The Mutant Beast

Starring:Mutant Beast
Studio: Trinity Home Ent
Product Type: DVD

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When the Hulk gets angry, his movie gets good, so you wish he'd get angry more often. Accepting this challenge after the triumphant Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, director Ang Lee has created an ambitious film, based on the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that succeeds as a cautionary tale about mad science and traumatized children coping with legacies of pain. That's the Hulk's problem: After accidental exposure to gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) turns into the huge, green, and indestructible Hulk when provoked, and repressed childhood memories fuel his fury. Hobbled by the obligatory "origin story" (to acquaint neophytes with the character's Jekyll-and-Hyde-ish fate), there's room for little else in a sluggish film that struggles to reconcile Lee's stylistic flair (evident in his visual interpretation of comic-book technique) with the razzle-dazzle of a megabudget franchise. What's good is good (Jennifer Connelly essentially echoes her role from A Beautiful Mind, and Nick Nolte is righteously tormented as Banner's father), but the movie's schizoid intentions remain largely unclear. --Jeff Shannon

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Can HD DVD picture quality get any better than this?.......2007-06-15

Though the movie did not gross as much as Universal had originally hoped, this HD DVD is still a winner! Even if you do not appreciate the film, it makes wonderful HD DVD demo material! Personally I liked the film, but I give the film itself a 7, story is 6.5, the picture is a 10 and the sound is a 9. Ang Lee (the director) did a good job using multiple scenes on a single screen using comic book templates! I loved to see Hulk Smash all the tanks in the dessert in pure HD! Batman can't be the only Superhero in you HD DVD collection and Hulk is a lot better than Superman!

Cure for insomnia.......2007-06-07

I was really looking forward to this movie. I love the Hulk and after the success of X-Men and Spiderman (two excellent comic book movies) I was begining to think Marvel wouldn't let them put out a bad movie. Well, they did. It drags, the plot is incoherent, it just plain sucks. It may be the perfect cure for insomnia...

You won't like me when I'm mad.......2007-05-30

The hulk was decent to good movie. I didn't like how they split the Screen in so many scenes. There is a very catchy story line and a very cute girl. I'd really give it a a 3.5. Sorry I have to keep it short.Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 (Full Screen Special Editions)

Excellent movie.......2007-05-24

hulk is definitely one of the most under rated films of the past few years. dont watch it expecting a summer action movie. rather expect to see a intelligent, well written film that draws on some of the better human aspects of the comic. for this reason, the hulk does not get as much screen time as the other characters. but when he does appear, its a real treat! in hindsight, it shouldnt have been marketed as a summer blockbuster.

Ever Seen the Worst Film Ever Made?.......2007-05-09

I can't put into words how bad this movie is. Do yourself a favor and skip this horrible waste of time.

Hulk (Full Screen 2-Disc Special Edition)

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Can HD DVD picture quality get any better than this?
Cure for insomnia
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Hulk (Full Screen 2-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Eric Bana , Jennifer Connelly , Sam Elliott , Josh Lucas , and Nick Nolte
Director: Ang Lee
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ASIN: B0000B3B95
Release Date: 2003-10-28

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Can HD DVD picture quality get any better than this?.......2007-06-15

Cure for insomnia.......2007-06-07

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Excellent movie.......2007-05-24

Ever Seen the Worst Film Ever Made?.......2007-05-09

I can't put into words how bad this movie is. Do yourself a favor and skip this horrible waste of time.

