function runs into the two boys whom he chases into a cavern and later on losing them throws a tantrum, and a stone, sounding more than similar a baby wanting attention then a hulking murderous monster and then falls sound asleep. With Hank and the two boys now rubber and back together with Barbara who was left stranded past the family car while all this was action was taking identify. Jim & Joe track down Large Joe who after getting shot, and what seemed similar falling to the ground expressionless, suddenly comes live and grabs Jim in a choke agree where Jim'southward partner Joe puts a few more slugs into his massive body killing him.
A tragic ending for a kind sweet gentle and lovable man who was turned into a cruel creature and killing machine by those who used his piece of work, in nuclear physics,in furthering the future of humanity for destructive not useful and life saving purposes.
The moving picture is done in all seriousness ,every bit if it were a message against the evils of atomic testing and homo's inhumanity to man, comes across like a very badly made home movie with Tor Johnson looking more like like he had a bad case of sunburn instead of surviving the full smash of a nuclear explosion. Johnson chasing the two boys, Fine art & Andy, looked similar he would fall on his head and crack his skull with him having trouble keeping his balance and the stick he was belongings, and threatening the boys with, was more to continue him from falling then to whack Art & Andy who hands outran the large guy.
The very touching, sob sob, death scene with Johnson lying on the basis and a beautiful piddling rabbit coming to him every bit if he were offer it some goodies. We run into Big Joe gently stroke and cuddled the cute little bunny which was plain put into the film in order to show the audience that he wasn't really the bad guy that we thought that he was all throughout the movie. In reality Large Joe was a kindly and gentle behemothic who's brain was and then badly damaged past the atomic blast that he couldn't control his actions and but really wasn't himself.
There was also a very strange, equally if the movie wasn't strange enough, scene at the outset of "The Fauna of Yucca Flats" where a young emaciated looking women totally topless, unknown in movies monitored and certified for release by the prudish Hayes Commssion back in 1961, is all of a sudden attacked and, looking similar she's totally oblivious and high on downers, strangled to death by what looked to be Big Joe! The foreign and confusing scene seemed to have been put into the movie out of sequence by it'south not too on the brawl film editing department.
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Hope you similar narration...
This Coleman Francis gem is at present infamous for its horrible acting, editing, erm, pretty much horrible in every way. A defecting nuclear scientist is being chased by the Reds into the desert, where a nuclear examination just happens to be taking identify. The scientist (played by Tor Johnston, from other cinematic gems such equally The Unearthly and The Atomic Brain) is made into a hideous monster by the radiation from the nuclear blast, and he roams the Arizona desert looking for victims to strangle.
I recall the matter I find the virtually annoying about The Beast of Yucca Flats is the endless prattling by the narrator, who says inane things such as "Push a button, something happens", etc. Huh??? This movie has even more than narration than The Creeping Terror. Don't even endeavor to watch this movie except maybe the MST3K version. Joel and the bots can ease your hurting through information technology.
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"A Scientist is turned into a fauna"
Tor Johnson the famed Swedish Angel wrestler and member in skillful continuing of the Ed Forest stock visitor stars as The Beast Of Yucca Flats. Tor wasn't always a creature, in fact he was a respected defecting Russian nuclear scientist whom the KGB tracked down to the Yucca Flats testing site. The Russians and the FBI shoot it out over possession of Tor, but a nuclear smash settles the issue.
It leaves the FBI and the Russians quite dead, but all Tor has is a nasty skin rash and a nastier disposition. He'south now The Beast of Yucca Flats and the rest of the film involves law enforcement tracking him down later he commits a few murders. There's as well a couple of stray kids lost on the desert and a suspenseful race to get them earlier The Beast Of Yucca Flats does.
I just saw some other terrible scientific discipline fiction flick in which the same voice-over technique was used masking the performances of the cast who I'yard certain were giving Oscar quality performances. Probably only besides we didn't hear as well much banal dialog, simply the voice-over wasn't any amend.
As for the cinematography most amateur film makers have done better with an old Belle&Howell.
