one of the DUMBEST MOVIES I've ever seen!- The Astro Zombies (1968)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- On this episode of Weird Movies With Mark, I talk about The Astro Zombies (1968)
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Credits Music by: OVERWERK
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Don't be fooled
01:29 Distracted driving?
02:04 Whip it
02:24 CIA
02:57 Thought wave transmission
04:30 Quasi-man
05:14 Major malpractice
06:09 Big brain time
06:36 Nightclub meeting
07:14 Dr. DeMarco's lab
09:26 Sharkleberry fin, look it up
10:13 another astro victim
10:49 The most boring audiobook
11:13 Reverse surveillance
11:35 Crickets
12:16 suspenseful something
13:29 Gunfight headbutt
14:05 We'll never know who she was
14:24 Doing nothing
14:52 Mark at the CIA
15:45 Connecting dots...kinda
16:30 To Radio Shack!
16:43 It all makes sense somehow but not at all
18:03 Waiting for nothing
19:41 The dumbest shot in this movie
21:22 Betrayal
21:46 I guess the lab is in his own house, wow
22:48 Final thoughts
23:18 Ending skit / Credits - ตลก
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" Don't try this at home... go to a friend's house"
I love this line
Great idea about where to do this.👌👌
the line I always say when someone says "don't try this at home" is "try it in school"
"It's truly a sight to miss" has to be the best way to describe this entire movie. Great video as usual dude!
He said that and I had to pause for a couple of seconds to replay it in my head. I was like, "Did he say 'it's truly a sight to miss'?" 😆
@@CanItAlready hmm nice tutorials you got buuut why no CSharp(the coding language) tutorials? :P
My favorite line 😂
best quality paint you can watch dry! lol
Fun fact - this was filmed at Peter Falk's house. He let them use it in exchange for a cameo in the film, which was promptly cut by the director because Falk was "too comedic" for this dramatic masterpiece of cinema.
Wow. F Ted V Mikels. Falk is a legend.
Who is that falk dude?
@@carosvelasquez8461 Columbo
@@HaakonAnderson OH!!!!
@@carosvelasquez8461 He's most famously Columbo or Grandpa from The Princess Bride.
I love it when you don’t pay attention for a minute and feel you missed something. Then rewind the movie and find out you didn’t miss anything at all. Signs of a masterpiece of bad movie.
Wait, WHY did they stole the chauffer's clothes if they are going to immediately run over the man? He is not even going to see the clothes?
Was that just an excuse to undress the chauffer?
Guy who killed the chauffer must've had a kink...no reason at all to change into his clothes
Damn Mark! That was the cleanest insert of yourself into a scene I’ve seen yet. Your shadow, your acting casual, the camera angle from the agent’s POV, the background noises; it was all so deliberate! Nice work!!
Not to mention, the beiger-than-beige suit with authentic 60’s skinny tie.
Damn tootin'. Notice there were suddenly 2 empty cups on the water container? Why? Don't know. Possibly Chuck simply put his back on top when finished? Health 'n Safety will have words, I tells ya - THEY'LL HAVE WORDS......
We're getting closer to Mark putting himself into a whole full length movie. Like that Steve Martin flick 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". I'm in for the crowdfunding.
@@daveroche6522 When you said "Why? Don't know." I read that in Critical Drinker's voice. 😆
@@suzybearheart530Good catch SuzyB - when I wrote it i heard Critical Ds voice in my head.... Well done, follow good-taste.
You can see in Mark's eyes how desperately he wants us to understand that this movie is AWFUL. That "I don't CARE" at 8:55 truly sounds like it came from the heart.
We appreciate this sacrifice to bring us such good content!
Congratulations, you’ve improved the entertainment value of this “film” a thousand fold. The poster is now the second best thing about Astro Zombies.
The Misfits song it inspired is pretty good.
