History Film / TheBeastOfYuccaFlats

No-one talks - the camera didn't have sound gear. A {{narrator}}. [[TerseTalker Unable to speak in full sentences.]] [[FauxlosophicNarration Flag on the moon. How did it get there? Nothing to do with movie. A plot point abandoned.]]

* BloodlessCarnage: Two characters get shot - multiple times - but there's no blood in evidence. The Beast's kills are also totally without gore. If not for the nude scene at the start, the film barely qualifies as PG.

* ContemplateOurNavels: ''Flag on the moon. How did it get there''? Though, in ''this'' case, the Fauxlosophic Narration has some meaning: a top secret Russian moon landing of course! No, really; that's the secret with evidence being smuggled in the briefcase at the beginning if you pay attention.

** The deputy's wife/girlfriend serves a similar fashion, as she appears to only be in the film in order to flash some skin as she gets out of - an then immediately back into - bed.

* RRatedOpening: A topless woman is killed by someone in the opening scene. There is no connection to the rest of the film (the man who kills her bears no physical resemblance to Tor Johnson's character and lacks the beast's scarred hands).

* SocietyMarchesOn: The film took place well before Neil Armstrong took his steps on the moon, so the narration was supposed to imply the Russians somehow got there first, since it would be impossible for there to be a flag on the moon without something covert going on.

NextSundayAD [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 A man and some robots in space]]. They [[{{MST}} riff]] the movie. People laugh. Tropers recap riffing [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats here]].

* BeigeProse: The narration is this, as it consists mainly of sentence fragments and vague descriptions. Most infamously "Flag on the moon, how did it get there?"

Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Played by Tor Johnson. Defected from Soviet Russia. Hunted by KGB. Walks onto a nuclear test site. Touch a button. Things happen. [[ILoveNuclearPower The A-bomb. A man becomes a beast.]]

* LullDestruction: The narrator talks constantly, filling every moment of every scene with sentence fragments, vague commentary on what's going on, and {{fauxlosophic|Narration}}al gibberish.

No-one talks - the camera didn't have sound gear. A {{narrator}}. [[TerseTalker Unable to speak in full sentences.]] [[FauxlosophicNarration Flag on the moon. How did it get there?]]

* DyingAsYourself: After the narrator's repetition of how Javorsky was a kind man until he became the Beast, the scene with the rabbit works as an example of this trope. [[note]]According to an interview, Tony Cardoza: "I [Tony] showed it to [Greek film investor] Skouras at 20th Century-Fox. And his favorite scene was the scene at the end when the rabbit comes up to Tor Johnson during his death scene. And do you know that that was a wild rabbit that came up to Tor? That wasn't a trained rabbit, it was a baby jack rabbit that came out of nowhere, a bunny. It was like a miracle -- he came over to Tor while we were shooting, and he was lying on the ground dying. Tor opened his eyes and saw it and kissed it. Can you imagine that? Isn't that an amazing scene?[[/note]]

* PetTheDog: The Beast kisses a rabbit before dying.[[note]]According to an interview, Tony Cardoza: "I [Tony] showed it to [Greek film investor] Skouras at Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. And his favorite scene was the scene at the end when the rabbit comes up to Tor Johnson during his death scene. And do you know that that was a wild rabbit that came up to Tor? That wasn't a trained rabbit, it was a baby jack rabbit that came out of nowhere, a bunny. It was like a miracle -- he came over to Tor while we were shooting, and he was lying on the ground dying. Tor opened his eyes and saw it and kissed it. Can you imagine that? Isn't that an amazing scene?[[/note]]

** The topless actress in the opening murder has basically nothing to do with the movie's plot. Coleman apparently just thought a nudie scene would be edgy, considering the weakening of the [[MoralGuardians Hays Code]] during the 60's.

* PetTheDog: The Beast kisses a rabbit before dying.[[note]]According to an interview, Tony Cardoza: "I [Tony] showed it to [Greek film investor] Skouras at 20th Century-Fox. And his favorite scene was the scene at the end when the rabbit comes up to Tor Johnson during his death scene. And do you know that that was a wild rabbit that came up to Tor? That wasn't a trained rabbit, it was a baby jack rabbit that came out of nowhere, a bunny. It was like a miracle -- he came over to Tor while we were shooting, and he was lying on the ground dying. Tor opened his eyes and saw it and kissed it. Can you imagine that? Isn't that an amazing scene?[[/note]]

* FanService: The topless actress in the opening murder has basically nothing to do with the movie's plot. Coleman apparently just thought a nudie scene would be edgy, considering the weakening of the [[MoralGuardians Hays Code]] during the 60's.

