Freaky Fridays
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
60th Anniversary!
A daytime trip to the carnival turns, well, incredibly strange, when the happy-go-lucky Jerry (Cash Flagg) is transformed into a brainwashed killer by the scheming fortune teller Madame Estrella. As carnival patrons begin going missing and performers start turning up dead, will the midway be safe from Estrella and her army of acid-scarred zombies?
Shot in “Terrorama” by acclaimed cinematographers Joseph V. Mascelli, László Kovács (Ghostbusters) and Oscar® winner Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter), and directed by DIY champion Ray Dennis Steckler—who made the film for $38,000 when he was just 23 years old—THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!? is also the world’s first monster musical!
1964, 82 MIN, Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler
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“...this flick doesn't just rebel against, or even disregard, standards of taste and art. In the universe inhabited by The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, such things as standards and responsibility have never been heard of.”
– Lester Bangs, ROCK CRITIC -
“Loose-knit to the point of unraveling but it's precisely this threadbare, developed-in-the-bathroom-sink aesthetic that explains the film's confounding charm.”
– Richard Harland Smith, TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES -
“It's not as good as its title--how could it be?"
– TV GUIDE -
“I saw this in a local theater once many years ago and it made me physically ill.”
– Sarah Mack, LETTERBOXD