Robot Monster
Overview
 
Robot Monster is a 1953
1953 in film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

 American science fiction
Science fiction
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 film made in 3-D
3-D film
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 by Phil Tucker
Phil Tucker
Phil Tucker was an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. While Tucker directed his first six feature films in the span of two years , he is best known for his first film, the science fiction B movie Robot Monster, often considered an example of "so bad it's good" filmmaking in the...

. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.
The evil alien Ro-Man Extension XJ-9 (who is simply called "Ro-Man" by the humans) has destroyed all but eight humans on Earth with his "calcinator death ray." The survivors consist of a family of five, a scientist, and two unseen assistants to the scientist in a spacecraft bound for an orbiting space platform carrying an also-unseen garrison of human soldiers.
Quotations

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!

Your people were getting too intelligent. We could not wait until you were strong enough to attack us; we had to attack you first.

The child is impertinent.

I will re-calculate. Your deaths will be indescribable.

Show yourselves, and I promise you a painless death.

Hu-mans, listen to me. Due to an error in calculation, there are still a few of you left

Carla: Is Alice going on a date with Ro-Man?

Johnny: [to Ro-Man] You look like a pooped out pinwheel.

The Professor: [Roy walks up to the group and collapses] He's dead, and there's nothing we can do.

 
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