{"id":784,"date":"2015-04-02T05:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2015-03-23T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T00:26:56","slug":"the-incredibly-strange-creatures-who-stopped-living-and-became-mixed-up-zombies-1963-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-213\" title=\"strangecreaturesposter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"strangecreaturesposter\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/strangecreaturesposter.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My dear, departed friend, cult movie god <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raydennisteckler.com\">RAY DENNIS STECKLER<\/a> was a frequent guest at my live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillville.net\">Thrillville<\/a> show. One of the highlights of my so-called career, and life, was chasing Ray (in his trademark screen alias &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citybeat.com\/cincinnati\/article-4224-cash-flagg-(profile).html\">Cash Flagg<\/a>&#8221; hood) around the theater, wearing one his original mummy costumes and carrying a plastic axe. Predictably, one night when the house was packed, the fragile print broke in the middle and Ray had to improvise on stage until it was repaired. He was used to pimping his product directly to his audiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057181\/\">THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED=UP ZOMBIES<\/a> (<\/em>1963, AKA<em> Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary)<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/em> is Ray&#8217;s masterpiece, though he made several other classic cult favorites including <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058653\/\">The Thrill Killers<\/a><\/em> (1964), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059637\/\">Rat Pfink a Boo Boo<\/a><\/em> (1966), and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059382\/\">The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters<\/a><\/em> (1965, inspired by his childhood idols, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~bcwalk\/bowery\/\">The Bowery Boys<\/a>.) The long-winded title actually elicited a law suit from Columbia Pictures, which was in simultaneous production with something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057012\/\"><em>Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<\/em><\/a>. (Ray had to tinker with the original title a bit.) It was billed as &#8220;the first monster musical&#8221; and seems to me that it inspired every independent visionary filmmaker exploring similar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychotronic\">psychotronic<\/a> turf from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Waters_(filmmaker)\">John Waters<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Lynch\">David Lynch<\/a>. The film is beautifully shot in a hallucinatory style (in fact hypnosis plays a big role in the pulpy proceedings). Two of the cameramen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004088\/\">Laszlo Kovacs<\/a> and V<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005936\/\">ilmos Zsigmond<\/a>, went on to bigger (if not better) things. You don&#8217;t actually see the &#8220;zombies&#8221; until the feverish finale, but it&#8217;s worth the wait. Go-go showgirls (one portrayed by his wife at the time, lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057012\/\">Carolyn Brandt<\/a>), surreal nightmare sequences, hooded killers, carnival gypsies, mutant murderers, musical numbers, bad comics, coo coo hairstyles, cool cars &#8211; this one has it <em>all<\/em>. Here&#8217;s to you, Ray. Cheers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Incredibly-Strange-Creatures-Stopped-Mixed-Up\/dp\/B0002JP2V6\">Available on DVD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillville.neet\"><em>Will the Thrill<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-215\" title=\"teenage_psycho_meets_bloody_mary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/teenage_psycho_meets_bloody_mary-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"teenage_psycho_meets_bloody_mary\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/teenage_psycho_meets_bloody_mary-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/teenage_psycho_meets_bloody_mary.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear, departed friend, cult movie god RAY DENNIS STECKLER was a frequent guest at my live Thrillville show. One of the highlights of my so-called career, and life, was chasing Ray (in his trademark screen alias &#8220;Cash Flagg&#8221; hood) around the theater, wearing one his original mummy costumes and carrying a plastic axe. Predictably,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300-190x300.jpg",190,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/strangecreaturesposter-190x300.jpg",190,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"My dear, departed friend, cult movie god RAY DENNIS STECKLER was a frequent guest at my live Thrillville show. One of the highlights of my so-called career, and life, was chasing Ray (in his trademark screen alias &#8220;Cash Flagg&#8221; hood) around the theater, wearing one his original mummy costumes and carrying a plastic axe. 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