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[Bud Brewster]

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Ah yes! Drive-in features for the whole family — as well as young couiples who snuggled up in the front seat!





The teen couples will enjoy pretending to me scared by Teenage Zombies so they cling to each other even tighter!

The families will thrill at the exciting adventures at the bottom of the ocean in Terror Beneath the Sea.

And the kids in the back seat will giggle their adorable heads off at the sight of little Lou Costello romancing his gigantic sweetie pie in The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock!
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Teenage Zombies (1957/1960)

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Amateurish film about a mad doctor on an isolated island (in this case a woman, played by Katherine Victor) who captures a group of teenaged water skiers and turns them into zombies.

Film makers love zombie-monsters because they are so cost-effective. Zombies require no makeup, just a lower order of acting -- which, in this film, must have been a challenge for the cast. "Teenage Zombies" is so low-budget it's practically a home movie.

Star Chuck Sullivan also appeared in "The Giant Gila Monster", which was just as cheap but a whole lot more fun. "Teenage Zombies" was shot in 1957 during the teen-monster craze, but it wasn't released until 1960. Produced and directed by Jerry Warren.

Youtube has a video of the movie and the picture quality is actually pretty good. I intend to watch it see if I can find that gorilla shown in the poster. After all, the producers wouldn't lie to us and advertise a girl-molesting gorilla when there really wasn't one . . . would they?


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Terror Beneath the Sea (1966)

Something different from Japan; the monsters in this one are created by an evil scientist living in an underwater city.

In several spectacular transformation scenes the scientist turns humans into aquatic cyborgs. The hero is a reporter played by Sinichi Chiba, later known as Sonny Chiba, the chop-saki star of martial arts movies. Directed by Hajima Sata, also known as Terence Ford.

YouTube has the entire movie with a fairly good picture!

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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)

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Lou Costello's last movie was this one-and-only solo effort without his long-time partner. It's a lighthearted counter-part to "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" with some really enjoyable moments, despite a weak ending and a general resemblance to movies like Disney's "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes".

Lou is a timid little inventor who wants to marry his girl friend (Dorothy Provine), but her father (Gale Gordon) doesn't approve.

One day the couple goes out to a canyon near town where uranium deposits create high radiation levels. Dorothy wanders into the wrong spot and -- Presto! she zooms up to monumental height, bursting out of her clothes.

Clever Lou goes to town and buys a parachute which Dorothy makes into a nifty silk dress. He also brings back the Justice of the Peace so he and Dorothy can be married.

There's a nice moonlit scene in which Dorothy lies prone across the landscape in her white dress, seductively lamenting the fact that her enlarged size prevents her and Lou from doing what comes naturally, even though its their wedding night.

Other problems caused by her size are more successfully solved by the resourceful Lou; he improvises a private shower for Dorothy by cutting a whole in his barn roof and then spraying water down onto her with a garden hose.

Meanwhile the Army is conducting war games in the area, and when they spot MegaDorothy they try to capture her. Lou turns them into cavemen with a time-reversal ray.

If you're a Lou Costello fan, give this one a try. Directed by Sidney Miller.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)