Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Ploydsge just watch it!

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Idiot-Deluxe Here's a question for you - JUST WHAT IN THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY MAKE MOVIES THIS BORING!!!!!!Let me briefly try to recreate my experience with "The Astro Zombies". Have you ever had an otherwise great day and found yourself in a good mood early in the evening AND THEN you see a movie that is so painfully boring and loathsomely miserable that it literally, completely and utterly destroys your mood? Well, that's exactly what The Astro Zombies did to me not long ago.The perpetrator of this crime, that being The Astro Zombies of course, is Ted V. Mikles. And speaking on the matter of untalented movie director's of past or present, I thought only -Jerry Warren- could put together a movie this boring, but now the lame and lifeless movies of Ted V. Mikels has come to light. Mikles is yet another name whose been added to the ever growing list of woeful director's (that have no business being behind a camera), who are guilty of polluting the world with "their brand" of insufferably lame, boring and pointless so-called entertainment. Pure dreck Ted, pure dreck.1967's The Astro Zombies is the subject of review here and as I delicately mentioned, it's an astonishingly boring movie - which drains it's viewers energy with each passing minute. The plot (too deep a word), the "jist" of this film is a mash-up of ideas, that clumsily revolves around some pseudo-science about bringing human corpses back to life, with a certain radio frequency and creating thus "zombies". Mutiple parties are interested in capitalizing on: The Idea of the Century and for the next 90 minutes you're treated to a horrendously lame and vapidly paced movie, comprised primarily of a mishmash of scenes involving: people casually driving around in cars (always a show-stopper!), turgid disinteresting discussions inside police stations (though Wendel Correy's boozey voice is mildly amusing), pointless laboratory scenes that are absolutely and completely static (see the most boring of the movie about an hour in), a bar scene with some colorful nude dancing (this provides the movies ONLY real sign of life) a couple of stock shoot em' up scenes between cops and crooks and if you haven't yet reached your quota for pointless and underwhelming scenes of pure drudgery on cheap and dated-looking laboratory sets JUST WAIT - because this movie really packs them in, each more tedious then the last. Astro Zombies provides yet another truly embarrassing role for an aging John Carradine (the movies only big name), he plays something of a mad-scientist character and he's joined by an diminutive actor (who sports an epically greasy head of black hair) who plays the role of "lab-assistant", essentially just another stock-Igor character who adds little to the proceedings - pure formula, you could say. I mentioned Carradine being a mad scientist, however, he's not very mad, in fact he's not mad in the slightest, here, sadly and all to obviously, John's just an old man who's totally bored and indifferent with his role, in a yet another crappy and entirely forgettable B-movie. "Entirely forgettable" that phrase handily sums up this movie as a whole. Udderly amateurish would also be accurate.Another angle of The Astro Zombies, is this movies attempts to show off the "current hi-tech" which was, not surprisingly, abysmally lame; my favorite example of this, was the zombie detecting radio receiver, that was rigged together from old radio parts. LAME! Though, sadly, I've seen lamer yet (see my review for "The Dead Talk Back"). Though that is to be expected, as low-budget movies (especially in the days of yore) never have good-looking or expensive high-tech sets - never.On the positive side, I can say that the formally lovely Tura Satana (busty Sexploitation queen of the 60's and 70's) is quite an eyeful and looks striking in the assortment of dresses she goes through throughout the movie (you can tell that was one of the main draws in the directors mind, dressing up his leading lady in as many sexy dresses as possible) but that's hardly reason enough to sit and suffer through this woeful bore of a movie."One of the most boring movies ever" - that only begins to sum it up. It should literally be illegal and considered a crime to produce and release movies that are as boring as The Astro Zombies and in a decent world, such films would result in permanent Hollywood blacklisting, in conjunction with a series of steep fines piled on top for good measure.Judging from what I've seen, I'd say Astro Zombies indeed "out-bores" these other notoriously boring flicks (The List, is as follows): The Wild, Wild World of Bat-Woman - The Curse of Bigfoot - The Incerdible Petrified World - Night Fright - Frankenstein Island - The Beast of the Yucca Flats and Manos: The Hands of Fate. And to out-bore THOSE titles is a very tall order indeed. (Note* Jerry Warren was the director responsible for three of the titles on that list).To put it another way, someone who's in a terminal-coma would probably find this movie SO BORING, that it would drain them of life even further.... so that not a single spark of life remains. Good job, Ted you were the master.