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The Worst of Coleman Francis, and That Says A Lot
Some Bad Films Are Amusing To Watch, But Yucca Flats Is Not Among Them
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The Beast Of Succa Flats

The Beast of Yucca Flats
Starring: Larry Aten , Linda Bielema , Conrad Brooks , Anthony Cardoza , and Alan Francis
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ASIN: B0000ZFZU0
Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Government security sure has gotten lax at nuclear test sites. It seems like any old defecting Russian nuclear physicist fleeing Soviet agents (who are oddly indistinguishable from American gangsters) can stumble into an A-bomb detonation by accident and turn into a bloodthirsty monster. (You think Stan Lee watched this film before creating the Incredible Hulk?) Meanwhile a vacationing family wanders through the desert as the cops hunt the atomic beast. Tor Johnson (an Ed Wood Jr. fixture) makes a superbly cheesy rampaging mutant, but the film really enters the Twilight Zone when the investigating cops mistake an innocent dad looking for his sons lost in the desert for their target ("Shoot first, ask questions later" is their motto). Supercheap cult director Coleman Francis shot this without sound, dubbing it all in later, and he clumsily cuts away from every actor as they start to speak to hide his handiwork. He hardly had to worry: the flat dialogue and wooden narration is almost absurd enough to distract viewers from his cinematic incompetence. In short, a masterpiece of zero-budget camp with an unbelievably surreal edge. --Sean Axmaker

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The Worst of Coleman Francis, and That Says A Lot.......2007-07-05

I best remember this movie for the narrator's random comment, "Flag on the moon. How did it get there?" Everything else is extremely forgettable.

Well, Tor Johnson is supposed to be some kind of large scientist running away or something. But an A-bomb explosion turns him into the Beast of Yucca Flats. Which means he wears ugly rags and runs around, instead of wearing a suit and running around, like he was doing earlier in the movie. Actually, I don't know what the plot of the movie is, but I think this is really it. If I'm wrong, I'm not off by much, and if I am off by much, my plot synopsis is bound to be better than the actual plot of the movie. That's how bad it is.

So some rifle guys in helicopters are called in to hunt down the beast. They see a man in the field with his kid and immediately their minds think, "There's the beast right there! Let's kill it!" So that's what they do. And I forget how the Beast of Yucca Flats dies, or if he dies, but I'll always remember, "Flag on the moon," even though I'll NEVER know what the heck that means.

Some Bad Films Are Amusing To Watch, But Yucca Flats Is Not Among Them.......2006-11-03

According to film lore, THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS was filmed without sound and dialogue was dubbed in postproduction. In order to accomodate this effect, the camera usually photographs characters in long shot; cuts off their heads; shows a character listening in a reaction shot; or has the so-called actors cover their mouths at strategic moments. The effect is very obvious and even so there are quite a few moments where characters are clearly speaking but no sound is coming out.

This is actually the most interesting thing about the film. The story, such as it is: a Russian scientist (Tor Johnson) has defected to the United States. Chased by Russian agents, he escapes into an atomic test area, where radiation converts him into a mindless killer. He kills a vacationing couple and local police officers pursue him. One of the police officers takes to the air, where he mistakes an innocent man for the Beast, and spends quite a lot of time shooting at him. And so on.

YUCCA FLATS has the reputation of being among the worst films ever made. The reputation is deserved. The film looks like it cost about twenty six cents to make; the cast is uninspired, to say the least; and the script (which consists largely of meaningless narration) is stupid in a very unamusing way. Some bad films are amusing to watch. YUCCA FLATS is not among them.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Touch the `Play' Button. Something Weird Happens........2006-09-07

In the realm of bad movies, there is the good-bad, and there is the bad-bad.

And then there's The Beast of Yucca Flats. I call this the good-bad-ugly.

The good: it runs for only 54 minutes.

The bad: that's 54 minutes too long.

The ugly: Tor Johnson.

Some fans of truly bad films may like this. I am a fan of truly bad films, and I didn't like this. For the most part, at least. Sure, it has its moments. The whole notion of Ed Wood regular Tor Johnson playing a Russian scientist defecting to the US is, on its own, pretty laughable. But once that's established and the movie rolls along, you're pretty much done laughing at that idea.

