Astro Zombies (1968)

(Taken from IMDb)
Ultra-cool trash, 26 February 2005

Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

This is one of my favorite bad movies. It has a great look to it and if you just turn off your brain and sit back for the ride you'll be just fine, really, no lasting brain damage as a result. I don't think. A mad scientist (Carradine, big surprise in THAT type-casting) creates a race of supermen, they can't be killed and they have damaged brains and Halloween masks, and run around with machetes. Some agents from some undisclosed country (Tura Satana & friends) are after the secret. Some CIA agents are too. They try to find some of what's going on by hanging out at a nightclub. Tura & friends operate out of what must have been the luxury apartment complex of the day, but it's furnished with the absolute worst styles of furniture of the 60's, all that modern looking stuff that only looks super-tacky by modern standards, so that's worth a good smirk right there. There's also lots of important looking lab equipment that makes all kinds of weird noises, and one item looks like two plastic water bottles balanced on top of a garbage can painted red. Top notch props, in other words. Oh, and Carradine's mute deformed assistant gets lessons in everything Carradine is doing....it's all explained very carefully to him, as though he had a clue. OK, this is a mess and SURE it's terrible, but it's also incredibly fun in a trashy "I can't believe I'm watching this" kind of way. Tune in, turn off (your brain), and drop out.