#AtoZChallenge Zombie-ish Apocalypse

For this final entry, we have zombie movies--sort of.  There weren't really any actual modern-type zombie movies on MST3K back in the day.  At least that I know of.

Night of the Living Dead:  But on Rifftrax they did the granddaddy of all modern zombie movies, the George Romero classic.  There's both a colorized version that looks weird and for the live show they used the classic black-and-white.  Anyway, while it's a classic, that doesn't mean it's a perfect movie.  There's a lot of slow driving, annoying crickets chirping, and most of the actors weren't really very good.  One funny gaffe is the black guy (Ben, I think) tells the catatonic woman (Barbara, I think) that he's secured all the windows and directly behind him is a window that clearly hasn't been secured. The best riff is when Mike as Ben says, "I'm scared too.  I'm the black guy in a horror movie; I might as well go straight to the morgue!"  (Though if you watch the movie, Ben is the last to die.)

Zombie aka I Eat Your Skin:  This is a more recent Rifftrax of a lame 50s movie.  The zombies are not the George Romero type but the traditional kind created by a witch doctor or whatever.  They have a lot of plaster or some shit smeared on their bodies and buggy eyes.  And they don't eat skin from what I could discern.  Anyway, a writer and his manager and his annoying Harley Quinn-sounding wife Coral (which they always seem to pronounce as Carl) go to the aptly named Voodoo Island, though for whatever reason their plane has to make an emergency landing on the beach.  Does that place even have an airport?  A seaplane would have made a lot more sense.  Then there's a lot of colonial imperialism in play as they go to some plantation and meet the overseer and a doctor who's experimenting on natives and his doctor, whom the horny writer is instantly smitten with.  Then there are ritual sacrifices and bad chase scenes that make Benny Hill or Scooby-Doo look like a Bond movie.  Everyone escapes and the horny writer writes a book about it.  Hooray.  Pretty much your standard bad B-movie.

The Incredibly Strange Creatures...:  This 1964 movie is actually called The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? and it's really more the old-fashioned kind of zombie or someone who's under the control of a witch doctor.  Or a Gypsy woman in this case.  A rat-faced dude goes to a carnival and is inadvertently put under the Gypsy's spell.  Mayhem ensues.  It's really low-budget and the creepiest part is probably the opening credits where in the background it shows a normal face that slowly turns into a grotesque zombie face.  The film's director and "star" Ray Dennis Steckler was in the even more terrible Eegah and went on to direct a lot of soft-core porn movies under various pseudonyms.  So obviously this movie was a real class act.

Mutant:  In this 1984 Rifftrax movie a company is poisoning the water supply of a small town.  The poisoned water causes everyone to turn into not necessarily zombies but pale monsters with yellow eyes and oozing vaginas on their hands who try to rip people to shreds.  So pretty close.  Wings Hauser and his brother Mike are traveling near the town when they're run off the road by some rednecks, though admittedly they almost ran into the rednecks first by driving blind, so they were kinda asking for it.  Anyway, with the help of drunk deputy Bo Hopkins and a local woman, Wings Hauser survives and the National Guard kills all the monsters.  Hooray!  Our hero.  The most unintentionally hilarious part is when Wings Hauser is looking for his brother in this old lady's house.  At first he's yelling "Mike!" but for whatever reason when he gets to the basement he starts whispering it, "Mike!  Miiiiike!"  It really makes no sense.

Nightmare at Noon:  This Rifftrax movie is the spiritual sequel to Mutant that's sort of the same thing.  As a test an albino dude starts to poison the water of a small town in Utah or New Mexico or somewhere like that.  Wings Hauser is a yuppie asshole lawyer in an RV with his wife.  Bo Hopkins is a drifter they pick up.  They stop in the town as the outbreak begins.  Wings's wife is poisoned and starts to turn.  He, Bo, and a local female deputy whose father George Kennedy is infected and kills himself to blow up a van track down the albino.  Then there's a lengthy, lengthy helicopter chase that involves none of our main characters.  Somehow Wings's wife is saved and everyone leaves town except the female deputy who quits law enforcement, leaving the town to anarchy, I guess.  It's funny in this how cars blow up at pretty much the slightest nudge; if that were like real life we'd have cars exploding all over the damned place!  Every fender bender would turn into a huge fireball.  lol  This was one that used to be on Pluto TV for a while but then they dropped it and it's not on Amazon Prime, so you'd have to pay to rent it.

There you go, another A to Z Challenge completed.