I but finished reading a biography of Bela Lugosi in which Tor Johnson is described equally a big, lovable, pussycat of a man. I feel kind of bad for him. His best piece of work might well be in Mighty Joe Immature where he was ane of the wrestlers challenging the large simian in that tug of state of war. Every bit for The Animate being Of Yucca Flats, no Ed Woods product has anything on this film.
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The ultimate Tor-de-force
Forget "Program Ix from Outer Infinite" and "Bride of the Monster" this Coleman Francis calamity gives Tor Johnson the function of a lifetime. Equally a scientist turned atomic desert mutant, Tor gets to stumble over rocks, pet a bunny, and scare two ugly kids with a stick, all without a soundtrack! Arguably the worst flick ever made.
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Last Express mirth
This film is really bad merely I would similar to point out two things which might redeem it somewhat. First, the many & varied techniques for avoiding lip synched sound are positively breath taking. Only because the product company could non afford a portable recorder doesn't mean they didn't know how to utilise one (if they could have afforded information technology). For anyone who has ever been stuck having to save a mis-shot scene the film is a goldmine of clever techniques for avoiding showing people'due south mouths when they speak a line. Second, this motion-picture show was made very, very inexpensive. I would venture to guess that the negative cost was ninety percent or better of the budget with most of the residuum for nutrient & motel. Well-nigh of the actors were probably paid a token amount. Films like this were made for the 2nd 'feature' on the drive in marquee. The drive in managing director was looking for price effectiveness & he knew his audience well. The couples were into 'heavy petting' by the time the second feature started. The guys in cars were passing around the beer their uncle bought them & loved to laugh & hoot at these films as much equally nosotros do today. In brusque this film was fabricated to fit the rigid economics of information technology's fourth dimension & purpose. It is fascinating to watch the film cleverly totter forth the edge of coming apart into a melange of unrelated scenes. It never does. It maintains a shaky simply conceivable continuity. This is not an accident. It relates to the core purpose of producing the product at the cheapest possible cost. The first scene is an exception to this. A strange, unrelated shower strangling. Confusing, merely information technology sure does get your attention. I accept come to believe that this scene is a cheap ripoff of Psycho which came out a year earlier. Both this scene & the soft porn shots of the sheriff'south wife were tailor made for still promos & to slip by the censor. They even get away with a 54 minute run time.
This is where the Last Express mirth comes in. This film made coin in the nearly ruthless & inexpensive part of the picture business organisation in information technology'due south time frame; & information technology continues to brand coin today. Yep, people however buy or rent it to hoot at because it'southward and then bad; Just like we did in the lx's when it came out (re-named & re-released several times). This classic stinker may not be office of the "Art" of film but it sure is part of the business of film. The producer/manager got both your money & the last express mirth.
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So how DID that flag get on the moon?
Coleman Francis. Gadzooks! When people talk about bad directors they e'er mention Ed Wood or Andy Milligan, some go as far every bit H.M. Lewis and real devotees of bad movies will mention Beak Rebane but no one, I hateful NO ONE talks nearly Coleman Francis. Even among bad film afficionados he is a forgotten man. Could his movies be THAT bad? Well actually . . .Yeah! THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS is a movie people remember to-day considering it was Tor Johnson'southward final theatrical film. This picture show is the sort of affair bulldoze-in owners lived for. Swedish Tor Johnson, former wrestling superheavyweight champion (in 1935) plays a Russian rocket scientist named Joseph Javorsky. He has defected to America to answer the question of how a flag has been mysteriously planted on the moon. Of course we never find out; in fact that potentially world shaking bit of information is forgotten about 10 minutes into the movie. Tor is chased by a couple of KGB agents into the desert. Notice how these 2 immature, healthy guys run and run and run but cannot grab up to the 400lb ex-wrestler. Also notice how they shoot at him from all of 10 meters away and miss! They are all on a nuclear examination site only nobody seems to care near that, until the bomb goes off of course. The atom bomb vaporises the 2 bad guys simply Tor survives . . .sort of, and mutates into the mad "creature" whom ii cops spend the rest of the movie tracking down. This moving picture is besides memorable because information technology is silent. Yep, silent! The soundtrack was either lost or accidentally erased depending on who you talk to (I take heard the aforementioned story about THE CREEPING TERROR, 1965) and a narrator tells u.s. what the characters are maxim and in some cases even what they are thinking! Is this a classic? Gadzooks no. Is it fun? You bet! It is on video from several sources. Back in 1960 you could have seen this at the drive-in on a double nib with the ultra rare Japanese science fiction thriller Undercover OF THE TELEGIAN. Hmmmm. If I had been around back then that would deffinitely been worth 35cents of my money. Okay now let'southward talk about that other forgotten director, Joe Mascelli who did THE Diminutive Brain (1965).
