Monday, April 27, 2020

The Astro-Zombies (1968)


IMDb plot summary: The Plan - to build a super human; How? - by murdering innocent convenient victims and using various bits of them; The Result - Creatures on the rampage.
Directed by Ted V. Mikels. Starring Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, and Joan Patrick.

This movie is almost charmingly incomprehensible, with all the elements of an awful 1960s B-movie. Inconsistent lighting, overly technical but still nonsensical dialogue, terrible effects, random and way-too-long scene of a woman dancing naked... It's all here. There are parts of this that are definitely entertainingly awful, but more of it is dull.

How it entered my Flickchart:
The Astro-Zombies < Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Astro-Zombies < It Could Happen to You
The Astro-Zombies < Bang the Drum Slowly
The Astro-Zombies < Oklahoma! (1999)
The Astro-Zombies > Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
The Astro-Zombies > The Prince & Me
The Astro-Zombies > The Wedding Planner
The Astro-Zombies < The Book Thief
The Astro-Zombies > My Dog Skip
The Astro-Zombies < Charlie Chan at the Opera
The Astro-Zombies > The Notebook
Final spot: #2939 out of 3117, which feels far too low, but looking at what it went up against, those matches are all correct.

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