Sunday, June 20, 2010

Astro Zombies


Ted V. Mikels' Astro Zombies (1969) deserves a wider audience than simply Misfits fans seeking out Danzig's inspiration for sending his Astro zombies to rape the land and exterminate the whole fucking human race. B-movie legend John Carradine and Chinese Communist spy Tura Satana (Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill) star alongside switchblade-wielding Mexicans, square CIA agents, body-painted strippers, and an ubiquitous trail of young, bloody corpses. Look for LBJ--and with him the war in Vietnam--in the background (literally) of this space age thriller.