"SUSIE’s gone into her differential phase."
A giant asteroid crashes into the ocean off the coast of Mexico. Two scientists Dr. Leslie Gaskell (Vic Morrow), Dr. Arnold Culver (George O'Hanlon) and Gaskell's girlfriend Vera Hunter (Barbara Lawrence) go to check it out. A few days later a giant machine comes out of the ocean. Dr. Gaskell calls it Kronos. Kronos was a monster from Greek mythology.
Kronos begins to move across the land. The machine is a robot sent to earth by aliens. The robot is called an Accumulator and it absorbs all the energy it comes in contact with. The aliens themselves are pure energy and can take over a person’s body making them do whatever they want. The aliens are from a dying planet and need our energy to survive. Each time the robot absorbs energy it grows. We of course throw and atom bomb at it. It of course absorbs the atom bomb because, dah atom bombs are energy. How can you stop something like this? Ask SUSIE.
Who is SUSIE? SUSIE is a computer whose initials stand for “synchro unifying sinometric integrating equitensor”. I’m not sure how many if any of those are actual words. SUSIE takes up an entire room confirming the old adage, if you have enough doohickeys you look scientific.
What does SUSIE say that will save the world? Well how about reversing the energy-to-matter conversion process? How do you do that? I refer you to Scott Ashlin’s website “1000 misspent hours and counting”. His review of the movie explains the science of it all rather nicely. At least as long as you couldn’t care less about Los Angeles ever existing again.
"Kronos" was released in 1957 and was directed by Kurt Neumann. This is another strange film where the monster isn’t really a monster. At least not in the normal sense.
As far as robots go this one is rather plain. It appears to be two black plastic blocks connected by an aluminum tube. On top is an upside down aluminum bowl and a couple TV antennas. The mode of transportation is two more aluminum tubes that go up and down. I’m not sure how it can propel itself by just stomping up and down but it seems to work quite well.
So what did I think of this rather boring movie with a lame robot and lots of stock footage? I liked it of course.