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This belongs on everyone's list of impossibly cheap and incredibly terrible movies. But it was directed by Jerry Warren, so what did you expect?
Four teenagers are kidnapped by a female scientist (played by Katherine Victor) who is experimenting with nerve gas on a small island. Two of their friends come to look for them, they try to escape, and we find ourselves in the middle of a typical, bad 1950s teen horror movie plot.
The dialogue is dumb, the acting is mechanical (and the actors have a TERRIBLE sense of timing when delivering their lines - - I suspect Jerry Warren's lack of talent as a director had a lot to do with this), the sets are almost bare (hardly any furniture or props), and the camera almost never moves. Most scenes are in medium shots with no editing - - the old proscenium arch technique - - sort of like watching a filmed stage play.
Unlikely as it may seem, Jerry Warren came back years later with FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND (1981), a terrible movie that shares some of the same elements as TEENAGE ZOMBIES (including actress Katherine Victor!)
This one scores very high on the stink-o-meter. If you must watch it, you can find it in Mill Creek's TALES OF TERROR 50 MOVIE PACK.
Was this an "original" film by Warren or one of his hatchet jobs on an imported movie?
No..if it was a re-mix,it might have actually been half way good! :smile:
This is an original U.S. film - - complete with typical 1950s American teenagers (hanging around the soda shop and such). Warren did a hatchet job on it anyway.