Episode 695: Robot Monster (1953)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Katharine Coldiron (Junk Film) and Tim Luz (CinemaSpection) join Mike to discuss Phil Tucker's sci-fi classic Robot Monster (1953), a cold war film in which a gorilla with a porthole on his head tries to eliminate the last few hu-mans that remain on Earth after unleashing an army of dinosaurs to wipe out everyone else.

Mike talks with Bob Furmanek President and Founder of the 3-D Film Archive before chatting with Anders Runestad about his book, I Cannot, Yet I Must: The True Story of the Best Bad Monster Movie of All Time Robot Monster.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.7	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.3	Shut it off.
0:26.1	Turn it on.
0:26.9	Oh! With a swiftness of a deadly cosmic ray, the Earth is invaded by indestructible moon monsters.
1:00.0	Their ghastly mission, death for all humans. What astounding technical developments are being made to protect mankind.
1:18.6	Robot Monster brings you an actual preview of the devastating forces of our future.
1:24.6	Unsuspected revelations of incredible horrors that will terrify you with their brutal reality.
1:31.8	There is no escape from me.
1:34.8	Very well.
1:36.2	I will recalculate.
1:38.4	Your death will be indescribable.
1:42.7	Fool humans, there is no escape.
1:45.0	The Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.
2:11.6	Joining me once again is Mr. Tim Luz.
2:14.4	You sound like a humor, not a raw man.
2:17.2	Also, back in the booth is Ms. Catherine Coldiron.
2:20.6	You look like a pooped-out pinwheel.
2:22.8	Sci-fi July continues with a true science fiction classic Phil Tucker's Robot Monster.
2:29.9	Released in 1953, it is a post-apocalyptic tale of one lone family who have survived a devastating global attack by Roman, a gorilla with a diving helmet for a head.
2:42.4	The family is protected only because of an experimental vaccine.
2:46.3	They're desperate to get out to space to immunize some soldiers or something so they can take on
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