Although the opening credits feature backgrounds involving rockets and space stations, virtually all of this movie takes place in a military lab located deep under the New Mexican desert. This means, especially in a low-budget movie, that the story plays out in a small number of drably decorated rooms and hallways, creating -- probably not intentionally -- a sense of claustrophobia. Lively characters and sharp dialog would alleviate some of the strain but unfortunately the characters here tend toward dullness and their dialog is flat and laced with the kind of pseudo-scientific jargon common in 1950's sci-fi movies. The resulting product isn't really bad and might even appeal to fans of the genre but it takes itself much too seriously to provide the kind of hokey "fun" often found in the worse of B-movies.
Richard Egan, hovering on the verge of a stardom which never quite materialized, plays the man sent to investigate mysterious goings-on at the lab, but he's almost upstaged by Gog and Magog, the two robots who, like most robots of that era, go out of control. Unlike most of their counterparts, however, these two aren't anthropomorphic in design and, as a result, look surprisingly modern.
Richard Egan, hovering on the verge of a stardom which never quite materialized, plays the man sent to investigate mysterious goings-on at the lab, but he's almost upstaged by Gog and Magog, the two robots who, like most robots of that era, go out of control. Unlike most of their counterparts, however, these two aren't anthropomorphic in design and, as a result, look surprisingly modern.