Joe Dante on ROBOT MONSTER

Joe Dante runs from the MONSTER FROM MARS (ROBOT MONSTER)

This much maligned and conversely beloved 1953 cheapie, one of the most bizarre and notorious "bad movies" ever, sports some surprisingly imaginative use of 3-D. Sold to tv only a few months after its theatrical release, it provided a surreal video jolt for fifties tykes with its lurid end of the world scenario. With a cool music score by the then-blacklisted Elmer Bernstein.

ABOUT JOE DANTE

JOE DANTE is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career. He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Innerspace, Matinee, Small Soldiers and The 'Burbs. His latest is a 3-D thriller titled The Hole, due out later in the year.

Among his TV work is The Second Civil War, Eerie, Indiana and the "Masters of Horrors" titles Homecoming and The Screwfly Solution

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