The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
February. 10,1964Jerry, his girlfriend Angela, and their friend Harold take a trip to a local seaside carnival, but when the carnival's fortune teller, Madame Estrella, predicts death for someone close to Angela, strange things begin to happen.
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Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.The film was originally released by Fairway-International Pictures, Arch Hall, Sr.'s studio, who put it on a lower half of a double bill with one of his own pictures. Later, it was matched with "Beast of Yucca Flats", but working with Hall seems far more appropriate -- his films are notoriously trashy, and he had just worked with Steckler on "Wild Guitar" two years prior.There is really nothing redeemable about this film. Once it gets going, it is tolerably bad, but at least 75% seems to be nothing more than a showcase of women singing and dancing. This adds nothing to the plot. The sound is awful, and cuts out in some places, though even if it were fixed it may not do anything to improve the overall quality of this boring bomb.Had it not been for a catchy title, this film would have faded into obscurity fifty years ago already...
Can you figure out the plot of "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?", cause I couldn't really figure it out. Of course, I paid more attention to the snarky comments from Mike, Servo and Crow when Pearl forced them to watch it on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Joan Collins, Noam Chomsky and Glenn Close are among the people who get mentioned.As for the plot of the movie itself, as far as I could tell, it was about a gypsy (or is Roma the PC term?) woman who turns a loser into a zombie. The only character who really had my eye was Angela; she really was a hottie. In the end, the movie itself doesn't amount to anything, but the MST3K version is a riot. How cruel of Pearl to make Mike and the 'bots watch it.
Like always, I'm willing to give a bad movie a chance and try not to be biased toward its, just because of its title and the poor rating it's receiving everywhere. However no, there really is no point in defending this movie or try to let it sound any good, since there are absolutely no redeeming qualities about this movie at all.It's being a very typically, bad looking and poorly sounding, '60's genre flick, made for 10 dollars and a bottle cap. The low budget can explain the movie its look and poor actors involved but it can't be an excuses for its lacking script.Stuff doesn't really ever make any sense and it's very hard to discover a main plot line in this mess of a movie. I really don't know what this movie was trying to tell, since its jumping all over the place and most stuff seems to happen very randomly, while some of the other stuff simple feels totally pointless and out of place, such as all of the dancing sequences.It's not focused on anything at all. Everything falls flat because of that. It's as if they had absolutely no idea what they were doing and purely based on its story alone already, there is no good reason why this movie exists. It should had never been made!Now, I'll give the movie that it clearly got putted together by a bunch of people who love classic horror. There clearly are some references to some of the '30's genre stuff and I also actually have no doubt about that some of Ray Dennis Steckler's other movies are far better ones, as long as they had a more decent enough script to work with but I'm probably being too kind and hopeful right now.The title of this movie might make you curious enough to watch it but trust me, you are far better off simply skipping it, even if you are into bad cinema.2/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
Seeing as there are several ways to rate this movie, I'll try each point of view...The movie itself: It is sporadically paced, the plot is strange enough to cause interest, the acting is indescribably bad, the musicals are a pain to sit through, etc... Kind of like Ed Wood but minus the sincere effort. 2/10.The genre: Specifically, B-movies that came out of nowhere right about when the Film Noir genre ended it's run. Among others (Monster a Go Go, Manos, and Plan 9), this one was laughable at least, so if the quality sucks, you can argue that it was intentional. For the sake of pity, 5/10.The cult following: Basically the same with other B-movies, you will have that unknown group of people take a real liking to this movie because of what it may have been trying to do. 7/10.The experience: Boring, confusing, annoyed, and yet I could still find myself chuckling, even though nothing was funny. It's so bad that I physically could not react normally. 1/10.Overall, I think the most appropriate rating would be a 3 or 4 out of 10, but due my personal opinion, I'll go with the 3.