hello@flickmovies.comThe Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) | Flick
1964·Horror·1h 22m
3.6
★
Jerry, 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.
With funds of a mere $38,000, and one of the main characters being the director himself, and the car used in the movie being the director's own family car, 'Low Budget' doesn't even begin to cover it. But there's a self-aware humour hidden (deep) beneath the financial constraints - not least of which being the title. Originally planned to be called "The Incredibly Strange Creatures, or Why I Stopped Living and Became a Mixed-up Zombie" director Ray Dennis Steckler had to change it last minute as the studio behind Dr Strangelove threatened to sue.
Despite the low budget and negative reviews (frequently topping Worst Movies of All Time lists), The Incredibly Strange Creatures, and by extension Steckler himself, attained a cult status. It's easy to see why too.
I can't say I'd watch it again, or even have watched it the first time without the MST3K commentary, but I'm glad I did. It's weirdly paced, badly acted, strangely interspersed with song and dance numbers, peppered with carnies and exotic dancers and zombie maniacs and hallucinogenic dream sequences... but it's also oddly charming and earnest.
With funds of a mere $38,000, and one of the main characters being the director himself, and the car used in the movie being the director's own family car, 'Low Budget' doesn't even begin to cover it. But there's a self-aware humour hidden (deep) beneath the financial constraints - not least of which being the title. Originally planned to be called "The Incredibly Strange Creatures, or Why I Stopped Living and Became a Mixed-up Zombie" director Ray Dennis Steckler had to change it last minute as the studio behind Dr Strangelove threatened to sue.
Despite the low budget and negative reviews (frequently topping Worst Movies of All Time lists), The Incredibly Strange Creatures, and by extension Steckler himself, attained a cult status. It's easy to see why too.
I can't say I'd watch it again, or even have watched it the first time without the MST3K commentary, but I'm glad I did. It's weirdly paced, badly acted, strangely interspersed with song and dance numbers, peppered with carnies and exotic dancers and zombie maniacs and hallucinogenic dream sequences... but it's also oddly charming and earnest.
