Running Time: 54 minutes
Release Date: May 2, 1961
Directed/Written by: Coleman Francis
Review by: Fran Appleton, Dominatrix of Schlock
“Aaah!” “Aaaahh!” “AAAAAHHHHHH!”
These are the only lines you’ll get from the great TOR JOHNSON in this inane movie meltdown. And if you, like me, adore that big barrel of Swedish man-monster, you’re gonna be mightily disappointed in director Coleman Francis’s waste of a perfectly good Tor. The best thing about this dud is the mercifully short running time. And maybe ¼ of that bare hour contains actual screen time with the Torminator. Bummer, huh? Exploding with inconsistencies, ridiculous edits, and a bizarre narrator straight out of every high school Driver’s Ed movie you’ve ever seen, “THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS” promises to deliver a veritable nuclear blast of bad- movie goodness. Cold War Commies; mutilating radiation; a vacationing family; two hot chicks; and a deep-fried psycho Beast in the person of Ed Wood alumni Tor Johnson. A fine start, right? Here we go, Movie Slaves: