Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

ivorybow I first gave this move a 1, then realized that for what it is, a 10 is well earned. Surely this is the most horrible movie ever made. It had me cringing, yet it is at the same time mesmerizing, sort of like watching a snake eat a frog...though repelled, you can't look away. I have to think about the people who made this, and who starred in it, more or less carrying on the legacy of Ed Wood. It does have a kind of honesty for effort, and in the end, it is truly fun. If you just can't get through it, MST3K has done a brilliant treatment. I have to say the most cringe worthy scene is the woman singing the Oo Wah Wah song...oh my Lord!!!

Aaron1375 I saw this film thanks to the riffing show, Mystery Science Theater 3000. Not sure if I would have ever come across without them, but who knows? Perhaps, I would have eventually come across it in one of those huge packs of public domain horror films. I may have given this one a shot too, though this film predates the George Romero zombies so there is a chance I would have taken a pass on it even if it was in one of those packs and I had bought it. Sure enough, this film features the typical zombie that was in films before we got Romero's totally awesome flesh eating walking corpses. This one features the zombie that is not dead in a true sense, more in the fact that someone has control over said person and has their soul and is able to get said person to do their bidding. Best example of this is the horror film, White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi. The fact that the zombies are going to be of this variety and not the flesh rotting on the bone type can be forgiven as that type of zombie was still three or so years off. However, what makes this film so bad is the fact that over 50 percent of the film is just watching people sing, dance and tell awful joke. Heck, it may comprise 60 percent! In between these truly horrific shows we get a bit of plot about evil fortune tellers and a hopeless slacker who gets mixed up in her plans for revenge! The story as a guy refusing to have sex with a fortune teller which angers her. She calls in her very deformed assistant, throw acid on the guy refusing sex and the credits role. We then watch two people dance before being introduced to the stars of the film, a hopeless loser and his foreign friend. They pick up a girl and enjoy a day frolicking at the fair while we see more dancing and soon the loser ends up falling for the fortune teller's sister and ends up getting mixed up in the teller's plans for murder! Which seems kind of unnecessary as I am doubting anyone was going to be telling the cops what they had saw at the teller's place. Meanwhile, we watch three or four dance numbers, three or so singers and a very bad comedian as Jerry (the loser) tries to find a way to get not mixed up before he is turned into a zombie! This made for a rather good episode of MST3K as they were really able to tear into the whole stage show aspect of the movie. This film would have been a complete bore without them as most of the film was just long shots of nothing when it was not very mildly risqué women dancing and singing. Apparently, the director of this film made other movies that were also pretty bad, but I am not sure if any more of his films were riffed. This one was riffed good and it helped liven up what would have otherwise been a very disappointing film! Though something they kind of missed was the fact that at the end of the film it was nighttime and then as the police started chasing Jerry it was like day.So no, this film is not good and if I had not seen this film with the help of MST3K it would of been a bit boring. Just not a lot of film in this other than watching what is a bunch of amateurs trying their hand at dancing and singing. I mean, just wait till you see the one guy come out with his guitar and that pretty much tells me, this film was cast with a bunch of wannabe musicians. The show where most of the stage numbers takes place is supposed to be a girly show too, well an entire family could go and no one would have to worry about seeing anything to gratuitous with the exception of Carmelita the stripper whose nakedness is more implied than actually shown...

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.

Lee Eisenberg Can you figure out the plot of "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?", cause I couldn't really figure it out. Of course, I paid more attention to the snarky comments from Mike, Servo and Crow when Pearl forced them to watch it on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Joan Collins, Noam Chomsky and Glenn Close are among the people who get mentioned.As for the plot of the movie itself, as far as I could tell, it was about a gypsy (or is Roma the PC term?) woman who turns a loser into a zombie. The only character who really had my eye was Angela; she really was a hottie. In the end, the movie itself doesn't amount to anything, but the MST3K version is a riot. How cruel of Pearl to make Mike and the 'bots watch it.