Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

Probably the greatest Ed Wood movie the master himself never perpetrated. Look, there's even Tor Johnson playing a Russian Rocket Scientist(!) who has a little run-in with an H-bomb and dirties his suit turns into a terrible, terrible monster! Tor-monster's killing spree is kept short by two psychotic cops who really mean "Shoot first, ask questions later" when they say it, wildly shooting at civilians. Because they are there, I suppose.
Producer-director-narrator Coleman Francis seems to have run out of money for post-dubbing of the dialogue, instead gifting us with some of the greatest moments in bad movie narration. Like this: "Once a brilliant scientist, now just fatty grease for the wheels of progress.".
The film has moments of really awe inspiring crappiness, best of all Tor's death scene, in which he gets shot by our maniac cops and cuddled by a rabbit.

Darling of the Day:
"Boys from the city, not yet caught up in the whirlwind of progress, feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs."


ETA: Oh, look what I found! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913900592490278110&q=beast+of+yucca+flats&total=38&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

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