Director Al Adamson's 1965 heist film, PSYCHO A-GO-GO flopped. So in 1969, he hired John Carradine to play a mad scientist, shot new scenes, and retitled it THE FIEND WITH THE ELECTRONIC BRAIN. That, too, flopped. Adamson hired Tommy Kirk in 1971 and shot more new scenes and released it with another new title, BLOOD OF GHASTLY HORROR. Will John, Andy, and Producer Brad be able to keep all this mayhem straight? And will they find an actual zombie movie at the bottom of this genre jumble?

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US Release Date: 1971

Dendle, Peter. THE ZOMBIE MOVIE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Kay, Glenn. ZOMBIE MOVIES: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE

Al Adamson Obituary

HORROR DIRECTOR SLAIN, ENTOMBED BENEATH HIS TUB – Deseret News

The Murder Of Director Al Adamson – Original Cinemaniac

The Old Oregon Trail (1928) A Silent Film Review

Victor Adamson/Denver Dixon

ABOUT TOM | tommix

BOOKS OF THE TIMES: Superman at 50!

Shades of Gray: The Life and Death of the Oft-overlooked Master - The Comics Journal

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One giant high-rise in downtown Seoul. Hundreds of people going about their everyday lives inside. Add one mad scientist with a vision for a fungus zombie hivemind apocalypse, and you have the recipe for a wild zombie action film! Director Yeon Sang-ho has already given us two modern zombie classics ("Train to Busan" and "Peninsula") but he's not done with us yet. John and Andy take a quick detour to modern-day South Korea to catch the latest from one of zombie cinema's rising stars.

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Colony Trailer

Colony IMDB

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Get ready for the grindhouse! In this zombie double feature, the Zombie Strains team faces down two very different sides of zombie cinema. First up is the ultraviolent schlockfest I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, followed by the curiously retro I EAT YOUR SKIN. One of these is our first glimpse of 70s grindhouse, and the other might be the last dying groan of the traditional voodoo zombie. Which path will John, Andy, and Producer Brad choose?

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AFI|Catalog - I Drink Your Blood

Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury Papers, 1930-2003

Lynn Lowry Interview

Rabies in the United States: Protecting Public Health | Rabies | CDC

AFI|Catalog - I Eat Your Skin

Katherine Dunham dancer Vanoye Aikens passes - New York Amsterdam News

A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Katherine Dunham and Afro-Caribbean Dance

Katherine Dunham | Queen Mother Of Black Dance (Biography)

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Crime waves... Watergate... disco... 70s zombies don't rise from the dead in a vacuum! The 70s was the decade that horror broke into the mainstream. So what lurking fears of the 1970s were exploited and amplified by zombie cinema? John and Andy take a little break from the regular lineup of zombie movies to talk through what exactly was so scary about the groovy 70s.

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Us Theatrical Release Date:

The Cinema of Solitude by Charles Ramírez Berg

Shock Value by Jason Zinoman

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The end of the world was just the beginning of Robert Neville's problems. Sure, he's set up in a swanky post-apocalyptic penthouse suite, but he's cursed to spend his days and nights battling a Luddite cult of zombie hippies! John, Andy, and Producer Brad brave their first big-budget Hollywood zombie epic of the 1970s. Will this action blockbuster, another adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, contribute as much to zombie cinema as its 1964 predecessor did?

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Us Theatrical Release Date: August 1, 1971

The Friends fountain

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What happens when zombie horror gets put on a collision course with... the early 20th century temperance movement? Add a toucan, a snake dancer, acid trips, and Boris Karloff (and did we mention all the snakes?), and you have SNAKE PEOPLE. John, Andy, and Producer Brad return to the voodoo roots of zombie cinema in a film that combines decades-old horror cliches with the salacious sentiments of 1970s exploitation films.

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US Theatrical Release: March, 1971

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Teleporting zombies. A tortured antihero. A sinister satanic cult. Only one man can save the day! The world's greatest luchador Santo returns to Zombie Strains for one last match against the undead. This time, the horror begins in colonial New Spain, travels to 1971 Mexico, and culminates in a trip to hell itself. John, Andy, and Brad don their masks and capes for one last wrestling match against zombies, witches, and demons.

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Mexican Release Date: October 1, 1970

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Santo's back, and so are his wrestling zombie enemies! He might be facing a full rogue's gallery of classic Hollywood monsters, but he's not alone in the fight. He's joined by the mysterious luchador Blue Demon... at least until Blue Demon is cloned and turned against Santo. There's just so much to deal with in our first 1970s zombie film that we called in some backup to help us wrestle with it: Javier Grillo-Marxuach (writer for Lost, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Witcher, and more). Grab yourself a ringside seat and find out who's still standing at the end of SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. THE MONSTERS.

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Mexican Release: May, 1970

The Many Origins of Santo

History/Review of Santo and Blue Demon vs the Monsters

Bechdel Test

Children of Tendu

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Don your most posh bowler hat, squeeze into your brightly-colored jumpsuit, and grab your umbrella sword. We're on a mission to Swinging London! John and Andy once again commandeer the Zombie Strains lab to visit the '60s spy-fi hit THE AVENGERS. See what happens when secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel face off against a two-pronged zombie threat... and find out what 1960s network TV was doing with the concept of the zombie.

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The Fashion Guide to "The Avengers" season 5: John Steed, and Emma Peel

60 Years of Emma Peel fashion

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Pigeons aren't the scariest bird... UNLESS they team up with vengeful zombies in the post-Civil War South. Then they become a force to be reckoned with! John and Andy take a swampy detour on the trail of PIGEONS FROM HELL, a 1961 episode of the TV show "Thriller" based on a short story by pulp maestro Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan and other pulp heroes). Will they survive the night camped out in this creepy, pigeon-infested plantation?

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