Post by ScreenHead One on Aug 15, 2023 9:36:39 GMT -6
Robot Monster (1953)
aka Monster from Mars
2.9 (remembered in later decades as one of the worst movies ever made)
66 min
Ro Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. The Great Guidance must now come to Earth and finish what the Moon robot started.
Ro Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. The Great Guidance must now come to Earth and finish what the Moon robot started.
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror
Release: Jun 25, 1953
Director: Phil Tucker
Production: Three Dimension Pictures, Astor Pictures
Cast:
George Nader as Roy
Claudia Barrett as Alice
Selena Royale as Mother
John Mylong as The Professor
Gregory Moffett as Johnny
Pamela Paulson as Carla
George Barrows as Ro-Man/Great Guidance
John Brown as Voice of Ro-Man/Great Guidance
Narrated by Slick Slavin
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This was one of the most lucrative movies of its day, with a box office of more than $1 million on a budget of $20,000.
Originally released in 3-D.
Listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book "The Official Razzie Movie Guide."
This is considered the first science-fiction film with stereophonic sound.
Although the movie posters say "Moon Monsters" the Ro-Man tells people that he is from the planet Ro-Man.
Robot Monster was shot and projected in dual-strip, polarized 3D. The stereoscopic photography in the film is considered by many critics to be high quality, especially for a film whose crew had little experience with the newly developed camera rig.
In Robot Monster's opening credits, "N. A. Fischer Chemical Products" is given prominent credit for the "Billion Bubble Machine", used as part of Ro-Man's communication device for reporting to his superior, the Great Guidance.