YMMV / The Beast of Yucca Flats

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: 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.
• Fan Nickname: "The Breast of Yucca Flats" for the random topless scene at the beginning.
• Memetic Mutation: "Flag on the Moon. How did it get there?"
• Narm:
  • "Touch a button. Things happen."
  • "Doctors can't help her. Maybe angels, but not doctors."
  • "A man murdered, a woman's purse".
  • "Joe Dobson... caught in the wheels of progress."
• Nightmare Retardant: The Beast just has Tor yelling and moaning like an angry, senile old man, and is easily outmaneuvered by two young boys.
• 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:
  [imitating the narrator] "This film stops at nothing, and stays there."
• Retroactive Recognition: 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 Red Zone Cuba.
• So Bad, It's Good: It's Coleman Francis' best. As in the only one that's watchable without riffing.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • 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.
  • Then there's the fact that the movie didn't prerecord any sound during filming, leaving Coleman to randomly dub in the actors' dialogue in post when their mouths were obscured from the camera.
  Mike: [imitating the narrator] "Coleman Francis solves the problem of sound sync."
• Tear Jerker: The final scene with the Beast kissing a wild bunny before dying.

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