ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

azathothpwiggins A bony, naked woman is killed for no real reason. A clock ticks and ticks and... THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS is underway! Russian scientist Joseph Javorsky (Tor Johnson- PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER) escapes an assassination attempt, only to be blasted by a nuclear explosion. As the titular, irradiated monster, he lumbers slack-jawed through the desert, murdering the unwary. Meanwhile, a droning narrator spouts a series of nonsequiturs. HIGHLIGHTS: Tor's "I-spilled-oatmeal-on-my-face" makeup! The clumsily added, voice-over dialogue, piling an extra layer of fabulous awfulness onto the film! The ultra-dramatic music, which fits in nowhere! The vacationing Radcliffe family, especially mom's cankles! Tor Javorsky chasing the Radcliffe boys, while squawking and shaking his walking stick at them! MOST OUT OF PLACE QUOTE: (Said while the narrator introduces the Radcliffes) "Nothing bothers some people, not even flying saucers!" A treasure trove for the true seeker of quintessential, sub-sludge cinema!... EXTRA SCHLOCK POINTS: For sharp-shooter, Jim Archer and his "washed-in-salad-oil" hair!...

Dave from Ottawa An atomic blast turns Tor Johnson into, well... Tor Johnson in a ripped shirt. He then wanders the desert. A couple of lost kids also wander the desert, and so does their dad and a pair of deputies. Other than that, nothing much happens. Like other Coleman Francis movies, this one plays like it was actually a much longer movie and all of the interesting stuff was cut out. A Soviet scientist arrives in the US carrying defence secrets. We see him arrive by plane and depart in a car. In another movie, this would be filler. To Coleman Francis this is plot. We get endless scenes of people getting into cars and driving away, or parking cars and getting out. But then nothing happens. People look around, say nothing of value, and then leave, or the film cuts away. Often we don't even have dialogue, just an off screen narrator paraphrasing what characters say. We get sixty minutes of filler and no action. Two KGB agents have followed the scientist with orders to retrieve the stolen secrets. The viewer expects some sort of cold war thriller plot to develop, but the blast that turns Tor into a beast also kills the KGB men and burns up the secrets. We are ten minutes into the movie and have been stiffed on what looked like some actual plot development and this pattern continues. Characters are introduced who don't do much. Murders occur but there is little investigation of them. What we get is the filler. Francis clearly thought that having somebody get into a car and drive away satisfied the action requirements for a thriller, and having Tor spread his hands wide and growl like an animal covered the horror part. In this he was mistaken. Maybe he also thought that keeping the audience guessing as to whether anything that happened in the movie actually mattered constituted suspense. He's dead, and we can't ask him. Some bad movies make you laugh at their ineptitude, while others make you want to strangle their creators. This one just makes you sleepy. The title and box art for the movie suggest a drive-in creature feature, but even as a grade z movie it fails, since there is nothing campy here: no bad special effects or overwrought performances or shameless exploitation, none of the usual elements of a good bad movie. What we get is an hour of watching people wander randomly in the desert, and it's exactly as entertaining as it would be to do that yourself. I gave it two stars for being marginally more watchable than Red Zone Cuba, and for possible value as a non-narcotic sleep aid.

Bezenby Here was me thinking that only Jess Franco had the ability to somehow stretch time beyond its constraints and make a relatively short film seemingly last for about six days, but I after I'd finished watching the Beast of Yucca Flats, I swear I'd aged at least two years.This is a fairly well known bad film, and although I'm the easiest viewer in the world to please, on my first attempt at watching this I could feel myself drifting in and out of consciousness. On the second attempt I'd had a couple of beers and got up the next day thinking that I'd probably missed something at the end, but no. On the third attempt I realised that I hadn't missed anything at all, and that most of the entire last half of the film involves people wandering around a desert looking for each other.The story involves Tor Johnson being a defecting Soviet scientist who gets chased by the FBI into the Yucca Flats and gets caught in the blast from a nuclear test, turning him into a monster. He wanders the Yucca Flats strangling people and two cops go after him. Meanwhile, two kids wander off from their family and their parents go looking for them, and therefore you have a film consisting mainly of the cops looking for the killer, the parents looking for their kids, and the kids wandering around the desert followed by a waddling Tor Johnson in bad make up.I read (on here, I think) that the film was recorded without sound, which adds to the sleepy atmosphere. You've got people wandering around in near silence for ages at a time while a narrator waffles on about anything that comes into his mind. I like my bad films to be delirious and hilarious (like Ninja Terminator, Clash of the Warlords or Fearless Tiger), but if there's one thing I cannot stand in a film it's people wandering around looking for each other endlessly (see Legend of the Mummy 2 or Psycho Cop for examples).There are parts to this film that are funny, from the inexplicable murder at the start, the gunshot wounds that heal themselves over time and the bad acting of everyone involved (Johnson can hardly move at all, let alone chase kids through the desert), there's too much waffle and not enough action on this film. It's more of an endurance test than anything else.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The Beast of Yucca Flat, 1961. A large Russian scientist defects and lands in the USA and is chased by KGB agents to get him and his secret papers of his moon rocket experiments. The us agents protecting him drive into a atomic bomb test area, and the scientist walks into the test area to become radiated. After his atomic exposure, he becomes a killer on the loose in the community. He murders townspeople and tourists until the local police shoot him.*Special Stars- Tor Johnson.*Theme- Atomic energy makes you do crimes and murders.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, Huge amount of continuity problems with this film. The whole film's dialog and sound problems are apparent with the constant nonsensical narrator story interruptions. The film opening of a nude female being murdered scene sequence has little to do with the film's plot set-up. According to the film's director, the rabbit at the end was not scripted; a wild baby jackrabbit wandered into the final atomic beast's death shot. Look for the dead atomic beast keep moving after being shoot by multiple firearms and bullets. Tor Johnson's last film appearance before his death.*Emotion- I wanted to enjoy this film but it's terrible production values and paper thin and phony plot line killed this film for me. It's truly a waste of your time and energy to see. Even the great an watchable Tor Johnson can't save this stinker of a film.*Based On- 1950's atomic bomb and radiation hysteria.