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Our first feature, Josie and the Pussycats, turned out to be better than I had heard. Once again I shouldn't listen to critics. Mike brought it in response to our watching Blade: Trinity a couple of weeks ago, the main villian in both is Parker Posey. She's slightly less skanky in this, also way-less vampirey. She's the head of a large recording company dispensing popular rock music to the kids, music with subliminal messages in it. It's a pretty simple story, kind of befitting the origin of the characters. Josie was in the Archie Comics Family, not a comic I read, I read other Archie comics but had stopped reading them in the late 60's. There was a 1970 cartoon but I don't remember carrying anything about it. The girls are cute in the live action version, Alan Cummings is good as Parker Posey's evil henchman/lackey, and there are some funny bits scattered through the film. Keep an eye out for Missi Pyle, she's pretty funny. Mix in a bit of romance and some nice friendship & sentimentality and you've got a fun move. The music isn't too bad, the vocals dubbed by the lead singer from Letters To Cleo, who's only song I knew was the 1994 Here & Now. That's about when I stopped listening to bands and started listening to movie scores. This certainly won't get to be my favorite teen movie but it's nice light hearted fun and Tara Reid is probably her funniest. Now she has big fake boobs, it's sad really. The writer/director team of Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan also wrote and directed Can't Hardly Wait which I liked. They also wrote A Very Brady Sequel and The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas, neither of which is quite as entertaining as this.

Everything is more entertaining than our second selection, 1950's Prehistoric Women. This raw piece of cinematic crap was flung into our faces by the 600 pound gorilla that is the Sci Fi Classics 50 movie box set, and that's not box set in any kind of special or wonderful way. There is nothing in the movie that looks as exciting as this DVD box, not the rock throwing scene by the river, and the bear on the box was just a cub in the movie. There is a funny slapstick sequence with an elephant with huge tusks running after our hero. We were hoping for fur bikinis but no such luck. Some guy on the IMDb mentions seeing fur bikinis. What the hell was he watching? It wouldn't have mattered if they did have fur bikinis, the quality of the image was so poor it was hard to see much of what was going on. Add a dash of poor digital mastering and spoonful of low bitrate and you can keep the film lookin' pretty murky. People actually speak highly of this on the IMDb but it only scores a 2.5 rating. It could be lower.

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First up, Cursed, Wes Craven's pretty standardy werewolf movie. It's average, and a bit slow. There are a couple of laughs and Christina Ricci looks ok, especially if you like her. She's been in better movies, looking cuter, Pecker for one. I liked Judy Greer as the bitchy publicist but I like her in most things. She plays the bitchy type so well, you can hardy wait for her to get killed. As Joe said this movie has all the elements to make a good film but it's just not that good, and it gets a 4.6 on IMDb, which might be a little low, it should be a 5. (as I rewrite this and add dvd covers in 2014 the IMDB has put the movie up to a 4.9). It think it's average but not below average. There are good production values at least, which offsets the Kevin Williamson script. It's wants to be funny and serious at the same time, and that doesn't always work. According to the first entry on this IMDb comment page, the movie went through 4 major shoots with lots of script and character changes, then it was reduced to PG13. Luckily we saw the unrated version, which hopefully had the excised material put back in to make it an R and make the story more cohesive.

Our second movie Bloodtide nearly killed me with boredom. Man, what a piece of crap. It's a 1972 British film also known as Demon Island. Martin Kove and his wife are looking for his sister on some Greek islands. James Earl Jones is a layabout relic hunter who unleashes a crappy monster from a cave. The monster is a ambidextrous people eater, chomping them in the water and on dry land. The locals tell everyone they need to appease the monster with virgins. Some locals are slaughtered by the sad looking monster. Sadly it never got interesting, not with all that stuff going on, it just dragged along, yuck. Time for bed.

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We had been talking before the movie started about the reviews of Land Of The Dead, the new Romero zombie movie and how the local reviewer in Minneapolis gave it 1 1/2 stars. It sure deserves more than that, it's a well-made movie with good production values and cast. Don't listen to reviewers, most of them can't review horror movies. Christy Lemire at MSNBC.com had two things in her review that indicated to me she didn't remember or hadn't seen the previous films, if she had she wouldn't have said what she said. Here are those two bits.