MartinHafer As I watched this film, I couldn't help but think that leading man Wendell Corey looked intoxicated throughout the movie--acting listless and somewhat slurred in speech. So, I did a search on the net and read up on Corey's life--discovering that the same year he made this film he also died from cirrhosis of the liver as a result of alcoholism. What a sad end to what had been a good career. Corey had been mostly a supporting actor in the late 40s and into the 50s--steady and effective in his films. Here, though, he was blundering through his lines in a grade-z sci-fi yarn. Oddly, despite getting top billing, he's not in the film that much--perhaps he died before it was completed.John Carradine is also in the film, but that isn't nearly as sad as Corey, as Carradine made a career out of appearing in bad films, so this seems to be right up his alley! It is truly an awful film--with practically no budget, ketchup for blood and acting that seems amateur at best. You know it's a bad film when Carradine is probably the BEST actor among them.Here is the plot: American scientists have been working on creating "astro-zombies". In essence, robots that follow mental commands over great distances--so that humans on Earth can control these droids in space. The problem is, a mad scientist (Carradine) has gone missing and many mutilated bodies begin appearing. Could it be Carradine or the Commies or both?! One of the few strengths about the film is the head "baddie". This woman should probably have gotten a fashion makeover, but I still loved her style--no debating--just shooting people. And, when she shoots them, she shoots them again and again--pumping bullets into the lifeless bodies just to be 100% sure they are dead. For once, we seem to have an intelligent villain--too bad she's starring in such an unintelligent film!! And, too bad that she conveniently forgets to do this at the very end--when she SHOULD have unloaded a full clip into her victim! The biggest deficit (and there are many) is that the film is so dull. Cheap does not mean that it must be dull. Even bad films such as PLAN 9 or TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE are fun to watch because of their ineptness and because they try so hard to be entertaining. This one, sadly, isn't bad enough to be good for a laugh. Not surprisingly, the film is from Ted Mikels--one of the best bad film makers that ever lived. Clearly, he was the rival of the likes of Larry Buchanan, Ed Wood and Al Adamson. If you don't believe me, understand that "The Astro-Zombies" is among his BEST films!!

ferbs54 Word on the street has it that "The Astro-Zombies" is one of the worst films of all time, right down there with "Plan 9...," "Robot Monster" and "The Beast of Yucca Flats," and for once, the word on the street is right. This movie really IS an incredible stinker in every conceivable department, and is a fairly bewildering experience to sit through. I for one could not figure out what was going on throughout much of the film, despite the inanity of the proceedings. Tura Satana, so bodaciously kickass in the late Russ Meyers' "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," does add some sodden spark to the proceedings, but John Carradine is reduced to mumbling techno gibberish in his zombie lab, and Wendell Corey, in his last film role, probably wished that he was dead (he died right after filming was completed!). It's hard to believe that Wayne Rogers was involved as a producer and co-writer of this mess. Oh, Trapper, what were you thinking?!?! Horrendous acting, crappy editing and amateurish directing, combined with a mishmash of a plot involving skull-faced, radio-controlled, synthetic cadavers (or something like that...I'm really not too clear on this point), Mexican secret agents, the CIA and mutilation murders, all combine for 90 minutes of semipainful head shaking. The film is an absolute must for all connoisseurs of bad cinema, but all others really should be warned away. This movie really is BAAAAAAAAD!

rddube So making up my collection of really cheesy, sleazy and bad movies of the seventies I stumbled over this great movie. Astro Zombies is very recommendable for having some great fun time. Especially the technical advices used by John Carradine are just hilarious and his Quasimodo like mute assistant adds to this. There are so many just senseless or stretched scenes and but the powerful soundtrack (hahahaha) keeps you awake. The outer appearance of the Astro Zombies is also remarkable since I nearly never was so frightened to die from a laughing riot. Definitely Astro Zombies belongs in the category sooo bad that it is a great fun to watch. Even I would consider Astro Zombies for one of my worst movies favorites. So now I really cannot await to get the sequel and dig deeper into the realm of trash. Thanx Mr. Mikels for such a great laughing moment. So if you like trash - GO FOR THIS ONE!!!