The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

3/17/2025

**_Colorful early 60’s low-budget carnival horror_** Three youths visit the amusement park at Long Beach in SoCal, but make the mistake of seeing a fortune teller who’s involved in abusive mesmerism. Released in 1964, "The Incredibly Strange Creatures” is strapped with the additional title “…Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?,” obviously to attract attention to the indie that only cost $38,000 (which would be equal to about $390,000 today). Yet even the short version of the title isn’t fitting because this is, at heart, comic book carnival horror influenced by "Circus of Horrors" from four years earlier. It comes in the ‘B’ tradition of “The Brain That Wouldn't Die” from 1962, mixed with the slasher bits of “Psycho.” Speaking of which, this could be classified as a