* ILoveTheDead: It is heavily implied that the killer at the start of ''The Beast of Yucca Flats'' abuses the woman's corpse.

* RRatedOpening: A topless woman is killed by someone in the opening scene.

* StopOrIWillShoot: Taken to the worst extreme. A sniper is sent up in a plane to bring down the suspected killer and starts shooting at a family dad who was looking for help for his family stranded on vacation. Naturally, the dad starts running, convincing the shooter he's found the guilty party.

* BeigeProse: The narration is this, as it consists mainly of sentence fragments and vague descriptions. Most infamously "Flag on the moon, how did it get there"

* DyingAsYourself: After the narrator's repetition of how Javorsky was a kind man until he became the Beast, the scene with the rabbit works as an example of this trope [[note]].According to an interview, Tony Cardoza: "I [Tony] showed it to [Greek film investor] Skouras at 20th Century-Fox. And his favorite scene was the scene at the end when the rabbit comes up to Tor Johnson during his death scene. And do you know that that was a wild rabbit that came up to Tor? That wasn't a trained rabbit, it was a baby jack rabbit that came out of nowhere, a bunny. It was like a miracle -- he came over to Tor while we were shooting, and he was lying on the ground dying. Tor opened his eyes and saw it and kissed it. Can you imagine that? Isn't that an amazing scene?[[/note]]

* DyingAsYourself: After the narrator's repetition of how Javorsky was a kind man until he became the Beast, the scene with the rabbit works as an example of this trope [[note]]According to an interview, Tony Cardoza: "I [Tony] showed it to [Greek film investor] Skouras at 20th Century-Fox. And his favorite scene was the scene at the end when the rabbit comes up to Tor Johnson during his death scene. And do you know that that was a wild rabbit that came up to Tor? That wasn't a trained rabbit, it was a baby jack rabbit that came out of nowhere, a bunny. It was like a miracle -- he came over to Tor while we were shooting, and he was lying on the ground dying. Tor opened his eyes and saw it and kissed it. Can you imagine that? Isn't that an amazing scene?[[/note]]

* DyingAsYourself: After the narrator's repetition of how Javorsky was a kind man until he became the Beast, the scene with the rabbit works as an example of this trope.

* PetTheDog: The Beast kisses a rabbit before dying.

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* FanService: The topless actress in the opening murder has basically nothing to do with the movie's plot. Coleman apparently just thought a nudie scene would be cool.

The beast kills a couple on vacation. Something about the wheels of progress. [[TorchesAndPitchforks People hunt the beast.]] Climb a mountain, then give up.

* ScienceIsBad: Apparently, according to the narrator. Joseph Javorsky tried to use science for good, but the evil it wrought overwhelmed and transformed him. As the wheels of progress turn, his fate will be the fate of us all. Or something...

* StopOrIWillShoot: Taken to the worst extreme. A sniper is sent up in a plane to bring down the suspected killer and starts shooting at a family dad who was looking for help for his family stranded on vacation. Naturally, the dad starts running, convincing the shooter he's found the guilty party.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The Beast comes back to life... and kisses a rabbit.
* FanService: The topless actress in the opening murder.
* FauxlosophicNarration: Trope on the page. How did it get there?
* FilmingForEasyDub: ''Beast of Yucca Flats'' was recorded silent, and the dialogue dubbed in later, so people only talk off-screen.
* ForScience: The Beast may or may not be motivated by "scientific progress". The narrator is not very clear on this subject.
* ILoveNuclearPower: An atomic bomb turns Joseph Javorsky into The Beast.

* LullDestruction: The narrator talks constantly.

* RRatedOpening: A topless woman is killed by someone.
* ScienceIsBad: Well, we think it is... it's kinda hard to tell. Joseph Javorsky tried to use science for good, but the evil it wrought overwhelmed and transformed him. As the wheels of progress turn, his fate will be the fate of us all. Or something...

** All three of Coleman Francis' films have featured a vigilante shooting of a character. In one of them, ''TheSkydivers'', Coleman was the sniper; in another, ''Film/RedZoneCuba'', it was Coleman who got sniped.