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The Beast of Yucca Flats is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Coleman Francis released in USA on 2 june 1961 with Tor Johnson
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
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Add to a movie listThe Beast of Yucca Flats is a B-movie horror film released in 1961. The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson and was both written and directed by Coleman Francis. The plot concerns a Soviet scientist (Johnson), who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats, only to be turned into a monster by radiation, who then menaces the desert. The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration, provided by writer and director Francis.
Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made, and one of the all-time worst films of any kind, even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood's legendarily bad Plan 9 from Outer Space. In 1995, the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, featured The Beast of Yucca Flats, helping the film develop a cult status.
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The film opens with a woman (Lanell Cado) getting out of the shower where she is attacked and strangled to death by a mysterious man as the sound of a clock reverberates before going silent.Actors
Tor Johnson
(Joseph Javorsky)
Anthony Cardoza
(KGB Driver / Fat Man in Rescue Plane)
Coleman Francis
(Narrator / Gas Station Attendant / Newspaper Customer)
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