So they had a Ray Dennis Steckler mini-festival last Friday night on TCM Underground, showing "Rat Pfink a Boo Boo" and the title flick. I see that there's a box set including these and the "Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters" and "Thrill-Killers." Any fan of extreme low budge early 60s so.Cal Ed Roth type mentality Drive-In dreck would be amazed by the seemingly glue-fume inspired artistry of these piles of celluloid retardation. I greatly enjoyed Friday's TCM offering, it's been a while since I felt so connected to the summer streets and beaches of Torrance and Hawthorne. Dig it!

I have always liked the implications of the title — that there are some zombies who have their acts together and are moving on with their undeaths. However, the zombies in this film, unlike those, are "mixed-up."

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So they had a Ray Dennis Steckler mini-festival last Friday night on TCM Underground, showing "Rat Pfink a Boo Boo" and the title flick. I see that there's a box set including these and the "Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters" and "Thrill-Killers." Any fan of extreme low budge early 60s so.Cal Ed Roth type mentality Drive-In dreck would be amazed by the seemingly glue-fume inspired artistry of these piles of celluloid retardation. I greatly enjoyed Friday's TCM offering, it's been a while since I felt so connected to the summer streets and beaches of Torrance and Hawthorne. Dig it!

DVR'd them both and (partially) watched each on Saturday night. Ed D. Wood was David Lynch on steroids compared to Ray Dennis Steckler. Absolutely amazing stuff!!

I have always liked the implications of the title — that there are some zombies who have their acts together and are moving on with their undeaths. However, the zombies in this film, unlike those, are "mixed-up."

Yer killin' me with that - I had to call my bro at Amoeba down in L.A. and share this with him - he cracked up and was very appreciative!

I still remember seeing The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters in some crappy Tampa theater when I was a kid, it had a huge TV advertising campaign promising that because of a "revolutionary new technology", the monsters would literally walk off the screen and into the audience! At the films climatic ending, theater employees in rubber monster mask lurched sheepishly up and down the aisles, terrifying absolutely nobody. Even for a afternoon "kiddy" movie, the film was just awfull.

If Al Adamson was the poor man's Roger Corman, was Ray Dennis
Steckler the poor man's Al Adamson?

Apparently, a sequel is in the works!

http://www.raydennissteckler.com/

Ed D. Wood was David Lynch on steroids compared to Ray Dennis Steckler. Absolutely amazing stuff!!

The odd thing is, the women in Ray Dennis Steckler's flicks would have blended right into a Ed Wood cast, right down to their make-up and costumes.

I need to tune in to TCM underground. I've never seen Rat Phink anbd Boo-boo, but remember a synopsis in the old Castle of Frankenstein magazine. Thanks to MST3K I was treated to "Incredibly Strange..." the way it should be watched - riffed on merclessly!
The concept of a sequel boggles the mind...