This past weekend while everyone was out of the house going about their weekend duties, activities and errands, the youngest and I sat down with the laptop and took in The Astro Zombies on Netflix Instant. She loved it, especially the opening credits (well, actually, especially the astro zombie running around holding a flashlight to his head but after that, the credits). If you're not familiar with Ted V. Mikels, the writer, producer, director of The Astro Zombies, or his work, you can do no better than reading this wonderful piece penned by Kimberly Lindbergs for my Ed Wood Blogathon last July. In the meantime please enjoy this amazing opening credit sequence which blasts onto the screen without warning after the pre-credit zombie killer sequence. And when I say "blasts" I mean it, audio-wise. It's loud so if you're at work you might want to turn the volume down a tad. Enjoy.
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Good to know you can make a great film with only a budget for Toys R Us!
The best part about the opening credits is they have nothing to do with the rest of the movie. Ted Mikels liked to keep you guessing.
Ha! What a movie. What a filmmaker. Ted V. Mikels is a no-budget king. Like Ed Wood, he knew that half the battle was getting a great cast together even if that cast was drunk on cheap beer and too much California sun.
Cheap beer and too much California sun - exactly. We loved all the fashions too (I put up a post on Tura Satana at Unexplained Cinema after watching it) and varying accents. And I can honestly say we both enjoyed watching it. It made for a nice afternoon movie, and it's getting so horror is her favorite genre, Universal, Hammer or the low budget stuff. She loves it all.
It's funny how you watched that and I looked in on Creature with the Atom Brain ( my review is up today) and they're essentially the same movie. Except yours has Rafael Campos as "Juan."
Great minds think alike!
Except yours has Rafael Campos as "Juan."
And that has made all the difference.
One of my best friends had the robot toy featured in the opening credits (I think the same toy also showed up in LQ Jones's "Brotherhood of Satan"). My friend never let me borrow the toy for any of my Super 8 movies, which is probably what finished our friendship. Well, at least you can still find these for sale at FAO Schwartz.
And for the record, the Producer/Screenwriter Wayne Rogers is the same guy that was on M*A*S*H and now appears from time to time on Fox News and Fox Business Network.
Fred, just this weekend I was with my daughter in an art store and they had those toy robots for sale! I mean, replicas obviously. Anyway, I bought one because, well, because! I just had to have it.
And yes, I read about the Wayne Rogers thing. Apparently that was his house where most of the interior scenes were shot.
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