Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

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

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie begins with a young man named "Jerry" (Ray Dennis Steckler), his girlfriend "Angela" (Sharon Walsh) and his roommate "Harold" (Atlas King), deciding to go to the local carnival to have some fun. One thing leads to another and before long all of them decide to have their fortunes told by a Gypsy fortune-teller by the name of "Madame Estrella" (Brett O'Hara). Immediately after that Jerry decides to check out an exotic dancer named "Carmelita" (Erino Enyo) who just happens to be the sister of Madame Estrella. Needless to say, this doesn't please Angela very much and as a result Harold ends up driving her home. While all of this is going on a young dancer named "Marge Neilson" (Carolyn Brandt) who works at a nearby nightclub decides to visit Madame Estrella to have her future told. However, upon entering the tent she sees something that Madame Estrella doesn't want anybody to know about and in a complete state of panic drops her purse as she runs out as fast as she can. Needing to silence her, Madame Estrella has Carmelita bring Jerry back into the tent where the fortune teller then hypnotizes him and subsequently orders him to kill Marge. Unfortunately, it doesn't end there as all too soon Jerry becomes nothing more than a mind-numbed zombie forced to do whatever bidding Madame Estrella commands of him. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had a decent enough plot but there were simply too many scenes involving dancing and singing thrown in to apparently fill space and kill time. Naturally, if this film was a musical then I could understand it. But since that was not the case these scenes only caused the film to lose focus and seem incoherent. Likewise, the weak acting and extremely poor ending didn't help matters either. That being said, I have to give this film a below average rating.

It's a race to the bottom between New MST (Carnival Magic) and Old MST (this film) in the race to which can feature the worst carnival-themed movie. Whereas Carnival Magic's carnival was a land of grimy, dirt-poor rural desperation, Strange Creatures takes place in the most hideous looking part of urban seaside SoCal imaginable. There's a layer of dirt, offal, and broken dreams covering everything in this movie, from the hideous animatronic ticket chimp to the Twirl N Hurl to the strip "nightclub"....Oh, you were interested in PLOT!?! Wait, I think we have one of those somewhere buried under all the depressing filth. Turns out hideous subhuman demi-Nicholas Cage "Jerry" and his vaguely Eastern European roommate are escaping the fact that "the world's in a state of depression" by going off to the disgusting carnival to take a break from their hard life of doing nothing. They hang out with Jerry's "rich" girlfriend (in that she lives in a slightly less gross looking house) and reward her love by watching a bunch of "C" looking women take their clothes off. Jerry's girlfriend gets irritated by this and leaves, allowing Jerry to be seduced and mesmerized by the evil gypsies that run the carnival. Jerry becomes zombified and used as a pawn to murder the gypsies' enemies. While this is going on the audience is assaulted by hideous musical numbers and the terrible comedic styling of some guy who looks like Greg Gumbel. Some zombies finally show up VERY late in the game, but alas can't save the game for the home team in the fourth quarter, and everything goes to hell. Worst of all the Greg Gumbel guy survives all this, allowing him to reduce his audiences to murderous zombies with that horrible "Iron and Steel" joke. Luckily the disgusting carnival was torn down about 10 years after this was filmed, preventing "Mixed up Zombie Legacy: MADISON vs Greg Gumbel" from being greenlighted.

No argument. Plan 9? Nope. Beast of Yucca Flatts? Nope. The Room? Definitely not. This is it. This is the worst movie ever made.Featuring everything from home movie quality camera work to incomprehensible dialogue to a virtually non existent and hard to follow plot, to an ear bleed inducing soundtrack, this movie is truly terrible. I really can't say that much about it because there isn't much to be said. It's just truly terrible in everything it tries to do. This is the Ghost Pepper of movies. You can try to watch it, but it will only cause pain and suffering. Funny pain and suffering, but it overall just leave you with a sense of dread and bewilderment as you wonder why you put yourself through it in the first place. Watch at your own risk and stay away from sharp objects for a few hours afterwards. You have been warned.

Can you figure out the plot of "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?", cause I couldn't really figure it out. Of course, I paid more attention to the snarky comments from Mike, Servo and Crow when Pearl forced them to watch it on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Joan Collins, Noam Chomsky and Glenn Close are among the people who get mentioned.As for the plot of the movie itself, as far as I could tell, it was about a gypsy (or is Roma the PC term?) woman who turns a loser into a zombie. The only character who really had my eye was Angela; she really was a hottie. In the end, the movie itself doesn't amount to anything, but the MST3K version is a riot. How cruel of Pearl to make Mike and the 'bots watch it.