An absolute waste of money

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Amid talk of transferring thoughts from one person to another, there are also attempts to create a superior "astro man" by mad scientist Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), using body parts from victims innocent and not so innocent. Spies are determined to gain control of this secret, leading to the expected plans by counter-spies to locate Dr. DeMarco, stop the killing sprees, and foil the villains, including the likes of the legendary and oh so sexy Tura Satana (playing a villainess named Satana).Producer & director Ted V. Mikels wrote this with none other than actor Wayne Rogers, who also takes a co-executive producer credit. It's widely considered a contender for worst film of all time, and this viewer can see that it's not so much because it's so incompetent that it makes one laugh. It's more because it's flat out BORING, with Mikels just dragging this thing out like you wouldn't believe. (It would have been more tolerable had it been shorter and more to the point, but even at just over an hour and a half, it's fatally overlong.) Much of the plot consists of exposition - tons of it. Carradines' experiments seem to go on for days. You just want to yell at the screen for the characters to get on with it. It's the kind of thing where you end up checking your watch much too often.It's a pity, really. Yours truly is a big lover of schlock, but even he found this underwhelming. Its truly fun moments (at least the movie builds to a pretty entertaining finale) are far too infrequent.Satana is the main reason to watch this; co-star Joan Patrick (who plays Janine) is also tremendously appealing eye candy. The cast has a few familiar faces, who are basically marking time. Sad to say, this was one of the final film roles for character actor Wendell Corey, who's relegated to standing in an office and reeling off some of that exposition. Carradine is good, but some might wish that he'd gone for broke and been hammier. Tom Pace and Joseph Hoover are dull heroes, but Rafael Campos is a fun bad guy (as Satanas' psychotic associate), and William Bagdad makes a lot of hilarious faces as DeMarcos' mute assistant.Proceed at your own risk; there aren't really a lot of rewards to be reaped here.Four out of 10.

Am writing this review many years after seeing this film. I'm a pretty avid film-goer, and I've only wanted to walk out of a movie two or three times over many, many years, but I absolutely could not sit through this and left maybe halfway through.The acting was bad, the plot, what there was of it, was bad, the editing was bad, the pacing was terrible... I don't remember all the details, but I remember the increasing pressure in my brain telling me to get out before I exploded.This is not in the same class as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which was a deliberately done bad movie which means that there was a lot of good stuff to laugh at, and not even in the same class as Plan 9 From Outer Space, whose badness at least made me laugh.

The problem with this film is two-fold.First, Mickels revealed, in his first film ("Strike me Deadly") that he really wanted to make real films. "Strike" is not a great film, but given the low budget, it actually keeps its integrity pretty much in tact.Unfortunately, not enough so to persuade film financiers to support Mickels into a career in mainstream Hollywood. Consequently (as Mickels reveals in his interviews) he abandoned himself to making low-rent drive-in trash, which at least made money.Consquently, there's an awful lingering sense throughout this film that Mickels, having determined to make a bad film, is actually laughing at his audience. WE think this is 'so bad it's funny'; Mickels seems to be saying 'You're so dumb you think this is so bad it's funny (when it's only just bad)'.Secondly, since someone intentionally making bad films for suckers doesn't really care, the pacing here is really awful. There are indeed some really funny scenes here, but you better have some patience waiting for them.An unsettling performance for lovers of bad films - and not good enough to recommend otherwise.

Okay, this movie really sucks and not many people are gonna tell you any different. Even though I had some fun watching Astro Zombies, I know it is a worthless piece of sheet! It's just amazingly so horrible that I actually laughed at it and enjoyed doing so. I think that's what it was intended to do was to make people laugh at its stupidness.If you are a John Carradine fan, then you must watch this film. Otherwise you more than likely will absolutely hate it and most people won't even make it 30 minutes into the movie. There is no need to get into plot, acting, or effects because there really isn't any to talk about! If you can take this movie for what it is, and that is to not be serious, and if you enjoy watching really campy films, then you may just possibly enjoy this little bundle of joy...but don't count on it!