disgusting, overrated, pointless

A Major Disappointment

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

A scientist transforms into a beast after a nuclear explosion goes off in Yucca Flats. He then terrorises those who step in his way. Tor Johnson is a famous face in the b-movie world, starring in the supposedly worst movie of all time 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. This was his final starring role as Joseph Javorsky/The Beast, a Russian scientist who knows secrets about the moon landing and is affected by the world's 'progress'.Coleman Francis creates an unintentionally hilarious b-movie which to just say it is incompetent is an understatement. From the non-threatening presence of 'The Beast' to the narration ranging from stating the obvious to just being flat out bizarre, this has all you need for a b-movie of this kind.There's a lot of scenes where you notice it's low budget production such as the guns not having any firing effect and in the nuclear explosion scene there's a shot of a suitcase on fire with Tor's non-flaming hand in shot. But it's not just that- there's this murder scene at the beginning which has no connection to the film whatsoever. Apparently, it's in there because Francis wanted a nude scene- go figure.

Oh this...this uh, f*****g 'movie', was aggravatingly terrible and I consider it boredom incarnate, I think the thing may have syphoned off a bit of my soul by the act of watching it all the way through! I now actually know what the visual representation of a dial tone looks like. It was so damn dull and cheap and the lame social commentary was so bizarre! And that is hands-down the worst monster in anything ever period, it's just a big bald angry man that grunts every now and then and who attacks small children with a stick! This picture is unbelievably vile, it's a whore-monger of an effort,a screaming pustule of a flick, a celluloid lesion upon my poor aching eyes! Seriously guys, it made me wanna weep! Gack, get back to the hell that spawned you Beast!!! I'm getting too bloody old for this level of bad viewing. Throw away the damn key, yuck. Never again.

Taking a look at a box set that a fellow IMDber has kindly given me as a gift,I spotted a Horror title starring Tor Johnson.With having seen Johnson depicted in Tim Burton's excellent Ed Wood,I decided that it was time to visit the Yucca flats.The plot:Defecting from the Soviet Union, Russian scientist Joseph Javorsky goes to the US to give them all of the info that he has on the Soviets plans. Preparing to pass a suitcase with all the info to his US contacts,Javorsky and his contacts are caught by surprise,when 2 KGB spies reveal themselves,and start attacking them.Seeing his US contacts get killed,Javorsky runs away from the agents.With not knowing anything about the location,Javorsky walks onto a nuclear test site.Hit by radiation from the site (what luck!) Javorsky begins to transform into a monster.View on the film:Before I get to the movie,I have to mention that despite being a public domain title,Mill Creek have given the flick a surprisingly good transfer,with the super-dry narration being clear to hear,and the sharp picture allowing for the best to be seen in all its glory.Mostly taking place in what looks to be a park,the score by Irwin Nafshun/Al Remington & Gene Kauer takes a pretty good shot at trying to create an eerie mood.Running at 54 minutes,the screenplay by auteur film maker Coleman Francis (who tragically died from a suicide age 53 in 1973) completely ignores any sense of logic.but does very well at keeping the film running along by chucking complexly random, illogical events on the screen,which go from an opening murder scene which is not mentioned at all for the rest of the film,to the "beast" walking around like a drunk caveman,in a film with a beast who would be unable to knock any flats standing in his way.

The movie is not good - in fact it is pure junk. Yet there is something strangely entertaining about this film. IDK how a movie this junky can entertain so well but this movie can do that for certain viewers - including myself.The movie is less than an hour long. In my opinion, what was missing was a longer movie to finish telling the story. The movie had the potential to be better and all it really needed was more time to complete the story because the story was incomplete.There is something strangely good about this horrible film... maybe it is simply the fact it had the potential to be better than what it is. I liked the narration, the way the movie was filmed, the odd characters, and even the incomplete story.If you are looking for a movie that is very odd and is a bad b-rated film that is somewhat entertaining then look no further than this campy flick.7/10