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A Report in Titillation
Produced in 1961, the very first scene surprises: a topless woman is drying off after a shower and retires to her bed when a foreign human being appears and.... The scene is shot with quick cuts, and seems like a late insert into the film, since "Psycho" was released the prior year, and has nothing to do with the subsequent events. Later on a hulking manbeast, exposed to radiations, kidnaps a fainting woman, and carries her around the desert for a long catamenia of time, including hiding out in a cave. Some other scene shows a sheriff summoned to locate the missing woman, leaving his wife in the house, featuring lingering shots of this attractive blonde in a silky nightgown, getting upwardly and going back to bed. The sexual suggestiveness of these three scenes is undebatable, going equally far as they can in 1961 to illustrate that theme. Some practiced location piece of work offsets the silly, yet fascinating narration of this basically silent picture. Cast of unknowns remained that way, salvage Tor Johnson as the titular fiend, inadequately made-upwardly, famous for his Ed Woods roles. Another obscure horror picture that has found its way to DVD in a good black-and-white impress with an interesting Cold War influence. Weird.
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Beast of Yuc(k)a Flats
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Well, I've watched it. Every bit excruciatingly slow as Creature OF YUCCA FLATS was, I suffered through it like a trooper. My heed boggles equally to the entertainment value bad movie lovers get out of it. The moving-picture show, besides certain details included, essentially has 2 policemen (one of which looks similar an extra out of some B-moving-picture show Western) trying to detect the strangler of a couple whose machine broke downward in a godforsaken California desert. The strangler is Tor Johnson, a Soviet scientist who is transformed into the titular brute due to, I approximate, a nuclear explosion (never explained and seemed confined to that small surface area because outside of Yucca Flats no one is affected by radiation) which erupts a mushroom cloud into the sky. A couple lose their ii boys who decided to go on a trek in the California desert where Tor is roaming virtually, then it is but a matter of time before creature threatens kids. With a ton of needless walking through desert, BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS felt a lot like Gus Van Sant's GERRY at times. Tor, with some burn make-up and ripped shirt, cane in hand, sojourns for what seems like an eternity as the policemen climb mountains, as the boys are lost with no inkling where they are. Daddy is mistaken for Tor and Jim Archer(Bing Stafford), a paratrooper and one of the policemen trying to find the fauna, from a plane, starts shooting at him ("Shoot start, ask questions later."). Some unusual narration accompanies the opening scenes leading to Tor moving about the California desert, such as "Flag on the moon--How did it go there?" The entire sequence involving a woman drying off after a shower, strangled by an unknown assailant is just 1 of the reasons the movie probably has endured as a cult classic, along with Tor and the cane, and the remaining minutes with the rabbit. There'south a lengthy shootout between KGB agents attempting to get at Tor, which is never mentioned subsequently the creature is unleashed on the California desert, not to mention, no explanation for how Archer re-connects with fellow policeman, Joe Dobson(Larry Aten) after parachuting from the plane (they are shown coming down from the mountain which might mean that the director didn't bother trying to edit his film into a cohesive narrative). Look yous might say, "Why carp trying to figure anything out while watching such a piece of junk equally this?" I'm dissimilar. I wish to believe that the manager has some sort of indicate even if there actually isn't one. I gave this film a take chances, and it provided a miserable experience I'm glad is over. I will say in that location are hints of auteurism in Coleman Francis' filmmaking manner, his accent on portraiting faces and shooting his figures from afar, pointing his camera down at them from a high angle. Finding anything of quality in this was hard, but I did like some of his compositions. Hey, that's something. Lord knows I gave information technology my best shot.