So you ask yourself, what's next? How about the narrator's lines? Hmm, we may be on to something here. There is not a single line that makes sense. I'll say that again, not a single one. But do they pass the good-bad test of making you laugh? Well, yes, but the laughter is often accompanied by groans of disbelief and wrinkling of the brows. By comparison, such classics as Robot Monster and Plan 9 are laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Hey, how about plot twists? Look, we have Tor kissing a rabbit at the end. How's that for a surprise ending? Uh, doesn't work for you? Ok, I didn't think it would.

Conclusion: The Beast of Yucky, excuse me, Yucca Flats is not bad enough to be good-bad. The laughs are too few and far-between. And it's too boring to be that much fun. But still, you have to credit Coleman Francis for scoring some remarkable feats with this piece.

1. He manages to bore us in just 54 minutes.

2. He actually made money out of this. Ok, maybe that's not all that remarkable, since you really can't lose when you start with a budget of $0.

3. So how about this: he succeeded where Ed Wood failed. He killed Tor Johnson's career. That's right, this abomination of filmmaking was the ex-wrestler's swan song.

What a way to go.

Get it in the Horror Classics Collection instead.......2006-07-03

I can tell you this is not a good movie, and I know that you - like me - will want to see it anyway. Go ahead, but don't waste your money on this DVD. Get the "Horror Classics Collection: 50 movie pack" instead, where this movie is included, and you get 49 other movies at pretty much the same price.

The Beast Of Succa Flats.......2006-03-03

I wouldn't wish this film on my worst enemy(well, actually I probably would). This film could easily be used as a child discipline tool("If you get sassy with me again you're gonna have to watch The Beast From Yucca Flats again!"), but if someone caught wind of that, you'd be reported for child abuse. Never before has a 54 minute film seemed so long and boring. In fact, the film doesn't even feel like a feature film, but more like a cold war propaganda film they would show in schools back in the 50s. Tor is a scientist(yeah right) that survives an atomic blast in the desert and becomes some scarred mutant killer. He's supposed to be on a rampage I guess, but up until the final minutes he just wanders around the desert. Two cops try to hunt him down. A family gets stuck in the desert and Tor goes after their two boys in the not too exciting climax. The film wasn't shot in direct sound. That's not a big deal to me usually coz the Italians do it all the time, but this was rotten. In the few cases of dialogue, never once do you see a character's mouth move. Their backs are always to the camera or at a distance or covered by shadows, making the dubbed voices all too obvious. The only sound effects in the film are gunshots and vehicles. No other sounds are heard but the background music which is nonstop throughout. And of course there's a narrator. This film needs a narrator like Paris Hilton needs to go on a diet. The opening scene features a topless woman stangled(I assume by Tor-we don't see anything but shoes and hands) in her home. This scene was thrown in just for the sake of having a scene with a topless woman, which was probably quite taboo at the time. It makes no sense otherwise coz Tor's monster is "born" in the desert and dies there. When the hell did he make a special trip to some chick's apartment? And why does this scene take place before Tor is transformed? Take into consideration that I love bad B pictures, and when I say that one is terrible, you know it's really gotta suck. The concept is cool, and certainly could have been B movie heaven if done right, but....well, it wasn't. Painful.

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The Worst of Coleman Francis, and That Says A Lot
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The Beast of Yucca Flats
Starring: Larry Aten , Linda Bielema , Conrad Brooks , Anthony Cardoza , and Alan Francis
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Release Date: 2000-09-05

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Description

Commies made him an atomic mutant! Noted Russian nuclear scientist Joseph Javorsky (Tor Johnson) escapes to the United States with "Top Secret" Soviet documents. U.S. Army personnel accompany him to the Yucca Flats Atomic Testing Grounds, but Soviet agents are in hot pursuit! They run Javorsky's car off the road, right into the bomb testing site. During the ensuing gunfight, an H-bomb detonation kills everyone except Javorsky, who is transformed into a crazed atomic-mutated beast on a bloodthirsty rampage! Inspired by the Cold War, Communist infiltration of America, and the constant threat of atomic attacks, this drive-in theater classic from the Kennedy Era stars cult favorites Tor Johnson and Conrad Brooks from "Plan 9 from Outer Space."

