Robot Monster
by Phil Tucker
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Actor: Claudia Barrett, George Nader, Gregory Moffett, John Mylong, Selena RoyleDirector: Phil Tucker
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Jack Greenhalgh
Producer: Phil Tucker
Editor: Merrill G. White
Producer: Alan Winston
Producer: Gary LaPoten
Writer: Wyott Ordung
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 66 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Robot Monster
DVD Review: Not Quite The Worst Movie Ever
Summary: 4 Stars
I like these dumb b-movies and this one is one of the worst but still very funny. "Glen Or Glenda" by Ed Wood is the worst movie ever made. Watch it and you will agree. Robot Monster has a bubble making machine and it's so frightful I can't tell you the rest and spoil the movie. At the end of the movie, it's all clear. Beware of ROMAN!DVD Review: I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE......
Summary: 5 Stars
My brothers and I watching TV in the early to mid 1960's classified everything we liked into the MONSTER MOVIE catagory, being the SHOCK THEATER package featuring all the UNIVERSAL monsters, Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Man-made monsters, etc. or local TV's 5:00 SHOWTIME which spotlighted TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE, KILLER SHREWS, BEGINNING OF THE END, ATTACK OF THE 50FT. WOMAN, etc..,and of course FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine lump-sumed it all together as just simply MONSTER MOVIES, period.
...yeah, Phil Tucker's ROBOT MONSTER fits neatly into that catagory & I liked this movie alot when it reappeared again and again on local TV. I guess it sorta kindda appeared to be an INVADERS FROM MARS type movie in which..." is it happening, or is it just in the kid's imagination?" type movie.
Whatever,... ROMAN and his inability to conquer a few bad actors in Bronson Canyon, provided more than his share of classic bad lines in a pretty enjoyable sci-fi no-budget bubble-poppin' cosmic adventure. My life is better for watching this movie. I can't say that for HIGH NOON.
Buy, enjoy...you're as young as your mind forgets you are.
DVD Review: My Wife Cannot Understand Why I Watch This Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
This is probably the most democratic movie ever made. All you have to do to make one equally glorious is dig up a diving helmet, a gorilla suit, a suitable hill near LA, and some other junk you might find lying by the road, toss in some normal conversation and some classic moral dilemma dialogue, and you have a movie. This movie is what makes cinema accessible to the common man. There is no liberal moralizing or conservative patriotism to muddle the raw human experience of confronting a robot that looks like what you or the creepy kid next door might envision a real robot monster from outer space would look like. No high-paid intellectual snobs writing lines that insult your intelligence, no way. But the plot carries you along. Are the last surviving humans going to be obliterated by the robot monster? And even if they do survive, what's that kid going to do for a wife since the robot monster killed the little girl? Oh well, she was a big pain anyway. Maybe the grownups will have some more kids, hopefully good-looking polite girls with no recessive genes. But I digress. Every person who really loves the real Hollywood needs to see this movie as often as possible.DVD Review: Amzingly bad, and yet coherent
Summary: 3 Stars
Once you understand the premise of the movie - which I won't give away, but it's not difficult to guess what's going after a half hour of watching - the really awful, absurd, badness of this movie suddenly all fits together and makes, dare I say it, sense. Don't misunderstand me - this is a Z grade movie on a budget that just have been laughable even back in the day, and the special effects, dialogue and plot show it. It just happens to all make total sense in retrospect. Even the dinosaurs. Maybe especially the dinosaurs.
But don't watch it because it ultimately makes sense. Watch it to see an actor valiantly try to breathe life, drama and conflict into the role of a robot made up of a monkey suit and a diver's helmet. Watch it to marvel at the stilted dialogue, bizarre behaviour, and utterly shoddy special effects. This is a movie that needs to be goggled at, giggled at and groaned at. A true zircon among the Z grade movies.
DVD Review: Bad, bad dream
Summary: 5 Stars
It's one of those films you can see what they were trying to do but didn't have the money to execute their idea properly. It's legitimately in the "So bad it's good" category for this reason.
If you hear someone badmouthing it, remind them that it cost $16,000 and 4 days to make and earned $1 Million dollars in its original theatric release. How many "good" movies can boast that rate of return?
Description of Robot Monster
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!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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