The Beast of Yucca Flats

Commies made him an atomic mutant!

A low-budget Cold War monster film that transforms a refugee scientist into a mindless atomic beast, blending nuclear-age paranoia with creature-feature horror.

A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear test and is transformed into a mindless killing beast.