Robot Monster is easily one of the worst films of all time. A lot of people like to call it a "so bad it's good" film, but I didn't see it that way. It felt too tedious and annoying for me to call it that. It is probably the longest single hour I have ever wasted watching something, as the incompetence of the film makes it so painful to watch. The story, in simple terms, is that alien creatures called Ro-Men, who look like gorillas wearing diver helmets with TV cables, kill almost the whole human race except for one family who must find a way to kill the Ro-Man who is after them. Nearly everything in the movie is terrible, from the dialogue, to the acting, to the poorly-placed stock footage to the screenplay. The humans in the film try to convey a message that they are better than Ro-Men because they can feel emotions, but I didn't take it seriously for almost all of the above reasons. Some things that don't make sense is how the Ro-Man finds it so hard to kill this family when it could just strangle each of them, instead of futilely using a death ray that they are immune to, how the family ties up the teenage daughter so she doesn't see the Ro-Man when it could be the only chance of safety they have (and all because she is the teenage daughter), why the Ro-Man leader doesn't send down multiple Ro-Men to kill the family, why the teenage daughter decides to marry the good-looking young man of the film, even though he has been a complete ass, how the family doesn't even follow their own rule of being careful about going outside their house and property, and how the Ro-Man leader can conjure up earthquakes, lightning, and dinosaurs. The human characters are so stupid and unlikable, especially the little kids, that I wanted Ro-Man to kill them just to get them to shut up. It even gets stupid and predictable when Ro- Man falls in love with the teenage daughter. To add insult, the movie is revealed to be a dream sequence with all of the annoying humans alive and well. One thing I will say that I like is the creepy Elmer Bernstein score and the opening title screen with 50s sci-fi comic books. Other than that, this film is a disaster. It's unworthy of existence and I strongly recommend anyone who owns this film to throw it down their toilet bowl instead of watching it again.

ROBOT MONSTER is often heralded as the worst movie ever made, although I've seen plenty that are more boring than this zero-budget effort, which is enthusiastic if nothing else. The nutshell plot of the film sees a family struggling to survive in the aftermath of an apocalypse, where they're menaced by the titular alien.The film features an anything-goes, shot-in-your-own-backyard feel which makes it hard to take seriously. I'm a huge fan of '50s sci-fi, but this has more in common with the dodgy offerings of Ed Wood than a real film. The acting is sub-par, the script even worse, and the attempts to enliven things by shoving in stock footage are simply helpless.Things aren't quite so bad as all that, though. ROBOT MONSTER is a film that it's easy to laugh at, which counts for a lot, and Ro-Man is quite an entertaining menace...at least, he's highly amusing, whether it be his bizarre look or the way he talks in that portentous voice. As a movie, it's also very short, which makes things easier to take. Watch it as an unintentional comedy and you might even find yourself enjoying it.

If you like seeing a movie with a monster with a diver helmet and a gorilla's body then you need to seek help.The films starts out with two kids Johnny and Carla on a picnic with there mother and older sister. After a picnic lunch, the family all nap, but Johnny wakes up and goes to explore the cave. There, he falls and lies unconscious for awhile. While unconscious, he dreams of a post- apocalyptic earth in which his family. All live has been eliminated by a robot monster named "Ro-Man" who for some reason has a machine that produces bubbles outside the cave he in. After this and that of Ro-Man killing family members, it turns out to be all a dream by Johnny. This movie in the end goes to the lowest point and just throws it all into the trash compacter. Instead of a dream it might as well be called a nightmare that no one can wake up from. A ultra low-budget film with minimal "special effects" and weak acting and a confusing screenplay proofs that it is one of the worst movie out there.

"MOON MONSTERS COME TO EARTH AND ATTACK AND KILL ALL HUMANS!!!" Quite possibly one of the most infamous movies of all time, let alone a prime example of a well done "so bad it's good" movie, Robot Monster puts all other movies to shame, literally. Ro-Man, the main antagonist in Robot Monster is a sex-starved, gorilla-suit, diving helmet monster contraption that has destroyed all of humanity with the exception of a group of survivors which, coincidentally, happen to be a family. But, little do they know that this horrific creature is coming to kill them off and steal their women, once and for all. Sounds like a pretty good premise, right? Actually, this was a typical 50's Sci-Fi premise for most of the Sci-Fi movies made during that time.In all seriousness, this film lacks acting, creativity with the monster (to a degree) and pretty much everything in between. A micro budget film, with a short run time, this film, to most critics, would probably be given anywhere between 3 to no stars. But I am not like most critics. Being only 21, I have, literally, immersed myself in almost 1000 different movies in the past 6 years. But, Robot Monster, for some reason, seems to be one hell of a masterpiece. You may be asking why in the hell I would think this film is a masterpiece if it's rated at a 2.8 on here, 31% (by critics) and 41% (by users) on Rotten Tomatoes. Well, how about it?Although this film is a complete nuclear disaster, it shines as being one of the best, best-worst movies I have ever seen. Much like the infamous Creeping Terror (which would be released some 11 years later) would put Robot Monster near the top of the "good-bad" chain. But, just how bad can you get?Robot Monster, undoubtedly, is one of the most hilarious and entertaining movies I have had the pleasure of screening. It gets the job done with zero screams and many laughs, but, really, was meant to scare the pants off of you. As I have said before, I am a very young movie critic with an interest in some of the oldest, and cheesiest, films of all time. This happens to be Gouda cheese quality (see what I did there?) I will award it no stars (to keep other Z-movie lovers, like myself, happy to find movies with a low rating) but, in a B to Z critic standpoint, I would award it 10 out of 10 stars. A fine example of putting two unlikely things together and making a fine piece of crap along the way.