Film Review • Quality & Storytelling B-Movies
Robot Monster, a 1953, B-movie is a simple aliens want to take over the world film.
The 'monster' is called Ro-Man, is the one that has come down to earth to wipe out humanity.
There's a strange cut with nothing to show time jumped other than the character saying since Ro-Man landed, as if time has passed, there are only eight humans left on earth and five of them are family.
The 'monster' is called Ro-Man, is the one that has come down to earth to wipe out humanity.
There's a strange cut with nothing to show time jumped other than the character saying since Ro-Man landed, as if time has passed, there are only eight humans left on earth and five of them are family.
The eight are immune to a death ray due to a serum one of the surviving humans made before Ro-Man arrived, this seems rather unlikely.
The daughter of this scientist, Alice seems to be very smart and was working on some form of communicator that could get past Ro-Man, but were two people left there was no point as Ro-Man destroyed their only hope.
The wife keeps hoping to communicate with Ro-Man, even though he keeps trying to kill them all.
The daughter of this scientist, Alice seems to be very smart and was working on some form of communicator that could get past Ro-Man, but were two people left there was no point as Ro-Man destroyed their only hope.
The wife keeps hoping to communicate with Ro-Man, even though he keeps trying to kill them all.
Ro-Man states that he wants to only see Alice, but everyone states that her going is her degrading herself, what they are trying to show is that Ro-Man has fallen for Alice, which at halfway point of the film I got from reading what the films about.
The son being a blabbermouth gives away how they're surviving the death ray, causing Ro-Man to say he's going to fix that.
There's what feels like a forced in scene where Alice and Roy are flirting, there's no words but they are clearly talking to each other. After this interaction, the two wish to be married.
Ro-Man takes Carla, the youngest daughter, because she ran into him, he reports that he strangled her, but this is not seen, he also requests to keep one human alive.
Ro-Man takes Carla, the youngest daughter, because she ran into him, he reports that he strangled her, but this is not seen, he also requests to keep one human alive.
Ro-Man finds Alice and Roy on their 'honeymoon', strangles Roy, but not enough immediately to kill him and takes Alice.
Ro-Man questions his loyalty, and who he is. Being told he must kill Alice, he doesn't wish to, saying a line that sounded confusing when he said it but relistening makes sense "...I cannot, yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do 'must' and 'cannot' meet? Yet I must, but I cannot ."
Ro-Man appears to strangle Johnny, and is killed himself, the Ro-Man leader brings back prehistoric creatures back to kill the leftover humans.
The ending appears to have the whole thing as a dream, Johnny had after bumping his head.
There is frequently bright flashes and high pitched sounds which can cause headaches, and possibly seizures in those with epilepsy. There's also a frequent buzz of running and arching electric, which can get annoying.
Was there anything good about it?
- There is limited but decent looking stop motion animation, for dinosaurs.
- The monster is not just a puppet but it is a person in costume, so its motion was smoother looking.
- There is a form of story that's running through, even though its got a twist at the end that was overused, it was all just a dream.
- There are dinosaurs that look like real lizards just made to look huge through camera trickery, it also looks like an armadillo was also used.
- It appears to be a typical hivemind situation
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