Shot in four days for $16,000 and with some scenes in 3D ROBOT MONSTER is one of those movies you think of when you think of bad sci fi films of the fifties. It is said that director Phil Tucker upset over a disagreement with the producer and the bad film reviews tried to kill himself.
The screenplay is by Wyott Ordung who claimed in an interview that the screenplay he wrote was rewritten by someone else.
Later on Phil Tucker helped Edward D. Wood Jr. edit PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) But he and Wood had a fight and Tucker did not finish the job and was was not given any credit. A writer working on a book about Wood tried to talk to Tucker about him but Tucker refused to talk about Wood. Tucker was already an object of fun over ROBOT MONSTER and did not want to be link to Wood who was called at the time the world's worst film director by the book THE GOLDEN TURKEY AWARDS.
The title monster of the film is a man in a gorilla suit and a space helmet for a head. The monster was played by gorilla actor George Barrows.
This monster by himself wiped out most of the people on Earth except for a handful of survivors. This monster who wiped out the Earth has a lot of trouble trying to kill this group of people. Then this inhuman monster falls in love with one of the humans.
If you are a fan of schlock like THE CREEPING TERROR or THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS then you will enjoy this film. Other wise you better pick up a better DVD like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL or 2001.
The flier below was for an website I use to have. It is no long up. I had artist LADYMAVERICK81 draw up the ROBOT MONSTER for it and she designed the flier. you can see more of her work at: http://www.ladymaverick81.com/ .
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