Robot Monster is NOT the Worst Movie Ever for Two Important Reasons:
Robot Monster is surely up there with the best of the down there worst movies ever!
But what puts it out of the running as THE worst, IMO, is the surprising fact that it contains one of the first, if not THE first, film scores by one of the GREATEST American Film Composers, Elmer Bernstein, who went on to write many classic scores that include, The Magnificent Seven (whose iconic main theme scored the cigarette company that made Marlboro, a ton of money in the 60s and 70s), The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments, The Age of Innocence and many more too numerous to mention here.
Also, the humble Robot Monster was the FIRST monster movie to be released in 3D AND stereophonic sound in its initial release (look closer at the poster)!
Sorry, but these two little known facts give it an historical distinction in Cinema history that belies the “worst” moniker.
Robot Monster is surely up there with the best of the down there worst movies ever!
But what puts it out of the running as THE worst, IMO, is the surprising fact that it contains one of the first, if not THE first, film scores by one of the GREATEST American Film Composers, Elmer Bernstein, who went on to write many classic scores that include, The Magnificent Seven (whose iconic main theme scored the cigarette company that made Marlboro, a ton of money in the 60s and 70s), The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments, The Age of Innocence and many more too numerous to mention here.
Also, the humble Robot Monster was the FIRST monster movie to be released in 3D AND stereophonic sound in its initial release (look closer at the poster)!
Sorry, but these two little known facts give it an historical distinction in Cinema history that belies the “worst” moniker.