This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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.

Unless your day job consists of sitting in a tiny windowless room where you do nothing but count grains of sand by hand, The Beast of Yucca Flats will probably be one of the most boring things you ever experience. I had seen Red Zone Cuba so I knew that this would be boring coming from Coleman Francis. But I had no idea it would be this boring. In Red Zone Cuba at least stuff happens. The pacing is awful but things go on. But this doesn't even get that distinction. Also like Red Zone Cuba, The Beast of Yucca Flats is annoyingly pretentious. The narrator just says simple (and sometimes random) things, but he sounds like he's narrating the Twilight Zone. The acting is also bad, but what can you really expect from Tor Johnson? There are also a lot of random scenes that were put there just for the sake of taking up our time. The beginning scene is of a woman getting out of the shower and then suddenly being strangled. What's the point of this? Why is it in the movie? What significance does this have to the plot? It's never explained! Throughout the rest of the movie it's never even acknowledged. Simply put, this scene would be better left out of the movie. On second thought, so would the whole movie. The only two ways to watch it are on MST3K, or if you have insomnia. End of story.

Yes, the acting is hokey. The budget is so low, a snake couldn't crawl underneath. It taught us that bullets do not kill even if you do finally hit your target. I won't even discuss the direction, cinematography, editing. Somehow though, it came together to make an enjoyable movie. The two little boys were adorable. The monster inspired pity. The narration and the parts with the law enforcement officers reminded me of the cop shows from the black and white era. I don't know if it was meant to be tongue in cheek but I took it that way. I really liked it for what it was; Low budget, Cold War paranoia. There were better examples of the genre. There were also worse. A lot worse.

Looking like he's covered in plaster of Paris, perennial monster Tor Johnson survives a nuclear explosion and becomes a monstrous killer. Of course, if you can believe that he was once an esteemed Russian scientist out to better the world, then you might believe he would survive this explosion, not to mention his beautiful face attract a cute bunny rabbit to his side in one of cinema's most ridiculously stupid moments. There's no real plot line and no real screenplay even, just 90% narration telling this story which drive-in audiences probably drove out on. The opening sequence, showing a young woman being strangled (barely showing any emotion) also gives the hint that the fiend who did this raped her corpse as well, hints of the bed moving up and down briefly in one of cinema's most disgusting moments. Attempts to get the audience into the story by having two kids lost in the mountains with Johnson on their trail fail completely. You're much better re-visiting "Plan Nine From Outer Space" and all the other Ed Wood films which are "Citizen Kane" in comparison to this pile of cinematic schlock.