Rainey Dawn The movie is not good - in fact it is pure junk. Yet there is something strangely entertaining about this film. IDK how a movie this junky can entertain so well but this movie can do that for certain viewers - including myself.The movie is less than an hour long. In my opinion, what was missing was a longer movie to finish telling the story. The movie had the potential to be better and all it really needed was more time to complete the story because the story was incomplete.There is something strangely good about this horrible film... maybe it is simply the fact it had the potential to be better than what it is. I liked the narration, the way the movie was filmed, the odd characters, and even the incomplete story.If you are looking for a movie that is very odd and is a bad b-rated film that is somewhat entertaining then look no further than this campy flick.7/10

geminiredblue Sometimes, I can't help but wonder what goes into a film such as this. Did anybody involved think that this would be fun or entertaining? Did anybody THINK at all? Or did they charge ahead dutifully? Did the filmmakers have a shooting schedule? Or did they just wing it from Day One? Here was the first attempt by Coleman Francis, potentially THE worst director ever. And THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS has found a place in cult classic history. Clocking in at just over an hour, TBOYF features Tor Johnson (from the monumentally enjoyable bad epic PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) as an escaping Russian scientist. In New Mexico, two guys in suits (Feds, I guess) get into a car chase and shoot out with two guys in hats (KGB spies, I guess). They're attempting to kill the scientist and steal his briefcase filled with sensitive information. But wouldn't ya know it, the area just happens to be a place where the Army's testing a new atom bomb. Wandering out into the desert, the Russian scientist gets horribly scarred, his clothes in tatters, and goes around waving a walking stick. Some other characters come along, doing nonsensical stuff. Tor chases them away, bellowing. And eventually, he dies. Maybe. While a cute little rabbit nibbles at his fingers. Scary, huh? Rumor has it that they had no audio equipment on-set and so they resorted to having stuff recorded in post-production. Hence the odd, slightly disturbing, voice-over musings by Coleman Francis himself. In a weird sort of way, it almost works as an art film. It's certainly got no plot, or coherent story structure. But, even at an hour, it's difficult to watch and sit through. Bravo MST3K, you've got yourselves a winner. To you, I give 8 Mewling Tors out of 10!

brucerussellmyers (See title). In fact this film was shot as a silent film and then voices were dubbed in with a narrator who has trouble completing thoughts or sentences. I'm not sure where to begin...oh, how about the beginning.A woman is strangled in her hotel room/house which leads us to wonder who the killer is and whether other naked women are in danger. The rest of the film's "violence" bears no connection to this opening murder, as the plot revolves around Tor Johnansson (let's call a Swede and Swede) wandering the desert looking for his victims. Turns out...director Coleman Francis just wanted a nude scene in his movie, and he added it after filming the rest of the movie.The cops who pursue the "beast" shoot an innocent man with no sense of remorse and almost get themselves killed after subduing the "beast." They fall for that horror movie cliché of assuming the murderer is dead and stepping in for a closer look. Idiots!The kids put their parents in peril by running off into the danger zone of the desert. The father looks for them haphazardly while the mother displays no emotion waiting for what may be the impending death of her family. A ridiculous scene is watching "the beast" chase the kids and unable to catch them despite being about 6 inches away in full stride. I don't know if Austin Powers and Dr. Evil can even parody this chase scene.And that brings us to the narrator. Oh my! I thank IMDb for listing these, so excuse the copy and past job:"Flag on the moon. How did it get there?" "Nothing bothers some people, not even flying saucers." "Touch a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a beast." "A man runs, someone shoots at him" "Always on the prowl. Looking for something or somebody to kill. Quench the killer's thirst." "Twenty hours without rest and still no enemy. In the blistering desert heat, Jim and Joe plan their next attack. Find the Beast and kill him. Kill, or be killed. Man's inhumanity to man."What?I'll stop with the following constructive advice for director Coleman Francis. Well, he died so only angels can help him now (altered quote from the movie). Coleman dude. Get rid of that opening scene. Filter the film to black and white. And just make it a silent movie! You know...with the ragtime piano and the title boards in between takes. We can re-release this as an art house film with a coherent comments and a grainy finish. What d'ya say Coleman baby?

Anders Twetman I did not know a 54 minute movie could be so long. Seriously, it felt like twice the specified length, probably because almost NOTHING happens. Sure, people do stuff, mostly mundane, boring stuff, and at a slow pace at that; there is a car "chase" scene that looks like someone out for a Sunday drive, there is a mountain climbing scene which is basically just two guys walking up a hill and there i an airplane chase scene which is more or less just a guy leaning out the window with a prop rifle. Even the monster just stumbles about slowly and strangles people, who don't even try to resist, in a leisurely fashion. All of this pretty much without dialog, just a narrator spouting lines that sound like they come straight from some kind of fan fiction. When the narrator is quite, the music is overly dramatic, in contrast to the lack of drama on the screen. A monster movie should not be this boring.