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{{quote|''"Director Coleman Francis uses edits like blunt instruments. [[Shaped Like Itself|He uses blunt instruments like blunt instruments.]] His major themes are death, hatefulness, [[Department of Redundancy Department|death]], pain, and [[Rule of Three|death]]...He hurts us and I want him to know it, except if he's still alive[[hottip:*:{{Kevin has nothing to worry about since Coleman Francis went to that big movie studio in the sky in 1973}}, because there's the small chance that he's still strong enough to crush my windpipe with his bare hands."''|Kevin Murphy, ''The [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]] Amazing Colossal Episode Guide''}}
{{quote|''"Any discussion of ''[[Red Zone Cuba (Film)|Red Zone Cuba]]'' would be remiss without a mention of its writer, director, and star, Coleman Francis, who's also singlehandedly responsible for two other cinematic abominations, ''[[The Beast of Yucca Flats (Film)|The Beast of Yucca Flats]]'' and ''[[The Skydivers (Film)|The Skydivers]]''. (...) Probability dictates that every now and then, a totally clueless director like [[Manos:
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Each of Coleman Francis' films easily fall alongside such "gems" as ''[[Baby Geniuses]]'', ''[[Monster a Go Go|Monster A Go-Go]]'', ''[[Old Dogs]]'', or ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'', but what makes them really notable is that he managed to produce three of them, each utterly terrible, but in completely different ways. All three films have been featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', [[Hellevator|elevating]] Francis into that elite circle of bad movie directors that also includes [[Uwe Boll]], [[Manos:
==== The Coleman Francis Trilogy: ====
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