Customer Reviews:

The Worst of Coleman Francis, and That Says A Lot.......2007-07-05

Some Bad Films Are Amusing To Watch, But Yucca Flats Is Not Among Them.......2006-11-03

Touch the `Play' Button. Something Weird Happens........2006-09-07

Get it in the Horror Classics Collection instead.......2006-07-03

The Beast Of Succa Flats.......2006-03-03

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CREATURE FEATURE FROM THE SAME ERA AS 'RODAN' & 'GODZILLA' BUT LACKING IN PLOT & PATHOS
Fantastic sequel!!!

War of the Colossal Beast [Region 2]
Starring: Sally Fraser , Roger Pace , Duncan 'Dean' Parkin , Russ Bender , and Rico Alaniz
Director: Bert I. Gordon
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CREATURE FEATURE FROM THE SAME ERA AS 'RODAN' & 'GODZILLA' BUT LACKING IN PLOT & PATHOS.......2006-08-22

IN A NUTSHELL: THE SEQUEL TO 'THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN'

'The Amazing Colossal Man' was a watchable though completely ordinary b-film that got this sequel, the 'War of the Colossal Beast', starring, Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, and Dean Parkin as the colossal beast. This sequel is a rather awful, formula creature-feature b-film from 1958.

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT: FAST START THEN A COMA

The beginning scenes depicting the mysterious disapearance of a truck carrying food, and the unseen giant on the inaccessible Mexican mesa are the film's high points. We have some tension and it is a scary ambience that sadly fails to be sustained.

AFTER THE MYSTERY: MIDDLE OF THE FILM BUT NO STORY

The 'monster' is captured, badly disfigured and seemingly no longer possessing a human awareness. Kept asleep for most of the middle of the film, we have only flashbacks of the epic climax of the first film, 'The Amazing Colossal Man', to keep us interested while the colossal beast lies in a coma that is disturbed only by his very loud breathing.

CLIMAX: AN ESCAPE BY THE MONSTER WHICH LEADS TO THE USUAL CLIMAX

Of course, like all creature-features, this one's climax is struck as the creature escapes. Of course the monster ends up with an L.A. school bus in his hands as crowds of parents and police groan.

-*THE CAST

Sally Fraser - Joyce Manning
Dean Parkin - Col. Glenn Manning
Roger Pace - Maj. Baird
Charles Stewart - Capt. Harris
George Becwar - Swanson
Robert Hernandez - Miguel
Rico Alaniz - Sgt. Luis Murillo
George Alexander - Army Officer
George Navarro - Mexican Doctor
John McNamara - Neurologist
Howard Wright - Medical Corps Officer
Roy Gordon - Mayor
George Milan - Gen. Nelson
Warren Frost - Switchboard Operator
Bill Giorgio - Bus Driver
June Jocelyn - Mother

-*THE CREW

Bert I. Gordon - Director / Producer / Screenwriter / Special Effects
George Worthing Yates - Screenwriter
Jack A. Marta - Cinematographer
Albert Glasser - Composer (Music Score)
Ronald Sinclair - Editor

-*THE MAJOR AWARDS

NONE

BOTTOM LINE: COULD THIS HAVE BEEN A GOOD FILM?

Seeing this film today does make one appreciate films such as the original 'Godzilla - King of the Monsters' and 'Rodan', for they were played with pathos and credibility that this film really lacks. What it would have taken to have raised the bar enough to have made this film be one that is well remembered, I do not precisely know. However, I do know that it is too obviously lacking in every filmmaking respect [after the first 20 minutes] even for a genre b-film from the 1950s meant for the 'Drive-In' market of the day, to be fondly remembered.