Even the zombies seem a little more with-it, and almost appear to be communicating with each other, led by a service station attendant who keeps trying to pump gas.

Maybe that’s part of Romero’s attempt at reflecting the current times through his own unique, zombified prism. In this brave new world, your friends don’t wait until you’ve turned into a zombie to kill you for the greater good of humanity. Once you’re bitten, you’re as good as (un)dead.

In the first paragraph she says the zombie's seem a little more with-it and yet that was well covered in the Day of the Dead with Bud's self awareness and ability to learn. It seemed a natural progression in the series to me.  In the second paragraph she mentions people killing people who were bitten before they turn. I can't remember if they did that specifically in the earlier movies but my mind thinks they might have, and if not it just seems like such an intelligent and practical thing to do. Once the survivors know about the rapid turn from a bite, it would seem to me that hardened zombie fighters might actually kill someone before they turn, just to save them a lot of trouble later.

I've certainly seen the "leave the bitten person alone amongst us" situation before. It almost always ends badly, often with crying and screaming, and someone usually gets shot. If I get around to watching the earlier films I'll try to remember to look for that. Once I see it, I will try remember to mention it, but who knows when that might happen. These are the kind of complaints I have about reviewers, not their opinions, not everybody can like everything. Many of them make dumb mistakes or misinterpretations about what they're seeing, and then call the movie poor and give it a low score. I know these are small knitpicks but I've nothing else to do with my life. Sperhauk mentioned the crappy local reviewer for the StarTribune, Jeff Strickler, who had a review of what ever Star Trek movie that had Spock reborn at the every end of the movie. Strickler said Nimoy wasn't in the movie,  We're guessing he had to have left before seeing the end of the picture. He once called Nic Cage's coat a cape in Face/Off. I wish I could remember some of the other crap he said, eventually he was replaced with a guy who at least liked the genre pictures.

The last line in the quote above, "Once you’re bitten, you’re as good as (un)dead.", it troubles me. I am not at all sure what she is saying, or is it just supposed to be a joke.

Blade: Trinity was sure better than I had heard it was. I do think I mostly hear crap anyway. Of our group, only Joe had seen it and he gave it a thumbs up. Finally it got the nod, and we could form our own opinions. There were some funny bits, some slow ass bits and some fair to good fights. Parker Posey is great as the skankiest vampire ever, and she has the greatest hair stuff goin' on. She leads a group of divergent vamps to release the original Dracula from his tomb in Iraq. They bring him to what ever city Blade lives in and the vamps go about their nefarious business. Blade sticks his nose right up in there. An FBI guy, played by the great James Remar, leads the incompetent FBI after Blade because Blade's a murdering vigilante who hunts non-existant vampires and kills people. This third instalment adds the Van Wilder guy Ryan Reynolds, who I had seen in Dick and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Jessica Biel, whom I had never seen in a movie before, is part of another vampire fighting group. Both of them get to jump and fight and kill vampires all through the movie. Natashia Lyonne, who I always like, has a small part as the blind scientist who invents a vamp killin' virus. Her hair looks weird to me. The director, David S. Goyer, wrote the other two Blade movies, Dark City, the current hit Batman Begins and the up coming comic based movies Ghost Rider and The Flash. This is his second directorial job. He's good but not great. He's still better as a writer. I'll watch it again, at least once with Goyer's commentary.

The Astral Factor or Invisible Strangler is a 1976 film from that SciFi Classic 50 Movie box set.. It's about a jailbird who learns to turn invisible, and after he escapes he starts killing the woman who put him in jail. It's not too good, down right crap sometimes, mostly tedious. There was some fast-forwarding goin' on. We could not figure out if it was a tv movie or a lowbudget indy type, no matter, it's all crap. I read in the Video Hound book it was released theatrically in 1985. There's nothing much to recommend but the asses of both Robert Foxworth and Stephanie Powers. Sadly the man-ass cancels out Stephanie Powers and doesn't help the movie. It's nice to compain about!

Occasionally the movies we watch have some connection. Both movies we watched tonight had people reading comic books. Whistler was looking at a copy of Blade Tomb of Dracula #55 and someone in The Astral Factor was reading a Superboy comic. That's a pretty sorry connection.

