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A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This movie combines long periods of people walking in silence with a plot that doesn't make any sense. The result? An almost unwatchable mess.

Amid talk of transferring thoughts from one person to another, there are also attempts to create a superior "astro man" by mad scientist Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), using body parts from victims innocent and not so innocent. Spies are determined to gain control of this secret, leading to the expected plans by counter-spies to locate Dr. DeMarco, stop the killing sprees, and foil the villains, including the likes of the legendary and oh so sexy Tura Satana (playing a villainess named Satana).Producer & director Ted V. Mikels wrote this with none other than actor Wayne Rogers, who also takes a co-executive producer credit. It's widely considered a contender for worst film of all time, and this viewer can see that it's not so much because it's so incompetent that it makes one laugh. It's more because it's flat out BORING, with Mikels just dragging this thing out like you wouldn't believe. (It would have been more tolerable had it been shorter and more to the point, but even at just over an hour and a half, it's fatally overlong.) Much of the plot consists of exposition - tons of it. Carradines' experiments seem to go on for days. You just want to yell at the screen for the characters to get on with it. It's the kind of thing where you end up checking your watch much too often.It's a pity, really. Yours truly is a big lover of schlock, but even he found this underwhelming. Its truly fun moments (at least the movie builds to a pretty entertaining finale) are far too infrequent.Satana is the main reason to watch this; co-star Joan Patrick (who plays Janine) is also tremendously appealing eye candy. The cast has a few familiar faces, who are basically marking time. Sad to say, this was one of the final film roles for character actor Wendell Corey, who's relegated to standing in an office and reeling off some of that exposition. Carradine is good, but some might wish that he'd gone for broke and been hammier. Tom Pace and Joseph Hoover are dull heroes, but Rafael Campos is a fun bad guy (as Satanas' psychotic associate), and William Bagdad makes a lot of hilarious faces as DeMarcos' mute assistant.Proceed at your own risk; there aren't really a lot of rewards to be reaped here.Four out of 10.

I just wasn't sure that I could watch after seeing that beautiful white 65 0r 66 Mustang convertible splattered with blood after the zombie killed the heavenly beauty that was riding it. I was just hoping he wouldn't put any dents in it.Most of it was a major snooze-fest with lots of time spent showing people driving or riding, the mad scientist John Carradine, and the requisite topless dancer with the Ken-doll looking government agents watching. Watching Carradine explain his experiments to his Igor-like assistant was a real hoot. This guy couldn't understand George Bush.It was really funny watching all the fakeness in this film. It was like something Ed Wood would do.But, hey, I watched this to see the sultry Tura Satana. She was smoking hot!

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!!