Absolutely the worst movie.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES begins w/ a woman taking a leisurely drive, while groovy tunes play on her radio. Upon arriving at her home, horror and death erupt, as one of the titular terrors leaps forth! Then, the credits, and for some unknown reason, toy robots and tanks move about. In smoke. Ahhh, this is a Ted V. Mikels film! Enter Franchot (William Bagdad), who is out collecting a corpse for his master, Dr. Demarco's (John Carradine) twisted experiments. Meanwhile, agent Holman (Wendell Corey) and his team are on Demarco's trail, suspecting him for a series of recent murders. Much "scientific" palaver sets up a possible motive for the doctor's foray into mutilation and mad science. He's building an army of solar-powered, killer cyborgs! This is of great interest to Satana (Tura Satana- FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!) and her ruthless gang of ne'er do wells. Actually, Ms. Satana is the primary -only?- reason to endure this film. Beautiful, mysterious, and sadistic, she is a wonder to behold! In her world, cigarettes and stiletto heels are weapons of choice! Unfortunately, her scenes are limited. The rest is comprised mostly of Demarco tinkering or performing duller-than-a-podiatrist's-convention procedures in his secret lab, while Franchot lumbers around messing w/ things. This is accompanied by Demarco's endless, coma-inducing blather. Blessedly, Franchot never speaks. Mikels takes great pleasure in our agony, making these scenes seem far longer than logically possible! Yes, Holman's people continue working on the case, but they're hardly worth mentioning. As for the title creatures, they pop in once in a while, just to remind us of their silliness... EXTRA POINTS FOR: The painted, exotic dancer, accompanied by a bare-chested bongo player! This! Is! Cinema!...

The movie is about scientists trying to use radiowaves to control a brain of some one located in space with some one else his brain located on earth. This to make possible long travels in space. Why not go for a robot? Well, because that would be the simple way of course! We follow 3 groups of people, 1. the scientists and FBI/CIA, 2. a mad scientist and his hunchback help, 3. a group of foreign spies.The mad scientist already has a working astro zombie and the zombie goes on a killing spree. This is because the donor is an evil killer who is hard to control. Not only he managed to get an astro zombie, but also created a liquid that makes the zombie invurnerable. The spies figure an army of them would make their country unbeatable so they set out to find the lab. The FBI/CIA in the meanwhile is trying to stop the spies and the killing astro zombie.Sounds fine for a B-movie does it, but this one just isn't. This movie is beyond boring and almost half of it is filler/padding to get the running time up to 91 minutes. In those days a movie has to be 91 minutes to get air time so what do you do when after 50 minutes you end up with ideas? You fill up the movie! The Feds go into a bar where an exotic dancer is dancing so we are treated with 5 minutes of her dancing. The spies driving thru the city to locate the lab: we are treated with side shots of the car and a shot of the car driving thru a pool of mud and the camera sticks with the mid for a while. The lab assistant of the mad scientist walks around the lab with a flask, puts it down, pics it up again. But the worst part is the mad scientist explaining and experimenting half this movie doing pointless, boring stuff we are forced to sit through. The police arrive and we are treated with minutes of them driving and parking, then after being parked driving and parking again.Some B-movie stuff is the girls in their underwear and the astro zombie sneaking up on people in the most stupid ways. The title is also misleading as there is only one zombie and only at the end there is another one who get 1 minute of screen time. Mrs. Satana is looking really attractive so I give her 2 stars, the exact number of her 2 redeeming qualities.

In the past I have actually liked some Ted V. Mikels movies because they still had a certain charm and cult potential to it but this movie is however simply unwatchable. It's just that bad! Thing with this movie is that it really takes you back to the days of Z-grade science-fiction movies from the '50's. The kind of stuff Ed Wood himself used to make but this movie is even all the more shocking, since it actually got made in the late 60's.It really is an incredibly sloppy made film, that is horribly directed and has some serious lacking storytelling in it. I can't even tell what this movie is about, since it's being such an huge mess and I actually honestly had no idea what was going on, for more than half of the time. Scene's seem to go on forever, while they really have no right to do so. There are even scenes in this movie that seem to build up to something but in the end do absolutely nothing. The movie is already quite short, with its 90 minutes of running time but it really should had been way shorter, though I doubt that that would had made this a good movie. Even the acting and dialog seems to be a throwback to the horrible bad movies from the '50's. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that movie was actually something Ted V. Mikels had written in the '50's already!And for a movie named "The Astro-Zombies", there are actually surprising little 'astro-zombies' in it. There is no real action or entertainment in this movie and the title only seems to have been picked to fool the audience and to get some people to see it, since it has little to do with the actual movie it seems. The 'astro-zombies' that are still in this movie are quite laughable looking. They are all wearing Halloween type of alien masks, that obviously are far from convincing looking.A real shame John Carradine's career had to end with these type of movies, after having such a great start of his career. Luckily though not an awful lot of people watch these type of movies and no one should also ever watch this one! 2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

A bunch of Vitalis-laden slugs sit around a wood-paneled office and chat, including the drunk as a skunk Wendell Corey. Tura Satana sits around in a spectacular outfit and looks incredibly bored. John Carradine shleps around his lab with Igor and talks at length about how Astro Zombies work. Occasionally someone is shot or garden-weaseled to death, sometimes by a guy in a skull mask. In one scene a woman is sitting around and the door opens and she gasps but nothing happens, but the irony is that it would have been more of an inversion if something DID happen. In between lines there are excruciatingly long passages of people wandering around and fidgeting. There are also a lot of cars driving around, and even in broad daylight the exteriors all seem to have been pushed three stops. At the end Carradine is shot and Satana is electrocuted, inspiring the cop to muse, "Well, there's one basic element of human life that can never be removed - the emotions!" We're in Phil Tucker territory here, folks.