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We sure laughed at Seed of Chucky. It's a bloodfest, but it sure is funny. The director, Don Mancini, was the writer of all of the Chucky films. This is his first shot at directing a feature, having previously directed a Tales From The Crypt episode. He did a pretty good job, the action is fun, there's a funny story, and lots of killin'. Jennifer Tilly is back, playing herself and the voice of Tiffany. Brad Dourif returns for the 5th time to play Chucky, although he's sounds more like Danny Devito to me. The puppets are pretty good, and that's how Chucky and his bride start out, puppets on the set of the new Jennifer Tilly film. They are re-animated by the seed of Chucky, Shitface, voiced by Billy Boyd, who sees them on tv and escapes his current job as a ventriloquist dummy. Once Shitface is reunited with his parents, he is renamed Glen or Glenda, depending on who you listen to. Chucky wants a boy and Tiffany wants a girl. The androgenistic Shitface certainly has a lot of issues to deal with, unfortunately, there is no help from his fucked up family, just mo' killin'. Yet another thing he has a hard time with. There is a lot more character developement than you'd expect for a bunch of puppets. There is a fun turn by John Waters, playing a reporter who sees too much and must pay the ultimate price for his snooping. Rapper Redman plays a pussy sniffing himself who thinks he's going to tap Jennifer Tilly's ass and winds up fucked. Like the Bride of Chucky, SoC is played more for laughs than scares. I enjoyed the previous movie and I enjoyed this one.

The puppet in our second feature was not so good. We watched Kraa! The Sea Monster and lucky for us it was short. At 70 minutes it's barely able to hold it's head up high as a feature. Part of the movie came from one source and the rest was added to pad it out to 70 minutes. Kraa, a giant monster, lands in the sea and after splashing about for a bit heads to shore for some wreckin'. An Italian-talking alien crashes into a diner where he's rescued by a fat, white hippy and a black lady, a winning combination if I ever seen one. The giant alien takes off after the small crab like alien. The hippy turns out to be some sort of scientist. He joins in with a lady and the crab guy to take over a nuclear power plant. It's needed to power the super weapon they build to destroy Kraa, the sea monster. There's something to complain about, the sea monster was hardly in the sea. Like the Japanese Godzilla, Kraa is a man in a rubber suit, who wrecks buildings with his bare hands and tail. The only name I recognized in the cast listing was Alison Lohman. I looked her up once I got home and she did the voice of Nausicaa for the Disney 2004  english dub, a couple of movies I saw and several other movies I never saw. One of the three directors, Micheal Deak, would go on to many other better films including the recent Lemony Snicket. Some of the same people did a simular combo with Zarkor, the Invader and that was a much more fun film.

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Two shorties got me home and sitting down at the pc with a cup of tea before 11 pm.

The first in our double header was Boogeyman, a door filled sluggish monster romp. That first scene really creeped me out and I felt goosebumps rush all over my body. The low music and the strange shapes the kid was seeing in the dark, imagining it was a monster or something out to get him. Happened to me when I was young, I used to hide under the covers, safe from the monsters. To this day I hardly like going into a dark room. As I get older I'm mostly afraid of falling down and getting hurt. The kid in the first scene with the scary closet that eats his dad, grows up with some issues about darkness and closed doors. Everyone thinks he is suffering some sort of trama from his dad leaving him and his mom. Now it's fifteen years later and his mom just died. He must go back home to the funeral and stay to clean out the house. You meet a bunch of people along the way, some of whom disappear, are they dead, where did they go? It got boring about an hour into this 89 minute movie, which alternates intense and quickly paced scary bits with long slow Japanese-like still bits. There are some ok effects and weird crap and I did like the reason for the monster. Don't want to give that away in case you see it. This is another film from Sam Raimi and Robert Tappert's Ghost House Pictures, which also did The Grudge, a remake of Japanese horror film Ju-on. They like those Asian films.

After Boogeyman we watched The Battle of the Worlds, a 1961 Italian crap-fest from that SciFi Classic 50 Movie box set. Luckily it was cut to 84 minutes from it's original 99 minute US cut. Claude Rains plays a cigar-smoking, know-it-all scientist, who yells a lot, but not enough to keep people awake. This movie certainly bored the chills I got from the first film right out of me. It handles the jeopady of earth's invasion in a most tedious way. I can't even remember, an hour later, if the earth got saved. I guess I should have paid more attention. I remember there was a lot of tinfoil on one set, and lots of hoses on another. The box once again makes the movie look a lot better than it does. Someone needs to get kicked in the nuts for this. I believe in sharing the pain.

