What would happen if a Russian defector being chased by his country’s enforcers bent on retrieving their stolen secrets found himself caught in a nuclear blast? Why he would mutate into a mindless, super-strong creature that likes to strangle random people for no reason, of course. And if that happened, well the law enforcement would of course have to go out hunting him with rifles and shooting at every person that happened to be running through the area because it’s obviously better to shoot first and ask questions later than to consider that an innocent person might be out here.

"The Beast of Yucca Flats" is truly a horrible movie. The whole concept and story are weak. The murder of the woman getting out of the shower at the beginning has nothing to do with the rest of the story, the characterization of the man that becomes the monster has no logic behind it, and the shooting of the innocent man during the monstry hunt is set up poorly.

The whole thing feels like a silent movie to which someone added an audio track. It’s narrated like a bad documentary, made worse by the fact that the narration is painfully crappy, and what actual dialogue there is is clearly not being spoken by the character on screen. The action is slow and stiff and the acting is awful which doesn’t help the funky audio style.