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

1964 "She Keeps Monsters in Cages for Pets! He Preys on Wild Go-Go Girls!"
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Released: 10 February 1964 Released
Producted By: Morgan-Steckler Productions
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Horror, Music

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Ray Dennis Steckler

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Morgan-Steckler Productions

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Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
Mbakkel2 The film was directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, who also plays Jerry in this film. Ray must have been the 1960's answer to Nicholas Cage.A fortune teller at a fairground hypnotizes a young man to commit murders. Wait a minute, doesn't that sound a little bit like the plot of "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari"? The Caligari character in this film is a female and the Cesare character is a visitor at the fairground. This film is what Dr Caligari would have looked like if a sound version was made by an amateur. Compared to Ray Dennis Steckler, Ed Wood was William Wyler.I guess that most of the money was spent on the color film stock, which at that time was more expensive than the black and white stock. The story, the acting, the dance numbers are inferior, but the cinematography and the songs are enjoyable.
William Samuel The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, which I will henceforth refer to a Incredibly Strange Creatures, is about an ugly, thickly accented fortune teller who pours acid on the faces of male customers, turning them into zombies. It's also about a hoodie-clad loser named Jerry (director Ray Dennis Steckler, under the stage name Cash Flagg,) who along with his idiot best friend and his girlfriend Madison, goes to the carnival. At the carnival, they run afoul of the fortune teller, and Jerry is soon hypnotized into murdering dancers that the hag wants dead for reasons that are never explained.There are other questions that are never explained. What is the fortune teller planning to do with her collection of zombies? She keeps them locked up in a closet for most of the movie, and doesn't seem to have any control over them. And are they actually zombies? They exhibit zombie-like behaviors, like a lack of speech and a tendency to mindlessly attack anyone in sight, but they're not undead or infected with any plague. For that matter, why does pouring acid on them make them lose their minds? I've met a guy with severe burns on his face and body. He's frightening to look at, but he could still carry on an intelligent conversation, and I never got the impression that he wanted to eat me.But Incredibly Strange Creatures is not the type of movie to ponder such things. It is the type of low-budget schlock that AIP would have turned up their noses at. This movie sells itself with promises of gruesome zombies, violent murders, and scantily clad women, but never really delivers on any of these. The movie's advertising even mentions "The hunchback of the midway in a duel to the death against the mixed-up zombies", despite there being no such scene anywhere in the movie.Incredibly Strange Creatures also bills itself as the first horror monster musical. True, there are several song and dance numbers, but these are on stage in a nightclub and a cabaret, and are only watched by Jerry. Come to think of it, he wasn't actually there for some of them, which leads to the obvious conclusion that the scenes are only filler to pad the runtime. This wouldn't be too bad, except for the undeniable fact that the songs and the dancing stink, the dancer's costumes are ugly, and so are the dancers. One of them appeared to have an Adam's apple.So why was Incredibly Strange Creatures made? Because someone thought it could make money. Did it make money? Unclear, but probably not much. Is there any reason to see it? MST3K did do a fairly good job with this one, by I would highly recommend against seeing the original unless you enjoy pain.
John Mccallistair No argument. Plan 9? Nope. Beast of Yucca Flatts? Nope. The Room? Definitely not. This is it. This is the worst movie ever made.Featuring everything from home movie quality camera work to incomprehensible dialogue to a virtually non existent and hard to follow plot, to an ear bleed inducing soundtrack, this movie is truly terrible. I really can't say that much about it because there isn't much to be said. It's just truly terrible in everything it tries to do. This is the Ghost Pepper of movies. You can try to watch it, but it will only cause pain and suffering. Funny pain and suffering, but it overall just leave you with a sense of dread and bewilderment as you wonder why you put yourself through it in the first place. Watch at your own risk and stay away from sharp objects for a few hours afterwards. You have been warned.
louellyne Imagine those directors being sucked into that black hole, and being stretched and torn into many little pieces. Then,imagine that they are reconstituted into a hot mess of a cinema pile without regards to anything remotely resembling coherence, and maybe you can begin to approach this movie. I said approach, since you won't begin to understand it. In fact, I think that this movie must be seen as an acid-fueled dream,filled with bizarre and senseless images assaulting your eyes while frying your brain. I would like to comment on the cinematography, which is actually quite beautiful. I believe that it was done by Vilmos Zsigmond, who of course went on to do great work for much better films. In fact, the images he shoots for this picture go a long way towards giving it a nice,dream-like effect. Believe it or not, the very famous and credible Movies on T.V. by the great Steven Scheuer gave this title 2.5 stars our of 4, praising it mostly for the work of Zsigmond.