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Hilariously bad! Just then, you knew that!
Ridiculous "non-movie" has petty, if anything, going for it and survives as a curiosity slice just. Had to accept played in the 4:00 AM slot at the "Sunset-to-Dawn" Drive-In show (if information technology played anywhere at all), and you know what anybody was doing by that time. Then, who has seen information technology, apart from video junkies, like yours truly?
Tor Johnson (former wrestler known as "The Swedish Angel", whose thespic claim to fame was playing a mindless grapheme named Lobo in films such as "Bride of the Monster","The Unearthly" and "Revenge of the Dead", plus other, equally witless parts) stumbles through this mess equally "The Animal", a gentle Soviet scientist turned into a savage killer by exposure to an diminutive blast. Suffice it to say, an actor he ain't. Then again, neither is anyone else in the cast. In fact, there isn't a professional person of any type (unless "buffoon" is a profession) connected with this turkey. Best thing about the flick is information technology's less than an hour long (although information technology seems a lot longer).
Print available on DVD (from the "Wade Williams" collection) is excellent,though - crisp, clean; looks like new!! Rent or buy for your next slumber party.
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A positively gut-busting no-upkeep military camp archetype!
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Widely hailed as 1 of the single most spectacularly shoddy pictures to e'er disgrace the big screen, Coleman Francis' notorious Grade Z cheapie clinker makes for an absolutely painful, only even so oddly hypnotic and hence unforgettable viewing feel. The massive Tor Johnson of "Programme 9 from Outer Space" infamy stars as Joseph Javorsky, a noted Russian scientist who becomes a dangerous murderous mutant after being exposed to radiation. Author/director Francis shows an appalling lack of both skill and finesse as a filmmaker: the plodding step crawls along at an agonizingly sluggish clip, the continuity is dreadful (the opening pre-credits sequence with some phantom psycho strangling a woman has nothing whatever to do with the residue of the movie!), the screaming, four-sheets-to-the-wind overblown score roars away to an irritatingly incessant caste, tubby old Tor isn't remotely frightening or menacing (plus he appears to have dried egg smeared all over his face up!), the infrequent activeness scenes are poorly staged and unexciting, the scratchy cinematography boasts enough of clumsy pans and archaic fade-outs, and, worst of all, the ridiculously solemn stream-of-consciousness nonsensical narration by Francis himself blathers away throughout the unabridged film about such unrelated foolishness as flight saucers and little kids feeding soda popular to thirsty pigs. Nonetheless, the terminal moment between a dying Tor and a cute little bunny rabbit rates highly as a sterling example of sheer celluloid verse at its most achingly pure and poignant. For all its undeniable crumminess, this wearisome and static stinker all the same casts a strangely mesmerizing spell on the dumbfounded viewer. Truly astounding in its jaw-dropping awfulness.
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Rubbish or genius? You lot decide.
This is hilarious rubbish. A Russian scientist is chased by some authorities agents into the Yucca Flats atomic test footing. An extremely lame gun boxing ensues and this is speedily followed by an enormous nuclear blast. Luckily, the explosion does not appear to result in any radiation whatsoever. But it does set fire to a modest briefcase. The Russian scientist, however, does plough into the Animate being of Yucca Flats. He terrorises random unfortunates past chasing them extremely slowly and waving a big stick.
This movie is either thoroughly incompetent or the work of a crazed genius. Information technology is impossible to tell. The most striking feature is the lack of real sound. The mail production dubbing has to exist seen to exist believed. Coleman Francis, the auteur behind this movie, decided to shoot the flick in such a way every bit to avoid the need to dub the actors. Instead, dialogue is delivered either off-screen, with the head turned away from the photographic camera or even with the shot framed so that the characters faces are not in shot. The upshot is hypnotically rubbish. Bad in a quite fascinating way. It makes the film seem almost similar an experimental work made past people with seriously little talent. Is Coleman Francis a hack or a misunderstood genius. You lot volition really have to make up one's mind for yourselves.
