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The Incredibly Strange Creatures (1964)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies.

Three young people visit the carnival where an evil voodoo lady is looking for new zombie material. Directed by Ray Dennis Stecker. 82min imdb

Movie 80min

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Recap:

The story mostly consists of an endless stream of song and dance acts. As intermissions, we see two young man and a young woman visiting the carnival. Eventually one of them is hypnotised by a voodoo lady and becomes a mixed-upzombie, committing murders at her command.


This movie is quite notorious, so I guess sooner or later I had to see it. Well, I’m glad it’s over. Many people say that this is a fascinating movie, like they just can’t believe how bad it is. Well I don’t have to believe it, I have seen it with my own eyes. What I haven’t seen though is why this is supposed to be so-bad-that-it’s-good. I guess some people appreciate Steckler’s recklessness to just grab a camera and go for it. And yes, I understand people who want to make movies so badly that they just make them, even if they don’t have a budget or a story or a clue. However, in this case I cannot enjoy the result, because nothing really happens. There’s nothing really interesting or entertaining about it. Even when there is the zombie action it’s just too little, too late.

Rat Pfink A Boo Boo (1966)

67min

(VPN:D)

Sound

English

Captions

None

Hybrid film that starts as a thriller and then becomes the poor man’s Batman TV show.

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Review:

First half of the movie: a woman is stalked and threatened by three thugs. Her boyfriend sings a song. When she is kidnapped, her gardener is hit with a hammer. Her boyfriend sings another song. Then boyfriend and gardener hide in the closet.

Second half of the movie: boyfriend and gardener come out of the closet, dressed up as the crime fighters Rat Pfink and Boo Boo.

On imdb you will find many reviews that pretend that this is one of the best movies ever, but that’s just not true. Indeed this movie is done with love and dedication, it’s true that this movie is better than, say, Fantastic Four 2 or Superman 4 or Spiderman 5, but then, most movies are, and in the end director Ray Dennis Steckler is not very much better than Edward D. Wood. This movie is fun to watch, it’s refreshingly original, and it’s so much better than those movies that are just made for the money, but…..

Well, it’s just not a good movie. It’s two halfmovies that don’t fit together really well. I tried to give it 4* but it didn’t feel right.

By the way: it’s true that this won a Golden Turkey Award, but the category was only Worst Title Of All Time. And before you ask: I’ve read a trivia that claimed that the N and the D were lost in animation.

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