TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1959)

[The Burgomaster]

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.

[Shadow]

Was this an "original" film by Warren or one of his hatchet jobs on an imported movie?

[RCMerchant]

 No..if it was a re-mix,it might have actually been half way good! 

[The Burgomaster]

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.