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rhetthammersmithhorror · 11 months

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Mark of the Astro-Zombies | 2004

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hopelessdinosaurs · 2 years

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The Astro-Zombies 1968

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keeperofdarkness22 · 1 year

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The Astro-Zombies | 1968

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Tura Satana in The Astro-Zombies (1968)

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weirdlookindog · 2 years

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The Astro-Zombies (1968)

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lingerieinfilm · 2 years

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The Astro-Zombies 1968

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doubtfultaste · 2 months

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The Astro-Zombies (1968)

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THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES Reviews and free on Plex, Tubi and YouTube

The Astro-Zombies is a 1968 sci-fi horror film about a disgruntled scientist who creates monsters from the body parts of murder victims. It has also been released as Space Zombies and The Space Vampires. Written, directed, and produced by Ted V. Mikels. The Ram Ltd production stars John Carradine, Wendell Corey (in his final film appearance) and Tura Satana. Incredibly, Mikels managed to make…

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astronomical-bagel · 6 months

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and btw, grian's last stand against gem and the scotts? Insane. I cant help but replay the scene where he tells Cleo to get away over and over again, "You need to move out of the way, there's no trigger. I'm manually triggering it." because like. there's no way he really thought he was gonna get out of this. He had to be there in order for the trap to go off, the escape hatch was a pipe dream. What he was really saying to Cleo was, "Save yourself, I'll hold them back." He knows he's not going to get away from Gem and the Scotts, but he just wants to give Cleo a fighting chance.

And then I cant help but remember Grian's last words in Last Life, "Not like this! Not like this!". Ever since Last Life, his deaths have been... a little sad. Stabbed in the back while running away from Scott, killed by a warden through a wall, falling onto the very corner of a cobblestone block after falling off his tower -- right next to the water, too.

I think, in this season, grian wanted to die for a reason. he didn't want it to be an accident, a preventable goof, and more importantly he wanted it to mean something. He wanted to die protecting someone else. Outlive his teammates for a change.

Cleo still dies before he does, but he doesn't have any confirmation of that, just the distant sound of thunder, and he's too busy fighting to really process it. When he dies, he doesn't have any complaints. No 'I don't feel good"s, no "Not like this"s, no "I'm so sorry, Scar"s, no "Don't tell Tim"s. This time all he says is, "I did a lot of damage." He's satisfied with his death, proud of it, even.

And I think, even if he died, even if his sacrifice didn't mean too much, he felt his death was a lot more honorable than his other ones. He died on his own terms, he died protecting someone, he died fighting, and, just like Grian always aims to go, he went out with a bang.

#an mcr reference in MY traffic life post?? Its more likely than you'd think!#secret life #secret life spoilers #grian #zombie Cleo #astro liveblogs

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watching-pictures-move · 2 years

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Movie Review | The Astro-Zombies (Mikels, 1968)

There’s only one scene in this movie that’s actually pleasant to look at, and it’s at a restaurant with a topless dancer. There are two reasons for this. Reason number one: there are boobs. (I guess this could be both reasons.) Listen, I hate to sound like a creep here, but I’m gonna summarize the rest of the review here and say that the movie doesn’t have a lot going for it, so yes, the fact that this scene gave me something to latch on to (that something being boobs) automatically makes it the best scene. Reason number two: there are colours. With an S. For plural. As in, there are multiple colours in this scene. Not only that, but there things like contrast, brightness and all sorts of other things that sound like settings on your TV and you probably take for granted in most movies. Outside of this scene, this is remarkably unpleasant to look at. I don’t know if somebody told Ted V. Mikels that it would be cheaper to process the film at the lab if he used fewer colours, but the whole thing is shot in a singularly unappealing mix of brown and beige. The average bowel movement has a more distinct colour scheme.

The plot here is... I dunno. I think it had something to do with espionage. Something about astro-men, although that term is wildly misleading. Listen, I do not have the best recollection of the particulars of the plot. In large part, it’s because the movie was excruciatingly boring and I was tuning it out as a result. But I also suspect that my brain was angry with me for subjecting it to this movie, and started burning off brain cells in retaliation, because if I’m gonna waste them on this, I might as well not have them in the first place. If any reviews I write in the future are noticeably dumber, this is the reason. There are movies I affectionately refer to as boring garbage where nothing happens (Manos was a recent viewing in this category), but in those cases, the movies at least move interestingly. This is gruelingly inert, just scene after scene of characters standing around talking to each other in ugly rooms. Maybe the only distinct narrative element here is that the people of colour cast in this movie predominantly play villains, which sounds tempting to chalk up to the dearth of good roles for minority actors at the time. But then you realize that by virtue of playing bad guys, they have hints of personality traits or at least distinguishing qualities, so maybe it’s a win for representation after all. I’m sure somebody somewhere has written about racial dynamics in Mikels’ work, and I”m sure it’s a lot more interesting a read than sitting through this movie.

Now, one of the reasons I watched this is for the presence of Tura Satana, who was so memorable in Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! And watching this movie, you realize what a crime against cinema it was that Satana and Meyer never worked together again, because whatever reasons they had for not reuniting, Mikels does not have the same strengths in directing actors as Meyer. Not just in a pure visual sense, in that Meyer knew how to shoot her for maximum oomph, but that he brought out a certain forcefulness in her presence. (”You won’t find it down there, Columbus!”) She gets in a few good sneers, but for the most part is disappointingly understated here, with the only interesting part of her presence being that she wears a bright pink dress in some scenes and a bright green dress in others, singledhandedly doing more to broaden the movie’s colour palette than anybody else in the movie.

The other reason I watched this can be inferred from the title. There’s a pretty great Misfits song that takes its title from this movie, and if you listen to some of the lyrics, they suggest something pretty epic:

With just a touch of my burning hand I send my astro zombies to rape the land Prime directive, exterminate The whole human race And your face drops in a pile of flesh And then your heart, heart pounds Till it pumps in death Prime directive, exterminate Whatever stands left

Now look at the title more closely. I stressed the importance earlier of distinguishing the singular from the plural, and I’ll do so again. Astro-Zombies. With an S. Which is just egregious false advertising, because for most of the movie, there’s just one astro-zombie. (A second one is present in the final scene, but hasn’t been awakened.) Even worse, if you looked at the poster and thought it would at least look cool, I regret to inform you that it’s just a guy in a brown jacket with a shitty mask, and that he’s not onscreen for like ninety percent of the movie. So, even on the bare minimum level that garbage like this is supposed to deliver, the movie drops the ball. Towards the end, the astro-zombie does run around holding a flashlight to his head like a kid pretending to be a unicorn, and does lop off some poor sucker’s head (like Satana’s dresses, the bloodletting at least adds to the colour palette). But by then it’s too little, too late.

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