The Beast of Yucca Flats Movie Review

Expecting a giant radioactive dinosaur? Try a radioactive Tor Johnson! In this unbelievably cheap, quasi-nuclear protest film, Tor plays a Russian scientist who's chased by communist agents into a nuclear testing area and is caught in an atomic blast. As a result, he turns into a club-wielding caveman – very like all the “monsters” Tor played in other movies. Droning voice-over narration was used instead of dialogue to keep costs down. Anyone who thinks Tor's roles in Plan 9 from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster were masterpieces of bad acting needs to check this dog out. Fellow Ed Wood crony Conrad Brooks shows up as a Federal agent. Director/writer/actor Coleman Francis was in lots of B westerns in the ‘40s and ‘50s. He later made The Skydivers and Red Zone Cuba, before ending up doing bit parts in movies for Russ Meyer and Ray Dennis Steckler.

1961 53m/B Tor Johnson, Douglas Mellor, Larry Aten, Barbara Francis, Conrad Brooks, Bing Stafford, Anthony Cardoza; D: Coleman Francis; W: Coleman Francis; C: John Cagle. VHS SNC, CNM, MLB