10 Post Apocalyptic Films You Need To See

Let’s say you’re one of the last six humans left alive in the wake of The Big One. What’s the last thing you want to see?

How about a space gorilla in a diving helmet who has somehow wiped everyone else off the planet, but can’t seem to leave the Bronson Canyon cave he shares with a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a bubble machine with a TV antennae?

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, but director Phil Tucker couldn’t afford to stage the invasion, so he relies on 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 allotted screen time fiddling with his 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.