The Astro-Zombies (1968) on Netflix
Dismissed by the space agency, Dr. DeMarco assembles a superhuman creature from the remains of murder victims. Dead young women set a spy ring and the CIA on his trail.
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Dr. DeMarco is let go by the space agency, and the disgruntled scientist responds by setting out to build a superhuman being of his own. His raw material is the bodies of people who have been murdered, and he fits the pieces together into living creatures. One such figure, an Astroman, is put together from the corpse of a criminal. Control of the thing slips away from him, and the killings that follow interest both a ring of international spies and the CIA. Young women have been found dead, and a CIA operative follows that trail toward the doctor's door.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Scenes in The Astro-Zombies were shot at the house of Peter Falk, a friend of co-writer Wayne M. Rogers, and Falk was to make a cameo that director Ted V. Mikels cut for being "too funny".
- Horror punk band the Misfits recorded "Astro Zombies" for their 1982 album Walk Among Us, with frontman Glenn Danzig writing the lyrics from the point of view of the film's mad scientist, Dr. DeMarco.
- Ted V. Mikels shot half of The Astro-Zombies himself, because he could afford a crew for only two weeks and used that time filming the chases and other footage around town.
- The Astro-Zombies was filmed on a budget of just $37,000, and $3,000 of that went to pay John Carradine, one of its stars.
