DVD : Robot Monster
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381870329
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Running Time: 62 minutes
Sales Rank: 29852
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 1953
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Description:
Incredible! Unbelievable! Told the untamed way! Ro-Man, a sex-starved robot monster (dressed in gorilla suit and diving helmet), has destroyed all of humanity with the exception of a small band of survivors. It's up to these last brave souls to re-populate the human race and to destroy the mighty Ro-Man and his commander, The Great Guidance. A Golden Turkey Award winner!
Amazon.com:
Phil Tucker's Robot Monster has rightfully earned a place in the pantheon of bad movies over the years, and for good reason--it makes anything done by Ed Wood look like an Orson Welles masterpiece. Picture, if you will, a gorilla in a diving helmet (the Ro-Man) who wipes out all of the Earth's population except for one family (the Hu-Mans), whom he terrorizes through the rest of the film. From his headquarters in a Bronson Canyon cave, he communicates with his superiors via World War II surplus radio gear and a Lawrence Welk-style bubble machine, then shambles around the woods looking for his quarry. The plot of this post-holocaust sci-fi nonsense is hardly worth going into past that point, except to say that it's stupendously, staggeringly awful filmmaking. It's even more incredible when you consider that the writers and director undoubtedly believed that they were making a deep, serious, grave statement about the horrors of nuclear war... and wound up with several reels of celluloid flotsam. Any self-respecting fan of bad cinema who hasn't seen this notorious wreck of a movie isn't worth his or her salt. Poor Phil Tucker--when Robot Monster was released, it received such a thorough shellacking that he tried to commit suicide. Tucker failed, though, and went on to make the even less comprehensible Broadway Jungle and the marginally better Cape Canaveral Monsters. --Jerry Renshaw
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Rating:  -
It's true what the reviews say! This movie is about as bad as they come! But it's SO bad.. it's actually entertaining!!
I have never seen such a pathetic excuse for a movie in my life! The plot is full of holes and barely makes sense.. the scripting is rediculous.. the acting is pathetic (the part where the monster picks up the young girl who puts her arm around his neck willingly comes to mind).. But I can guarantee you'll laugh the whole way through!
It's an easy movie to watch! Definitely not boring! You sit there, scratching your head, while at the same time in hysterics.. wondering what the HELL they were thinking when they released this! It's shocking to think there was more than one crazy person who put this abomonation together!
It's worth buying.. because hey.. you can always put it on and watch it while you're having a few drinks with your mates! Guaranteed to satisfy!
Rating:  -
This movie's tag as one of the worst ever made is worth paying attention to, but it's a bit misleading, too. As with those other worst movies - most notably Ed Wood's "Plan Nine" - such a grandiose insult tells you there must be something going on to make the thing worth talking about at all.
Yes, its monster, the Ro-Man, is put together from a bad ape costume and a deep sea diving helmet. Yes, it looks like it was shot on some empty hillside in the San Fernando Valley, its only set being the partial concrete foundation left over from some building removed years before. And yes, the inserted sequences of stop-motion clay dinosaurs and real lizards make for a baffling kind of narrative non-sequitur. But, despite how cheaply it's done, there's a certain . . . care . . . put into this movie's production.
First of all, its cast features George Nader. He didn't have much of a career yet, but he was easily as good as any of the era's other matinee idols. It also features Selena Royale, a perfectly respectable contract player who's probably best remembered for her role in the MGM musical, "The Harvey Girls." And the movie boasts a musical score by Elmer Bernstein who'd later receive Oscar nominations for his work on 11 movies, winning for "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Certainly it would have been easier to persuade lesser talents to sign on to the job, no matter how badly these needed the work.*
And then there's the story: not great by any measure, ... Read More
Rating: -
This movie falls into the "so bad it's good" category. The filmmakers didn't even have the money for an entire Gorilla suit so.......lets use a deep sea diving helmet for it's head!? This is still a pretty funny watch.
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"Robot Monster" (1953) is certainly horrible when compared to a high budget SiFi film like "Forbidden Planet" (1956). The plot is silly and the special effects laughable. I almost turned it off the first time I watched it. I'm glad I didn't as this film is really an endearing bit of American nostalgia. It's a 1950s Saturday afternoon matinee film meant for kids. So just picture riding your bicycle down to your local cinema on a sunny summer afternoon. You and your friends plop down some quarters for tickets to Robot Monster, buy some popcorn, and make your way into the darken theater. A kid with an imagination can transform a campy actor in a monkey suit into Ro-Man the monster from outer space! Watched in this context the film is a blast. Director Phil Tucker really deserves more credit than he was given in his day.
Rating: -
Phil Tucker's magnum opus, "Robot Monster", ranks among the best bad movies ever made.
The plot is incoherent, the acting ranges from bad to awful and the eponymous "Robot Monster" is a guy in a gorilla suit with a tin foil covered diving helmet who communicates with his home planet using a bubble machine.
Originally released in 3-D, this DVD uses a good 2-D print and the transfer is pretty good.
This is a "must have" for fans of bad movies.
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