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1* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening (which was added strictly for the nudity and with no narrative connection to the rest of the film), along with the whole "flag on the moon" thing.[[note]]Although the film mentions a secret Soviet moon program, a connection to a flag being on the moon is not made; the film came out years before putting a flag on the moon became a thing with the Apollo landings.[[/note]]
2* FanNickname: "The Breast of Yucca Flats" for the random topless scene at the beginning.
3* MemeticMutation: "Flag on the Moon. How did it get there?"
4* {{Narm}}:
5** "[[CaptainObvious Touch a button. Things happen.]]"
6** "Doctors can't help her. Maybe angels, but not doctors."
7** "[[TheProblemWithPenIsland A man murdered, a woman's purse]]".
8** "Joe Dobson... caught in the wheels of progress."
9* NightmareRetardant: The Beast just has Tor yelling and moaning like an angry, senile old man, and is easily outmaneuvered by two young boys.
10* {{Padding}}: ''Dear god yes!'' This film just drags on and on with many scenes that often serve little-to-no purpose whatsoever. As Servo puts it:
11-->''[imitating the narrator]'' "This film stops at nothing, and stays there."
12* RetroactiveRecognition: The passer-by who finds Javorski's first victim and reports it to the police later had the more memorable (if not really that much more substantial) role of Cherokee Jack in ''Film/RedZoneCuba''.
13* SoBadItsGood: It's Coleman Francis' [[DamnedByFaintPraise best]]. As in the only one that's watchable [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 without riffing]].
14* SpecialEffectFailure:
15** Obviously Tor Johnson couldn't actually strangle his fellow actors, but his fake strangling here is ''so'' limp it looks more like he's giving them all gentle neck massages.
16** Then there's the fact that the movie didn't prerecord any sound during filming, [[LazyArtist leaving Coleman to randomly dub in the actors' dialogue in post when their mouths were obscured from the camera]].
17-->'''Mike:''' ''[imitating the narrator]'' "[[SarcasmMode Coleman Francis solves the problem of sound sync]]."
18* TearJerker: The final scene with the Beast kissing a wild bunny before dying.
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