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Tonight we watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. This was my second time and I enjoyed it even more. Now I want to hear the commentary and see if it answers some new questions that the film left rattling 'round my noggin. Like, was the walking sequence under the end credits inspired by the end credits of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? Yes, it was, according to the IMDb trivia page. I really like the films of Wes Anderson. Some people would describe them as quirky, or some other similar adjective, to encapsulate a warning for those moviegoers who don't like more individualized film style. Anderson's on the tame side of style, he's not mainstream, but he's very accessible and at times impressive. This is only his fourth feature, there was a short film version of Bottle Rocket in 1994. The Bottle Rocket feature came out in 1996. BR was followed by Rushmore in 1998 and The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001.

The first four of his films were co-written with Owen Wilson, who also has appeared in all five of Anderson's films. This new one has Noah Baumbach as co-writer. Bill Murray returns for the third film with Anderson, in a part written for him and he's great as Steve Zissou, oceanographer, documentarian, and speedo wearer. Owen Wilson plays Ned, Steve's possible son, a pilot who wanted to be an oceanographer when he was a little kid. After the death of Steve's best friend Estaban, in the jaws of the Jaguar shark, Steve mounts an expedition to get his revenge. He's joined by a great cast as the crew of his ship the Belafonte and all the other people they sail around, their paths colliding in often violent ways. Steve and the crew set off and are continiously weighlayed by a series of unfortunate events culminating in a beautiful ending. I like the slow pace of the film, and Wes Anderson's love of his characters.

There wasn't anyone much to like in our second feature The Galaxy Invader. A 1985 direct to video feature from the SciFic Classic 50 Movie boxset, the blurb of which promised drunken rednecks chasing an alien. In a tragic story, poorly told, an alien lands on earth, is repeatedly chased, captured and shot by a bunch of drunken hicks. The alien kills some hicks and the hicks kill some other hicks and a college professor. Pretty soon most of the cast is dead and I went home. My description is certainly better than the movie, which is poorly made, especially the dummy falling off the cliff scene. The shot is filmed from two different angles, and instead of editing them together to build something better, he just runs each shot back to back. It worked much better for Jackie Chan in Police Story when he had something exciting to show the viewer. The obviously empty, sown together, plummeting clothing sure made me laugh, twice. Nothing in the movie looks as good as the box. I have not seen any of Don Dohler's other films but I am guessing I won't need to. Back in the 1960's Don was an underground cartoonist for a short while. He created the ProJunior character and comix. Later he created Cinemagic magazine. It lasted 11 issues before being bought up by Starlog.

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Our first feature was the digitally shot 2004 Korean giant monster film Garuda.  A bunch of soldiers and a couple of civilian researchers release the ancient murderous god-bird Garuda, who kills most of them and escapes into the city. The people-eatin' monster in Garuda isn't too bad, kind of a bird like thing, with nice wings once he gets out of his underground tree prison and gets around some soldier snacks for revitalizing energy. The CGI is pretty good for a crew of seven. There is an annoying but cute half-caste girl who everybody hates, who comes with her own annoying white guy assistant. The Thai people don't like her because she's half white but I didn't care for her because she's a pain in the ass who gets people killed. The hating of foreigners pops up several times in the film, the monster-fightin' soldiers pick on Tim the white guy assistant for being not-Thai. I am not sure of what to make of this, but Joe said that Thailand is the only Asian country never ruled by western countries, maybe they're going through some changes. Still a fairly good giant monster film, with lots of running and screaming. I do like the graphics on the box of the dvd alot. The Hindi's have a Garuda. Check out this cool statue.

Our second feature The Wild Women of Wongo is a 1958 comedy from the SCIFI Classics dvd box set, 50 movies for under 30 bucks. It's not very science-fictiony but a voice over talks about Mother Nature's  experiment which puts beautiful women with ugly men in the village of Wongo at one end of an island, and ugly women with beautiful men in the village of Goona at the other end of the island. After that comedy insues, and everyone finds a mate. For 60 cents this is a pretty good buy in the 50 movie package, I laughed a lot, sometimes with the film and sometimes not. There is a seperate version at 6.99 on Amazon. That's where this box cover comes from. It's a amazing what you can find out on the internet. Everybody liked Jean Hawkshaw as Omoo, she's the one with the spear and leopard skin suit. The set contains other films we are determined to see, I myself have only seen about half of them. I have a BestBuy coupon and I am determined to go find one at 10% off.

