THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1964)
Probably director Ray Dennis Steckler's most well-known film thanks to it's ridiculously long title. I don't think it's his best movie though(THE THRILL KILLERS has always been that for me). Billed as "The First Monster Musical"(just beating out THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH by a month!) it's all the singing and dancing performances and long-winded footage of a carnival that really drag the whole thing down for me. Steckler does, as usual, put himself in the lead role as a free-wheeling beatnik type who gets turned into a stab-happy murderer thanks to a creepy fortune-teller(Brett O'Hara). There's minimal blood and minimal zombies that don't show up until almost the very end. Also because this was pre-NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD we don't get those munching-on-flesh-type zombies but instead these "creatures" just strangle everyone they meet which is not very exciting.
Advertised as being filmed in TERRORAMA, BLOODY-VISON and HALLUCINOGENIC-HYPNOVISION Steckler would do the same gag he did with THE THRILL KILLERS and run into the audience with some folks dressed as monsters to scare folks at some screenings during the hypnotism scenes where a spiral would mesmerize the audience which seems like extra added fun. AKA DIABOLICAL DR. VOODOO and THE INCREDIBLY MIXED-UP ZOMBIE. Re-released as THE TEENAGE PSYCHO MEETS BLOODY MARY.
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