The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler
Written by Gene Pollock, Robert Silliphant and E.M. Kevke
1964/USA
Morgan-Steckler Productions
First viewing/YouTube
[box] Barker: We’ve got twenty beautiful girls and only ten beautiful costumes![/box]
Ray Dennis Steckler is consistent – consistently terrible!
The story is set in a carnival side show, that strangely features strippers and nightclub acts as attractions. Jerry (the director as “Cash Flagg”) is lured to the tent of fortune teller Madame Estrella and hypnotized into performing horrible murders. No creatures or “zombies” appear until the final minutes.
This movie is about 40 minutes of lame weird nightclub acts with at most 20 minutes of uninspiring horror culminating in 3 minutes of creature action. If not for the partial nudity I’m sure teenagers of the day were demanding their money back. I watched the film sans riff track.
