The Astro-Zombies

1968 "Dismembered Bodies, Transplanted Organs, Are Used To Create The..."
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Released: 19 May 1968 Released
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For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
trimbolicelia Nutty, ridiculous late 60's sci-fi / horror film. Any film with credits that have toy robots, toy tanks, and the sound effect of heavy artillery you can't expect much from. John Carradine plays a mad scientist for the umpteenth time. He's creating zombiefied human robots from criminals with ultra creepy mask faces. The mad doctor's assistant is a leering sub-mental that Carradine treats to long-winded monologues of the science behind what he's doing. Meanwhile a sinister foreign government has sent their crack agent to steal Carradine's work. Said agent is a modern-day Asian dragon lady type with a somewhat sleazy co-hort. An American agency is out to stop the enemy government and the mad doc. The best part of this whole mish-mash is when one of the zombs, in the middle of an attack on a scantily clad girl, loses his energy oomph and has to hold a flashlight to a hole in his head until he gets back to the lab and gets re-energized. Wacky fun. The RiffTrax version could have been improved. The Rifftrax soundtrack can be heard, but you can barely hear the film's dialogue, which takes away from the RiffTrax humor. As for the film only version itself the sound is just fine, the picture and color quality is sharp and clear. I have to add though that as far as I could make out the Kino Lorber DVD quality is equal to the Image Entertainment DVD. The Kino version has some extras though. Recommended for fans of bad movies.
order-27 Am writing this review many years after seeing this film. I'm a pretty avid film-goer, and I've only wanted to walk out of a movie two or three times over many, many years, but I absolutely could not sit through this and left maybe halfway through.The acting was bad, the plot, what there was of it, was bad, the editing was bad, the pacing was terrible... I don't remember all the details, but I remember the increasing pressure in my brain telling me to get out before I exploded.This is not in the same class as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which was a deliberately done bad movie which means that there was a lot of good stuff to laugh at, and not even in the same class as Plan 9 From Outer Space, whose badness at least made me laugh.
Boba_Fett1138 In the past I have actually liked some Ted V. Mikels movies because they still had a certain charm and cult potential to it but this movie is however simply unwatchable. It's just that bad! Thing with this movie is that it really takes you back to the days of Z-grade science-fiction movies from the '50's. The kind of stuff Ed Wood himself used to make but this movie is even all the more shocking, since it actually got made in the late 60's.It really is an incredibly sloppy made film, that is horribly directed and has some serious lacking storytelling in it. I can't even tell what this movie is about, since it's being such an huge mess and I actually honestly had no idea what was going on, for more than half of the time. Scene's seem to go on forever, while they really have no right to do so. There are even scenes in this movie that seem to build up to something but in the end do absolutely nothing. The movie is already quite short, with its 90 minutes of running time but it really should had been way shorter, though I doubt that that would had made this a good movie. Even the acting and dialog seems to be a throwback to the horrible bad movies from the '50's. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that movie was actually something Ted V. Mikels had written in the '50's already!And for a movie named "The Astro-Zombies", there are actually surprising little 'astro-zombies' in it. There is no real action or entertainment in this movie and the title only seems to have been picked to fool the audience and to get some people to see it, since it has little to do with the actual movie it seems. The 'astro-zombies' that are still in this movie are quite laughable looking. They are all wearing Halloween type of alien masks, that obviously are far from convincing looking.A real shame John Carradine's career had to end with these type of movies, after having such a great start of his career. Luckily though not an awful lot of people watch these type of movies and no one should also ever watch this one! 2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
Flixer1957 Demented Dr. DeMarco has figured out a way to create Astro-Zombies–that is, wildly gyrating actors wearing skull masks. His methods involve organs being removed--usually from lovely women, of course. The Feds want to stop him. Villains led by statuesque Tura Satana want his formula. Most viewers probably wanted their money back. John Carradine plays DeMarco with all the professionalism he can muster. Satana's costumes showcase the twin talents that made her a Russ Meyer star. She also throws a nasty karate kick, just as her Mexican cohort brandishes a mean switchblade–never let it be said that Ted V. Mikels let a stereotype go by. Another character jokes about "becoming a lush;" that line is in ill taste since co-star Wendell Corey–who died after filming–was suffering from acute alcoholism. On the funny side: there's never more than one Astro-zombie on screen at any time; must be the local Woolworth's only had one skull mask in stock. One Astro-zombie manages to lose his "photo cell" and pursues victims while holding a flashlight up to his head to keep going. Toy tanks and robots appear for no logical reason under the credits. Old VHS tapes titled SPACE VAMPIRES ran a mere 77 minutes. I recently saw a 91-minute DVD that featured some surprising bits of cheesecake early on and gore toward the end. I bet co-scripter/co-producer Wayne Rogers never mentioned this five-cent fiasco to his buddies on the set of M*A*S*H.