Teenage Zombies (1959)

Directed by

Jerry Warren

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

PG

Rating

3.6 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of teenagers gets stranded on an island where a mad scientist is making zombies for a foreign government. The scientist traps the teens in her lab and plans to test her zombie drug on them.

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What happens

Teenage Zombies is a 1959 American science fiction horror film written, produced, edited and directed by Jerry Warren, and starring Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan, Chuck Niles and Warren's then-wife and production manager Brianne Murphy. Warren wrote the screenplay under his pen name Jacques Lecoutier (which he frequently misspelled in the credits). Film historian Bill Warren wrote "This dreadful, leaden and depressingly cheap film does have one unusual aspect... it was actually made by Jerry Warren in its entirety." The plot follows a group of teenagers who are marooned on an island inhabited by a female mad scientist, her pet gorilla and a zombie slave named Ivan. She traps the youths in a cage down in her laboratory, plotting to use them as subjects for her zombie-making experimentation, so she can test out a drug she is working on for an unnamed foreign nation. Although the credits include a 1957 copyright statement for G.B.M. Productions, the film was never registered for copyright, rendering it in the public domain. It was only released theatrically on November 22, 1959, on a double bill with The Incredible Petrified World (1959). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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