An Exercise In Nonsense

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Uber cheap teen horror film makes a Samuel Z. Arkoff production look like something by Samuel Goldwyn. And oddly enough, there are no teenage zombies. The story is instead about a group of teenagers being captured after snooping around an evil scientist's private island, who are then experimented on by the scientists. Pretty bad Z-grade stuff.

You would think 70 minutes wouldn't be enough time for a movie to be too long and boring but you'd be wrong. This flick uses the same old tricks of the extreme tight shot and people walking down the same path a dozen times.When that wears thin they throw in some crappy acting powered by a non-existent story. The main characters go to a mysterious island and decide splitting up is a good idea.When they all get caught and thrown in cages,one guy manages to break the lock on the guys cage and goes on to tell the girls it's not a good idea to break the lock on their cage yet. And it doesn't end up affecting the story!! To make sure the movie was total poo they even threw in a few silent fights that were as exciting as watching gay cowboys eat pudding.

Thank goodness for Comcast On Demand free movies, or I'd never have seen this film. Don't get me wrong; it's an awful movie, but it's so ineptly made that it's a riot. The 7 stars are for how much I enjoyed the film not the intrinsic quality of it - that would be more like a 1. There's so much to appreciate. There's the police station(?) that's manned by a complete nitwit, the ginormous cars of the era, the kitchen and basement of the evil scientist, and the beyond cliché hapless teenagers just for starters. Coleman Francis barely accomplishes the making of a worse film in"The Beast of Yucca Flats".

Six all American Eisenhower era kids decide to go water-skiing or at least four of the six do. When the four fail to show up, the other two go looking for their friends.The two who are searching come across this island in the middle of their lake inhabited by a strange scientist woman, her Igor like companion and a bunch of mindless men walking around in a trance. It's those zombies that no doubt they've seen in several horror flicks when they've gone to drive-ins. And could their friends be becoming Teenage Zombies?It's a lot worse than that because our lady scientist who's a poor woman's Gale Sondergaard is a Russian agent. She's experimenting with nerve gas and a way to deliver it in quantity so that they can turn New York, Boston, or Chicago, etc. into a city of zombies, though some might argue that's already happened. In fact she's begging her superiors for more time because the Russians are getting ready with an H-Bomb attack, but her method would be so much neater and would leave all those nice cities intact with a population of slaves.Teenage Zombies has a no name cast most of whom I won't mention because you've never heard of them. I've seen better acting in junior high school productions, especially from the young folks. The sound quality is horrible and the film looks like it was shot from my father's old Bell&Howell.But Katherine Victor who played the lady Russian scientist was a real hoot. This was her second film, she was in another science fiction travesty, Mesa of Lost Women first. If anything Teenage Zombies was an improvement.It says here that the film was released in 1959, but when I saw the film the credits clearly said 1957. The fact that it took two years before the producers inflicted it on the movie-going public should say volumes.