20 Terrible Movies You Should See Before You Die

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.

Shot in four days, full of stock footage and loaded with surreal moments (the ‘alien technology’ consists of a bubble machine with TV antennae), Robot Monster is one of the genuine legends of Hollywood.

Don’t miss the monster’s soliloquy: “I cannot – yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do ‘must’ and ‘cannot’ meet?”