{"id":33558,"date":"2021-08-31T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=33558"},"modified":"2021-06-25T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:44:21","slug":"robot-monster-1953-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=33558","title":{"rendered":"Robot Monster (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb-121x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb-121x300.jpg 121w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/>If you could pick one single movie which fueled the bad sf\/horror movie cult popularized by The Golden Turkey Awards and &#8216;Mystery Science Theater 3000&#8217; then &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; would be it. Ed Wood&#8217;s &#8216;Plan Nine From Outer Space&#8217; is probably better known to mainstream audiences, especially since Tim Burton&#8217;s fantastic Wood biopic, but &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; is just as good\/bad, and the image of a lumbering goon in an over-sized gorilla suit with a diving helmet and antenna has become an iconic symbol of z-grade sci fi. Even people who don&#8217;t know Ro-Man&#8217;s name recognize his likeness and giggle. &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; isn&#8217;t as inept technically as Wood&#8217;s worst movies (especially his astonishing &#8216;Glen Or Glenda&#8217;), but the script is as dumb as they get, the actors are wooden at best, and the not-so-special effects are laughable. What really makes this movie legendary is the &#8220;robot monster&#8221; himself, Ro-Man (George Barrows). You can help smirking every time you look at him, and when he pontificates on life and love the movie enters a new dimension of trash par excellence. And just dig that bubble machine and the unexpected (and totally irrelevant) use of stock dinosaur footage! Plus a score from (can you believe it?) Elmer Bernstein. &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; is a movie I never tire of watching. I still get a big kick out of it every time I see it. To say that it is absolutely essential viewing for anybody interested in cult movies is the understatement of the century! &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; is after all the movie that gave the world the term &#8220;psychotronic&#8221;. Long live Ro-Man and all who smirk at his awesome calcinator death ray!<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could pick one single movie which fueled the bad sf\/horror movie cult popularized by The Golden Turkey Awards and &#8216;Mystery Science Theater 3000&#8217; then &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; would be it. Ed Wood&#8217;s &#8216;Plan Nine From Outer Space&#8217; is probably better known to mainstream audiences, especially since Tim Burton&#8217;s fantastic Wood biopic, but &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb-236x300.jpg",236,300,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb-121x300.jpg",121,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",236,585,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7a18bc9d72fc4e3cdc5b9a2947a56ceb.jpg",121,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"If you could pick one single movie which fueled the bad sf\/horror movie cult popularized by The Golden Turkey Awards and &#8216;Mystery Science Theater 3000&#8217; then &#8216;Robot Monster&#8217; would be it. 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