The movie is rightfully considered to be one of the classic considerations for “worst film of all time”, right alongside “Manos: The Hands of Fate” and “Plan 9 From Outer Space”. As mentioned before, there is a certain intangible charm that certain movies have that can only come from the honest incompetence of the filmmaker, and “The Beast of Yucca Flats” has it. Yet, despite the countless issues with the film (or maybe because of them), “The Beast of Yucca Flats” is almost certainly the most entertaining and best remembered of the Coleman Francis movies. The kind-of touching final shot had nothing to do with Francis. Even the perplexing opening scene that has no connection to the rest of the film was reportedly inserted after-the-fact because Francis “liked nude scenes”. “The Beast of Yucca Flats” is entirely and unequivocally the fault of Coleman Francis. Coleman Francis is the director who allowed the astoundingly horrible sound and cinematography decisions to made. Coleman Francis is the narrator who rambles incoherently throughout the movie. Ultimately, all of the film’s problems mentioned here (and many more) boil down to the same fellow at the rotten core of this attempted film: Coleman Francis.Ĭoleman Francis is the writer who cooked up all of the horrendously stilted dialogue.
Unfortunately, the narrator rarely speaks in complete sentences, and never quite makes any sense. Clearly in an attempt to cover this horrific sound work, the movie also has narration throughout. This mechanical issue also leads to some awkward off-screen conversations set against still images, and numerous disembodied voices with unclear sources moving the plot along. This means that Tor’s lead role is more or less relegated to a silent beast (I don’t recall if he even got a line before his transformation). Due to some of the most baffling sound work in cinema history, all of the dialogue in the film is spoken from off-screen.
Luckily (or unluckily, depending on how you look at it) for him, in “The Beast of Yucca Flats”, he doesn’t really have to act.
He spent most of his career in the background of movies as a muscle-man, but he never really had the chops for acting. Pictured: charmįirst off, eponymous “Beast” (Tor Johnson) cannot act. The only saving grace of “Yucca Flats” is the curious charm that is occasionally the side effect of absolute incompetence. Starring the hulking Tor Johnson of “Plan 9 From Outer Space” infamy, and directed/written by “Red Zone Cuba” visionary Coleman Francis, “The Beast of Yucca Flats” is exactly the quality of movie you should expect: it is absolute garbage. Alternatively, they could synthesize into a mindless creature of a movie called “The Beast of Yucca Flats”. What happens when you put “Red Zone Cuba” and “Plan 9 From Outer Space” into the blast zone of an atomic bomb? Ideally, both movies would be destroyed.
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