We open T-Fest 20 (!) with my choice of Watari the Ninja Boy, an extremely fun (if I say so myself) ’60s color, well, ninja boy movie. It was packed with wonderful sets and miniatures and pyrotechnics and all the wonderful things we used to get before CGI made filmmakers lazy. Just a lot of craziness, including out of nowhere an elaborate musical number.
Sandy followed with Ray Dennis Steckler’s The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. It’s not very good. As a filmmaker, I’d rank Steckler a bit below Al Adamson but a bit above Andy Milligan. The fact that I know who all those people are proves that I have wasted my life.
The “plot” sees “actor” Cash Flagg (aka Steckler) as a dude who falls under the influence of a gypsy carnival fortune teller. She runs a racket where she throws acid on people to make them, I suppose, mixed-up zombies, and then features them in an act. You can clearly see the immense profit potential. LOTS of musical acts to pad out the 20 minutes of plot.
