Robot Monster is another film that I discovered from the Golden Turkey Award books. It has a lot going for it to make it bad fun. The monster is a guy in a gorilla suit with a fake scuba diving helmet for a head. The opening credits lists the N. A. Fischer Chemical Products as the provider of the “Billion Bubble Machine”. The movie was made in 3-D during the heyday of 3-D movies and is a perfect vehicle for that technology. It has stock footage of stop motion dinosaurs and fighting lizards for no apparent reason. During one scene where a rocket is launching to escape the tyrannical Robot Monster creatures, you can see someone’s arm moving a rocket on a stick. Even with all these fun things to enjoy, the movie seems long at a 66-minute run time.
With the ridiculous monster, this film was a natural to show my kids. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys riffed this one in their 7th episode. It is one of the episodes of MST3K that my family has watched often. The MST3K version is usually what we show friends when we are subjecting them to this bad movie. As of this writing, a 3-D Blu-ray version of the film is in the works. I’m looking forward to getting it when it’s available.