Francis himself provides a deranged running commentary throughout the film which ranges from stating what is blatantly obviously occurring on-screen, to comments about men pressing buttons and flags on the moon. Is it consummate nonsense or does he know something we don't? The answer to this question may never exist known.
Some people have stated that The Beast of Yucca Flats may exist the worst movie ever made. I would guess, at the very to the lowest degree, these people have never witnessed Monster a-Go Go (1965). Creature is not the worst of the worst because there is only too many funny moments in it - the dubbing, the commentary, the helicopter hunt, the rabbit, the gun battle, Tor Johnson. And it has the adept grace to exist mercifully short - Battlefield Globe (2000) take note.
If y'all are in any way a serious educatee of terrible movie house then you but have to witness The Beast of Yucca Flats. Nothing else is quite like information technology.
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Terrifying beast; horrifying narration
Tor Johnson. As Dr. Jaworsky. Once an Ed Wood movie regular. At present: nada.
From the opening sequence (a vicious crime which is never again addressed in the picture show) to the end, this movie is the oddest affair you'll feel. A automobile hunt. Agents. They shoot guns. Information technology's one of the baffling legacies of the brief career of Coleman Francis, whose stoic, aimless, bizarre, non-sequatorial and puzzling narration (often in incomplete sentences) graces about of the pic. In that location is limited dialog by the characters; only when one of them does speak, information technology's a laugh riot to scout the variety of methods taken to conceal the fact you almost never see the thespian's face. Try to guess why this was done; then check your determination in the IMDb notes.
Some people don't care about UFO's. What does it mean? Some people don't believe in Coleman Francis. Yet he's here. A gas station attendant. His wife and kids are in the bandage also. To save money. People traveling. To Yucca Flats. Why? It'due south in the middle of nowhere.
The story is disconnected, plot-hole ridden, freakish, and disruptive. This is quite an accomplishment because there is basically no plot to brainstorm with. KGB agents chase a guy in the desert, where an A-flop conveniently goes off during the chase. After that a 400 pound mutant wanders around strangling folks or chasing them with a stick. Ii cops chase him. A guy is shot. From an airplane. He looks expressionless. So he runs. In the desert. Cops protect police force. And order. And they skydive as well.
Flag on the moon. How did it get at that place? Tin there be no coincidences? Boys feed soda to thirsty pigs. A film 50 minutes long. It seems longer. Who knows how much time we have? A noted scientist. A bunny. A kiss. I weird pic. Cipher more to say.
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The Worst Movie E'er
I would definitely have to say this is the worst movie ever.The kind of bad that you simply have to run into to believe. A Russian scientist gets too shut to an atomic flop test and becomes a "beast". He spends the majority of the hour long movie stumbling around the desert. Tight camera shots help us believe he is going to different places and the cops are really climbing a mountain. The kids are hilarious.They get chased effectually by this guy and manage to stay at-home and basically whisper their lines.Them calmly yelling for their mom is brilliant. Bad story. Terrible acting. Even worse production. This movie has information technology all.
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even worse than the films of Ed Wood
This movie is just awful. Information technology's virtually like someone said to themselves "I want to make an Ed Wood-style film only without the big upkeep or fine acting". In other words, the style emulates a really cheap and rotten director in an even cheaper and more abysmal fashion. While the cinematography is maybe a touch in a higher place Wood'due south, the director of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS didn't even bother using sound. Instead, a few short sentences were rarely inserted into the scenes but never when the "actors" were in closeups or else when their backs were to the camera. This "clever" affect substantially means that this was a silent film with an annoying narration and super-inexpensive long-distance "dialog" inserted later on the fact. Now making a silent moving picture wasn't bad enough, as with the silents you could usually tell what was occurring because of the acting way. But, in this instance information technology was more like totally random shots and the voice-overs had lilliputian, if any, relationship to the action. By the way, Tor Johnson has got to be at least 50 pounds heavier than his days of performing in Ed Forest films--he's then chubby and out of shape, it's pretty much impossible to imagine him killing anyone because he could literally barely walk.
All-in-all, one of the worst and well-nigh inept films ever made. The simply Practiced thing nearly it was that it was blessedly short!
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