That scene where you're acting as a fellow agent dressing down your co-workers, is the most seamless scene you've made yet - I love the way you spliced their facial expressions to mirror exactly what you're telling them, it is so good. Simple but effective!
Oh, and the movie was terrible, my condolences on having to sit through it, but thanks for another hilarious review!
Damn tootin'. Notice there were suddenly 2 empty cups on the water container? Why? Don't know. Possibly Chuck simply put his back on top when finished? Health 'n Safety will have words, I tells ya - THEY'LL HAVE WORDS......
The sight of that poor Astro Zombie trying to survive on mere torch light in the terrible crickety sunlit darkness has moved me terribly.
I love that the guy in the car accident landed with one foot in between the door resting on the hood. 😆
I've seen so many accidents where the drivers end up like that.
This was before mandatory seat belts. Physics was strange back then.
They guy that was in the car wreck with red paint over him is moving his fingers.
@@ontherunjg Good catch ! That driver was definitely a very "live-ly" fellow -- both before and after "death". 😄😁😝🤪🤣
John Carradine was in so many movies. They were of such varying quality, some of the best like 10 Commandments and Secret of NIMH, and some of the worst like this thing, but the man just loved working. Right up till he died in the 80's, he was doing several movies a year. In the end He made 351 movies. Also, he sired Keith Carradine, the most charismatic actor I can think of.
Carradine could remember pages of dialogue so if you needed a mad scientist spouting entire minutes of gobbledygook he was your man.
I'm confused with the Kung Fu guy!
@@gaywizard2000 John had 5 sons, David Carradine was in Kung Fu, Robert was in Revenge of the Nerds, Keith was in a bunch of westerns and Fargo, Bruce was also in Kung Fu and the horrible horror movie Q, Chris was an architect that didn't do much in Hollywood
@@philsowers OMG, so im not crazy then!
@@gaywizard2000 Nope, just a big ol family of Hollywood folks, lots of fun stuff to enjoy but mostly mock through Weird Movies w/Mark, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax 😉 👌 The Unearthly (Episode #320) - as Dr. Charles Conway
Red Zone Cuba (Episode #619) - as Mr. Wilson
Legacy of Blood (Cinematic Titanic) - as Christopher Dean
Voodoo Man (RiffTrax) - as Toby
Frankenstein Island (RiffTrax) - as Dr. Frankenstein
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (RiffTrax) - as Dr. Himmil
Astro-Zombies (RiffTrax) - as Dr. DeMarco
Invasion of the Animal People (RiffTrax) - as Narrator
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (RiffTrax) - as Professor Nikolaeff
Terror in the Wax Museum (RiffTrax) - as Claude Dupree
Jack-O (RiffTrax) - as Walter Machen
Invisible Invaders (Movie Jo Night) - as Dr. Karol Noymann
The most painfully bad movies are always the funniest reviews. We appreciate your service, sir
12:18 "It feels like the movie wants me to be in suspense about something, but I don't know what that is."
I love it when films fail so hard XD
I just watched the Rifftrax version of this on Tubi two days ago. I love when I have both Mark and the MST3K team to attack all angles of a horrible film.
I know right! It’s awesome!
If you like rifftrax check out the one they did on Guy From Harlem. One of their bests
@@bigbysnow6306 that cats a bad dude. Lol. It’s my favorite rifftrax movie, probably be top 10 as far as MST3K too.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx the funniest bits for me is when there’s a drunk father in the movie
@@bigbysnow6306 Did they ever figure out the "two reasons"
The Actress who plays Santana is named Tura Satana. And if her Wiki page is true, then THAT needs to be made into a movie.
Edit: On a side note, the guy who plays DeMarco is the Carridine patriarch.
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill was Russ Meyer's magnum opus. And she made it so.
Duh, no shit, Sherlock.
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Thank you Mark for doing this to yourself for our entertainment.
