I would definitely have to say this is the worst movie ever.The kind of bad that you just have to see to believe. A Russian scientist gets too close to an atomic bomb test and becomes a "beast". He spends the majority of the hour long movie stumbling around the desert. Tight camera shots help us believe he is going to different places and the cops are really climbing a mountain. The kids are hilarious.They get chased around by this guy and manage to stay calm and basically whisper their lines.Them calmly yelling for their mom is brilliant. Bad story. Terrible acting. Even worse production. This movie has it all.

If you like to laugh at "bad" movies and have not seen a film produced and directed by Coleman Francis, you should see "The Beast of Yucca Flats." Coleman Francis is arguably the worst filmmaker of all time, much worse than Ed Wood, and "The Beast of Yucca Flats" is definitely the worst movie he ever made. (His best was "The Skydivers.") Like many bad movies, "Beast" can be watched repeatedly and the more you watch it, the funnier it gets.The plot is not simply incomprehensible; it consists of series of only loosely connected events that are extremely bizarre, each in different ways, and are clearly the products of a demented mind.To fully appreciate this masterpiece, you need to have a dark sense of humor.

Unless your day job consists of sitting in a tiny windowless room where you do nothing but count grains of sand by hand, The Beast of Yucca Flats will probably be one of the most boring things you ever experience. I had seen Red Zone Cuba so I knew that this would be boring coming from Coleman Francis. But I had no idea it would be this boring. In Red Zone Cuba at least stuff happens. The pacing is awful but things go on. But this doesn't even get that distinction. Also like Red Zone Cuba, The Beast of Yucca Flats is annoyingly pretentious. The narrator just says simple (and sometimes random) things, but he sounds like he's narrating the Twilight Zone. The acting is also bad, but what can you really expect from Tor Johnson? There are also a lot of random scenes that were put there just for the sake of taking up our time. The beginning scene is of a woman getting out of the shower and then suddenly being strangled. What's the point of this? Why is it in the movie? What significance does this have to the plot? It's never explained! Throughout the rest of the movie it's never even acknowledged. Simply put, this scene would be better left out of the movie. On second thought, so would the whole movie. The only two ways to watch it are on MST3K, or if you have insomnia. End of story.

This low-budget movie was released in 1961 and featured no actors you've ever heard of. Well maybe one - Tor Johnson, who was a regular in Ed Wood's cheapie sci-fi flicks. He was the "guest star," which also tells you how bad this was. Most of the dialog is in the form of narration and it is so corny it makes you wince. The "score" is ultra dramatic throughout the film and gets to be laughable after awhile.Some IMDb reviewers called it the longest hour of film ever. Many said it was "the worst film ever made." Ha ha. I don't know about that, but it was terrible - some of the worst production values ever. The actors must have been so bad that they - get this - they never showed them speaking. Their backs were always turned. This dawned on me about 45 minutes in, so I doubt the voices were even those of the actors. Since it was filmed outdoors, they probably didn't have the money to have it miked outdoors.The "beast" is just a huge fat guy (Johnson) with some goo pasted to his face. He throws some rocks and waves a stick and tries to chase some kids but can't movie very well. That's about it. Oh.....I forgot: he strangles people, too. The strangulations are the funniest (and worst acting) parts of the film. You actually will scoff and laugh!However, despite a gazillion holes in this story start-to-finish, I found it so bad it was somewhat entertaining.... so it has some (very little) value!