It's later and I have returned with said box set. Here is a list of the movies included. The Incredible Petrified World, Queen of the Amazons, Robot Monster, She Gods of Shark Reef, The Amazing Transparent Man, The Atomic Brain, Horrors of Spider Island, The Wasp Woman, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, King of Kong Island, Bride of the Gorilla, Attack of the Monsters (aka Gamera vs. Guiron), Gammera the Invincible, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Teenagers From Outer Space, Crash of the Moons (Rocky Jones), Menace From Outer Space (Rocky Jones), Hercules Against The Moonmen, Hercules and the Captive Women, Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon, Hercules Unchained, Lost Jungle, Mesa of Lost Women, Assignment: Outer Space, Laser Mission, Killers From Space, Phantom From Space, White Pongo, The Snow Creature, Son of Hercules, Devil of the Desert vs. the Son of Hercules, First Spaceship On Venus, Zontar, the Thing From Venus (remake of "It Conquered the World"), The Astral Factor (aka "The Invisible Strangler"), The Galaxy Invader, Battle of the Worlds, Unknown World, Blood Tide, The Brain Machine, The Wild Women of Wongo, Prehistoric Women, They Came From Beyond Space, Warning From Space, The Phantom Planet, Planet Outlaws (Buck Rogers), Colossus and the Amazon Queen, Eegah, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Destroy All Planets (aka Gamera vs. Viras). I'll let you know how some of them are when I get done watching the lot.

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Sometimes our pair of features have a theme. We rarely plan ahead. Sometimes the theme is found in the features, last night I was reaching and found destruction and wires.

Our first feature was Team America, Trey Parker's puppet feature from last year. We watched the Unrated DVD, which has a minute more material than the theatrical version, which I guessed came from the sex scene. This morning I looked at the review on IGN  and it confirmed my suspicion about the poop. Not something I am fond of. IGN has an interview with Trey and Matt here, in which they explain the poop and some other stuff. I liked the movie mostly. It won't make my top 200 but I'll certainly watch it again. There are some funny parts, some good songs, some great sets and great puppets. I think the puppet faces are a bit strange, just on the borderline of creepy. The heads are big for the body. They were created by the Chido Brothers, who are cool. They worked on Elf recently and the wonderful Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Lots of stuff blows up, I always like that. The sets are massive and filled with lots of puppets, some of whom blow up. There are wires. Team America is a mixed bag of things, which all boils down to pussies, dicks and assholes. You can read a whole lot into Trey and Matt's simple worldview. I like the simplicity of putting people's personality types into basic, crotch-based categories. It's like the Harmon Principle: Cookies and Toys. All things boil down to that. You eat it or you play with it. Some of those basic crotch-people can be found here on a pretty long message board page that argues which country is better with most of the posts devoted to Canada and the US. It's the best and the worst of the internet personalities.

Our second feature Varan the Unbelievable is a 1958 Ishiro Honda feature. He's the director of nearly 30 of Toho's great monster movies, starting with Godzilla in 1954 and ending with Mechagodzilla vs. Godzilla in 1975. Varan is awaken by two scientists, who are killed by his monsoon-wind-creating, earth-moving personality. More scientists come and Varan chases them back to Tokyo where he's bombed repeatedly. He leaves, movies over. Several people were falling asleep during this one but I wouldn't fault the movie. It's got a good monster and some hokey characters and is short, only 87 minutes. The dvd from Tokyo Shock looks promising, with a commentary, some other stuff and a lecture from a special effects guy. I am looking forward to that. There are wires on the special effect planes to guide the rockets when attacking Varan. While the planes are attacking him he's tramping about creating lots of property damage.

