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Summary: SAVOR THE BADNESS!
Review: Buy this movie. It's so hideously bad, it's perhaps the greatest movie ever made! Don't just watch it once, though. This is the kind of movie that stands up to and improves with repeated watchings. You will be consistently confounded by the narration, direction, and the non-action of this supremely bad 'film'. There is so much badness, that you miss a lot the first few times. Too bad the DVD doesn't have director's comments from the late Mr. Francis, because like many who have seen it, WHY is a question that comes up a lot.
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Summary: Bevare!
Review: Cool title, neat cover, Tor, looks like a winner, right? Don't be fooled. I love Robot Monster, Kronos, Colossal Man (BTW, why is this not on DVD?), etc., and truly believe that Ed Wood Jr. is a far superior filmmaker to Lucas, Speilberg, et al., but even for a fan of this kind of thing, this one is excruciating. By all means buy it for the cover so friends will think you're outre hip or whatever, but do not actually watch it or you will hate yourself. I'm writing this to help people. Ignore at your own risk!
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Summary: Bevare!
Review: Cool title, neat cover, Tor, looks like a winner, right? Don't be fooled. I love Robot Monster, Kronos, Colossal Man (BTW, why is this not on DVD?), etc., and truly believe that Ed Wood Jr. is a far superior filmmaker to Lucas, Speilberg, et al., but even for a fan of this kind of thing, this one is excruciating. By all means buy it for the cover so friends will think you're outre hip or whatever, but do not actually watch it or you will hate yourself. I'm writing this to help people. Ignore at your own risk!
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Summary: Bevare!
Review: Cool title, Tor, looks like a winner, right? Don't be fooled. I love Robot Monster, etc., and truly believe that Ed Wood Jr. is a far superior filmmaker to Lucas, Speilberg, et al., but even for a fan of this kind of thing, this one is excruciating. By all means buy it for the cover so friends will think you're outre hip or whatever, but do not actually watch it or you will hate yourself.
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Summary: Awful Movie and Video To Boot
Review: Everybody knows that this MAY be even worse than "Plan 9" or "Manos The Hands Of Fate" and it is. The only problem with this Alpha Video release is that the source print is the worst I have EVER seen. I cannot believe a better print was not available. Avoid this and go with the DVD from Image.
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Summary: Anthony Cardoza has produced a funny ED Wood Type movie.
Review: Great movie for science fiction collectors. The movie reflects a true modern day drama of atomic catastrophy. Recommended viewing for the entire family.Seen on Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
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Summary: Painful...slow......badly editing......
Review: I've never seen this movie by itself,so I can't give a good review,except for when I seen it when MST3K did this back in early 90's..What they did was funny(as always)and made the movie more enjoyable.Coleman Francis is THE worst director there was and should have chosen a different occupation....Too much narration(just ramblings really),bad editing,no acting;and so on....By the way,who killed the woman at the beginning of the film anyway????..Tor??...Alot of it doesn't make sense??? The movie is too short as well.....Do yourself a favor and get the MST3K version instead and don't waste your time on just the movie itself!!
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Summary: cool stuff here
Review: if you a fan of ed wood like movies then you will want this campy flick, tor johnson is at his beastly best, totaly hokey, b&w, hardly any talking at all its mostly voice overs, all in all i love it.
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Summary: Minimalist Genius
Review: Less is more. "The Beast" is a 54 minute movie, with no special features. There are no special effects, sans stock footage of an atomic blast. (The blast is at dusk... while the surrounding action is in bright So Cal daylight :-). The atomic fallout turns Joseph Javorsky, "noted scientist," into a mutant zombie Beast. The rest of the story is... unpredictable. The Beast lives in a cave, amidst a vast distance... yet kids happen to bump into him, and posse pursuers go straight to him. At first glance, they know he must be a killer because a) he's big, b)he has a torn shirt, c) he has some white stuff on the side of his face, d) he moves stiffly. ( a) and d) were also true *before* the atomic blast:-). So the posse shoots this Beast, this casualty of scientific "progress." But then the atomic "Beast" comes back to life (sort of, it's hard to tell:-) to choke the life out of us... and to metaphorically choke our dreams of a brave new world! "The Beast of Yucca Flats" is a reflection of our nuclear age... and a haunting premonition of the future!! The look of "Yucca" is black and white minimalist. There is no dialogue, minimal "action," and minimal story to get in the way of the awkward images. I really liked it, as a relaxing counterweight to all the overkill in movies since the blockbuster age (Jaws, Star Wars, late 70's and forward). And there is some kind of Ed Wood-esque grasping for larger themes; science and progress are dangerous, cold war paranoia, stamping out someone "different," decline of rugged individualism. "Yucca" is a slapdash "project" and/or odd visionary genius.... or just a blank 50's canvas that you can read a lot into.... And my favorite part was the (hilarious!) narrator -- with his Dragnet serious style voice and philosophical bent. Of the few lines the narrator says (usually to tell us what we already know, or what we just saw for ourselves!), he introduces three or four times: "Joseph Javorsky, noted scientist." Regarding a man standing by his car, he narrates, "caught in the gears of progress." (?!) Adding a twist for a badged posse guy, he states, "caught in the gears of justice." (?!) And for two posse guys climbing a (mild!) hill, "One slip, and it's a thousand feet to *nowhere*." What does it all mean? I have no idea! But this is a very interesting and entertaining movie!
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Summary: Minimalist Genius
Review: Less is more. "The Beast" is a 54 minute movie, with no special features. There are no special effects, sans stock footage of an atomic blast. (The blast is at dusk... while the surrounding action is in bright So Cal daylight :-). The atomic fallout turns Joseph Javorsky, "noted scientist," into a mutant zombie Beast. The rest of the story is... unpredictable. The Beast lives in a cave, amidst a vast distance... yet kids happen to bump into him, and posse pursuers go straight to him. At first glance, they know he must be a killer because a) he's big, b)he has a torn shirt, c) he has some white stuff on the side of his face, d) he moves stiffly. ( a) and d) were also true *before* the atomic blast:-). So the posse shoots this Beast, this casualty of scientific "progress." But then the atomic "Beast" comes back to life (sort of, it's hard to tell:-) to choke the life out of us... and to metaphorically choke our dreams of a brave new world! "The Beast of Yucca Flats" is a reflection of our nuclear age... and a haunting premonition of the future!! The look of "Yucca" is black and white minimalist. There is no dialogue, minimal "action," and minimal story to get in the way of the awkward images. I really liked it, as a relaxing counterweight to all the overkill in movies since the blockbuster age (Jaws, Star Wars, late 70's and forward). And there is some kind of Ed Wood-esque grasping for larger themes; science and progress are dangerous, cold war paranoia, stamping out someone "different," decline of rugged individualism. "Yucca" is a slapdash "project" and/or odd visionary genius.... or just a blank 50's canvas that you can read a lot into.... And my favorite part was the (hilarious!) narrator -- with his Dragnet serious style voice and philosophical bent. Of the few lines the narrator says (usually to tell us what we already know, or what we just saw for ourselves!), he introduces three or four times: "Joseph Javorsky, noted scientist." Regarding a man standing by his car, he narrates, "caught in the gears of progress." (?!) Adding a twist for a badged posse guy, he states, "caught in the gears of justice." (?!) And for two posse guys climbing a (mild!) hill, "One slip, and it's a thousand feet to *nowhere*." What does it all mean? I have no idea! But this is a very interesting and entertaining movie!
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