Frustration

Monster a Go-Go is not the worst movie I've ever seen. I mean yes, it's just awful. It was made in the '60s and looks like it was made in the '30s, true, and the acting is laughable, yes, but it is still better than a lot of awful movies I've seen. In my upcoming list of worst movies ever made, you will notice that I give preference to modern movies with significant budgets when picking the worst films of all time.

But Monster a Go-Go does have (in addition to arguably the dumbest title ever) the absolute stupidest conclusion/climax EVER and I'm going to carefully articulate just how stupid and offensive it is.

The plot is that there is this guy who goes out to space or whatever and comes back but he's nowhere near the ship thing that crashed or whatever. But what there is is a giant radioactive monster that kills people that these couple scientists believe to be the astronaut. They treat him for a while and then he escapes and he's on the run. The military is after him and the film makes it clear that he's in a tunnel underground. Then the film also makes it painfully clear that the two people following him are in the same tunnel.

And then, in the DUMBEST moment ever on film, the narrator explains that the monster just isn't there, that it's just disappeared or whatever. And then they get a telegram saying the astronaut was found 8000 miles away. WHAT?!

So let's analyze this. This means that the guy is alive. This also means that he wound up 8000 miles away from his ship. How? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. But then what the hell was the monster thing? Is the ending supposed to try and make us feel like there's a monster on the loose? Because that's not working. No fear can ever be felt while watching such an awful movie. I really don't get it. Can someone who's seen this movie--either of you--explain this to me please?