I always enjoyed movies when they shoot day for night. I grew up watching a lot of really old low-quality westerns ….and I remember my dad told me that filming trick when I was like four or five years old
so I guess it always makes me remember watching westerns with him
The shot of the zombie wandering around holding a flashlight to its head is truly magnificent.
How did they think it wouldn't be hilarious?
Sadly, you have mistaken this movie for science fiction. It is, in reality, a psychological tragedy. The ostracized state of humanity in the universe is portrayed against the tireless pursuit of cosmic forces against him, perpetuated by blah blah blah blah blah…..
I literally get nostalgia coming back to your channel. I'm so glad you're still making content and I hope you keep growing and making videos man. It's good to see you haven't changed man.
Back off, man! They said I'M the lucky sucker, I mean, winner lol
There was an Australian comedy team that took this live to theatres in the 1980’s and presented their own version of the script to great effect. It was hilarious. They also took a couple of other crap movies and did the same. So entertaining.
This must have been so painful to write and edit. I'm sorry Mark
oh hi, mark
Mark suffers so we don't have to. 👍
Yeah, at first I thought you were talking about the film makers. I was going to argue that their pain was probably minimal as I think these people were barely conscious during any portion of the making of this this this thing.
Mark’s integration of himself into the scenes- with his usual impeccable matchup of the lightning, shadows and the style of the suit he was wearing- was the best part of this otherwise mind numbing experience!
What? He's used to it now. Man he cracking up so many jokes this video. You obviously are terrible at reading people and understanding TH-cam videos tv shows, movies etc lol
Dude, you are seriously underrating this cinematic icon. Even if you can ignore the fact that 'The Astro Zombies' is one of the coolest titles ever, it is impossible to overlook its many triumphs. First, the cars are awesome: the Mustang, the Cadillac, the vertical headlight Pontiac that the villains are cruising around in with their homemade radar -- all classics. Second: The chick that 'Igor' is experimenting on is HOT! Who is she? How did she get there? Who the hell cares! Such questions mean nothing to any heterosexual male. Third: Wendell Corey is slurring his words and most probably drunk, right there on screen! Next: a human brain with built-in spring reverb -- are you f*cking kidding me? Sign me up!! Everyone must get that transplant now -- you'll thank me later! Also, the dancer in that night club is unforgettable, and probably the real reason why the CIA guys went there in the first place -- see? It all make sense. Finally -- and I can't believe I need to point this out to anyone -- Tura Satana, the chick from 'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', the woman who showed Elvis how to go down on a woman, is wiggling around in a pink dress that looks like it's about to fall off, all the while outwitting the good guys, out bad-assing the bad guys, and brazenly meeting her fate at the hands of an astro zombie. I'll stack this classic up against 'Avatar' or the female Ghost Busters any day or night! That is all.
I'm so sorry you had to go through this Mark, but I'm very grateful you did!
My word! John Carradine took his research on astro zombies, and later applied it to bees! It all makes sense now!
The scene with a zombie walking around with a flashlight on his head is hilarious.Wendell Corey played Jimmy Stewart's best friend in Rear Window.He must have been embarrassed when this movie came out
Wendell Corey died 6 months after the movie was released.
Just found your channel this past year and I absolutely love it!
It would be awesome if you started doing some content about movies that you enjoy or movies you haven’t seen before or just whatever.
I stumbled across your Star Wars playlist and realized that I really enjoy hearing you talk about movies… Even movies that you don’t hate. That may not be something you’re interested in but it’s just an idea. It wouldn’t have to be as polished and stuff like your normal videos. You could have a secondary channel or playlist on this channel with some just real low effort stuff or you just kind of set up a camera and talk about a movie.
I think a lot of people would love to hear your take on all types of cinema. As much as I enjoy your goofy ass jokes & humor… (And they are great)… The passion and care you showed when discussing Star Wars and what it was like for you as a kid and stuff… It was awesome. And I’m not even a Star Wars fan.
Love the channel!