Fantastic sequel!!!.......2004-02-22

Col. Glenn Manning, from THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, is back, and after his fall from the top of Boulder Dam, is a hideously scarred, out of control monster, with no recollection of his previous life. The story centers on the giants sister trying desperately to bring him out of his madness, and keep the authorities from destroying him. This sequel is more entertaining than its predecessor, with an exciting, and touching, conclusion. Classic 50's sci fi at its best!

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1982
A guy who loves horror film was bored
Total Turd...deal with it.
The script without.
WOWSERS!!!!!!

The Beast Within
Starring: Ronny Cox , Bibi Besch , Paul Clemens , Don Gordon , and R.G. Armstrong
Director: Philippe Mora
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ASIN: B00005K3O7
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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1982.......2007-01-12

This is on of the last few 'B' Films the I enjoy .The acting is poor and silly like it should be and the horror is great for its early 80's time.I liked seeing the guy that played a cop in the film "HEAD"and the hippie dude from "EZRDR" working in a morg.It makes me wonder what they have been doing all these years.

A guy who loves horror film was bored.......2005-12-05

Great cast wasted. Ron Cox, LQ Jones, R. G. Armstrong and others.

Teadius meandering plot. Dumb setups and forced acting. The director gets the worst performances out of some of the best character actors.

This is one of those movies where you are completey distacted in wondering..."why is this not working?" - but there is so much...

For a B horror TBWI aprears to have been well budgeted as can be seen by quality actors, camera lenses, film stock,lighting, music, audio and special effects. What is left out is actor-direction, a story, a screen play, atmosphere, dynamics and imagination.

The director has the actors give the same reaction whether they take a wrong turn during a pleasent Sunday drive or they witness their son turn into a murderous pulsating monster.

The plot, as well as the slimy monster are undignified and unintentionally very silly.

The talented Lex Baxter has written the scores for some of the very best horrors. Even Lex could not not help this film. Albeit he really tried.

For me (a horror movie lover) I was very bored. But the DVD has excelent sound and picture quality from very good film stock.

Total Turd...deal with it........2005-06-22

OK, let's all be honest here...for a change. What this movie has is a mythic beast having sex with defenseless women (knocked unconscious by banging their heads into trees), lying alone in the wildnerness.
Anyone who watches it and enjoys it, is a freak. Anyone that purchases it online (or on any other "line") is likewise a freak.
If this is what you want from entertainment then rent two hookers and an ape costume.
S. Daily Warren

The script without........2005-01-13

The Beast Within (Phillippe Mora, 1982)

I have been a huge fan of Edward Levy's two novels since they originally came out. Thus, when a film version of The Beast Within appeared not long after the novel, I was thrilled. As I was still underage at the time, I had to wait until it popped up on video to actually see it, however. I remember being disappointed that the beginning of Levy's book didn't make it into the film, but that's about it.

That was twenty years ago, and I just watched The Beast Within again to see if I'd overlooked anything the first time around. I did. I overlooked how awful the whole movie is.

Mora began his career with two very well-received documentaries before turning his attention to fictional subjects. His first big-screen drama, Mad Dog Morgan, has its defenders. The Beast Within was his next movie, and from that point on, I don't think he's made a single film defended by anyone but studio execs looking for a quick buck. In this version of the story (cf. my review of Levy's novel for what this is really supposed to be about), we open with something raping a newlywed. Cut to seventeen years later, when the son of said something and said newlywed is dying of an undisclosed pituitary gland problem. Except that when he gets out of the hospital and drinks blood, he gets temporarily better. (No, since I know that's what you're thinking, this isn't a vampire movie. It's something far, far stupider.)

All of the plausibility that Levy puts into the first fifty pages of the novel (which are condensed into a monologue at the beginning of the film, with time changes that make it utterly unbelievable) is missing. All of the tension of the book's scenario has been erased by the elimination of one of the book's main characters and a complete change of relationship for the remaining two. The book's thoroughly cheesy, thoroughly wonderful ending has been utterly abandoned. The script for this (which was written by Tom Holland, also responsible for such script classics as Psycho II, Cloak and Dagger, and The Langoliers) may have remotely resembled the book in the first draft, but by the time it got to the filming stage, it was a completely different beast. (There is a meditation to be made on the metatheatrical aspects of the script as parallel to the main character, but the movie disgusts me to the point where I'm not willing to be the one to write it.)

