I bought this with Plan 9 from outer space for $10 at best buy...I think I almost threw up watching this with my friends anyone else watch either of these with a group of friends and just MST3K the whole thing?
Try watching the 3-D version from Rhino. The 3-D is horrendous. I have enjoyed 'Robot Monster' very much. It is absolutely hilarious. They actually had a pretty good effect with the flashing negative effect. This effect ends up unintentially showing the secret behind their flying spaceship, which is someone dressed in a dark outfit running around with a model spaceship. 'Robot Monster' is one of the best bad movies ever made along with 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. Sounds like you got a great deal for $10.
Bob
I loved both. Don't miss "brain from Planet Arous" or "astounding she monster"
Just watched BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS today and it's fun. ROBOT MONSTER is also a great one that always makes me think of BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS with Tor Johnson.
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One of my all-time faves! What a great film:
"You're so bossy, you ought to be milked!!"
They just don't write dialogue like that any more . . .
And that bubble machine!!!
We had a Badmovies night at the Boulder Theatre a few years back, and put that on the Big Screen, along with The Swarm --
I tell you: The small screen just doesn't do the wonder of that cheesy gorilla suit justice -- You NEED to see it 15ft. high!! And then it becomes even more apparent that the "diving helmet" is made of paper mache --
Just a wonderful wonderful movie . . . Long live Bronson Canyon!!
peter johnson/denny crane
Peter Johnson ROBOT MONSTER would be a real treat on the big screen. I'd stand in line in bad weather to see that. You lucky dog Peter Johnson. Maybe one day they will fit it to an IMAX. Now that would be fun.
speaking of the costume is there like a story behind that in the ed wood vein like was it suppose to be something really cool but they misplaced and used that instead?
The story behind the costume as I have understood it is that the production did not have enough money for the full spaceman suit. Since the actor playing Ro-man also did gorilla parts in films and had the gorilla outfit, they just got the helmet and used it with his gorilla outfit. This is what I have read and heard, but I make no guarantee as to its correctness--Bob
I know that we're not supposed to like Michael Medved out here in Cognoscentiland, but he did write "The Golden Turkey Awards", which, like it or not, is the bellwhether volume for a lot of us on this board. "The Golden Turkey Awards" was the first actual volume of scholarship(?)/film criticism(?!?!) that articulated what it is about These Sorts of Films that we all love --
In "The Golden Turkey Awards" is given the mostly correct/mostly entire story of the inception of Robot Monster, and yes, the story of Ro-Man is substantially correct, in that he was cobbled together from bits and pieces due to budget constraints.
This is one awesome bit of aged Cheddar -- Really, if you haven't seen it, you need to -- there have been at least 4 threads/discussions on this board about the film that I can recall since I started coming here about 4 (?) years ago, but the film is rich enough that we could easily start another --
C'mon now, everyone: Your favorite memories of Robot Monster, please --
peter johnson/denny crane
"you sound more like a hu-man that a ro-man" seriously dude stop whining
One of the strangest moviegoing experiences I've had was a double feature of Robot Monster and Plan 9 at the Harvard Astronomy Society. My friends and I-- who are not remotely Harvard students-- caught wind of the screening, and after getting lost for some time in the back roads of Harvard Square. The funny part is, we had been going to the midnight movies at the local independent movie house for the past several weeks, so we were used to cult-movie crowds full of rowdy punks and college kids-- we were wholly unprepared for an audience of middle-aged Harvard scientists! On top of that, the scientists packed the house, so we had to sit on the floor in the corner. It was still a great time, though; the Harvard guys really got into it, and my friends dug the movies as well (to this day, we still regularly use the line "To live like the hu-man! To laugh, to love-- why are these not in the plan?!")
People I know who are into bad movies are over forty. I have one friend who is in his sixties who absolutely loves the copy of 'Blood Freak' that I got him. This is a man who has had 8 years of college and is the most knowledgeable person I know. I have tried to get even with him for the copy of 'Battlefield Earth' he got for me, but every bad thing I get for him he likes.
I showed Robot Monster in my high school film club and everyone ate it up. I even went so far as to buy everyone 3-D glasses to accompany the Rhino version. I tell ya, I haven't had more fun at school then the b-movie week with Plan 9, Robot Monster, Blood Feast, and Cool as Ice. I got hit a few times for Cool as Ice.
I cannot, yet I must. At what point on a graph do cannot and must meet?
I went to one of those things once and left because it was so crowded. Have you ever been to video oasis on cambridge street. It's a bad movie museum in the extreme
Yeah, we probably would've left, but we went to too much damn trouble to find the place. And yeah, Video Oasis is amazing. Another great video store in Boston is the Kung Fu place above the jeweler's on Downtown Crossing-- Got my friends a DVD of Drunken Wu-Tang for Christmas there (subtitled, even!)
I actually made myself a "Robot Monster" costume for a science fiction convention about 8 years ago. The guests were the guys from MST3K, so how could I NOT do it? Man, it was the most fun I've had at one of those gatherings since I was a little kid. You'd be amazed at the number of babes who wanted to get their photo taken with me holding them in my arms. (I really need to rebuild that suit...) BTW, I entered the costume contest with it, complete with a toy radio/bubble machine. I won first prize, more due to crowd reaction than for technical prowess on my part. Robot Monster definitely has a following in fandom!
video oasis is the s**t. But I actually stopped going there because some of the s**t they had was so weird it freaked me out. Like stuff I don't think you are supposed to have (traci lords movies, weird foreign violent porno). back in that part of the store. I'm not a born again christian, but it kind of bothered me after a while. Not to mention the "frsh chickens killed here" sign next door. It all ends up to a strange experiance. that said, they do hav the best collection I think I'v ever seen.