The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
| 10 February 1964 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
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!!!
O2D There are so many terrible things about this movie that I might not get to them all but I will try.First of all, the title doesn't make any sense.They were normal humans who never stopped living, they just had acid thrown in their faces.But I've come to expect these old movies to lie in the title so I shouldn't be surprised.So it's about some "teens" and some dancers.Of course the teens are all well over forty.The main teen even sports a comb over that would embarrass a seventy year old.Even though he looks elderly, they try hard to make us believe he's a bad boy.He refuses to work or go to school but has no problem having a house and car.His best friend, and several others, have weird eastern European accents even though the movie clearly takes place in southern California.So old man teen becomes one of these zombies and stabs a bunch of dancers in the face while they were performing on stage.Then he just goes home and goes to bed and the cops have no leads.Weak.The worst part is that more than half of the movie is footage of empty carnival rides and people singing and dancing.They literally perform a dozen full songs that have absolutely nothing to do with the story.Did I mention they have some fool introducing all the acts and even when he holds his microphone at waist height, his voice is always the same volume?This could have been an OK thirty minute short but instead it's a terrible reminder of why people shouldn't try to make movies when they have no clue.Never see this.
TheLittleSongbird I saw this movie after it featured on MST3K, and the "Mystery Science Theater 3000: 10 Worst Movies They Riffed" made it sound every bit as bad as it was made out to be on the show(the episode was entertaining of course but not one of their best for me). Actually, I have seen far worse movies than The Incredibly Strange Creatures..., it is a bad movie but one of the worst ever made? Not for me. I actually thought the photography and editing were quite good and the make-up likewise. The Incredibly Strange Creatures...is also unique for the longest movie title ever(though also giving an indication of what you're in for), that I know of anyhow, and I loved Angela's hair. There is not much else though that is good though. I found very little to remember about the music itself, other than that it sounded like bad scratchy saxophone playing. The choreography is clumsy and it looks awkward too, and the musical numbers go on for too long and with no momentum. The script has a very ramshackle structure, with confused and crass at best dialogue. The story, one that is so paper-thin you can do it in 20 minutes easily, is just weird(the weirdest movie I've seen possibly, though I knew even from the title it was going to be), goes along at a snail's pace and doesn't make any sense, concluding with an ending that is rather pointless and will make you go "what?" The last act is the most eventful it gets, but in a way that doesn't gel with the rest of the movie and it has no kind of tension and such whatsoever. The zombies don't even appear until only the last act, they're alright-looking enough but don't do anything of note and their screen-time is short-lived. The acting is enough to make anybody cringe, Brett O'Hara in particular chews the scenery to pieces in the worst of ways. The actresses for Carmelita and Madison suffer from the fact that their characters don't seem to have any point in the story. To conclude, bad and brings the word weird to a whole new level, but I've seen worse. 3/10 Bethany Cox
Nick Cluxton Seeing as there are several ways to rate this movie, I'll try each point of view...The movie itself: It is sporadically paced, the plot is strange enough to cause interest, the acting is indescribably bad, the musicals are a pain to sit through, etc... Kind of like Ed Wood but minus the sincere effort. 2/10.The genre: Specifically, B-movies that came out of nowhere right about when the Film Noir genre ended it's run. Among others (Monster a Go Go, Manos, and Plan 9), this one was laughable at least, so if the quality sucks, you can argue that it was intentional. For the sake of pity, 5/10.The cult following: Basically the same with other B-movies, you will have that unknown group of people take a real liking to this movie because of what it may have been trying to do. 7/10.The experience: Boring, confusing, annoyed, and yet I could still find myself chuckling, even though nothing was funny. It's so bad that I physically could not react normally. 1/10.Overall, I think the most appropriate rating would be a 3 or 4 out of 10, but due my personal opinion, I'll go with the 3.
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