The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)

Director:

Ray Dennis Steckler

Writers:

Gene Pollock (screenplay) &
Robert Silliphant (screenplay) ...
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Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

She Keeps Monsters in Cages for Pets! He Preys on Wild Go-Go Girls!

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Fortune Teller | Gypsy | Carnival | Dancer | Zombie

Cast

Ray Dennis Steckler	...	Jerry (as Cash Flagg)
Carolyn Brandt	...	Marge Neilson
Brett O'Hara	...	Madame Estrella
Atlas King	...	Harold
Sharon Walsh	...	Angela
Pat Kirkwood	...	Madison (as Madison Clarke)
Erina Enyo	...	Carmelita
Don Russell	...	Ortega (as Jack Brady)
Toni Camel	...	Stella
Joan Howard	...	Angela's Mother
Neil Stillman	...	Barker
Bill Ward	...	Himself
Gene Pollock	...	Night Club Manager
James Bowie	...	Night Club Comedian
Whitey Robinson	...	Drunk
Son Hooker	...	1st Policeman
Steve Clark	...	2nd Policeman (as Steve Clarke)
Jill Carson	...	Girl in Dressing Room
Titus Moede	...	Hobo
Don Snyder	...	The Entertainer
Carol Kay	...	The Entertainer
Teri Randal	...	The Entertainer
Patrice Michaels	...	Dancing Girl
Pat Lynn	...	Dancing Girl
Betty Downing	...	Dancing Girl
Denise Lynn	...	Dancing Girl
Cindy Shea	...	Dancing Girl
Patti Crandall	...	Dancing Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bonnie Berkeley	...	(uncredited)
Jeanette Briggs	...	Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Anita Jaye	...	(uncredited)
László Kovács	...	Man at Carnival (uncredited)
Robert Silliphant	...	2nd Barker (uncredited)

Directed by
Ray Dennis Steckler

Writing credits
Gene Pollock		(screenplay) &
Robert Silliphant		(screenplay)
E.M. Kevke		(story)

Produced by
George J. Morgan	....	executive producer
Ray Dennis Steckler	....	producer

Original Music by
André Brummer		(as Henri Price)
Libby Quinn

Cinematography by
Joseph V. Mascelli		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Don Schneider

Art Direction by
Mike Harrington

Makeup Department
Lilly	....	makeup artist
Tom Scherman	....	special makeup

Production Management
Austin McKinney	....	production manager (as A. McKinney)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Don Russell	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Ken Carlson	....	sound
Lee Strosnider	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Pat Kirkwood	....	electrician
László Kovács	....	assistant camera (as Leslie Kovac)
Jimmy Park	....	gaffer
Greg von Berblinger	....	grip (as G. Berblinger)
Vilmos Zsigmond	....	camera operator (as William Zsigmond)

Music Department
Rod Moss	....	music editor
Alan Smith	....	stager: musical numbers
Bill Turner	....	stager: musical numbers

Other crew
John McKenna	....	script supervisor
Roy Youngman	....	president: Rel Records

Production Companies

• Morgan-Steckler Productions

Distributors

• Fairway International Pictures (1964) (USA) (theatrical)
• Sinister Cinema (1993) (USA) (VHS)
• Guilty Pleasures (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Rhino Home Video (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Peter Rodgers Organization (2007) (worldwide) (TV)
• BijouFlix Releasing (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Camp Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Mascot Video (????) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Rel Records  music released by

Also Known As:

Diabolical Dr. Voodoo
The Incredibly Mixed Up Zombie
The Incredibly Strange Creature: Or Why I Stopped Living and Became a Mixed-up Zombie (USA) (alternative title)
The Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:15 | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Angel's Flight Railway, Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Morgan-Steckler Productions

Trivia:

When this movie was released, employees of the theaters would dress as monsters and run through the theaters.

Goofs:

Continuity: The big wart on Madame Estrella's face keeps moving. Sometimes it's right next to her lip, other times it's below it, other times it's an inch or two above it and to the right.

Quotes:

Barker: We've got twenty beautiful girls and only ten beautiful costumes!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dead by Dawn (2004) (V)

You Feelthy Peegs

Incredibly strange describes this one to a tee. You'll find more ham here than in a dozen hog farms.

There's two of the worst attempts at stereotypical accents, Harold sounds like Latka's neighbor, ("Waat d'yu tink weer heer for, tweet?") and the fortune teller is so over the top with her "jeep-see" dialect I'm surprised she doesn't have a nosebleed.

Also there's Ortega, wearing a rubber mask and an obvious pillow under his coat. He doesn't speak much, our Ortega, he just grunts and puffs away on his Camels.

Ray Dennis Steckler, the director, also stars as a early sixties slacker with a rodent's face. No, not makeup or a mask, that's his real face. He drifts through life until the fortune teller gives him a new career opportunity, mass murderer!

Bizarre music, drug-like dream sequences, pitifully ugly dancer/strippers and singers, interminably long footage of carnivals, and very poor sound round out this one as another MST3K special. I gave it a 2, because I reserve my 1's for painfully bad cinema. This one doesn't maim, it just might cause contusions