Given that, the film has to be looked at as a completely separate entity from the book. Is it any good if you slice off Edward Levy's name? Absolutely not. The highly-touted special effects are so fake as to be funny (though some of them you'll recognize from later films, which makes me wonder if there was some sort of influence stemming from this, as scary as the idea is). The story is a basic rehash of a number of different movies. It COULD have been done well (in fact, Harry Bromley Davenport would take a good deal of this material, stick it into a sci-fi framework, add some pieces of its contemporary E.T., and come up with the brilliant XTRO a year later). But it's impossible to watch this film, even if you're not a filmmaker yourself, and see hundreds of places where Mora could have done better with camerawork, editing, lighting, or any of another twenty or so aspects of directing a movie. Otherwise good actors like Don Gordon (Papillon, The Final Conflict), L. Q. Jones (The Virginian), and Luke Askew (South of Heaven, West of Hell) are wasted in oceans of overacting.

If you're a fan of Edward Levy's wonderful novel, I suggest you forget this movie exists. In fact, that goes for the rest of you, as well. I tried to find a single redeeming quality about this film, and the only thing that came to mind is "if someone else tries to do Levy's novel, they can't do any worse." (zero)

WOWSERS!!!!!!.......2004-07-15

This is the original frightfest that my sister and nephew bragged about sooo many years ago about. That was 1982 folks! i purchased this dvd a couple of years back just because i thought of them. I remember all the chats about how horrible the scary parts were. well, it was laughable now but i bet really gross then? this is the kinda flick designed to keep you company on a lonely Friday or Saturday night folks! the story involves a woman who had been raped one night and eventually got pregnant from her attacker...a weird bug cicada creature. The reason for the attack stemmed from him wanting to secure his revenge on his enemies. Only by returning via his offspring can he carry about his malevolent plan. Cicadas sleep under the earth for 17 years and then return in the summer to eat and spawn and that's the basis of the creature in this flick. Unfortunately for his son life will be shortlived and rather ugly since he never gets to live out his dreams, love his girlfriend nor get out of such a boring town? Just where in the world is this town anyway? The directors and creators of this wacky freight fest state that "absolutely no one will be able to widthstand the last few minutes of this film!" Well, I did and it was nice to see a shoe string budget horror flick be both gross and disturbing while still maintaining a somewhat cohesive plot? There are no REAl stars but it did include actor Meshach Taylor (from Designing Women fame) who plays a minimal part in this wacky fest. I recommend this weird movie to all of you who enjoy cheesy horror movies and the like. I just wish the plot would have been a little better but that's ok. I just wanted to know why Meshach always played bit parts in horror flicks? At least he didn't get split in half like he did in THE OMEN 2. Yikes!

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The Worst of Coleman Francis, and That Says A Lot
Some Bad Films Are Amusing To Watch, But Yucca Flats Is Not Among Them
Touch the `Play' Button. Something Weird Happens.
Get it in the Horror Classics Collection instead
The Beast Of Succa Flats

The Beast of Yucca Flats
Starring: Larry Aten , Linda Bielema , Conrad Brooks , Anthony Cardoza , and Alan Francis
Director: Coleman Francis
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Customer Reviews:

The Worst of Coleman Francis, and That Says A Lot.......2007-07-05

Some Bad Films Are Amusing To Watch, But Yucca Flats Is Not Among Them.......2006-11-03

Touch the `Play' Button. Something Weird Happens........2006-09-07

Get it in the Horror Classics Collection instead.......2006-07-03

The Beast Of Succa Flats.......2006-03-03

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