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National Treasure was our first item. I had watched it a week or so ago (see May 4th entry mo better movies) but I always enjoy a re-watch on the big Sony. I enjoyed NT and will watch it several times in the future. It has the things I think are watchable and re-watchable in an action film, good story and action, a smart hero and cleaver villain, a funny pal and a cute love interest, nice sets and locations. I like Nic Cage ever since he became an action star. This movie isn't hurt at all by being PG-13, you can tell a good story without resorting to lots of gore and sex and swearing, although I really like those things in the right place. It's good to give a good complex story to kids and make it good enough for adults to enjoy. This is why I have been enjoying so much of the Young Adult fiction I have been reading of late.

We watched the pilot for Kung Fu the series and mostly enjoyed it. I hadn't seen it in several years; I'm betting more than 20, not remembering if I watched it in reruns in the 80's at all. Now a days I watch much TV but there was a time in the late 70's through the mid 80's when I didn't watch hardly any TV. Once I got a VCR that all changed. I just loved taping things right from the start. More stuff to collect. I remembered the barest part of the story of Kung Fu, it's pretty simple, a newly minted monk kills and runs away to the USA and punching ensues, it's the details that were lost though time. The fight scenes are not so good but that could be a pilot thing. Maybe they get better in the series which lasted three seasons. The story wasn't badly executed, switching between the now and Cain's past. He was a determined little kid when he was first accepted by the Shaolin Monks. We were watching the pilot on the same fateful day that Cain killed the Emperor's nephew. May 13. The dvd of the first season takes the normal tv picture and cuts the top and bottom of it off and makes the picture "widescreen", what asses though this up? Apparently there was some complaining and they did not do that for the second season. I don't think I will buy the series but who knows maybe if I watch a few more I might come to like it all over again. Propinquity often leads to affection, I learned this from Dobie Gillis.

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We started the evening with the 1983 Sonny Chiba classic Legend of the Eight Samurai, which is part of the Sonny Chiba Collection recently released on dvd. Read this rare good review on the IMDb page, it covers several of the complaints we all had, plus a good endorsement for the director's earlier film The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy, which I just bought but we have not watched. An hour into LOTES and there were two people falling asleep, not a good sign, maybe there should have been six samurai with glowing blue crystal balls instead of eight, to move the plot along. Since I wasn't falling asleep I had to sit through the whole 136 minutes. There were some good parts, occasionally, but the poor music, some slow scenes and a couple of annoying characters doesn't help anybody get their groove on. I don't feel I need to see it again. Luckily the copy was not mine. The most interesting thing about this movie, for me, was that it's a story taken from a 1840 era Japanese novel called Hakkenden. It is a huge novel, nearly 100 volumes then and 10 in modern Japanese. Sadly no English translation is available. This same director also used the same novel and adapted it to his 1978 movie Message From Space, a Samurai in Space actioneer with Vic Morrow and Sonny Chiba. I haven't seen it in a while. I've only seen the English Dub version.

Our second item on the menu was Shock Waves, a 1977 horror film by Ken Wiederhorn, who's other big films were Meatballs II and Return of the Living Dead II. It was so-so. Lucky me again, this one's not mine either. Some annoying boatniks, lead by Captain John Carradine, run their boat aground on a sandbar near an island, who's only living occupant is Ex-Nazi Peter Cushing. I've been a fan of John Carradine since I was young. He was one of the first character actors that I had seen repeatedly enough that I was able to learn his name. This was back in the 60's. He's been in over 250 movies, and not all of them were too good. Here he's the gnarled old ship captain, delivering a mixed bag of passengers somewhere. He's the first to get it from the aquatic Nazi Zombies. This happens off screen, and it just might be an accident. John reappears a bit later in a rather fun corpse scene, staring up at us through the window of a glass bottom boat. Even Peter Cushing couldn't keep 2 people from falling asleep from the slow pace of this 85 minute movie. His walking around scenes were riveting. The Nazi Zombies pop out of the water every now and again, scaring the passengers and crew, and occasionally kill someone, but they are a bunch of damp, slow moving, sun hating, google wearing World War II Nazi super-soldier experiments who are fairly easy to kill. The crew and passengers are mixed bunch, there's the cute girl played by Brooke Adams, the loner seaman, the yelly bully man, the crabby cook, the beat down wife, the muscle shirt guy, and they buy it one by one, dragged under the water mostly, by the clammy hands of the wet-needin' Nazi Zombies. Only Brooke Adams escapes to tell the flashback to us. Don't feel you don't need to listen, I certainly don't need to hear it again, I have my own stack of bad movies to re-watch.