Three naive young women looking for work. One bitter old crone desperate for eternal life. And one mad scientist creating human/animal hybrids in the basement. Mix these ingredients together and you get a MONSTROSITY (1963) in more ways than one! Will Anita, Bea, and Nina (pronounced NINE-uh) escape this house of horrors? Join John, Andy, and Producer Brad as they venture into the first zombie movie to give a cat top billing on its poster.

SHOW NOTES:

Online obit for Erika Brunson (Peters)

Sue Dwiggins Variety Obituary

Wayne Keyser's short documentary on Ken Strickfaden.

Kickstarter campaign for a 4K restoration of Monstrosity.

The Atomic Brain musical

Cinema Cats - celebrating cats in movies and television.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 wiki entry for The Atomic Brain (aka Monstrosity)

Theme music composed by Neil Dube.

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What was the scariest part of living in the 1960s? We'd like to think it was all the zombies, but other little factors like massive societal transformation and the threat of atomic annihilation might be contenders too! Like all good horror monsters, zombies work best when they're exploiting the fears and anxieties of viewers. As the Zombie Strains team ventures into a new decade of zombie film, John and Andy take a special side trek to find out what real-life terrors 1960s zombie films were drawing on, reacting to, critiquing, and amplifying.

Theme music composed by Neil Dube.

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A living decapitated head, a knife-wielding Aztec mummy, and something called the Ring of Death. That's a lot of scary stuff to store in your basement all at once, as a group of gentleman explorers in 1963 Mexico discovers to their peril. How many will die in gruesome Aztec rituals before the curse is ended? Will reincarnated Aztec lovers romantically reunite amidst all these bloody hearts and murdered archaeologists? Do mummies even count as zombies? John, Andy, and Producer Brad return to Mexico to ask the important questions.

SHOW NOTES:

Theatrical Release Date: March 3, 1963

The Golden Age of Mexican Horror Cinema by Paul A J Lewis

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