A castaway is bitten by a giant spider, turning him into the scariest-looking creature since the Wolfman. A ruthless sea monster stalks innocent swimmers. A giant Gila monster wages war on a small town and its' by-the-book sheriff. Thomas (sometimes as a B movie character himself,) 'The Day of the B Movie' features clips of some of the funniest, corniest, most colorful, and most bizarre B movies ever made.Īlong with Tor Johnson's scientist-gone- mad, there are other colorful villains in the satiric documentary. Clips of the film are included in 'The Day of the B Movie.' The radiation turns him into a mad beast. In 'The Beast of Yucca Flats,' Johnson plays a Russian scientist who gets too close to a nuclear test site in the American desert. He is known mostly for 'Plan Nine From Outer Space,' but 'The Beast of Yucca Flats' certainly deserves its' place in B movie history.' 'His face was turned into a popular Halloween mask and he is the star of the comics of Drew Friedman. 'Tor Johnson was a wrestler who weighed 400 pounds in his heyday,' Mr. Thomas' documentary salute to (and spoof of) the beloved cheapies of yesteryear. Johnson is one of the highlights of 'The Day of the B Movie,' R. He was also the star of 'The Beast of Yucca Flats,' a picture that graced drive-in screens in 1961.

ApPRLog - Tor Johnson was a wrestler, an actor, a friend of Bela Lugosi, and one of the participants in 'Plan Nine From Outer Space,' Edward D.

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