AllNewSux Billed as "the first monster musical" which I believe is an accurate statement although perhaps nothing to be proud of. The concept here is very original as are many of the movie's scenes. For me, the biggest problem with the film overall is the musical part. These are some of the worst performances from singers and dancers that I've ever seen! The folk singer Don Snyder is perhaps the most horrific thing in the film (sorry Don, but it's true). Overall, the whole thing is just confusing as to why what appears to be an all ages carnival would have strippers or interpretive dancers? The plot is kind of all over the place and many questions are left unanswered, but it's not trying to be some fascinating narrative. I'd guess Ray Dennis Steckler simply had this idea for a musical and he used the budget and the space he had to make something that while awful is at least quite interesting.The good parts I would point to would start with the main henchman Ortega. Not sure if he has makeup, a mask or is just normally hideous but he's an interesting, although far more useless version of Fritz or Ygor. The dream sequence that Steckler wrote is a rather creepy, surreal moment that I always enjoy watching. I'd also note that the "zombies" look fantastic although I'm not sure what they are would technically be zombies as we think of them. If so perhaps they are more in the sense of old school voodoo controlled people because they definitely aren't supposed to be dead. Unfortunately though, we don't get to see a lot of these well done title creatures which is typical of small budget horror cinema. Because of it's originality I would recommend seeing it in it's unadulterated form at least once. After you do that, you should just get the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of the film because it's one of their best episodes and you'll be able to appreciate (perhaps tolerate is a better word) the movie much more...

William Samuel The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, which I will henceforth refer to a Incredibly Strange Creatures, is about an ugly, thickly accented fortune teller who pours acid on the faces of male customers, turning them into zombies. It's also about a hoodie-clad loser named Jerry (director Ray Dennis Steckler, under the stage name Cash Flagg,) who along with his idiot best friend and his girlfriend Madison, goes to the carnival. At the carnival, they run afoul of the fortune teller, and Jerry is soon hypnotized into murdering dancers that the hag wants dead for reasons that are never explained.There are other questions that are never explained. What is the fortune teller planning to do with her collection of zombies? She keeps them locked up in a closet for most of the movie, and doesn't seem to have any control over them. And are they actually zombies? They exhibit zombie-like behaviors, like a lack of speech and a tendency to mindlessly attack anyone in sight, but they're not undead or infected with any plague. For that matter, why does pouring acid on them make them lose their minds? I've met a guy with severe burns on his face and body. He's frightening to look at, but he could still carry on an intelligent conversation, and I never got the impression that he wanted to eat me.But Incredibly Strange Creatures is not the type of movie to ponder such things. It is the type of low-budget schlock that AIP would have turned up their noses at. This movie sells itself with promises of gruesome zombies, violent murders, and scantily clad women, but never really delivers on any of these. The movie's advertising even mentions "The hunchback of the midway in a duel to the death against the mixed-up zombies", despite there being no such scene anywhere in the movie.Incredibly Strange Creatures also bills itself as the first horror monster musical. True, there are several song and dance numbers, but these are on stage in a nightclub and a cabaret, and are only watched by Jerry. Come to think of it, he wasn't actually there for some of them, which leads to the obvious conclusion that the scenes are only filler to pad the runtime. This wouldn't be too bad, except for the undeniable fact that the songs and the dancing stink, the dancer's costumes are ugly, and so are the dancers. One of them appeared to have an Adam's apple.So why was Incredibly Strange Creatures made? Because someone thought it could make money. Did it make money? Unclear, but probably not much. Is there any reason to see it? MST3K did do a fairly good job with this one, by I would highly recommend against seeing the original unless you enjoy pain.

phoenixwest I could hang out at the train tracks kicking around dirty, used needles on my way to a coal mine for my Zumba session and still not feel as dirty as I did watching this movie. If you love greasy haired foreigners...this is your movie. I understand that it was made with almost no money but am I supposed to believe that they couldn't find a homeless drifter that could speak better English than the foreign friend that's clearly missed a few dozen ESL classes. This movie was made in the era of cinema where their solution for everything was to rub grease on it. Their faces are greasy. Their hair is greasy. Even the walls managed to be greasy. It was as if they filmed all the scenes in a petroleum jelly warehouse shortly after one of the vats exploded. Basically, if you're into films that make you think about life: why would you watch this after reading the title? If you're into movies that make you hate living: watch this movie (it will be your last choice on earth). It's not scary at all but it's 100% nightmare fuel. I don't get scared by movies (not bragging) but I DO get creeped out by them from time to time. Something about how 'off' everything is just makes you feel molested by the visuals. It's a cavalcade of strange characters and insanity.

bravesfan35 Like so many awful films, I could never bring myself to watch this without the Mystery Science Theater crew adding their many hilarious lines to the film. I don't understand how some people gave this film anything more than a 3-star rating. The movie is complete nonsense. It focuses more on cheesy dancing and singing than it does on zombies. You don't even see any zombies until near the very end of the movie and that's only briefly cause they all get shot within 3 or 4 minutes except for one of the stars of the film who leads 1 police officer on a long and boring chase along a beach before the cop finally shoots him. If you have any interest in seeing this film, please do it with MST3K.