TEENAGE ZOMBIES-1957/59-Ok, now be warned: THIS IS ANOTHER MOVIE BY JERRY WARREN! I admit I never expected to see this teenage horror obscurity on video and here it is on DVD!! The print is jumping and damaged, the sound isn’t great and it seems to be missing part of a scene so I can’t really recommend it but if you thought Warren’s other non-paste up jobs (like THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD) were bad you owe it to yourself to see one that’s worse!
Four teenagers led by Don Sullivan (the likable hero of MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER) decide to have lunch on a remote island after water skiing. They stumble upon (Warren regular) Katherine Victor her “army” of home made zombies. In a very dark scene near the beginning she seems to be overseeing a bunch of them but later on there’s only one! When their boat disappears (it’s never actually shown anyway) they are taken prisoner and locked in a dungeon. Two other teens come looking and seek help from the crooked local sheriff. His office is a riot. It looks like he’s in a framed painting!
Eventually we learn that Victor is a foreign spy working on a gas that will turn everyone into mindless slaves. Some “3 Stooges” like scenes erupt and a man in a gorilla suit shows up too!
"The stars are matter. We're matter. But it doesn't matter"-Don Van Vliet
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2 comments:
I haven't seen this one yet but it sounds pretty fun. I think it's one of the few Warren made that didn't "borrow" a bunch of footage from some foreign film.
Yes, that's true. I guess Jerry ran out of Mexican footage by then!
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