NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Micitype Pretty Good

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Chantel Contreras It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Red-Barracuda A mad female scientist who lives on an isolated island carries out insane experiments sponsored by the Russians on unfortunate human guinea pigs, turning them into pliant zombie-like creatures. A bunch of pesky teenagers pitch up and thwart their plans.This is one of several films from the time that not only was specifically made for the large teenage cinema-going demographic but which also went so far as to add the word 'teenagers' in the title. Like most of them the title hardly makes sense. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) did not feature any teenagers from outer space in a similar way to how Teenage Zombies isn't really about, well, teenage zombies. But the idea of the title was to make it abundantly clear that these were films for teenagers. Now obviously nowadays if you gave an average teen a copy of this film for their birthday, they would be less than impressed. These off-their-time curiosities are now the sort of things that cult film and retro genre fans seek out.In all honesty, this is a bad film although it does have its moments. The plot-line is ludicrous of course and the idea that the evil Russians are blamed for these zombie-making, gorilla-baiting antics is typical for the time it was made – the communists were seemingly to blame for everything in most American films of the 50's. There's also an amusing and unexpected plot strand where the town sheriff is sending prisoners and drunks over to the island to be experimented on. There's also a shuffling, lumbering henchmen and that old chestnut, a man in a monkey-suit. So it has some entertainment value but is overall pretty poor stuff.

dwpollar 1st watched 9/1/2014 -- 3 out of 10(Dir-Jerry Warren):70 minute version Boring and lame teenage zombie movie with some really wacky performances from some of the teens and very stoic performances from the adults. The movie starts as some kids from a local malt shop set out to do some water-skiing, and have a picnic at a nearby small island. As they investigate the area -- they come upon a strange group of men appearing "doped or dead" according to one of the kids. Their boat is stolen so they go to a lone house on the island to question the inhabitants about the disappearance and come across a stoic woman, played by Katherine Victor, who denied knowing about this, and then all the kids get captured to be used as experiments for her zombie-inducing gas that eventually will be used on all Americans. The pacing of this movie is what makes it boring with a soundtrack that doesn't match the movie's pace. The sound effects are very canned especially when the boat is searching for the kids(same sound no matter what the boat is doing---very funny stuff). This movie was obviously trying to capture on a trend(monsters with teens), but fails miserably, and there really is only one real monster, if you can call him one, Ivan -- the helper zombie and possibly a late appearance by a man in a gorilla suit. There is a sub-theme of foreigners(who don't sound foreign) trying to "control" all Americans with this gas(which was probably shocking at the time), but it's done so badly that it doesn't get noticed much. Pretty much this is a movie to avoid -- so do so.

Uriah43 Before I get started I would just like to say that this is not the worst low-budget zombie movie I have ever seen. Having said that though, I must admit that it's still pretty bad just the same. At any rate, the general plot involves 4 high school kids who decide to hang out on an isolated island not realizing that there are some people from "the East" (Communist China presumably) conducting experiments and needing live human subjects to continue their research. Apparently their intention is to release a chemical into the United States which will turn a large percentage of the people into obedient zombies. Naturally, the kids get captured and since they don't return, two of their friends get worried and go to the island to see what has happened to them. Now, since I don't want to ruin the film for those who haven't seen it I won't reveal what happens next. I will say however that the acting wasn't that good, the script was weak and the plot was so dull that at times I thought I was watching a segment of "Leave It to Beaver". Now that's pretty dull. Truth be told, about the only good thing going for this film was the cute blonde named "Julie" (Mitzie Albertson). But that's about it. In short, unless a person really enjoys films from the late 50's I would avoid this one altogether.

Robin The plot is typical B-movie stuff. Four teenagers are out boating and water-skiing (which is implied, as there is no footage of water-skiing at all in the film), and accidentally discover an island that's run by a mad scientist who intends to use some kind of nerve gas to turn the entire U.S. population into zombies (the mind controlled kind, not the flesh eating variety). The teenagers end up getting captured and it's up to their friends and the local authorities to bail them out.Pretty much everything about this film is bad. The directing is terrible. It was like the director had no idea what he was doing. Sort of like Ed Wood, but in a really bad way. The acting, if you want to call it that, is pretty much non-existent. The writing is excruciatingly dull and the dialogue is pointless, cornball, and delivered with the fervor of someone in a coma. Seriously, someone would speak their lines then there's this odd silence before anyone else would say anything. Anyone who was a zombie just acted as though they were in a trance or something, and did the bidding of whoever was controlling them. I think the effects were only temporary as well, but I don't remember.A few saving graces was the gorilla and the fight scene near the end. Although I also thought the lead zombie was kinda cool in a silly sort of way. Everything else about the film is pretty forgettable, but I guess it's worth checking out at least once.