10 Most Ridiculous Monster Movies Of All Time
2. Robot Monster (1953)
Here’s the pitch: a $40-a-day stuntman, wearing a gorilla suit and a diving helmet, wipes out mankind with the “Calcinator Death Ray” except for six people hiding in Bronson Canyon. Then he spends the rest of the movie trying to find them.
Ro-Man (George Barrows) is a “robot man” from the planet Ro-Man, which has declared war on Earth for….oh, some reason or other. Director Phil Tucker couldn’t afford to stage the invasion, so he relies on stock footage lifted from One Million BC (1940) instead. He also couldn’t afford sets, so most of the picture takes place outdoors, with six of the stiffest actors you’ve ever seen delivering lines like “You’re so bossy you ought to be milked before you come home at night.”
The least competent alien ever to arrive on Earth, Ro-Man spends most of his time living in a cave with a bubble machine, and proves surprisingly easy to defeat. When a character calls him a “pooped-out pinwheel” before running away, Ro-Man stands there shaking his fist in the air, as he is wont to do to anyone more than three feet away.