Teenage Zombies (1960)A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves. Director:Jerry WarrenWriter:Jerry Warren (original screenplay) |
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Teenage Zombies (1960)A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves. Director:Jerry WarrenWriter:Jerry Warren (original screenplay) |
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Don Sullivan | ... |
Regg
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Katherine Victor | ... |
Dr. Myra
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Whorf
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Paul Pepper | ... |
Skip
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Brianne Murphy | ... |
Pam
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Mitzie Albertson | ... |
Julie
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Jay Hawk | ... |
Morrie
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Nan Green | ... |
Dotty
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J.L.D. Morrison | ... |
Brandt
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Mike Concannon | ... |
Sheriff
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Chuck Niles | ... |
Ivan
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Don Neeley | ... |
Major Coleman
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Teenagers Reg, Skip, Julie and Pam go out for an afternoon of water skiing on a nice day. They come ashore on an island that is being used as a testing center for a scientist and agents from "an eastern power." They seek to turn the people of the United States into easily controlled zombie like creatures. The agents steal Reg's boat, stranding the teens on the island. The four friends are then held captive in cages able only to speculate on their fate. Though they have already been testing the formula on convicts and drunks, the enemy scientist and agents plan to conduct final tests on the teens before they use it on the rest of America. Meanwhile, two of their friends, whom the captives had planned to meet later, search for their missing friends. After a series of suspicious encounters, they urge the corrupt sheriff to search the island where their friends are trapped. Written by Jim Cobb <[email protected]>
Are they going water skiing or are they going horseback riding? Are they going to be zombies or aren't they? I love these movies. The acting is so stiff. The characters deliver lines and then wait a second or two. The dialog is so pointless that it really doesn't matter. There's this huge island in a lake with a hugre research facility on it. But the people in the town don't seem to know it's there. Still a couple of kids can take a little rowboat with a ten horse and make it to the island. The research that is being done concerns a kind of nerve gas that will turn all Americans into blathering idiots (it's probably too late for that anyway). There's a gorilla running around, a couple of boring spies, and a kind of dragon lady scientist who locks the kids up for future research. The kids have the usual silly nicknames. The sheriff is on the take, so he won't help. My favorite scene is the last minute. I won't spoil it, but it's priceless.