Isn't it obvious this man has seen everything that is worth watching? Why do you think he ended up watching all these films? (:
Haven't watched this episode yet, but Astro-Zombies literally tested my patience, closest I've got (outside of mainstream Hollywood films) to turning it off...and the two sequels are even worse.
Classic Misfits song, though.
Danzig probably sat up to watch it on TV at 3 am, and thought "I may as well get a song out of this."
@@BGNOLA It's what made Glenn so f*****g angry.
@@DarthPerkins zombies in space is a good premise though.
@@BGNOLA It's a great idea. But I don't know what happened here.
Ted Mikels never made a film as bad as this again, or previously. The rest of his films are bad in a funny or interesting way, Astro-Zombies is just tedious.
He did wear a massive Boar's tusk around his neck, lived with seven women in a castle and produced 'The Worm Eaters', so I won't have a bad word said about him.
What ??!! "Astro-Zombies" had two sequels ?? I hope at least one of them can be found on TH-cam. 🥴🤯😏😄
I went through so much struggle finding a copy of this movie like.....15 years ago? Astro Zombies was my favorite Misfits song, which made me want to see it. I remember it being fun! But I'm gonna have to do a rewatch in your honor to see if it holds up.
"Corpse Cadet" is a great name for a movie.
This has become my favorite channel to see upload, thank you Mark! Youre too damn underrated.
Wow, this movie has Tom Pace and William Bagdad in it - two actors who were also in The Girl in Gold Boots together, a Mystery Science Theater classic.
What's crazy is, for the time ever, the scenes described actually made me zone out a couple times! I had to rewind a few times! Your comments are still funny as hell. This movie bumped Plan 9 from Outer Space to #2 worst movie because Plan 9 is hilarious
I’m glad this day has come! The Astro Zombies has it coming. Show no mercy. By the way, Mark did you get that gig in the underwater city?
No, the wifi was spotty and the one day there was an argument because I wanted a calzone and they didn’t want to spring for it because “iT’s NoT piZzA” and I mean, ok, it’s TECHNICALLY not pizza but STILL it’s in the pizza “family” ya know?
@@FanboyFlicks what the bananas man. You’d think diabolical men owning underwater cities would be more forward thinking with their Italian foods. This nonsense would never happen With Spectre.
@@FanboyFlicks I'm English, we call them 'Italian pasties'.
Wait ... so some guy knocks out the chauffeur and takes his clothes, but then just runs Sergio over when he comes out? Did the suit not fit? It seems like he could have skipped that part, unless there is some kind of fetish involved ... I'm going to run over a guy, but I have to be dressed as a chauffeur first?
Also, when the lights are out, the hero is checking the fuse box ... under a porch lamp that is *still on*. Is the porch light on a different circuit?
It's solar-powered, like the zombies.
"For the love of God, do something!"
Is what my girlfriend says to me every night.
This film is a MST3K reunion. John Carradine, Wendel Coley who was the alcoholic director in Agent from HARM, and even the icky little elf from Girl With Gold Boots. Gotta love how bad movies attract the same actors.
Fun video as always, Mark. Proud to be a Patreon supporter.
what i like about these kinds of movies, is that it really teaches you what to do when you are in these specific situations
This is clearly the greatest movie of all time, society has just not gotten to a high enough level to appreciate the genius of this movie.
Mark, your videos are so wonderful to laugh through after all long day. Thanks for the watch and your wit as well.
Great video, Mark. I tried watching this a couple of years ago. Whoa, you're right. I couldn't even finish it, absolutely painful to watch. All power to you for getting through it
This is still the best movie review channel in the game! Thank you Mark, for all the gimmick free entertainment!
I appreciate your sacrifice Mark. You DID make this movie entertaining!! Also I loved seeing Satana. So it was win-win for me!😁😍
When you put yourself in the movie.. I die every time. Like tears laughing stupid. I know it’s going to happen at some point of each video but gets me! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I, for one am happy that Juan got a new hat. Really drove the story for me.
