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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) on Netflix

NR19641h 22mHorror

A fortune teller at a seaside carnival tells Angela that someone close to her will die near water. Angela's boyfriend Jerry is drawn to the fortune teller's sister, the stripper Carmelita.

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  • Rotten Tomatoes20%

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Jerry goes to a seaside carnival with Angela, his girlfriend, and their friend Harold. In one venue, the dancer Marge, who drinks between shows, performs for a small audience; backstage she sees a black cat and asks the fortune teller Estrella what it means. Estrella predicts that Marge will die, and Marge runs out past the three of them. Angela wants her fortune told, and Jerry agrees. Estrella says that someone close to Angela will die near water. Leaving the booth, Jerry notices Estrella's sister Carmelita, a stripper whose stare hypnotizes him, and he stays to watch her perform. Angela leaves the carnival with Harold.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)

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  • Steckler's original title was The Incredibly Strange Creatures, or Why I Stopped Living and Became a Mixed-Up Zombie; it was changed after Columbia Pictures threatened a lawsuit over its similarity to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, then in production.
  • Atlas King, who had grown close to Steckler, handed the director three hundred dollars of his own money during filming, when Steckler was short of funds for both production and living costs. The station wagon Jerry drives is the Steckler family car.
  • Much of the film was shot in an old, long-empty Masonic temple in Glendale, California, owned by actor Rock Hudson, whose nine-story building offered makeshift sound stages stacked floor after floor, some big enough for the carnival midway scenes indoors.
  • The Incredibly Strange Creatures was billed as the first "monster musical", reaching release a mere month before The Horror of Party Beach.
  • At the time of its release, the film had the second-longest title in the horror genre, behind Roger Corman's The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent; both were later parodied by Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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