A creature is turning a small town into a buffet, and the local authorities are hilariously incompetent. They always are. A fed-up civilian gathers his bravest (or perhaps just most bored) friends to form a vigilante posse. They head straight for Bronson Canyon, the most overused filming location in Hollywood history (seen in everything from Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Batman ’66 Batcave to Army of Darkness, The Phantom Empire, The Lost Empire, the original Flash Gordon serial, Robot Monster, Demonoid, and so many more movies).

The titular Zorgon is a triumph of whatever we found in the garage special effects. While the title promises an H-Bomb Beast, the actual creature usually ends up looking like a man in a wrinkled rubber suit with perhaps a few too many fins. The H-Bomb element is mostly handled through dialogue, with characters insisting the creature is radioactive despite it looking suspiciously like a damp carpet.

According to a YouTube comment, “The costume for ZORGON was actually made up of parts from the monster suits in Octaman and Schlock, with a great new mask created especially for ZORGON. fun, interesting little film. They should put it on DVD.”

The cast is the real highlight. There’s Ace Mask, who shows up in movies like Chopping Mall and Not of This Earth; Susan Turner, who did effects for 1941, Ghost Story, Dreamscape and more; stop motion and matte artist Jim Danforth, who worked on Prince of Darkness, Flesh Gordon and more; effects wizard David Allen, who directed The Primevals; Mark Thomas McGee, the co-writer and co-director of Equinox, as well as the writer of Hard to Die and Witch Academy; Jon Berg, who did effects for Star Wars and Dragonslayer; Bill Hedge, who worked on Species and did the puppet work for Night Train to Terror; Rick Baker (do I have to tell you who he is?) and director Kevin Fernan, making this as his student project for Pasadena City College.

He got an A-.

You can watch this on Cultpix.