Glenn Danzig named a song after this movie for The Misfits’ album ‘Walk Among Us’
Also, Tura Satana was fantastic in Russ Meyer’s ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’ ‘65, which you should absolutely cover next!
Mark's content is so entertaining I hit the like button just as I start the review 😀
Always love your reviews. Thank you for what you do for us. The pain you go thru can’t be equaled by anything.
*I literally fell asleep while watching this. But then, I'm a senior citizen so that at least partly explains why. About the actors Wendell Corey and John Carradine: both these actors once appeared in some of Hollywood's greatest movies alongside some of Hollywood's greatest actors - such as Jimmy Stewart, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Cliff, etc. One final note: this was Wendell Corey's last movie. He died less than 8 months later, at the age of 54.*🌹
Always great to get a new video from you! Do you happen to have any plans to do any newer/more modern movies?
Oh, the excitement! In the scene where “Marko” changes the circuit board, we can spot, from those telltale chrome push buttons, part of a BC-603 radio! A feeble 1950’s FM military radio. Much later we get a glimpse of part of a 1939 Navy radio. The prop budget might have been in the high teens!
"....degassing the circuits... Degassing is removing dissolved gases from liquids.
Of all the words the script 'writer' might have picked.... oh never mind.
Surely lumpys circuitry vídeo from the life day special could help fast things
@@graceskerp Prolly meant "de-gaussing". Something you do to color CRT's. Or tape recorder heads. The unit of magnetic field strength is the Gauss. Named after Dr. Gauss.
@@georgegonzalez2476 I sit corrected. Thank you George for the insight. It is surprising they got something right.
This was originally an instruction movie for CIA radio operatives, but people fell asleep watching it therefore the makers added a few ladies and zombies to spice things up.
I always knew it. bore the American people to subservience. then work on Europe. brilliant. explains 40 years of TV too. bonanza. teenwolf
I can believe that ! Lol. 😂😝😁
10:51 the best part about this scene is how she’s lounging on the couch PERFECTLY with her skirt laid just so to show off her legs while wearing HEELS no less and smoking a cigarette. Also, is she farsighted or who tf reads a newspaper like that!? 😂 I can’t
Red paint? He was clearly eating french fries and Ketchup. It's like you're not even trying, Mark.
I've never had so much fun laughing at someone's insane rage over movie boredom. Bravo, Mark! 🤣
Another great video, Mark! I truly enjoy them every time.
A headbutt to the balls!! Didn't see that coming. No doubt the best shot of the movie hands down
Anytime I'm feeling down, I come back to this channel and rewatch older episodes. Thanks, Mark.
What did the guy hit while he was driving in a field??? And WHY was he driving in a field??
BUT, it inspired a killer song!
I think that was just the title. The song lyrics have nothing to do with the plot of the movie.
The movie managed to get me lost at the part where they talk about the meeting at the club, even with Mark explaining it. I went back trying to catch something I missed XD
This movie scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. I can remember watching it on Bob Wilkins show and I went to bed afterwards and I couldn't sleep. I stayed up all night worrying about the astro zombies and I finally was able to go to sleep when the sun came up.
I'm am electrician and that was meaningless techno babble. I'm going to use "de-gossing" on gullible customers though.
I was wondering! Thank you for clearing that up!
Please never stop creating content lol I freggin love you dude lol
What’s insane is that there are actually actors who are REAL and KNOWN in this movie…if you can call it a movie.
Once again Mark, thank you for taking another one for the team!!!🙏👍🏆👻
I've only seen this movie via Rifftrax, and even THEN it's only barely tolerable.
Lab of Ambiguity is a good band name.
16:03 There was something about Juan that looked familiar...
Actor Raphael Campos would later play character Sancho Gomez in the 1983 miniseries V
I'm used to seeing Carradine in trash; but Wendell Corey was in Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954) with James Stewart. Corey died of liver failure linked to acute alcoholism. His alcoholism gradually killed his acting career so hard enjoy his appearances in increasingly bad movies like this.
