Halloween Suggestions ‘10 Part III
This week I’m going to high light a film that is probably more familiar to movie fans than the last two, or at least to fans of grade z bad movies, Ted V Mikels’ The Astro-Zombies. Government agents are investigating a strange series of murders where specific organs are removed. It is suspected that a discredited Nasa scientist, played by John Carradine, may be behind them, as his work dealt with creating artificial astronauts to fly space missions. Also interested in his work are enemy agents led by the luscious Tura Satana.
Turns out that Carradine has actually perfected his Astro-Zombie, unfortunately it escaped and is the one commiting the murders. Carradine is quickly trying to make another one to capture the first one. After several more murders and some encounters between the agents, everyone converges on the mad scientists lair, where both zombies attack good guys and bad guys alike in a surprisingly gory battle that ends with Carradine and Satana getting killed along with the zombies.
Okay there really isn’t a lot to recommend this film, it has a few good boo moments in it but except for a chase scene a round a pool where Satana takes out a couple of agents and the bloody battle at the end, there is little action in this action extravaganza. It is an odd mixture of slasher horror, sci-fi horror and espionage that doesn’t quite work. So why am I recommending it. Did I mention it stars Tura Satana? And that she is dressed in a low cut, skin tight evening gown slit up to her upper thigh?
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