One of the most influential films of my entire life!! Why do I say that? Well I used the Ro-Man as my business logo for the last 30 years.
Phil Tucker directed this film about a small group of people that are apparently the last survivors of the human race that has been wiped out by a race of Ro-Men...gorillas in diving helmets from the planet RoMan.
Yes this film has everything...a handsome hero played by George Nader, a dedicated scientist played by John Mylong, his beautiful daughter who spends a lot of the movie in bondage, two bratty kids, a flustered mother played by Selena Royle and a gorilla in a diving helmet that tries to destroy earth with stock footage from many films including "One Million B.C.
There are several disturbing things you usually don't see in films of this type and that is the family tying up the daughter played by Claudia Barrett and the little girl who is strangled. You don't see this but you are told what Ro-Man did by the killer himself and then the family finds her dead body.
For all it's faults this film is totally entertaining and will not disappoint. By the way, who can resist a film where one of the children tells Ro-man "You look like a pooped out pinwheel.", and where Ro-Man says a line that reminds me of where I work "I cannot, yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must, but I cannot."
I love this film. It is legendary and has literally been torn apart by "fans" for years. It was made for the sum of $16,000 and that really hampered the film, but it is good fun and I recommend it for any bad film lover. Long Live Ro-Man!!
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