This movie just has a level of awesomeness that a rare few can appreciate, that's all.
Mark, never stop making videos. They always brighten my day :)
X2
There are 3 sequels to this movie Mark of the Astro-Zombies (2004), Astro Zombies: M3 - Cloned (2010) and Astro Zombies: M4 - Invaders from Cyberspace (2012)
I knew there were two, but a THIRD sequel?!
Have you seen it? I thought the two sequels were bad, but not as tedious as the original.
@@DarthPerkins I was checking on the follow up movies and tripped over the third I've never watched it but given the general trend of the others it will be, lets be generous cheap but cheerful and should be approached with the full knowledge of being an Astro-Zombie movie
@@alankohn6709Made in 2012... I'm trying to imagine how low the quality of CGI would be, but my mind doesn't go down to that resolution.
@@DarthPerkins Look they wont be that bad compared to say a Pong game
Your outro tune is amazing aswell as the video. In fact your whole series are. That actually makes the whole channel amazing. Its just freaking invincible! Keep it up.
19:13 That edit made me laugh harder than it should have.
The misfits
Any WMWM video without a Mark Meltdown is not a real WMWM video.
Love it.
We appreciate your sacrifice.
Saw this in Amarillo, Texas 1969 on a double feature bill with "The Undertaker and His Pals". As a 13 year old boy that was normally fascinated and easily entertained by just about everything back in those days, I was bored shitless. 😆The Undertaker (et.al) was just as bad! A match made in Hell!
Mark, another BRILLIANT review... I think you should give the movie "shotgun" ... it's one for my favorite cheesy action buddy cop B-movies... it has arguably one of the most ridiculous antagonists I've ever seen
I’ll give it a look, thanks!
Nothing like having a handy cake cover to protect your plastic brain!
This was one of my favorite movies to loan out . Everyone wanted to see it because of the Misfits song , everyone returned it pissed off ! Lol ! I never warned them that it was a total waist of time .
She drives a “Mustang” in the opening of “Astro Zombies”…and Rod drives a Mustang in the opening of “Birdemic”. Coincidence???? 🤔
This channel kinda just relaxes me
I love that the Zombie outfit is all clean, would someone on the street see a running Zombie outside? LOL
Loved your stuff since I found this channel years ago. This Super Thanks feature is a great way to say thanks!
Thank you!!!
Thanks for the public service announcement. I can imagine in the future there will be some movie inspired like Jo Jo Rabbit was where a kid shown the poster and told what the movie is about comes up with his own amazing adaptation when he grows up.
MARK YOU’RE SPOILING US
While I definitely agree this is a seriously awful cinematic disaster, two *tiny* redeeming qualities besides the poster are the plethora of cool cars and beautiful women featured throughout. Not enough to save anything, but at least to warrant glancing back at the screen for a few seconds.
Albert the 2nd: I was the first monkey to reach space.
This movie: Hold my brain.
Man, I'm so glad I found your channel. This stuff is funny as hell. Great work!
Oh hai Mark
It is a really bad movie but it's a great Misfits song.
"Driving while trying to open a can of red paint" lol you got me there
I think Mark doesn't insert himself in the movies, he has us all tricked. He just has the ticket from Last Action Hero.
You think a movie called Astro Zombies would be at least a little fun to watch
I literally died of laughter when the zombie grabbed that totally unexpected machete
If you have'nt seen them, there are two movies directed by Paul Morrissey, both starring Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro. 'Flesh For Frankenstein' and 'Blood For Dracula'. They are a riot of hilarity. Definately so bad they are good.
I have those flicks - my favourite scene from those is when Joe cuts Dracula down to size - and I mean that literally, one limb at a time, all the while Drac is running around like a headless chook...
14:13 This happens to you when you answer the wrong person on craigs list.